Quote Originally Posted by Rentahamster View Post
It was exploitable in FF11, yes, with Astral burns and what not.

It depends if it's an exploit or not if the relative difficulty of doing the dungeon is easier than grinding at your actual level. If there is a glaring disparity, then yeah, it's an exploit, but there can be countermeasures in place to avoid that as well as game balance adjustments.

But seeing as how dungeon content is supposed to be harder than normal grinding, I don't see how it's much of an exploit.
But there in lies another issue, maybe the leading factor as to WHY it is the way it is. Maybe the dungeons are meant to be a viable alternative to leves and grinding. The trade off, then, would be that you can go in and grind mobs for SP in a dungeon for 10 levels, but you may exceed your 60 minutes if you want to get good SP.