Don't Leve Them Behind! - Battlecraft Leves in Stormblood

[Dzian]

Hated the things myself. Especially the stupid ones that required emotes like /beckon. Or smash a mob to within an inch of its life only to then /comfort it.

The only time I ever did battlecradt leves in 3.0 was when I was spamming and abandoning them form the resins

[Spiroglyph]

I am laughing at the fact that someone actually posted leves are not worth the time they take up because you're running the same content again and again - while suggesting dungeon/potd spam... which is like, also repeating content over and over again.

Except nowadays queuing up for dungeons take up an insane amount of time as DPS, potd post 60 is a waste of time as exp is little. You have frontlines, I guess, but that is ALSO spammable old content.

Personally I don't carw about leves specifically, but we do need something as alternative to dungeons to level DPSs.

A new deep dungeon would be most welcome, or FATE bigger exp reward, or leves, yes. Anything to counter the queue times. Leves were cool because you could do them WHILE queuing.

[Draxis_Fallspear]

I did alot of battle leves on all my classes at levels 40+. Especially 45+ since Aurum Vale was just the worst.

That being said, the tuning in HW was so aggressive that it really removed any incentive to run them. I remember the first week where HW launched and levelling my Leatherworker off of the 45 leves because the heavenswards ones were so expensive to attempt and the xp was piddling in comparison. They did similar stuff with the levequests and hoped that forcing people to do them for accessories would actually make people run them. It did not.

That being said, I would love for them to bring back better leves (like they were in ARR). The only thing I would remove would be the annoying item rewards that they would add. They were always just inventory -1 and it was annoying to have to get rid of them. Just make all the rewards ventures or something.

[enthauptet]

People didn't like them because it didn't feel like the pittance of experience and gil you got was worth the time and travel, and it only got worse with the teleport returning you to "the nearest settlement" instead of Ishgard - suddenly even your gil reward (and then some) is gone because you had to teleport to Ishgard to turn the thing in. They should have looked at improving the rewards, which would have encouraged people to do them.

Yeah this is basically why no one did battlecraft leves until the anima weapon, because you had to get leves from ishgard then go to the zone they were in, then go back to ishgard to turn them in. That was the dumbest tedious system which sucked tons of gil unless you were flying which depending on when you wanted to do them wouldn't have been unlocked yet. Overall HW leve system is a complete joke and never should have been put into place. The ARR system was much better with leves available in main cities as well as in zone towns and you could turn them in anywhere.

My boyfriend and I are going around doing sidequests because we wanted something casual we can do a bit at a time. Not everyone wants to go 100% all the time so leves were kind of a nice way to do that.

[HaelseMikiro]

Won't anyone think of all the poor achievement hunters? We need 5000 Battlecraft leves completed. That's 834 days of using all allowances on Battle leves. Now, we're limited to a max of level 60 for them? Obviously ach. hunters will do them regardless, but not having them as a good option for leveling 15 jobs from 60-70 and receiving less gil from them towards the 20,000,000 gil from levequest achievement (I swear to the Twelve, SE hired a sadist to design achievements) really puts a damper on an otherwise mindless, soul-sucking grind.

[XIV_Cristiano]

While you personally may have not liked them, that's not really a valid reason for removing something from the game. More methods of gaining experience is always a good thing. They would have done better to make an attempt to improve the leves, as opposed to outright pulling them.

Now that you mention crafting leves in that same post, an interesting note is that now that my crafters and gatherers are all at 70, my leve allowances sit at 100, untouched. There's nothing for me to use them on.

There's always achievements related to levequests. Like do 100 unique tradecraft leves as Blacksmith or something. Also the honest Gilionaire. That's just optional though.1

[blindfoldedkaos]

When Stormblood released, I was excited to see what kinds of new levequests there would be from the new regions. Needless to say, I was disappointed on several levels that there were no battlecraft leves at the counter in Kugane. Levequests were so unique to FFXIV, and a great system as part of the myriad ways we can grow our characters (especially when there are no other quests to pick up). It pains me to see them gone, and I can only imagine why they were removed...

Hold your horses people, they weren't removed, they just haven't been added and wont be added till 4.1, it was in the patch notes during early access and launch....

[Spiroglyph]

Hold your horses people, they weren't removed, they just haven't been added and wont be added till 4.1, it was in the patch notes during early access and launch....

If this is real I now have reason to fire all the fireworks I obtained in The Rising 2017!

Was not looking forward to spending half my online time in queue...

EDIT: Ok, I will still be spending a lot of time in queue, I will just have something else as an additional means to gain exp and also to work toward achievements...

[Strywin]

Hated the things myself. Especially the stupid ones that required emotes like /beckon. Or smash a mob to within an inch of its life only to then /comfort it.

The only time I ever did battlecradt leves in 3.0 was when I was spamming and abandoning them form the resins

I hated those ones too lol.
I didn't mind using leves for leveling but not knowing which leves had the emote/capture weakened beast was somewhat annoying for me.
I like to use my chocobo during open world content but my darn chocobo would always kill the captured beast so I'd have to unsummon it for those leves alone. :/

[Canadane]

I like battle leves. Nice tidbit of lore plus a small fun objective.
I'd be in favour of them returning.