My first party

[Royal]

Last night I did my first party. It was great. We farmed some raptors and in a matter of maybe 2 - 2.5 hours I went from barely 32 to half way through 33. My question to everyone is why even bother with levees, behests, or solo grinding. I don't think I will ever solo again. I think I have seen the light. No idea why I tried to play solo for so long.

[Shyd]

Welcome to final fantasy~

[Kazai]

The truth has set you free my friend.

[Forbin]

its a ton of fun, you make new friends, it builds a community because no one wants to PT with a dickhead.. dickhead's either shape up or find other dickheads to play with.. its the way FF games are meant to be played.

[DNO]

lol someone did not play FF11 lol. but yea behests and leves are for solo play. FF11 main problem was if you were a job no one wanted you could not rank up because no one would invite you. And the only way to rank up was grind parties in FF11 Now with behest and leves at least you can rank up pretty fast is you are a loljob or if you can not find a party.

It is also if you do not have much time. options are key to great game so we must keep options alive. limits and restrictions are not fun. i hope more people understand this.

[Forbin]

lol someone did not play FF11 lol. but yea behests and leves are for solo play. FF11 main problem was if you were a job no one wanted you could not rank up because no one would invite you. And the only way to rank up was grind parties in FF11 Now with behest and leves at least you can rank up pretty fast is you are a loljob or if you can not find a party.

It is also if you do not have much time. options are key to great game so we must keep options alive. limits and restrictions are not fun. i hope more people understand this.

you obviously haven't played 11 anytime recently.. there are no LOLJobs anymore.. everyone gets invites because you EXP in Alliances' not parties anymore.. 18 man EXP parties 4tw!

Also are there really LOLJobs that don't get invites to PT's in 14? I didn't think so.. I invited anyone who wanted to join after I had a Glad/CON and we did just fine.. 3 ARC, 1 MRD, 2 LNC, 1 GLA, 1 CON

[DNO]

you obviously haven't played 11 anytime recently.. there are no LOLJobs anymore.. everyone gets invites because you EXP in Alliances' not parties anymore.. 18 man EXP parties 4tw!

Also are there really LOLJobs that don't get invites to PT's in 14? I didn't think so.. I invited anyone who wanted to join after I had a Glad/CON and we did just fine.. 3 ARC, 1 MRD, 2 LNC, 1 GLA, 1 CON

actually i have not. i quit when ff14 dropped. but i know about Asea. i was obviously talking about the 7 years of ff11 grind content. Asea is really new compared to how we use to level.

In raids all jobs but arch are loljobs. but anyway what does this have to do with the point i was trying to make? Point is not everyone can find a party and not everyone has the time to make a party. So thats were leves and behests come in. the op wondered why people do leves, behests and solo work and i answered. Its because as fast and fun as parting is... its just not the way to go if you dont have time or can not find a party. We all know ff14 has a problem with finding a party.

Edit: actually now that i think about it the same problem is still in ff11. If you do not have a party you really can not solo rank up even with Asea. Leves and behest give solo players a way to do this.

[Sidewinder]

I'm the only one that think 32 to 33.5 in 2-2.5 hours is excessive? I can understand that in rank 45+ but @30? I hope you were doing it wrong or something because if that's correct I just lost my faith

I don't want to rank up too fast nor too slow but this seems that for me.

[Kopuno]

Edit: actually now that i think about it the same problem is still in ff11. If you do not have a party you really can not solo rank up even with Asea. Leves and behest give solo players a way to do this.

Actually thats quite false. I played ffxi for seven years, and had seven, seventy fives all legit. (Legit: No astral burns) I solo'd BLM 1-75 BST 1-75 BLU (mostly)1-70 and SMN. Granted it took me longer, but I did. After ffxi introduced zerg parties (I hate/dislike games with this motto) and nubs getting 75 in less then a week and having no idea how to play due to abusing a broken mechanic (much like ffxiv's old leve's) I quit. Abysea/Astral Burns imo were ffxi's downfall. Hard!

On Topic, I love small group grinding parties. Leves and Behest although a option and should remain that way, are terribly boring.