Repetitive grind parties should NOT be the main source of leveling

[Murugan]

I wish I could just burn this thread to the ground. I've never seen Ul'dah or the community more active than since 1.18 with groups forming for XP parties at all level ranges.

While the patch wasn't perfect, it was by far the best thing to happen to this game to date. Some people complain about anything, but the revitalization of XP parties were a wonderful and necessary addition to the game.

Other MMO's should take notes, this is how you foster a good community in your game.

[zaviermhigo]

I wish I could just burn this thread to the ground. I've never seen Ul'dah or the community more active than since 1.18 with groups forming for XP parties at all level ranges.

While the patch wasn't perfect, it was by far the best thing to happen to this game to date. Some people complain about anything, but the revitalization of XP parties were a wonderful and necessary addition to the game.

Other MMO's should take notes, this is how you foster a good community in your game.

Exactly. But you know Selbina is a unique server, we're all unique servers, but on Selbina the game is alive, Gridania and LL were alive for a whole two days after the patch. I bet with 1.19 if companies offer enough content it could liven up the other two cities again. Loss of guildleve sp has lead to more shout groups to grind at multiple party levels, not just the common grass raptor grind. Totally agree with you Murugan

[Bloodwolfe]

FF has always been a grind fest, from FF1 to FFXIV, part of the grinding experience is exploring new areas, fighting new monsters, making new friends, or even dragging your friends onto the game to play with you, the leve system and quest system is boring, repeating the same quests with the same mobs over and over, kill X here, kill Y over there.

Be happy with the grind, get out there and finally explore, find a strong mob and put yer foot in its arse

[KitCat]

FF has always been a grind fest, from FF1 to FFXIV, part of the grinding experience is exploring new areas, fighting new monsters, making new friends, or even dragging your friends onto the game to play with you, the leve system and quest system is boring, repeating the same quests with the same mobs over and over, kill X here, kill Y over there.

Be happy with the grind, get out there and finally explore, find a strong mob and put yer foot in its arse

I agree with the general idea you're presenting.. but the problem with that here, is the world is just way to small. It's got 5 real areas to see, within each one just a copy and pasted chunk over and over and nothing interesting to see. With the exception of maybe mor dhona. There's really just not much to explore. A few dungeons in those areas, thats it.
While the area design IS se's fault, the square surface itself isn't really. More surface area didn't come to XI until many expansions, and the same will happen to XIV if it lives that long.

They need to do something about the zones to make them interesting though, because running around is like being stuck on a broken record. Check my map every 30 seconds because there are no discernible landmarks to help me gauge wtf i am.

All in due time though. I hope

[Ventus]

I wish I could just burn this thread to the ground. I've never seen Ul'dah or the community more active than since 1.18 with groups forming for XP parties at all level ranges.

While the patch wasn't perfect, it was by far the best thing to happen to this game to date. Some people complain about anything, but the revitalization of XP parties were a wonderful and necessary addition to the game.

Other MMO's should take notes, this is how you foster a good community in your game.

So much for adding anything productive to the thread, but oh well >.>.

Some people need to change their attitude and realize this is a platform for DISCUSSION and not where we say:

I wish I could just burn this thread to the ground.

I wish I could burn your comment to the ground =O! Oh snap! How you like that?!