Grinding sp (even solo) > Leves

[Prox]

It seems like the majority of you have been soloing leves. Has anyone Leve-Linked post 1.18? Now we are able to link with the whole PT. What is that SP like? Has anyone done BW3 with a full PT of links?

[TheVedis]

It seems like the majority of you have been soloing leves. Has anyone Leve-Linked post 1.18? Now we are able to link with the whole PT. What is that SP like? Has anyone done BW3 with a full PT of links?

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

[Verecund]

Soloing in general has become much slower. With the cost of cure quadrupled it has become harder to continuously grind (unless stygain spikes can keep up). It's also hard to imagine that people will grind. Auto attack has made melee jobs too easy.

If by easy you mean boring.....

[DNO]

My leve run was great. i dare say i got MORE SP then before the update. i know for sure the SP has at least evened out. leves that gave 10k SP in a run are now more balanced (give less). However to balance that out the ones that gave 1k now give mouch more.

The leve system is balanced and thats what SE was aiming for. Also the mobs are easier so its mainly for solo as SE wanted it to be from the 1.18 update.

(Ninja edit)

[Rizon]

I can only speak as a DD. After completing 6 Rank 40 Battle Quests in Limsa I earned more SP for the same amount of time spent then I did prior to the patch. Same seems to be true for crafting. Same quests were giving more SP then before. Appears that most of this increase is coming from the bonus for completing the quests. I suspect that this will drop off as I increase levels unless SE adds quests for 45-50.

[Lusavari]

Let's not forget the essential fact that Yoshida himself stated "Leves are no longer central to the game."

The second you read that you should have thought "Oh! Well, I guess I don't need to worry so much about those anymore, They're not going to be the exclusive best way to level anymore."

Also, let's not forget that they're gonna be rebalancing all of this for the next 3-4 months constantly playing teeter-toter.

My only problem is the gil situation. The gil reform should have happened months ago, as now we've got massively overinflated prices, and less gil entering the system. Of course, I'm sure RMTs will have boundless supplies of the stuff by now, as I've finally figured out what they're doing (They have a gang of mules link up, and then a higher level character runs through and beats the leve for them) Not that enough people will ever play before SE pops a surprise RMT banning for the RMT to really cash in.

Anyway, the economy will be in turmoil until 1.19. But seriously, eventually level 10 weapons have to stop being 100k. Tanaka was crazy to have had gil given out in the handfuls they were till now at the beginning of the game. When I started FFXI, 1,000 gil was pretty big to me, and 10,000 was impressive and took a day to get. It's a little late to get the gil fix in now, but with current populations, if enough people start back, things should recover, but I still feel the lower gil rewards should have happened before we ever knew who Yoshi-P was.

[Jaide]

I can only speak as a DD. After completing 6 Rank 40 Battle Quests in Limsa I earned more SP for the same amount of time spent then I did prior to the patch. Same seems to be true for crafting. Same quests were giving more SP then before. Appears that most of this increase is coming from the bonus for completing the quests. I suspect that this will drop off as I increase levels unless SE adds quests for 45-50.

I was doing leves 5 star at rank 48 and still getting about 5000 bonus at the end of each one. That's still a HUGE chunk of SP for something casual that isn't supposed to be central to the game anymore. I agree with you, the SP reward for doing your own leves is plenty.

They need to change the terminology for the star system though. Since leves are primarily solo content now, setting the difficulty at 5 star doesn't really equate to bringing a legion with you. New players might be confused by this and pick difficulties that are too low.

[syntaxlies]

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

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

[DAOWAce]

as I've finally figured out what they're doing (They have a gang of mules link up, and then a higher level character runs through and beats the leve for them) Not that enough people will ever play before SE pops a surprise RMT banning for the RMT to really cash in.

I've seen the same high level, no linkshell character on my server for the last few months doing this. Other people know full well it's an RMT person, but oh no, nothing's ever been done about it all this time.

At least, I think. I saw another character with the same first name but different last, and in a linkshell this time. Still, had a bunch of pointlessly named characters following them.

On low population servers (mine) this is a worse problem. The economy is already monopolized by a few big linkshells, we don't need gil sellers running rampant.

[Jaide]

I've seen the same high level, no linkshell character on my server for the last few months doing this. Other people know full well it's an RMT person, but oh no, nothing's ever been done about it all this time.

At least, I think. I saw another character with the same first name but different last, and in a linkshell this time. Still, had a bunch of pointlessly named characters following them.

On low population servers (mine) this is a worse problem. The economy is already monopolized by a few big linkshells, we don't need gil sellers running rampant.

I've seen them on my server too. Hopefully SE does something about this because the gil sellers have had almost a year to build up a huge reserve of gil just before the currency was made more valuable. It wouldn't take very long for someone to monitor the camps and catch these guys in the act.