Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[RemVye]

I <3 Firon.

[Travesty]

Honestly i don't care if ppl are power lvling it does not bother me one bit. only people who care about it is the ones not getting pl'ed them selves.

Well then you're either short sighted, or don't care if the game gets f**ked up. Because if the situation stays as it is, it will do irreparable damage to the game.

[DNO]

this topic is stupid. How does this effect anyone? Let people level the way they want to level and you? "mind yo neck" and play the way you want.

You people always bitch about others just because you do not agree. Just play your game. and i will play it my way.

[Firon]

I <3 Firon.

<3 Hey Rem, but for real tho tell me how is it gonna damage the game? People are gonna have all thier classes maxed out like before the Leve linking nerf? it's as simple as this people will only level the classes they like even if they could power thru the classes they hate.

[Travesty]

this topic is stupid. How does this effect anyone? Let people level the way they want to level and you? "mind yo neck" and play the way you want.

You people always bitch about others just because you do not agree. Just play your game. and i will play it my way.

but for real tho tell me how is it gonna damage the game?

If the capacity exists for people to leap past all the lower levels in an extremely short amount of time, it damages the mechanics of the game for everyone. Lower end content is nullified. The economy goes to sh*t because no one needs low or mid level gear or items. Even if you want to level without powerleveling, it's extremely hard to do because the population of people to play with at low levels gets cut by a huge amount.

The list goes on, and there are a lot of chain reactions from the things I already listed. It's not difficult to understand why this is terrible for this kind of game.

[Firon]

No one was buying low lvl gear before.... So according to you the game is basically the same as before. On my server (Lindblum) There are tons of people lvling w/o pl's so i don't see the prob.

[Travesty]

No one was buying low lvl gear before.... So according to you the game is basically the same as before. On my server (Lindblum) There are tons of people lvling w/o pl's so i don't see the prob.

Like I said, shortsighted. The population of the game will not always be what it is now. There will be huge influxes of players, particularly at PS3 release. And just because everyone hasn't figured out you can level obscenely fast with a PL a few days after the patch, doesn't mean there's no problem with the fact that the ability to do that exists within the game.

And by the way, if you're leveling properly and aren't doing it on a high level job, the 1.19 changes make it so you have to buy low level gear now.

[DNO]

If the capacity exists for people to leap past all the lower levels in an extremely short amount of time, it damages the mechanics of the game for everyone. Lower end content is nullified. The economy goes to sh*t because no one needs low or mid level gear or items. Even if you want to level without powerleveling, it's extremely hard to do because the population of people to play with at low levels gets cut by a huge amount.

The list goes on, and there are a lot of chain reactions from the things I already listed. It's not difficult to understand why this is terrible for this kind of game.

After 1.18 i got ARC from rank 15-25 in 2 days (and i worked so it was like 4-7 hours tops)... the fast lvling has ALWAYS been there for low levels.

Stop bitching.

If they change it i will not care if they leave it i will not care why? because If you get to lvl 25 from lv 15 in 2 mins or 2 hours IT WILL NOT effect me in the least.

Play your game worry about you.

[RemVye]

<3 Hey Rem, but for real tho tell me how is it gonna damage the game? People are gonna have all thier classes maxed out like before the Leve linking nerf? it's as simple as this people will only level the classes they like even if they could power thru the classes they hate.

Exactly! This is what I want to do... I have no desire to level thm / con so having someone PL me would be amazing. Why should I waste time / money (gil) farming up and gearing up to play a class that I only want SacII/III or CureII/III. How does a painful leveling make me use CureII or CureIII any different?

Arc which I want to level I plan on doing it myself.

[Kiote]

I'm all for allowing power leveling in some way or another, but the way it stands right now is a little over the top.

I don't think you should be able to be in a party with someone 49 levels higher than you and get XP chains pushing 1000 xp. That's a little uncalled for. At the very least lock out the chains. Personally I'd say don't let them be in the party. They can already assist the fight from outside. If they have to be aloud in the party, require the enemy killed to give XP to the highest level player to award xp to the lowest level player and put in an XP cap.

This kind of power leveling will do some serious damage to the games balance. If there is no leveling curve all other content become meaningless.