PL Woes

[Tigercub]

You need a single level 42 skill from a job you have no intention of playing.
Your options are:

1) Wait hours at a time for a party, because nobody has low to mid level jobs anymore. And half of the community still doesn't use the party search functions.
2) Send yourself to sleep on extremely boring leves for very meager experience points. If you manage to slug through them at a reasonable pace, you can even run out.
3) You get a PL and do something productive in real life.

I'm not so much defending PL as much as I'm just saying that with this system it's not surprising to me at all that everyone gets power-leveled.

The game is also not difficult enough to teach people to play well. A ton of the people I've partied with just mash their skills. They wear level 10 gear on level 40 jobs. Stuff like that. It's not because they got PL'd, it's because the game doesn't require them to be anything other than lazy until level 50, and some people just never take the effort to improve their play.