maybe its just me...but is leveling too fast in your opinion?

[Zaphod]

Perhaps a differing perspective. This week, I have two days off. Sometimes I get one. Today I logged in and spent a good two or three hours advancing through some main story line quests and "grinding" through some guildleves to reach Lv. 10 as a Pugilist and Gladiator. Three hours. I sleep for seven or eight. That leaves me thirteen hours to do everything else I'd like to do with my day; eating, writing, running, etc.

I'm am the casual player demographic.. but we can coexist!! It seems like the majority of players just have more time to play than I do. I bought the collectors edition of this game the first day it came out because I.. love Final Fantasy. Try to see it from a different perspective. Three hours is a substantial investment for me! Today I made some progress and had a good time. Square has made great efforts striking a balance between content for casual players like me, and players with more time, such as yourselves. It must be very difficult, and I applaud them.

Maybe the solution is to separate players into servers that have difficulty levels? One server will cater to hardcore players, and it'll take nine hours to gain a single level--however much time it takes to make hardcore players feel satisfied. Which is.. Really sort of insane when you think about it.

The other server, for people like me, will have the current, easier leveling curve. Insanity mode, and Normal Working People mode.

[darkstarpoet1]

Perhaps a differing perspective. This week, I have two days off. Sometimes I get one. Today I logged in and spent a good two or three hours advancing through some main story line quests and "grinding" through some guildleves to reach Lv. 10 as a Pugilist and Gladiator. Three hours. I sleep for seven or eight. That leaves me thirteen hours to do everything else I'd like to do with my day; eating, writing, running, etc.

I'm am the casual player demographic.. but we can coexist!! It seems like the majority of players just have more time to play than I do. I bought the collectors edition of this game the first day it came out because I.. love Final Fantasy. Try to see it from a different perspective. Three hours is a substantial investment for me! Today I made some progress and had a good time. Square has made great efforts striking a balance between content for casual players like me, and players with more time, such as yourselves. It must be very difficult, and I applaud them.

Maybe the solution is to separate players into servers that have difficulty levels? One server will cater to hardcore players, and it'll take nine hours to gain a single level--however much time it takes to make hardcore players feel satisfied. Which is.. Really sort of insane when you think about it.

The other server, for people like me, will have the current, easier leveling curve. Insanity mode, and Normal Working People mode.

sure and while we are at it we can start giving out darklight gear as a rested bonus while at the inn. to get that bonus though you must play less than 1 hour a week.

[darkstarpoet1]

zap i seen your comment, but it was just more of the lines of where do you want to draw the line? there's easy and there is horribly easy. i'm not saying i want it to go back to where it was on release when you were lucky to get 10k an hour, but i also don't like seeing people going from 41-50 in less than 4 hours.

there is very little end game as it is. the last thing i feel se needs for the longevity of the game is to have everyone r50 in every class. i feel people should have to put some time and effort into it. i have alot of friends that are very casual players and am glad to help them out, but you can't expect to get done in 2-3 hours what i get done in 20-30. it's just not possible unless i am using my time very unwise.

[Zaphod]

I haven't reached endgame yet, maybe when I do more of what you're saying will make sense. I hear there's very little content.

[darkstarpoet1]

I haven't reached endgame yet, maybe when I do more of what you're saying will make sense. I hear there's very little content.

yeah, that's understood because you haven't reached it yet. when you get here you will realize the only endgame content that's viable and worth doing is the av dungeon, cc dungeon, and ifrit. the patches have done a number on the older content. the world nm's are a waste to even look at because the gear from them are worthless, moogle gear was worthless on release, and darkhold has been completely outclassed as well.

you can literally get with a good group and get your job gear and then go with that group and do every piece of worth while endgame content in right over an hour. with a good group that can do endgame content and go do a speed run in av(25 min), speed run in cc(25 min), and kill ifrit in even less time than that. you are looking at right at an hour and you have done everything high level this game has to offer that is worth the time to do.

right now there's just not much at high level to support the speed in which people level now. sure there's other things you CAN do like the 5 world nm's, darkhold, and moogle. the thing is the gear drops from them fails in comparison to crafted gear so it's just being done as something to pass boredom ad not actually having a purpose to them besides an achievement in your history and nothing else.

i'm leaving out the strongholds because those are not what i'd consider high level content since most people just use them for leveling and bond parties at the coffers.

[Answa]

yeah, that's understood because you haven't reached it yet. when you get here you will realize the only endgame content that's viable and worth doing is the av dungeon, cc dungeon, and ifrit. the patches have done a number on the older content. the world nm's are a waste to even look at because the gear from them are worthless, moogle gear was worthless on release, and darkhold has been completely outclassed as well.

you can literally get with a good group and get your job gear and then go with that group and do every piece of worth while endgame content in right over an hour. with a good group that can do endgame content and go do a speed run in av(25 min), speed run in cc(25 min), and kill ifrit in even less time than that. you are looking at right at an hour and you have done everything high level this game has to offer that is worth the time to do.

right now there's just not much at high level to support the speed in which people level now. sure there's other things you CAN do like the 5 world nm's, darkhold, and moogle. the thing is the gear drops from them fails in comparison to crafted gear so it's just being done as something to pass boredom ad not actually having a purpose to them besides an achievement in your history and nothing else.

i'm leaving out the strongholds because those are not what i'd consider high level content since most people just use them for leveling and bond parties at the coffers.

I don't agree completely with what you say. The one thing you said that is the least true in my opinion is that Dzemael Darkhold is useless now. It's currently the best, least inane way to acquire company seals.

[Zaphod]

Hmm.. level 50 in every class. In the collective hours you've spent leveling, which has to be over a thousand, you could have learned an entire second language. Think about it. You could have made that self-righteous comment to me just now in Spanish.

[Dragon]

And then nobody will want to use it.

The purpose of level sync for me is so I can level my lower level classes due to the lack of players, playing with friends and other LS members is a bonus, so yea I would most likely not use level sync if it has this kind of restriction.

I guess I wasn't specific enough, I mean it'd nerf the EXP on the high-level members.

[Dragon]

Hmm.. level 50 in every class. In the collective hours you've spent leveling, which has to be over a thousand, you could have learned an entire second language. Think about it. You could have made that self-righteous comment to me just now in Spanish.

Blah blah blah, only I can have a real life... blah blah blah.