What is Missing in 2.0 - Ways to Level classes

[TirionCrey]

Yeah, it's a party based lvling system. Quests are not meant to lvl your character and I personally like that. In XI Quests didn't even give XP, they were lore only and I liked that as well. I tend to skip all the quests in most MMOs due to them being only a cover up for lvling, while in FFXI they were pure story and I did them cause I wanted to, not to lvl my character.

It's what I liked about XI as well. You play in parties to progress, which at the same time teaches you how to play your class/job in a group and therefore prepares you for endgame.

[Rutelor]

Yeah, it's a party based lvling system. Quests are not meant to lvl your character and I personally like that. In XI Quests didn't even give XP, they were lore only and I liked that as well.

I agree. I liked the quest system in XI, but it wasn't there only for lore. Perhaps it didn't give you experience points, but it gave you Reputation, and the parallel main-storyline Mission system gave you Rank. All of these were exponentially more engaging and challenging that either sidequests or storyline quests in XIV, but also, through them you got access to most of the gameplay systems' content. So far, other than the job quests (and before the class-specific quests, that yielded guildmarks,) there's very little to gain (in exp, gil, or otherwise) from questing in XIV.