Let's not forget the essential fact that Yoshida himself stated "Leves are no longer central to the game."

The second you read that you should have thought "Oh! Well, I guess I don't need to worry so much about those anymore, They're not going to be the exclusive best way to level anymore."

Also, let's not forget that they're gonna be rebalancing all of this for the next 3-4 months constantly playing teeter-toter.

My only problem is the gil situation. The gil reform should have happened months ago, as now we've got massively overinflated prices, and less gil entering the system. Of course, I'm sure RMTs will have boundless supplies of the stuff by now, as I've finally figured out what they're doing (They have a gang of mules link up, and then a higher level character runs through and beats the leve for them) Not that enough people will ever play before SE pops a surprise RMT banning for the RMT to really cash in.

Anyway, the economy will be in turmoil until 1.19. But seriously, eventually level 10 weapons have to stop being 100k. Tanaka was crazy to have had gil given out in the handfuls they were till now at the beginning of the game. When I started FFXI, 1,000 gil was pretty big to me, and 10,000 was impressive and took a day to get. It's a little late to get the gil fix in now, but with current populations, if enough people start back, things should recover, but I still feel the lower gil rewards should have happened before we ever knew who Yoshi-P was.