Quote Originally Posted by Riaayo View Post
If you don't want to be power leveled nobody is forcing you. Complaining that you have to do it because it is there is stupid and amounts to you having to drink smoke or do drugs because they exist. Stop it.

Level Sync was a system that broke FFXI far more than power leveling ever could have. It allowed people to find specific level ranges to maximize their exp gain and did not equal parties happening at every level any more than not having it does. While the concept was cool and really useful when not abused, I feel it was abused far more than it was used correctly... and in the end you had people at 75 in FFXI who had never used an ability passed the 30s because they never had a party that wasn't capped to 36 or some-such.

I don't want to say that there is not a problem with low level leveling as I see a lot of people bring it up and at a glance it seems like it can be a pain in the ass. I believe this needs to be remedied with more interesting, engaging and fun leves (along with possibly more rewarding, I don't know the exp gain from them at this point), or an entirely different system of battle of questing to reward players time. I don't think this game will ever offer solo/duo play an exp rate on par with a party, though.

At the moment we are in a lull where a large majority of players have most classes 50 or every class they want 50 to 50, which leaves the overall low level party scene pretty dry. The problem there is in the fact this game is not pulling in new players, nor are there new classes being added or players leveling alternate characters up. When 2.0 hits (if this game succeeds) you will see a large influx of people to play with, and while I realize that's a long time away that is just how this is going to work. I'd ask that you just be patient and work your way up, or cave and just get help with it... but I see some people saying that getting rid of power leveling is the answer, and it's not.

Truthfully every time I see people complaining about power leveling, I just see someone who spent too much time leveling and is now mad somebody else did it faster. It's really just self-absorbed, and while I understand some people think power leveling caused this legitimately and aren't just elitists, I just can't agree for the previously mentioned reasons.

Don't like Lv.Sync? Don't participate then. Problem solved.

But hey, Lv.Sync actually did help FFXI, it actually gave veterans like myself the ability to level with newbies without hand-tossing them a Lv.75 job, nothing that Power Leveling is capable of.