Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[zaviermhigo]

I personally believe this is a problem. I saw people with higher level people doing this exact form of power leveling. Sure in XI you could have a mage outside of party cure you and such, but they couldn't kill your mob for you. If you're level 20 and you're friend is 50 and kills every mob for you so you can get up in levels, I think you're sort of a terrible person. But in the dev teams eyes this is effort spent, and thus ok. Imo I more prefer if the pl is just curing as opposed to openly killing your mobs for you, how will anyone ever learn to play their class.

Low level people are justified in pling just because they aren't high enough level for the fun stuff?
Hell no, mmos dont work that way, people may do that in mmos, but in theory you should always have a healthy population of new people learning their class and making their way up to that content so there will always be people doing the said content. How is this such a hard concept? Just because you started the game yesterday, doesn't give you the right to pl yourself to 50 in a couple days just so you can do the Ifrit fight and new dungeons, seriously, pay your dues and learn your crap just like everyone else.

[JayvirDeforte]

You shouldn't be able to power level at all. idk why there are not penalties for players not close in level leveling each other.

Do you not remember the excessive whining that occurred because of all of the people claiming they couldn't group with their friends because of the +5 -10 rules before? Yeah, that's why. Loud minority complain about something... SE changes it to suit the minority, THEN everyone complains. That's how things roll around here

[Alkaiser]

i agree with ff11 comparison you had power levels but they never killed everything in seconds for you and gained full experience.

I just tried quick raptor party before i went to bed with my linkshell:

2 thm spam AoE non stop xp chains for my friends/about 1-1.5k xp per enemy, then more mages were added and it became a AoE party and the xp chains were insane.

level 20-30 in almost no time this is just retarded and even if people do not want to do it, its prone to abuse.

SE really needs to get this fixed asap.

[Isaaru]

I know people will hate me for mentioning this, but did you know Rift (a relatively successful MMO for those who don't know) it only takes like 2 days to get max rank?

[Sigtyr]

I wonder why people started power leveling so much?

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that solo play is now far more tedious than ever. God help you if you're leveling your first job and it's Gladiator.

[Isaaru]

I wonder why people started power leveling so much?

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that solo play is now far more tedious than ever. God help you if you're leveling your first job and it's Gladiator.

I never understood the concept of the need for solo play in an MMO. It is a multiplayer game, why don't people like playing it like one?

[Blarp]

I know people will hate me for mentioning this, but did you know Rift (a relatively successful MMO for those who don't know) it only takes like 2 days to get max rank?

Not "hardcore" enough. Rift is the antithesis of FFXIV. Rift launched with four PVP scenarios, ten instances available over multiple levels and in multiple difficulties, one raid, two raid style open world events, one open world raid-style boss, and zone wide invasions. That's just content. The game itself was designed and implemented in a way that worked across all levels. The game isn't even a year old yet, and they have had five major updates, each adding more content along with fine tuning of systems.

FFXIV launched almost completely devoid of content. The game was designed and implemented in a way that didn't work at all. Over the course of a year, they still haven't caught up with what Rift launched with. They are still making changes to things that should have been decided in pre-production in nearly every patch.

Trion showed us how good an MMO launch can be and how quickly they could develop content. SE is an example of how bad and slow it can be.

Sorry, I felt compelled to type that.

[FestAkos]

So wait..your friend was actually IN your party and you were still getting this much exp?

[Issac]

So wait..your friend was actually IN your party and you were still getting this much exp?

That is precisely what I'm saying. It's totally broken.

[DGMart]

Hate to tell you this but grinding on mobs doesn't make you a good or bad player like it did in 11. This game is a easy grindfest and no one cares about that sh*t. Getting high enough to do end game content is what most care about. Why should you care if someone gets PL'd. It doesn't effect you unless they are in your party.

What happens if say your gf/bf wants to get to end game asap without having to go through all the tedious grinding. Why not just PL them especially since the likely hood of them having played your character at some point is high. I guess I don't agree with you the OP.