As an FFXI player, thank you for Limited Jobs and BLU SE

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Yes, they are 3 separate points in my statement. For whatever reason you're deciding to group them together and take the whole thing out of context. I never said being AFK was an exploit. If you're going to say "let's have well reasoned arguments please" at least have the reading comprehension to participate.

It does occur to me that the EXP exploit is not new, given it's nature it's likely been around as long as the game has been around. BLU just made it more visible to the community and devs. So, fair enough.

Either way, your Blue Mage about being AFK, is still not even anything but being petty about away time for a class that was meant to be quickly leveled. Exploit or not. It wasn't a reasonable argument. It was nitpicking and exaggerating the whole situation of it being a problem.

The XP exploit goes hand and hand with just exploiting server ticks in general. It's not just about XP, which is what I was pointing out. To give you another example - Ifrit EX has the debuff that affects a healer in the party. The mechanic was to force a healer swap. The debuff was obviously meant for the healer to stay out the entire time the debuff is in effect. However, you don't have to. The reason is because the effect of the debuff isn't constant, it pulses every server tick. So you can actually come in earlier than the debuff actually wears off.

Now don't get me wrong, there was an effect that the job change thing DID affect on the playerbase negatively. That was that Blue Mage couldn't exactly 1 shot Overworld mobs as effectively and players that went around 1 shotting mobs before the other player tagged them robbed them of their Experience points. However, if you did tag said mob before it was killed you still got experience from it. So both people were still benefiting from it.