Quote Originally Posted by Naqaj View Post
People who genuinely prefer mindless mob-grinding for hours always have that option. Providing quests for the other players who don't want to grind takes nothing away from the grind fans
Couldn't agree with this more.
I'm glad that they are moving the focus away just from Leves for gaining ranks; rank 40 leves from 40-50 was just /wrist. Encouraging people to party up and grind, fight different mobs in different areas etc is in my opinion (and it is only my opinion) a good thing.

I see the argument people have that party grinding requires no skill.
However, an example I have from pre-patch (1.18) was a LS member that did not have as much time to play had solo'd pretty much to 40ish on his Archer. He joined my boyfriend and I doing some leves and found that he had to play in a slightly different way in a group. Of course playing on his own he could happily unload all of his abilities, weapon skills etc with no consequence. In a party dynamic with hate to be controlled in certain situations he had to re-learn this and use other skills (e.g. enmity reduction). Turning a mob at the wrong time that does a nasty conal AoE move can cause deaths.

Ok, so most mobs you grind in a PT this not really a concern and they die pretty easy but my point is the concept of party play and what your job can do is (again I reiterate in my opinion) important.

Anway, I'm getting sidetracked! I am glad that they are introducing other ways in the game to gain SP and not just scrapping leves altogether. Recently I found myself without my usual "static" group and really wanted to get CON to 45. So I did a few resets on leves solo, and although even with favour I was only getting ~4,200-5,000 SP at the end of a leve, it was easy enough to do and I got from 43 to 45 over the course of a weekend ^^. If they took away leves completely I wouldn't have been able to do this- and due to RL I didn't have enough time at that point to go and just grind normal mobs (I needed to spend time AFK a bit). Options are always good and I do not agree with alienating the playerbase by enforcing a "grind only" rule on them.

I am glad that they are addressing the SP gain in leves and especially Behest though; only being able to do one Behest and hour for ~3,000ish SP is not a good incentive to actually do them ><