Quote Originally Posted by Jaide View Post
You're exaggerating and assuming that a full party grabbing whatever leves are available from the counter will have no links - which will never happen. In fact when I do them with linkshell members we frequently have 2-3 links on a leve. People are failing leves mainly so that they can keep the ones with the highest SP gain. The ability to link them and save time is merely a bonus. If they want to change things so people can pick the ones they want to save time, that's fine - but rewarding failure over success for any reason is backwards and broken.
No, linking is why we fail them. It's linking that gives the best SP, so we use the best leves for max links. If you start one leve and link 3 more, you get about the same SP as if you ran that same leve 5 times back to back in 1/5 the time.