New Letter from the Producer, XII

[Richard]

i know we will be getting less

but the entire point of this change wasnt to nerf leves
it was to promote completion of them instead of failing them

I 100% understand and agree with that I was merely commenting on the supposed "buff" vs "nerf" mentality.

[Elexia]

And that's enough information for you?

You don't need a treasure trove of information. It's a W.I.P system.

[TheVedis]

I'm a bit concerned about leves being changes to be focussed on solo play. As boring as leves are, they're still more fun than raptor grinding.

linking with a group will still give more sp then solo
the change will give the solo player the bonus though so that they can get a fair ammount from it too
groups will still get a link bonus, and they will be able to do it on higher star count(to maximize sp gain) unlike a soloer who may be stuck on 1-2 star

[Richard]

I'm a bit concerned about leves being changes to be focussed on solo play. As boring as leves are, they're still more fun than raptor grinding.

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[Chezen]

They're reducing the amount of SP/XP you get from going through the leve and instead shifting it to a bonus you get for completing it.

So instead of getting all SP/XP through killing the monsters, you get some from that and then some from completion.

EX: Say now you get 550 SP per monster and there are 10 monsters
You get 5550 SP for doing that leve

With this patch, say they reduce the SP amount to 300 per monster. You now only get 3000 SP for killing all the monsters.
Then, upon completing the leve via an aetherial node, you get a bonus 2550 SP.

You get the same amount of SP in the end, but only if you actually complete the leve.

At least, that's what makes sense to me.

Thank you.

But it was leve-link oriented, and now it will be individually orientated, right? Meaning faster solo/casual leveling. I just personally don't want to level faster, that's all. But a lot of people do, so it's a good business move.

[Elexia]

I'm a bit concerned about leves being changes to be focussed on solo play. As boring as leves are, they're still more fun than raptor grinding.

Leves were always supposed to be for people who have no time to play MMORPGs. They did originally say it will be the main point of the game because they were trying to make it casual friendly. So now it's being put in its' place.

[SuzakuCMX]

Thank you.

But it was leve-link oriented, and now it will be individually orientated, right? Meaning faster solo/casual leveling. I just personally don't want to level faster, that's all. But a lot of people do, so it's a good business move.

Levelinks give a ton of SP/XP right now, they're wanting to reduce that to make less of a difference between solo leves vs. group leves.

But I do hope leveling gets quicker. 20-30 is a long and boring grind.

[Richard]

Levelinks give a ton of SP/XP right now, they're wanting to reduce that to make less of a difference between solo leves vs. group leves.

But I do hope leveling gets quicker. 20-30 is a long and boring grind.

it will get faster. SQEX doesn't want the focus to be on leveling anymore. Much like GW2 who they are going to have to compete with, sideways character progression is where they're gonna focus. Which is awesome

[Zenaku]

Lol, its not free. Hell i paid $70 for it. And i haven't been playing it either because its not worth the time. I might of put 20 hours in total on ffxiv, and i quickly realized i had to force myself to login.

And you want me to be patient after 9 months? I would say i've been more than patient, but i'm not going to try and reason with a child like you. At least i'm assuming you're a child, typing in caps isn't something a rational adult does.

Either way, they showed us a video of the battle system that they pretty much said "Well, this is what we have, this probably isn't what its going to be though". And no word has been released on jobs. All of this after 9 months. Yeah, you're right. I'm in the wrong.

You payed 70$ and could play for 9month for free and you only play 20$ i can see how you feel that you did not get what you payed for but really? you could have got all 50 by now and then wait for the game to get good and when you return you have shit load to do due to having everything 50 and shit load of gil.

So really i don't see where you waste your money i mean everyone knew that from open beta this game would have not change much and be a fail if you want to waste the money on CE then you did not a waste of money seeing how this game going to become great but seeing how you only waste 20hours and bet you don't even have 1 50 you going to enjoy the game even less due to everything being rank 35+

[SuzakuCMX]

it will get faster. SQEX doesn't want the focus to be on leveling anymore. Much like GW2 who they are going to have to compete with, sideways character progression is where they're gonna focus. Which is awesome

Hell to the yeah.

Also GW2 looks awesome, may have to split my time between this and that if this game shapes up by GW2's release.