Grinding sp (even solo) > Leves

[RedAffinity]

I joined FFXI in its 5th year, where the community had figured stuff out and had the leveling up system / monsters / camps figured out. I've never been a part of this experience, i'm lost as what to do for effective SP gain ; ;

[Wynn]

I spent last night doing leves in a party and the xp was great. Gained an entire level. Not sure what everyone's problem is with leve xp.

[LillithaFenimore]

I spent last night doing leves in a party and the xp was great. Gained an entire level. Not sure what everyone's problem is with leve xp.

Well many people have an issue with Mages and Archers being nerfed. And if you are someone who does solo/light parties, then this presents a huge problem, especially if you are a mage who prefers being the BLM type instead of a main Healer. Everyone is going to possibly pigeon hole CON. This could be a problem. IDK I havn't played it yet to see. I'm used to having to manage my MP because I've been a vet WHM on XI for years, pre-aby.

And for those who solo/duo/ light parties, it could be agitating. My husband and I only duo, and I help DD and also keep us healed...well that could be a problem for us. SO IDK, I'll just have to see.

[Zhinse]

The gist of Party play for Guildleve is as follows.

People who are leve sharing (leeching) get only about 500 bonus sp give or take.
People who Activate or Leve Link get usually the full amount of Bonus SP at the end of the leve.

It is worthwhile to be in a LeveLink party because you are able to Do Leves at higher stars at a faster speed. Meaning more SP bonus at the end for everyone levelinking.

If you are leeching, there's really little incentive to do so, unless you're just along for the ride to help someone 5 star something quick on a leftover guildleve or inbetween linked guildleves.

The reason why leve Sharing is chuper nerfed is if completing all shared leves gave you 3k+ then all you need to do is Make all 8 party members get 8 leves, never link, do 64 leves at 3k+ sp for 192,000sp for each guildleve rotation. And that value can easily double.

I don't know what the effect of leve linking a full party does at the moment. And I have yet to calculate gardians aspect or even the new sp multiplier potions.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Someone in our LS had Vintage Jester's Cap as a reward in a 100 point Faction leve. I would call that pretty decent

[Drazzan]

I don't see why everyone is QQing so hard.
It's rather monotonous and boring.
Just like when we kept repeating the same leves.

Can't you see that Yoshi and his team do not want people
gaining the maximum level in around a week or two.
Which at the previous SP rate; was more than possible.

You have to remember they are trying to balance the classes
through the nerfing of classes, they are also trying to balance
the SP rewards across all types of quests, dungeons and leve
rewards.
There is other alternates to leves; people are just too
blind and QQing too hard over the fact they cannot attain the max
rank with stupid speed.

They aren't making this game for you solely, they are
making it for those that will join upon the release of
the PS3 version. I personally love 1.18, I just wish people
would keep their opinions to themselves when they have
nothing constructive to serve.

[Prox]

my 4 man static will be experimenting with this within an hour

Please share the results!

[giftforce]

How are we supposed to get faction points?

Go grind a boring leve that gives us no SP?

Not sure if that was a good decision!

[Zhinse]

How are we supposed to get faction points?

Go grind a boring leve that gives us no SP?

Not sure if that was a good decision!

You now get Like Twice the amount of faction points per finish. They're easily farmable if you're in a party intent on doing so.

[TheVedis]

one thing i would try is running the leve twice with one link since the links are supposed to be heavily nerfed.

thatd be a waste of time....unless you can get sp bonus even if you didnt have the leve and get the full completion bonus


from what i noticed, we got 192 a kill with full links(crap) and was getting 2-4k per completion based on how many stars we set it to
if you 5 star it, itl give ALOT more compared to 2-3 starring it basicaly

so what i see is this, 8 man parties will do great there with aspect and 5 starring it(the mob ranks are alot lower now so 5 star isnt stupid hard)