Famitsu interview with Yoshida after NA's FanFest

[Lunafreya]

Leveling potions? WTF I have two classes left to get to 60 and now i'm very unmotivated. Thanks for screwing everything up, SE.

[RobbieH]

Leveling potions? WTF I have two classes left to get to 60 and now i'm very unmotivated. Thanks for screwing everything up, SE.

How exactly does the Potion stop you from leveling the remaining two classes to 60?

[Lunafreya]

How exactly does the Potion stop you from leveling the remaining two classes to 60?

The point is that people can just pay and get to 60 without doing any hard work. I'm just assuming things but I can see it being on the cash shop. It doesn't stop me from getting those classes up... but it takes away all the work with a single potion. Why? I thought the game was supposed to teach you your class... not level with a silly potion. I understand people will want to get to 70 but why invalidate everyone's hard work?

[Leigaon]

Maybe it would fall on how they implement the leveling potion and redoing skills. Most of them will have to do the dungeons anyways or level through them normally for other jobs to get any specific actions that they might want, or need.

If they start out as a Gladiator / PLD and boost to 60, they still have to do the class quests and job quests. They would miss maybe 5 or so dungeons the first time around and could solo the ones up to 50, after that they may find it difficult as a new player to solo some of the stuff 50 and beyond. They would still have access, though them using it isn't something we can force, to gameplay that teaches you how to play. Looks like from 3.0, you can skip the first dungeon but the rest are locked behind the story.

I would say it is safe to say it will be on the cash shop and rather expensive. People will be willing to pay for it though, I just don't think it will help them out as much as they think and is a waste of money. So it would be "Here's level 60..and here is your iLV1 gear. Enjoy."

When 4.0 comes out everyone will be so focused on that, so those who need to do certain fights and such along the way from 2.0 - 4.0 to catch up will just have an easier time. They might still have to do the whole story, and will have to level other jobs. Then again, they could use a potion on every job. If you make it expensive enough that won't happen as much. Should only be applied to combat classes, there's nothing you can do as a Fisher that will make you catch up to the 4.0 crowd any easier in terms of content.

[RobbieH]

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I leveled my Bard playing PotD, i do nicely on it, not nearly as good as on Ninja but it's enough for at least A9S, i didn't read any guides yet but i should if i want to be a better Bard.

But just reading the tooltip is enough for me do it properly, not perfectly but properly (i can do more DPS than some people with Sophia weapon).

If people bothered to read what all of the skills are for they would perform better.

I still have PLD, WAR, MCH and AST to level to 60, yet i'm not going to buy the Potion, i've spent over 1000€ in GW2 so you can see i spend money on in games stuff, depending on what it is.

I feel like they will include one Potion with the Expansion Pre-order.

Like HW had a Fantasia because of a new Race, since there's no new Race this time it makes sense to add the Potion.

Obviously if that happens i'll save it for one of the new Jobs, i don't like any of the Jobs i have left to level (maybe WAR is nice, but i'm still Marauder lvl 37 (also leveling through PotD)).