New Letter from the Producer, XII

[Shikaree]

I'm excited about the levequest changes.

For one, this may finally push people out of Ul'dah. Linking won't be as appealing and the thought of looking at the reward can also try to inspire others to go to a different region.

And I shouldn't have to constantly see shouts like "Leve link party? Do you need it? Dunes, Levin, Ranine (must have this)", take it far away and bury it in a hole.

[Zeno]

I'm a casual player and I'm glad leve's are taking a backseat from the only source of EXP. Sometimes I want to play with others (when I have the time of course) and EXP-Grind.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

O god, i can die happy now.No more leve grinding

[Rentahamster]

Good letter.

I like the deemphasis on leves. Due to their unweildy nature, they're better of as solo-centric content.

The situation at launch, where party content was open-world grinding while leves were used to fill in the time with faction point, gil, and items acquisition was a pretty good mix, IMO.

[Reika]

Hopefully the bonus rewards for success will outweigh failing them, or people will still fail the same leves . They arent doing reballancing of battles yet in this patch.... will see the same amount of monsters, so maybe develits best friend will still be the most horrible leve in the world.

[normalforce]

Good letter.

I like the deemphasis on leves. Due to their unweildy nature, they're better of as solo-centric content.

The situation at launch, where party content was open-world grinding while leves were used to fill in the time with faction point, gil, and items acquisition was a pretty good mix, IMO.

Do you think leves will stay as the only method for earning guild mark points or will they allow people to earn them in ground-centric content?

[Ashthra]

Good changes on the leve system. It seems designed to cater to a solo player in overall innate design, anyway -- running leves shouldn't constitute group content. If they're relegating it to solo stuff, hopefully that's because they're giving groups genuine group stuff to do, rather than steamrolling randomly spawned mobs for a quest a few times every 36 hours.

[TheVedis]

Do you think leves will stay as the only method for earning guild mark points or will they allow people to earn them in ground-centric content?

they arent the only method now...

[Rentahamster]

Do you think leves will stay as the only method for earning guild mark points or will they allow people to earn them in ground-centric content?

I dunno, he never said anything that would hint to an answer for that.

However, due to guildmark rewards being more targeted, (if you want BSM marks, go to Limsa, etc), they should, theoretically, be "easier" to get since it won't be so random anymore.

Levequests yielding guild marks will be limited to city-states hosting the corresponding guild only. In compensation, we will make it easier for players to amass the guild marks they desire.

[Fated]

I don't quite understand how so many people get comforted by Yoshida's empty words of self praise and foreshadowing. Everytime this guy mentions his "super duper amazing" patch and praises himself he provides so very little information about it. As it is the patch is being delayed and now we're closing in on the dates that mark the beginning of the new release date window and we still have nearly nothing to go on. He thinks this letter was a wall of text? He barely even told us anything, all he keeps doing is babbling on and on about his vision for the next patch and the one after that without giving any kind of details.