Thread: Post 2.1: A consistent way to level?

Originally Posted by Karnyboy

OH EM GEE.....

Change!!

Fate grinding was boring...glad there's options now. Welcome to the world of change. Adapt or die. I don't know what else to say I have no sympathy for people who get bored because they can't grind to max level anymore.

I just don't understand what it is with this mentality. I've seen it on here, in game, and on reddit and other forums. It's just a vile, vicious, hatred for anyone who used to use or wants to use Fates to gain some levels. It borders on irrational.

And I don't think many people are going to argue that fates are boring and they are happy that dungeons got an XP buff. People are asking how to adapt in this thread, and you tell them to die? Nowhere did people state they are bored because they can't get to max level. I, and I am sure many others, prefer to do what is the most efficient way to do something. And if it happens to be fun, that's just a great bonus. Further, with your train of thought people may find dungeons boring and would be happy that the option to level a different way is available. Currently, that isn't the case. Right now, people are being met with others in game who will berate them, call them stupid, etc. for wanting to level via fates. It's like there's a stigma against fates and you aren't the cool kid in school if you run them. Aside from all this, I would just like to see how the xp/hr compares. All I can go off is how it feels while in dungeons, and it just feels slower to me.

Originally Posted by Krystalynn

Make friends. Play the mmo. Dungeon. Do a fate every so often. Your hunting log. Enjoy the game. Seriously if you can't make 1-2 friends... you can duo pretty much every fate to 50 at best till you reach raid fates.

Seriously op, your post depresses the fuck out of me. -_-

Let's be honest here. You're hunting log will net you what ~5 levels at most? Not accounting for all the porting around you will be doing. That's xp and gil per hour lost to do a hunting log with a marginal reward. Maybe they enjoy the game by running fates? Why do you care how they enjoy the game, and why are you attempting to dictate your style onto them? I've met more people via fates than I have in dungeons. Dungeons are x-server for the most part anyway, so anyone you do meet in there has a good chance of being on a different server and never meeting again. And you can duo pretty much every fate to 50? Really? Try duoing the stuff in Quarrymill or anywhere else since the patch, on level or a level or 2 lower. With the way scaling works, you won't be able to unless 1 person is dedicated healer. Even without that, there are a lot of fates that turn up in the 20-30+ range that can't be duoed and if they can, it isn't within the time limits of the fate. Tonight, forming a fate group for Quarrymill netted me more friends than any of the dungeons I have run and you know what, all of them are having similar thoughts. You do the roulette once and then bam, that's it for the bonus xp. After that, especially for dps, fates become the defacto best way to gain the quickest amount of xp for your time.