So you get ONE wish...

[Cutriss]

Thumbs all around, by and large a very productive topic.

[Mack]

As well as going to the same areas over and over for killing the same mobs.

Lol this sentence is funny considering we only stay in one zone in FFXIV. At least FFXI had variety as you progressed. What FFXIV should have done is give us more zones and more options are a given rank...so unlike FFXI, whereas at level 40 we all flocked over to Cnest, in FFXIV it should've given us 3 or 4 or 5 different options for locations. Instead, FFXIV decided they'd give us one big zone to rank up in...so lame.

[Vesperia]

Lol this sentence is funny considering we only stay in one zone in FFXIV. At least FFXI had variety as you progressed. What FFXIV should have done is give us more zones and more options are a given rank...so unlike FFXI, whereas at level 40 we all flocked over to Cnest, in FFXIV it should've given us 3 or 4 or 5 different options for locations. Instead, FFXIV decided they'd give us one big zone to rank up in...so lame.

Don't we have three areas in FFXIV to rank up in?

We have rank appropriate leves in all three starting zones, you know.

[Mack]

Don't we have three areas in FFXIV to rank up in?

We have rank appropriate leves in all three starting zones, you know.

Yes you're right, you completely botched my point...3 areas in FFXIV as opposed to the handfull we had in FFXI. My point being that FFXI pushed you forward and got you moving through zones, FFXIV doesn't. I'm not going to level in Gridania when everyone is leveling in Ul'Dah either, etc.

[Mack]

I don't follow the mainstream a lot. I will go to Ul'dah at times, but when it comes to leve taking I will rotate around all 3 starting regions. Gridania is by far the emptiest, but I still see a couple people around in Limsa.

Yes, I do it funny that for FFXIV people are following similar patterns.

Let me put it this way. The way the game is set up now it sucks soloing leves...so I'm not gonna stand around LL and Gridania shouting for a leve party when its hard enough to make one in Ul'Dah. People aren't "following a pattern" their hand is pretty much forced in this case. I can't convince hordes of people to spread out over 3 cities, the game has to do that for you. My point that I was trying to make with you was that you said that FFXI forced you to go to the same areas to level up...FFXIV does a lot worse of a job.

[Vesperia]

Let me put it this way. The way the game is set up now it sucks soloing leves...so I'm not gonna stand around LL and Gridania shouting for a leve party when its hard enough to make one in Ul'Dah. People aren't "following a pattern" their hand is pretty much forced in this case. I can't convince hordes of people to spread out over 3 cities, the game has to do that for you. My point that I was trying to make with you was that you said that FFXI forced you to go to the same areas to level up...FFXIV does a lot worse of a job.

I wonder how you could possibly encourage people to level in a variety of places without limiting camping locations within each area (and with a guildleve system, no area can be "over camped"). With such a low population, I think it's human nature to congregate, and that's generally what people have proven to do even in the face of choice.

Perhaps if they made guildleves non-repeatable if failed, then people would have a tendency to do leves in more than one place simply to get their 8 leves worth of grinding out of every leve reset.

[Mack]

It was there in pre Abyssea FFXI and it's present now in FFXIV. They follow it because they don't see it as optimal to go to other areas now

This is having your hand forced. If I can do leves every reset that net me 10K SP or I have a choice to do other leves that net me 5K, who in their right mind will choose 5K over 10K? people only follow a pattern if its the best choice they have, give people better or more balanced choices and they will disperse. IMO leves shouldn't be so central anyway, they should be solo only for the person who doesn't have a lot of time on their hands to hop on the game and play a little, and there should be other options for party SP.

Perhaps if they made guildleves non-repeatable if failed, then people would have a tendency to do leves in more than one place simply to get their 8 leves worth of grinding out of every leve reset.

This could definitely help but I don't see people ditching Ul'Dah that quickly especially because of the Market Wards and since its convenient to level up around the city a lot of them wont leave.

[zaviermhigo]

i know they're coming already but... EXP CHAINS EXP CHAINS EXP CHAINS EXP CHAINS. as soon as next patch even.

Where did they say exp chains are coming. That would be awesome if added.

[Davorok]

Quote Originally Posted by Davorok View Post
I want my tail back.

Or, why not have tails be a choice in the character creation menu, so both sides can still be happy? :3

I could live with that.

[kurokawa]

A long beach full of crabs, fish, flys and goblins, where everyone tends to go at around level 13 to start learning how the battle mechanics work....