Quote Originally Posted by Rjain View Post
Why would someone think that abandoning a levequest is an exploit? You are sacrificing the reward for more SP in the future. It's not like you're not losing out on something.
Reward, gil, not a big deal, but yes. Its a reward.

Faction points. These can be a big deal. Some nice drops from faction leves, and loosing out on, say, three leves worth of faction points ever cycle adds up really fast. Especially once you reach the point where having the gear would actually be useful to you while ranking. Which do you pick? SP now? Or faction points for more shots at the gear?

Marks. Less finished leves, means less renewed leves. Means less chance at leves offering marks. Again, something useful while leveling. Do you try to get that ability to use while leveling up, or do you get the SP to level up? Choices choices.

Point is, Rjain is right. You are giving something up by failing leves. SE had said it is not a violation of the AUP/TOS, just like they said zerging L90+ goblins with R10 THMs is not a violation. It just comes down to a choice: It is a matter of play style. Some people are completionists, they want every gear, every leve finished on ever level of stars and every NM and every achievement. Some people are levelers, they just want everything at the top as fast as they can. Some people map out what skills on what jobs to get in what order to maximize efficiency. Its all about trade-offs, and none of the playstyles are any worse or better than the others beyond what they mean to you personally and how you prefer to play your character.