EXP Parties as an option please!

[AskaRay]

I see tons of EXP fate grinding parties. There is at least one on the PF at all times, it seems like.

[aerialrave]

I played during the Beta period and they used to have (combat) Guild Leves that you could do in a party in the open world, and it gave a ton of experience (though you were limited in how many you could do per day or per week). That was cool and I miss that feature.

[Catwho]

Even FFXI abandoned the inefficient 6-man exp party in favor of the 18-man alliance based exp fest in Abyssea. Good riddance.

It's easy to romanticize it until you sit down and remember that you got 4,000 exp/hour in Crawler's Nest. No thanks, never again. Do not want.

Back in 1.0 there was leve sharing - is that still a thing? I can't remember.

[AnaviAnael]

It's easy to romanticize it until you sit down and remember that you got 4,000 exp/hour in Crawler's Nest. .

Only to die and lose it all.

[Sadana]

Back in 1.0 there was leve sharing - is that still a thing? I can't remember.

You can still share Battle leves, you just both have to have the same one. But it does say "You are now sharing leve x." If you don't have the same leve, you can still get mob exp.

Side note... I'm not sure I understand how this request is any different from making a PF or getting friends to do "first room clears" of certain dungeons or do FATE parties. Do you mean just killing random mobs? You can still do that... if you like getting 10-30 exp per kill. yay.

[kyuven]

First, you're ignoring quest exp. Even though it really peters out after the second job you're leveling, it's the source of a LOT of exp for leveling.
People wouldn't talk in exp grind parties any more than they would in dungeon parties, FATE parties, or spiritbond parties.
You CAN already do this, but there's no reason to as quests, FATEs, and dungeons give better, faster exp and aren't even half as tedious.
Even FFXI has tried to move away from this method of exp gain, since it's mindnumbingly tedious, promotes elitism, and is just...not as fun as slamming through a dungeon or even as fun as accomplishing even slightly different objectives for FATEs.
In other words, it exists, but people don't do it because it's inefficient.

It's easy to romanticize it until you sit down and remember that you got 4,000 exp/hour in Crawler's Nest. No thanks, never again. Do not want.

And that's after 2 hours waiting for a party.

[Omegakiyohime]

And that's after 2 hours waiting for a party.

And then waiting another 2 hours for a brd with mage's ballad.

[Catwho]

And then waiting another 2 hours for a brd with mage's ballad.

In the meantime, all the bards are running around with /anon on because they're terrified of getting asked to exp.

[Sakuraluna]

I have to say that even though I miss the idea of meeting and getting to know other players through something like this, it probably wouldn't be very popular if they were to add it in.

[aerialrave]

it probably wouldn't be very popular if they were to add it in.

It would become very popular very fast if it was easy/efficient, and gave a bunch of exp or gil or drops.