Quote Originally Posted by Khaoticsuccubus View Post
I hope you realize this is all very subjective right? Personally, I've been having a blast leveling. The story itself is amazing and even the sidequest are interesting and more involved lore/storywise than arr's were.

Fate's wise noones doing HW fates because they give crap for xp. Everyone goes to northern thanalan and just farms those instead. Its just one of the things they need to tune within the coming patches along with leve/temple leve xp in the new areas.

I honestly have no idea what mmo you could possibly be talking about that has "good leveling". From what I've experienced at least, every mmo has pretty close to the same leveling experience with some notable exceptions that have an interesting story to go with it... or the opposite and have bare bones nothing.
It's not an excuse to make terrible leveling here too, the main story last "few seconds" compared to all the sidequests required to level up, guildhests disappeared (which was something I liked to level up), hunting log didn't update (I preferred that over quests) and final fantasy in general has a very lacking gameplay in "single player", compared to other mmos, while it's good in multiplayer, but basically they force you to do XP alone unless you make fates.

I'll try tomorrow with northern thanalan