Large-scale Levequests Do Not Scale Nearly Enough

[Karaha_Baruha]

What I noticed on some of the other crafting leves are that you sometimes get more turn-ins opportunities (deliver more items) per Large leve than on the equivalent single leve. but NOT 10x more turn ins. I THINK it was five turns on the one I checked last week. But even then it's still only like half as good as spending them one at a time.

[Kurogaea]

That's cause large scale leves are for cash not xp. 7k gil is a pretty nice reward for 10 minutes of work.

You still get more by doing them individually. Especially for leve bonuses.

[Frost_Trunks]

That's cause large scale leves are for cash not xp. 7k gil is a pretty nice reward for 10 minutes of work.

No, it's terrible. I can make more gil off of harvesting items and selling them in 10 minutes. Especially the new stuff. Rainbow cotton balls, for example... I could get at least half a stack in 10 minutes. 20-25k in 10 minutes is a lot better, no?

The (L) leves are completely broken at the moment. I have made this argument to my FC friends and I've told them not to do them. I did like 5 (L) leves just to try them, and then I realized how the math didn't add up. They are not much more difficult than the normal ones. For example: gather 0/50 items (L) vs 0/40 for normal. It's a negligible difference. Definitely not for 10 leves.

Either A) reduce the leves required for (L) quests, or B) make them more difficult and boost the exp reward

The fact that the fieldcraft ones don't give gear is criminal. The crafted gear market for gathering gear on my server is brutal atm. Everyone just seems to be crafting the gear desynthing and only selling HQ at a huge mark up.

Indeed it is. Just the normal quality lvl 53 gathering boots are going for 100k on Levi. @.@

[MistyMew]

The Tradecraft large scale leve quests are even worse than the Fieldcraft ones. Compare the following two leve quests:

Like Lemon on a Lumbercut (L): Carpenter, Lv. 54
Costs: 10 leve allowances
Requires: 5 dark chestnut lumber
Rewards: 78624 EXP, 994 Gil, potential crystal rewards (mine currently shows 24 wind crystals)

Walking on Pins and Needles: Carpenter, Lv. 54
Costs: 1 leve allowance
Requires: 5 dark chestnut lumber
Rewards: 78624 EXP, 794 Gil, potential crystal rewards (mine currently shows 12 ice crystals)

Given that the turn-in requirement and EXP reward are identical, that means you're spending 9 extra leve allowances to gain 200 gil and 12 crystals.

LOL wow, SE needs a new calculator.

Its kinda sad cause when it comes to player rewards they seem to forget a few "0" ...when it comes to costing players, they seem to add a few too many

fun factor rating: 6/10
(from your unoffical, unpaid fun factor consultant)

[mosaicex]

Large scale leves are just there so you can waste those excess allowances faster. They're not meant to be equal in term of profits to normal leves.

Don't like it? Then don't do it.

[Ojebuss]

So it seems that there is really no benefit to doing the Large Scale Leves at all, other then to waste something that doesn't need to be wasted. I guess they could be good to get that last bit of xp for the next lvl so you don't have to wait on the duty finder. Does seem rather dumb though.

[Nomad-phx]

You guys are kinda missing a key importance to (L): materials. I can farm 240 adamantite ore/120 deepeye tears from from a single large-scale. They added other timed node rewards too as well as bullion cubes. Gotta learn how to rotate rewards efficiently.

[Nomad-phx]

You guys are kinda missing a key importance to (L): materials. I can farm 240 adamantite ore/120 deepeye tears from from a single large-scale. They added other timed node rewards too as well as bullion cubes. Gotta learn how to rotate rewards efficiently.

240 adamantite ore OR 120 deepeye tears*

[aerolol]

You guys are kinda missing a key importance to (L): materials. I can farm 240 adamantite ore/120 deepeye tears from from a single large-scale. They added other timed node rewards too as well as bullion cubes. Gotta learn how to rotate rewards efficiently.

Hmmm what?!

Could you please elaborate? I don't understand what you are talking about.
Which leve rewards adamantite ore ?!?!

[Ishkar]

I've also noticed (in my experience - though I am a PLD with low DPS) that I often miss the time bonus on Large leves, which further increases the benefit of doing the small ones.

I agree that they should scale better, even if they were just designed as a leve allowance sink, or a fix for people who don't have enough time.