The Leveling Problem explained.

[CNitsah]

The only problem with leveling is that it goes too fast. It's done so you have enough xp with just the msq. Thus right now, if you do a few fates, roulettes, out of msq things, you're greatly overleveled.

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I don't want to leave the forums and sit through videos. Please summarize.

[Hasrat]

The only problem with leveling is that it goes too fast. It's done so you have enough xp with just the msq. Thus right now, if you do a few fates, roulettes, out of msq things, you're greatly overleveled.

Having just gone through EW myself, I can attest, this isn't 100% true. With intention to only ever take MSQ (and MSQ duties) exp on my main job, there were a couple gaps that required a few FATEs be cleared to bridge the levels. But, they're not terribly large. And honestly, for a story-driven game, it's for the best that players can experience the story without needing to interrupt for frequent grinding.

As for previous expansions.. well, yeah, you do out-level if you're starting any expansion higher than the original starting level cap, which you always will if you're starting from 1. But that's largely a product of level cap quests providing exp where they did not initially.

And while the simplistic answer to that is "don't add exp to level cap quests," then we're back to the original problem of players complaining that they're not getting anything from completing the more tedious patch quests.