#XIVLive Q: After the claiming system change in patch 1.19, I'm afraid everyone will be power leveling each other. What do you think of this?

A: It depends on what you consider power leveling. I just want to make sure friends are able to help each other if they want to challenge content together.

From the horses mouth, this is a non-issue. Even-level mobs are a decent challenge(intended pun) now, so odds are a solo R50 killing R40s for a R30 wouldn't be much faster than a party of R30s. The only time it would be optimal would be a full spiritbind party with a low level friend tagging along, which is exactly what the dev's intend... playing with your friends. You can already see that the majority of specialization in this game is coming from Materia, and the EXP rate is in no way shape or form 'overpowered' for spiritbinding. This is XIVs merit system.