Low level gameplay: A growing problem

[Ronduwil]

Everyone who has played through to endgame has experienced the frustration of queueing for leveling roulette and getting something like Sastasha or Tam-tara and losing 80% of what makes your job fun to play.

Maybe at level 51 I'm too new to understand, but why do you need to queue for leveling roulette to level? From what I can tell so far, there are more than enough levequests and side quests to make leveling roulette completely optional.

[MariaArvana]

Maybe at level 51 I'm too new to understand, but why do you need to queue for leveling roulette to level? From what I can tell so far, there are more than enough levequests and side quests to make leveling roulette completely optional.

Levequests are pretty much only useful up to level 50, and even then that's debatable when dungeons give tremendously more exp for the same effort. Side quests are also one-time only; if you want to level more than one job to 80 side quests aren't an option.

Leveling roulette, along with most of the roulettes, are designed to give the player giant EXP bonuses in exchange for the player signing up to do whatever content the roulette chooses to give them. Its meant to populate queues so that way no one gets stuck trying to queue for something, because there'll always be high level players queueing for leveling roulette due to the huge exp it grants. The unfortunate downside to this is that a level 79 player can get thrown into say, the level 15 dungeon, where 80% of their abilitys/attacks are removed due to the level sync to make sure things are balanced, resulting in a very slow, snore-fest experience.

[Mugear_bahamut]

Maybe at level 51 I'm too new to understand, but why do you need to queue for leveling roulette to level? From what I can tell so far, there are more than enough levequests and side quests to make leveling roulette completely optional.

In higher levels there are no battle leves anymore because only a small amount of players did them in HW, side quests don't give that much EXP, roulettes give you EXP by percentage based on your level.
Maxed players can still obtain a good amount of gil/tomestones/seals. The worth of doing them are intentional, otherwise there would be no point.