What Tera taught me about the quest plans for ARR.

[Rowyne]

Except Yoshi said monster grinding will be inefficient in comparison to everything else. I really don't get why they'd do something like that.

Probably because making grind parties as efficient just opens the door to power-leveling. I'd rather see content-based leveling where people actually have to put in effort and play their character to progress, not just stand in one spot and have others do the work for you.

Main reason I prefer quest-based levelling is that it's an exploit counter-measure by luring ppl away from AFK leeching by diminishing the efficiency of grinding, which is what ALOT of ppl did in FFXIV 1.0 and what so many ppl cry about in FFXI dealing w Abyssea.

^This.