At this point in the game, "rushing" is not a valid argument.

[Dorfentyme]

You said it yourself - you *can*...but you don't *have* to.

I've played nearly everyday since launch for a minimum of 2 hours a day, probably more, and I am not level 50 yet in my main class. Nor is my primary crafter/gathering class 50.

What have I been doing? Let's see, I explored, I tried many things out, I've done FATE and leves, dungeons and primal battles, I've chatted with my friends, I've gathered for my crafting friends, they've crafted for me, we set up our free company, and I've had a lot of fun. What I have not done is FATE grind, leve grind, power level, dungeon grind, treat playing my enjoyable game as if it were a job that requires my undivided attention to progress as fast as possible.

They key point I want to make is that as you said you *can* level quickly through various means, but as I have said, you don't *have* to. Power leveling is your choice, I consider it rushing. I also think that it is interesting that you're posting basically to say to people "I'm level 50, stop telling my I rushed, you're just too slow to keep up." . You don't like being told that you rushed, so instead you're flipping it round to tell everyone else that it's so easy to level to 50 without trying that if they haven't done it already, something is wrong. Sorry, no, that's not it at all. this is a subscription based MMORPG, it's designed to be played for years, and yet within little more than a month of playing you have already reached end-game and are impatient. How is that not rushing the game?

Just because someone chose to do leves for their mining and you didn't, doesn't mean they are a rusher, it just means they didn't want to peck at a node and run in circles for 2 hours just to level once or twice. That doesn't make them a rusher. The only way to power level in this game is to just spam run FATEs over and over. All the other ways are NOT considered power leveling. It's just called playing the game.

If you try to hit 50 in this game, you will. The game isn't challenging to hit 50 in, it doesn't take a lot of time at all. My point was simply this:

"Stop calling people rushers because they are level 50 already and you aren't." That doesn't mean they rushed, it just means they spent their time leveling their class while you sat in the water pretending to take a bath with your virtual character. There's nothing wrong with that, but that doesn't mean the person isn't a rusher. It just means he doesn't care if his character has had a recent bath or not. Stop reading too much into it.

It's funny, I did all the same things you did over the past month. Started a linkshell, joined a FC, done some FATEs(not many, mind you, I don't like them that much), done a few leves, did my guildhests, did primal battles for MANY people(tanking for them so they wouldn't have a long queue), explored all the zones entirely, gathering and did some blacksmithing, farmed for gil, and had a lot of fun. But I'm also 50 because I chose to stick to one class instead of being burned out by all the different classes and burning myself out on all the content I've ALREADY done. I JUST leveled from 1-50, why would I want to repeat all that content again so quickly? Why is it so hard to believe that some people want to level their alt jobs 6 months down the road when the content hasn't just been completed for them?

To reiterate: Just because someone hit 50 before you, doesn't mean they were rushing. Just because they were playing the game and using all the options to level at their disposal instead of basking in the sunrise(which I'll do IRL if I want a beautiful sunrise), doesn't mean they are rushing. You literally have to TRY to not level fast in this game if you were to stick to just one job.