Levequest Nerf containment thread

[Anubis_Nephthys]

Pretty sure they did this so you guys couldn't use the leves you stockpiled to turn in day 1 of EA.

[arc_08]

Well, that's the thing...hardly any of the mats for the new recipes are available or they are very expensive. I would rather craft a tourmaline choker for peanuts and get 200k+ exp a pop.

[Aeyis]

It might seem easier at first, but it will hurt in the long run; considering that youll probably want to max all crafting classes. By the time you start doing the rest you will probably have access to those materials.

[lordoftheapes79]

It might seem easier at first, but it will hurt in the long run; considering that youll probably want to max all crafting classes. By the time you start doing the rest you will probably have access to those materials.

This is how it was at ARR launch too. People were trying to level crafting before gathering and materials were scarce for a week or two.

[arc_08]

Well, not like I have any other choice now that they nerfed the leves lol. Anyway, I'm still annoyed at the lack of recipes at 60 so I don't think i'll bother maxing them until we have more decent items to craft. Hopefully it will happen in the next update.

[Giantbane]

I understand they needed to be reduced. They were too effective, I was almost 55 GSM without much effort.

But this was too far. It would be nice to be able to burn my excess leves on them to get some benefit until I had materials/gear to do the higher level quests. i was REALLY bummed out when I turned one in this morning.

[Nylisa]

lvl 45 leves are good up to lvl 52 , at lvl 52 you unlock new tier of leves that has higher amount of XP , ofc you can keep grinding with lvl 45 leves but ... leve allowances!!!

Update , i checked something just now it appears that old leves are nerfed , i gained only 6000 xp from a lvl 45 leve 3 times , so cant be a mistake

[ZephyrZ]

The problem wasn't even the level 45 leve quests.

1) Level 50 leve quests weren't worth doing when compared to level 45
2) Level 50 couldn't be done because they were gated behind level 60 nodes
3) Level 60 nodes can't be reached because they are gated behind a level 58 msq

I'm 60 in all my crafters, didn't use a single leve's. Had three friends each push a gatherer and they fed me mats, explore new recipe, do some (not many) collectibles and done. They didn't think out crafting very much. The new master books offer nothing worth crafting. Unless red scripts introduce something incredible, it's going to be pointless to be a crafter or a gatherer. No demand for it, law gear is already significantly better than anything a crafter can make.

[Rath]

I guess it all depends on how you did things, but I was 54 on day one from the new leve for gsm. It was just a matter of desynthing NPC gear for materials. I really don't feel like there was much of an advantage to this considering the new leve give out 180K+ exp for the lvl 50 leve. You still had to wait for lvl 54+ mats to become available to do the new crafting class quests. This was either by unlocking higher tier NPC gear through MSQ yourself to desynth, or by gatherers finally getting to them. I went the desynth route, as I am now selling hardsilver ingots and such I get for a 20k NPC item lol.

I also did this with weaver and am now working on alchemy. Any way you slice it, leveling a craft from 50-60 was way too easy.

[lordoftheapes79]

Well, not like I have any other choice now that they nerfed the leves lol. Anyway, I'm still annoyed at the lack of recipes at 60 so I don't think i'll bother maxing them until we have more decent items to craft. Hopefully it will happen in the next update.

I had a revelation about this today. I think the lack of crafted gear is because grade 5 materia wasn't ready yet.