Local Levees - The Bastard Stepchild of FFXIV

[Riv]

The system does seem improved since the last patch, or maybe before then and i just didn't notice. Now i generally have more leves available per rank, i think because now if one leve is available for a certain rank that has other ranks it can appear in, it appears in all of them. However, i've still only seen one lvl 35 ALC leve in the entire game (maybe 2). Even in the cities that house the guild, leve availability can be horrible.

I also get very annoyed when BSM leves in Gridania force me to go to Limsa for guild support.

[Jinko]

If anything, it is important NOW to tell SE what it is that is wrong with guildleves. If, for nothing else, just a reminder. Sorry to be a negative Nancy here, but with SE's track record on this game, my blind faith allowance is pretty sparse.

Don't worry you will get eight more by tomorrow

Vedis always reminds me of an ignorant king sat in his castle laughing at the peasants and the lower levelled classes.

We've paid our taxes give us what we deserve, and I don't' mean a hanging !

[Mireille]

Its been known for a while that its on their to do list to, doesnt mean it can be done instantly, it takes work and its not exactly a priority(nor should it be) compared to many other issues still being fixed

so yes, i do believe its alot for people to bring it up on a weekly basis and yell about it, since they obviously havent done a damn bit of research as to the status of the problem

The way I see it the changes they have been making are each a logical progression from each other. Each patch released is moving us in the correct direction and doing so in a much more controlled and sustainable way than if they performed them en mass in one patch. When you add it the fact that each patch must contain changes to other systems in the game in order to keep as many people happy as possible it makes sense why this is happening one step at a time for each system within the game.

Mireille please allow me to try anf clarify my position. My major concern is about the lack of appropriate local leves available for all skill levels. This has been a problem since the day of release. The actual recipes are of little consequence as you are not producing real items but setting counter flags you can have any recipe there.

I agree with you about the lack of quests available at various levels. Carpenter was a painful crawl 40 - 50 with leve, goldsmithing was bad 35 - 40 if I am remembering correctly. I've leveled 6/8 crafts to 50 across three characters using only leve to do so, and I know just how lacking the levequest can be.

In addition when they announced the new recipes coming in 1.19 I was excited because I had just finished leatherworker to 50, and most of the leather leve required weaver leveled in addition to leather. My weaver is level 7, and some of the leve required it at 35. A substantial number of the levequests I was being offered were impossible to complete because of that unless I stopped leveling leather and got weaver to 35. I thought the new recipes were fixing that in 1.19, and when the patch arrived despite the inclusion of new recipes the leve still used the dated ones. It's really frustrating to have a chunk of that time be wasted on stuff that doesn't work right or be forced you spend 4 weeks leveling something you aren't into leveling to make it work. Even though leather was done I couldn't believe they hadn't corrected something that broken when they had the chance.

If they had put forward what Rukkirii put in her post when they announced the new recipes slated for 1.19 I would have been ok with knowing a later update would fix the problem. I could have accepted it and looked forward to the fix in a future patch. They didn't and I foolishly got my hopes up, so my bad I guess.

[Sephrick]

Perhaps some promising information from the 26th Letter from the Producer:

Local levequest revisions

• Change to suitable recipes
• Revision of leve objectives (May be postponed to 1.22a due to text volume.)
• Revision of reward system

[Jinko]

Doesn't say they are going to add new ones though, hopefully they do though.

[Sephrick]

Doesn't say they are going to add new ones though, hopefully they do though.

Aye, one sentence teasers leave a lot of room for interpretation. It's my hope that the "revisions to objects" translates to them somehow making leves more level appropriate.

Time will tell.

[Jinko]

[Karakul fleece] [reward] [Can I have it ?]

[Sephrick]

[Karakul fleece] [reward] [Can I have it ?]

Or even regular Fleece for that matter. Internet says it drops from Wild Ewes but for the life of me I can't find any of the darn things.

Nonetheless, I'm excited. Karakul Fleece would rock. Spending an hour all out farming for 30 NQ and 6 HQ is an okay rate for making items to sell but not at all for leveling.

[Ashgarth]

I'll be happy if they just take out the leve recipes that require Guild Facilities and subcrafts.

[Mireille]

Perhaps some promising information from the 26th Letter from the Producer:

Local levequest revisions

• Change to suitable recipes
• Revision of leve objectives (May be postponed to 1.22a due to text volume.)
• Revision of reward system

Hopefully that means leve will be added to the crafts that have a shortage at certain level ranges. It would be nice to have that clarified though. Does anyone want to shine the Morbol signal into the sky?