Quote Originally Posted by Shibi View Post
I agree.

I bought an MMO newbie into the game, and was hoping to level moderately slowly so that I could teach them what it was about. Before we could blink it's the end of HW and we are doing alliances and places like the Vault before they even know the difference between an AOE and DOT.

Levelling is way. way, way, way too fast for a new player, even if we skip everything but MSQ. And by the middle of ARR even that leaves us 10 to 20 levels over.

It would be nice if SE had a way we could level very slowly, or even pause and bank XP until we were ready to accept a level and move on.

Maybe it's the time - for those who want it - to end XP based levels and move to quest given levels instead?
No ... This is not what I was saying. You did not read everything did you. I am saying that I am a level 30ish Summoner gated behind MSQQ and only at roughly level 20 or so of the MSQ. I feel like my level should match my MSQ level for my class quests to be appropriately unlocked and follow the MSQ.

As a level 32 summoner, yes I can't really do level 30 dungeons - technically I can, there is an unlock for me in waking sands - you know the dungeon. But my point is, the MSQ leveling is much too generous in comparison to the gil you are rewarded and the class quests you do that are now out of sync with the leveling process.

Quote Originally Posted by Clover_Blake View Post
Leveling doesn't grant you to reach endgame faster, or even to access high level dungeons that require more skill. That's always locked behind the MSQ, and the MSQ is quite long.

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Combat speed has nothing to do with anything. My complaint, as many before me has said - the amount of ARR msq quests and the time between them because of level gating was way to high. Now its way to small and you don't keep up with other things like unlockable and class quests properly.

Combat isn't slow IMO, it was the amount of XP they would give and then level gate the MSQ. I think they boosted XP to keep people interested and engaged with the main story.

Quote Originally Posted by Shibi View Post
OP is on Marlboro, we are on Faerie. Neither of these are preferred servers, are they? In fact, until recently, Faerie was congested..
Yes I am, but my alt is on Goblin.

Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Leveling should be fast for your alt jobs or if you're indecisive and keep switching jobs.

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Also, the faster you level, the faster you get your abilities, and too many people (I'm not one of them) have a problem as it is with having too few skills combined with the GCD.
Heavy GCD classes I can see there issue. As a summoner/BLM (main) I don't have this issue.

I really only have one complaint about the super fast leveling: increase MSQ gil - not by a lot but enough to feel like I am be rewarded appropriately. Maybe I am stupid for requesting that?