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FFXIV can't do it in quite the same fashion, though. Other games have you quest through an area as part of your leveling process, and have you finish the quests around the same time that you outlevel the area. FFXIV has you leveling multiple jobs, which means that you're going to be revisiting each area multiple times. Implementing quest-based progression instead of grind-based progression means setting up a system that allows you to have quests available when you revisit an area later on with a different class.

And this is why there will be mobs in the Open World to kill in a Group ya know? =)