Quote Originally Posted by Sephrick View Post
It still only took an average of 48 hours of actual exping to get there. The rest of it was tying to build parties, exp loss on death, walking for hours to find a decent camp and a pleathora of other annoying and blatant time sinks.

And it only takes a "day" in XIV if you have a very dedicated group willing to pour a majority of that day into it.

But my point in mentioning how short the grind to the first cap in XI was to illustrate that, similar to XI, it wouldn't have taken that long for a dedicated group. A player could have capped in XI then in under a week if they really wanted to.

But to gain the kind of "absurd" exp that people report takes already having a class at 50 capable of AoEing. At that point a player should know how to play any role in the game.
in xi people had to really try hard to get to 50 in a month. in xiv they can go afk for about 8 hours and get there. you are comparing things that are complete opposites.