SP nerfed. We were lied to.

[Kiote]

I have a level 29 and yea I spent 2.5 hours doing 6 guild leves got about 8k SP total. Thats maybe 1 level per every week or so. Which is not much at all. I always try FFXIV whenever they have a new patch but they still have yet to fix SP and exp gain

Your doing something wrong.. It should not take you more than 10 mins to complete a leve. If your trying to solo on more than solo level your wasting your time. The new system is set up so that you get very little gain from increasing the level of the enemy thus allowing you to solo on solo and still get roughly the same SP.

Rank 40 leves the bonus for Solo is roughly 3800 at rank 47. The bonus for 3 stars is 4200. Not doing leves on solo is a waste of time.

If your soloing why would you be able to do a party tier levequest?

[Dekken]

I've had leves give between 2700-5200 (not counting kill sp) at rank 41-42. I was able to get through over 3/4 of my rank 41-42 with leves, a few behest and some grinding at a beast camp all solo. I really haven't seen anything wrong with the SP gain but I need to try it on lower levels.

[PikachuLink]

I Think That Sp Is Much Slower Now! but at the same time atm im just trying to see all the new stuff the patch added...once this runs out ill be a little more angry about the sp but i see me being mad about this sp nerf creeping up faster and faster.

[Kazimir]

You should probably re-read Letter XIV. He talks about both 1.18 and 1.19 because what we get in 1.18 is the ground basis for what is to come in 1.19 and future patches.

We’re hurrying to bring in adjustments to enemy distribution, respawn timers, linked-enemy bonuses, and party bonuses to make skill point awards in public areas even tastier when playing in a party. Regarding linking, the current specs for fixed “enemy groups” will see large-scale changes towards a system more capable of addressing the combat potential of parties.

In attempting to cover the expansiveness of some zones, the current distribution of enemies left some wide gaps between them. This is another area high on our list of priorities that will see heavy adjustments.

Putting together a party isn’t all ponies and rainbows—there’s the time and effort spent getting the setup right and traveling to a camp, the risks involved when battling strong enemies, and so on. It’s an investment on the part of players, and we’re going to make sure skill point awards reflect that.

Just calm down and wait for the next update. If you would have paid attention reading the letter, you'd know the changes in 1.18 were necessary for the future of the game. A nerf is something more permanent or at least long term, the reduction in possible SP/hr will be fixed when they put in a better, less boring system than they have in the past.

[Cichy]

You should probably re-read Letter XIV. He talks about both 1.18 and 1.19 because what we get in 1.18 is the ground basis for what is to come in 1.19 and future patches.





Just calm down and wait for the next update. If you would have paid attention reading the letter, you'd know the changes in 1.18 were necessary for the future of the game. A nerf is something more permanent or at least long term, the reduction in possible SP/hr will be fixed when they put in a better, less boring system than they have in the past.

Promises, promises, more time, give them cookies. Fact is they should not have made those SP changes until the content was implemented.

[VeranRamaden]

Man....people are annoying.
Battle system is to be continuously tweaked as stated by Y-P.
Any other questions/complaints?

[Focant]

Well I don't want to get too embroiled in this, but I just want to say that, so far, I'm happy with the way sp works now. At rank 39 and 40, doing rank 40 leves I would get anywhere from 5-6k per leve (8k on Do Toads Dream) which, compared to my experiences before the patch, is a nice improvement. I also tend to finish leves about 10x faster since I'm not having to run around to kill every single monster.

Just wanted to say that at least one person isn't upset. D:

Oh and as an aside, the sp rewards for story missions are wonderful. I did Lord Errant the other day for about 36k sp which was just under half of my level.

[Kazimir]

ITT people with no experience in a profession telling the professionals how to best do their jobs.


Seriously, if you don't like how they decide what is most efficient for them to repair a game others have broken, then just take a break until the game is good enough for you. That's what I and many others have done.

[Charismatic]

ITT people with no experience in a profession telling the professionals how to best do their jobs.


Seriously, if you don't like how they decide what is most efficient for them to repair a game others have broken, then just take a break until the game is good enough for you. That's what I and many others have done.

ITT people who have no problem with them putting the carriage before the horse and getting mad at people who do.

[Xmbei]

I also like how people were saying 1.18 was rushed or took way to long to come out. So they were getting angry and yelling at the dev team that they were not doing thier job. Now 1.18 came out and its just more bitching! the human condition is so wonderful! I Must Have IT KNOW!!!!!! WHAT?!?! I wanted this not that!!!!! I will bitch because I didnt do my research first....

It's like the Duke Nukem Forever fail people kept complaining it was taking forever to come out it was finally canceled (which it should of probably stayed as lol) but people bitched more about it... so new dev team buys it up finishes the project quickly to appease the masses, and what happens NERD RAGE!!!! This is just an example of what I see here.

Let them take the required time to fix it, it won't ever take one miracle patch... It will take time that's why we are still FTP right now and the PS3 version doesn't have a release date yet because the fixes are not done... So he is not lying... he is taking the small steps that are required to rebuild a broken game. He is probably collecting the numbers post patch and then going to give another sp bonus in 1.19 where some sp numbers are lacking, yes that sounds bad but guess what people bitched for a patch over and over and over again so they finally gave it to us... I don't even know how to convince these people that are just "foaming at the mouth rabid" over a self conjecture on someones words while it is obvious many other did not precieve Y-P word's that way...