Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. And it's exactly what Yoshi is trying to push from the looks of it. Of course, we only have two right now, but he said he's planning on adding more.



Why shouldn't they award at least equal experience to grinding if done at the appropriate level? Why not more? Why does grinding have to be the ultimate solution?



That's why the devs need to be constantly looking at balancing things, because you can't get everything in one go. If people are not doing quests or dungeons (or leves, or behests, or whatever else the devs will make) while leveling, it means that they need to become more accessible, shorter, easier, more rewarding, or a combination of those four.

If grinding continues to be the #1 method of leveling for the majority of players, it means that content that the devs make is wasted. If the devs are making dungeons, leves, quests, behests, beastman camps, and whatever else into things that award experience, grinding should be a last resort. It should be something for people who can't put together the correct party to get those done, who aren't geared or skilled enough to do them, who have already done them and must wait for a reset, or who may not have time to do them. Anything less than that means that the devs are wasting their time creating content that people ultimately don't care about and might not ever see.
exactly my point. I played FFXI since NA release and I never got my rank above 5 because getting a party to actually do anything was like pulling teeth and you needed them to advance even the side story lines, but get a party together to kill the exact same mobs in the exact same way in the exact same places for 6 years...well difficulty for that largely fell to what class you were. This was not my idea of fun...so I wandered off to other mmos, and saw that, hey if you don't force people into one style of play these things can actually be fun.

I like in this game that you can solo or you can party, and hell I only got involved in thread because someone said if you don't have a rank 50 than your opinion doesn't matter, but I'm dismayed by the people that want this game to be exactly like FFXI, warts and all, rather than something new, interesting, and not as locked in "you will do it this way, AND ONLY THIS WAY" as that game was.