Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Raikki]

Yes but post-patch it only takes a day of non-stop leveling to go from 40-50 or so. The EXP is just that high right now. Also, you say it stops at 40, but that's only 10 levels from cap. You literally have just gotten rid of the entire middle-process and just jumped straight to the final stretch.

The achievement is for climbing ENTIRE mountain, not for taking a chopper to the top and climbing the last 100 feet.

Those "only 10 levels" are actually half the XP for all of 1-50. Yeah it's faster than it was before, but that has nothing to do with powerleveling per se. I think that part of the argument really comes down to a question of the amount of the link bonuses in particular, which is probably best discussed in a separate thread.

[Kailok]

Those "only 10 levels" are actually half the XP for all of 1-50. Yeah it's faster than it was before, but that has nothing to do with powerleveling per se. I think that part of the argument really comes down to a question of the amount of the link bonuses in particular, which is probably best discussed in a separate thread.

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but it still ruins the experience of leveling up and working for it up to that point. Sure, people can do what they want with their game-time, I get that. But the problem is you still have parties 40+ hounding camping spots and getting 50 within a day.

So..if you can get from 1-36 via PL in a few hours, and then 2 days later hit 50...What exactly was the point of leveling at all? They might as well just give you all rank 50 classes at the beginning of the game and say "ok, NOW you get to learn how to play it effectively." I'm not trying to be rude, it's what I feel this game is going to turn into unless Yoshida can find an answer.