Quote Originally Posted by Lacard View Post
I see PLing as an "easy way out". it makes challenging battles or even battles that are normal, even more easy. And to the point, no one has to try. Granted, I'm still fairly new to FFXIV even though I've had it for a while (kind of on and off). In FFXI, if there was a PL, the tank didn't have to learn to keep hate, the WHM didn't have to learn restraint and how to balance MP, The Puller didn't have to be careful with links, and so on. In some rare cases, parties were made up of nothing but random classes, no healer and relied heavily on the PL. Didnt always work as planned. Now I agree that it takes common sense to use your character effectively and some research too. (I did a lot of research to play a THF well with the right gear.) And PL isn't such a horrible thing, but to me it feels like people being lazy. And if you're PLed all the time, then you can become "spoiled". I saw a lot of that in FFXI, I would actually turn down invites because people would think that if they had a PL, they could take on anything and not need a decent party set up. I just think people should not rely on PLing too much.
This is all true but in FFXI leveling content was equally spread out you just needed people who could learn from their mistakes and work as a team. In FFXIV the leveling is mostly solo until 30 where you grab seemingly random classes and pull/aoe mobs until 50. When leveling Monk in groups I might aswell been PL'd because i barely got to hit a mob before the mage/archer storm killed them. Leveling has no structure its just the same with and without a PL only difference is it goes from 2-3 people doing all the work to just 1 person doing all the work.

There is little learning involved in XIV's parties which is unfortunate and hopefully fixed one day. When leveling conjurer I went 1-50 playing the class like a BLM because there was nothing but Conjurers seeking and we just stonara/aerora everything down in seconds over and over until 50. How does this teach me how to heal CC/AV/Moogle/Ifrit/Garuda/DH?