Why should I be excited for Grind Parties?

[Irana]

Perhaps you could inform me of this awesome strategy for soloing leves on 5 stars then. At 24 rank 30 leves were a pain in the ass even on 1 star and the reward for completion was about 1.5k. I then went to do some rank 20 leves where 3 star was death and 2 stars resulted in a completion bonus of 1-1.5k.

This is an old post from Yoshi about ranking up. This is what I am looking forward to.



SOURCE: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post209336

I can 5 star leves on nanawa at r30 with both my con and thm with no problem... and I can SOMETIMES 3 or 2 star leves in bw and halatali with my 37 pug... maybe you need more skills? or the right skills for the right mobs? for example: make sure you have aura pulse for flying monsters? always have a skill that can stun? like leg sweep? Use defender? etc etc

[Xenor]

I can 5 star leves on nanawa at r30 with both my con and thm with no problem... and I can SOMETIMES 3 or 2 star leves in bw and halatali with my 37 pug... maybe you need more skills? or the right skills for the right mobs? for example: make sure you have aura pulse for flying monsters? always have a skill that can stun? like leg sweep? Use defender? etc etc

You're right I probably could have equipped a better set of skills but you shouldn't need an optimal setup from all 7 classes to be able to get good SP from leves. These are after all designed for casual play. My biggest issue with the Nanawa leves at 24 was those stupid imps using their special attack which will kill you. I couldn't even bring myself to do the Adamantine leve I had knowing it would be 20 minutes effort for 2k SP.

Point still remains that it is poor content for ranking up until the 40s. So is grinding. Give me regular defence battles, improved behests, dungeons designed for levelling, beast tribe raids and escort quests that Yoshi menioned. Much more fun way of levelling up than struggling through leves or grinding. The beauty of it is you can keep doing your leves and grinding, others can play in the way they want too.