I cried when I saw leveling in 1.19

[FilthyDisco]

No one cares about your real life problems lol this is FFXIV discussion forums not Neptune's life story forums.

[VeranRamaden]

I do not think explaining your life was appropriate. I'm not heartless but, still.
And I agree with the old XI thing, I might have rage quit a few times because of
RDM Maat (don't even get me started on that POS)....but I still loved it.

Anyhow, I do want to see XIV being able to instill that since of grandeur
but in it's own way. Leveling should not be as hard as XI, just because now that
I realize it, I never got a chance to actually do all of the end game content.
I'm not saying make it ez-mode, hell no. Just not 1st gen MMO.

A happy medium between short/noob (imo) WoW and timesink/long XI.

[Evangela]

Steve Jobs ate food out of a trash can back in his bad days

you can be better if you can keep your hope and hard work

[Lavani]

I stopped reading after this. Give me a break. This stuff has NOTHING to do with "leveling in 1.19," whether it's true or not. Eventually you did start to say some stuff that's relevant.

EVERYONE needs to remember that this probably wasn't planned, and 1.19a will probably do something to address the problem. Stop raging at SE, especially on the weekend when they're not working, because they can't do anything about it until the weekdays come around. They have lives, just like the OP and everyone else here.

OMG can i get a power leveling party, like many have been stating, before they nerf it?

Server Selbina
Renly Aether

[Gramul]

Pff.
You baby.

[EmeraldHill]

Too long didn't read.

[Isaaru]

TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Shneibel]

If this were a game where level was the point of playing (like the aforementioned games), I'd agree. But this game is about content. Leveling is just earning your right to take part in it. Imo, it should be faster and easier.

problem is lvl under 40 is hard than 40+, because of gear and rarely pt , but the 40+ pt often to the point they can lvl 3-4/days, so the scale goes as you slowly raise lvl when you are under 40 and then have it easy to get to 50 at 40+

[Melian]

so you work hard to get your 50 in broken state period of this game, and you want other to experience the same thing?

I want your opinion, do leveling pre 1.19 was fun?

I agree with your /basic/ statement. I did not have all that much fun leveling up to 50 in this game.

I /don't/ agree with your implied result though....
The reason I didn't like going from 1-50 isn't that it took time, or was something that had to be done, or any of that. It's that it wasn't implemented well at all. It was implemented shockingly poorly. I had a great time going 1-75 in ffxi, where parties were a lot of fun. Here, I can count the number of non-ls parties I took part in going to lv 50 on one hand. Without using all the fingers.

In XI I had other misc fun goals to shoot for while leveling up (AF, coffers, etc). Here, not so much.

I don't think leveling itself should be done away with. I think it should simply be made relevant. Get a working search/atmosphere where people use it. Get content. Or if SE's not going to do that.... you know that "Let everyone start at 50" thread on the first page? It's not actually a bad idea imo, if SE is dead set in making leveling irrelevant. If I can go and get 150k/hour or w/e in a party of 8 in the kobold mines (or however much at a low level just being pled by someone), then why even bother keeping it in the game?

Just get rid of it entirely, instead of pretending that it has any role whatsoever.

It's kind of insulting to keep it around but so completely trivialized. A game without levels is weird, but I'd understand the concept. A game with levels that simply take no work at all to get seems poorly made.

[Alkoun]

Waitwaitwait...

Everyone click this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNvFP...eature=related

Then re-read the OP while it plays.

Is it better now?