The Leve System

[Estellios]

When I first heard about guild leves and the game revolving around them I pretty much compared them to FF11's assault missions and was overjoyed since I loved those. I really like leves themselves and the system as a whole because it makes even a small amount of playtime rewarding, but we haven't had any new ones since the game launched, so they feel a bit stale. Personally once we get more raids of different level ranges I would probably prefer xping in them.

Hopefully the Company leves are plentiful and offer a lot of varieties of objectives.

[MariyaShidou]

I did my first one the other day, since January with an old friend. The goal of the leve was to follow around some dragon and not get caught by the dragon. He rage quit the game after we finished.

I played Deus Ex HR the other day. Instead of kicking arse with augmented superhuman abilities I'm supposed to hide behind box and crawl through air vents. I rage quit the game after I finished the mission.

If you are playing a Stealth approach game/mini-game and you expect to run gun ablazing, lolwut.

[User201109011315]

Yeah, that stealth-dragon leve actually sounded much more involving than your garden variety zerg mobs levequest.

[Kyra]

I love leves to, without them this game would be completly dead, more so than now. Their the only thing that has kept the game going and the players logging back on. Busiest time on the game is when there is a guild leve reset. If you havent noticed this then open your eyes.

[captainpicard]

I love leves to, without them this game would be completly dead, more so than now. Their the only thing that has kept the game going and the players logging back on. Busiest time on the game is when there is a guild leve reset. If you havent noticed this then open your eyes.

I'll bet you a continental that if the game released with no leve's, but a workable group SP situation, similiar to FF11's, it would have 10x the players that it does today.

[User201109011315]

I think the biggest complaint was that there was no content, not that people couldn't rank up.

Guildleves or party grind, it's still boring. And FFXIV's combat system does not make it very enjoyable by either option.

[Arcell]

I still do leves. I find they're a decent SP boost for the amount of time you spend on them. I'm ranking up Marauder on the side so I just do leves for two camps, 1*. Generally I can get around 30k per reset just doing leves which isn't bad at all.

The system exists to allow those who either don't have groups or don't have a lot of time to spend on a given day to still progress at a decent rate.

Though for those who really want to level quickly, party grinds are really the way to go (and will be further enhanced in 1.19). I'm not a big fan of running around a small area killing the same things over and over for hours on end but hey, the system is there for those who enjoy it.

[Felis]

I quit doing them altogether around January 2011. Do you still do them? If so, why?

• Gil (not so much like in the old days, but 8k Gils are 8k Gils ^^)
• Guild Marks
• Random equip from random chests
• Fraktion points
• SP (but only if you still have not all your battle classes on 50)