Local Levees - The Bastard Stepchild of FFXIV

[Mireille]

Guess it is time for my periodic diatribe against SE and their lack of support for the Local Levee system. Yoshida-San if you are not going to support this system why do we even have it? It continues to be an exercise in futility. At the moment I am trying to level Crp, Alc and Cul. After visiting all 3 cities at a cost of 10K I was actually able to obtain 2 Crp quests within my current level range. Absolutely nothing for Alc and Cul. This has been a conrinuing problem for the past 18 months. I and others have complained about it and as usual we have been totally ignored by SE. Yoshida-San either correct this problem or get rid of the local levee system and come right out and tell the populace that if they want to level DoH they must spend countless hours on DoL the get Mats or have to spend boatloads of Gil for the Mats. At least then we will know where we stand. You have spent time developing Regional Levees to make them meaningful. Please do the same for Local Levees. I know I will receive no response from SE but I had to post this anyways.

There is a dev post by Rukkirii that answers this on page one of this thread http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...pes-No-changes

Its coming you just need to be patient. They haven't been ignoring you its just that these changes are being implemented on a schedule alongside other changes some of which are a higher priority.

[Rizon]

Wvr has "A Spot in the Shade" & "Fire on the Water"
Gsm has "Bluefog Induction" & "In Arms Reach"
Cul has "A Job Well Done" & "A Well Deserved Dinner"
Tan has "Hungry Like the Wolves" & "Morbol Measures"
Alc has "Preserving the Region"
Crp has "Restocking the Stockade"

This is a list of leves that are ONLY 40+, so it doesn't count the ones that can pop 35-45 or 20-45 and so on. Who gets boned? Just armorer really, but even they have a few randoms that can go up to 45 and even one that can go to 50, some crafts don't even get a 50. BTW, if you're curious, this took me about 3 minutes to make this list.... quit bein lazy.

I leveled my Arm, Lwr, Wvr primarily through the local lewve system. I am trying to do the same with the other 3. While you lisy a large number of quests I would be lucky to see them appear every 3rd reset. That is the same for every level from 20 on up. It would cost me, on average, 40K in travel expenses to finally get 8 decent leves.. So for me your agrument doesn't wash

[Rizon]

There is a dev post by Rukkirii that answers this on page one of this thread http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...pes-No-changes

Its coming you just need to be patient. They haven't been ignoring you its just that these changes are being implemented on a schedule alongside other changes some of which are a higher priority.

I had read this post. It deals only with adding recipes to cover the new requirementsa post 1.21. While I applaud this it does not mention any changes or addition the the local leve system

[JackDaniels]

I haven't done local leves since they gave guild points. It has always been a waste of time and anima.

Going on my second DoH to 50 and I don't see the problem with mass producing mats to straight up grind, which has always been faster than running around making crap for NPCs. Who cares about Local Leves? OP if you're so broke you can't afford airships, why don't you farm Karakul Fleece or Black Pearls??

[Rizon]

I haven't done local leves since they gave guild points. It has always been a waste of time and anima.

Going on my second DoH to 50 and I don't see the problem with mass producing mats to straight up grind, which has always been faster than running around making crap for NPCs. Who cares about Local Leves? OP if you're so broke you can't afford airships, why don't you farm Karakul Fleece or Black Pearls??

Might be best if you knew the person you are talking about before you made such statements. I took my Arc from 41-50 farming Karakul Fleece. I leveled Min in order to be able to farm basic materials for Arm and Bsm. I farmed Boars and Raptors for Lwr. My major problem is I do not Bot so you were talking days on end in order to accrue sufficient materials for a decent grind session. and btw I more frequent flyer miles searching for quests then I can ever use.

[Peptaru]

I just leveled, and am leveling more crafts (in their 30s even so ya....) i can go to a town (appropriate to the leves i want to do) and have NO ISSUES whatsoever having them pop up over and over. As for the 40 ones, sayin they don't show up is junk. If they are only 40+ and you're of the level to have them appear, they always appear. They aren't random, they don't only pop on reset. Sometimes its only one leve and its boring, but its always there. Pick one craft, one town, one leve and repeat it til your eyes bleed. You can't be upset with a system that enables you to level without ingredients at all. "but battlecraft! q.q" they still have to kill monsters we don't even have to gather ingredients. aren't some of your leves so easy you don't even have to leave town? It is boring yes, it is repetitive yes, but idc if they never change them with one exception.

When i need crafting skills that used to be purchased with guild marks to do leves properly, and purchase of those skills is unavailable.... i'm not okay with that. Some of the Alc recieps are changed to the Hi-potions of -stat- now, which is at least a start.

[JackDaniels]

"but battlecraft! q.q"

Lol you just made my day

[Answa]

I just leveled, and am leveling more crafts (in their 30s even so ya....) i can go to a town (appropriate to the leves i want to do) and have NO ISSUES whatsoever having them pop up over and over. As for the 40 ones, sayin they don't show up is junk. If they are only 40+ and you're of the level to have them appear, they always appear. They aren't random, they don't only pop on reset. Sometimes its only one leve and its boring, but its always there. Pick one craft, one town, one leve and repeat it til your eyes bleed. You can't be upset with a system that enables you to level without ingredients at all. "but battlecraft! q.q" they still have to kill monsters we don't even have to gather ingredients. aren't some of your leves so easy you don't even have to leave town? It is boring yes, it is repetitive yes, but idc if they never change them with one exception.

When i need crafting skills that used to be purchased with guild marks to do leves properly, and purchase of those skills is unavailable.... i'm not okay with that. Some of the Alc recieps are changed to the Hi-potions of -stat- now, which is at least a start.

To add to this, with the new crafting system you benefit more from not even handing in the leve once you're done. Just abandon and reget. You'll get a ton of EXP fast.

[Babydoll]

Well said OP!

[Jinko]

To add to this, with the new crafting system you benefit more from not even handing in the leve once you're done. Just abandon and reget. You'll get a ton of EXP fast.

Kind of reminds me how people used to fail battle leves to retry them on the next reset...

Still doesn't explain why local leves are called local if they are regional.