Great Patch!

[Meleena]

I am 100% sure that you can still level at level 20 in a day which is still very fast leveling and no, levelin to 80 in a week like in some other MMOs is just sad, they might as well give you your character at max level...

[Biggs]

I am 100% sure that you can still level at level 20 in a day which is still very fast leveling and no, levelin to 80 in a week like in some other MMOs is just sad, they might as well give you your character at max level...

At its current rate (so a level one character starting today, post patch), if going solo, theres absolutly no way i can see you getting to 20 in a day unless your playing 12 or more hours. Especially without help. Your dreaming.

The rage forums on hp and xp levels post patch should be pretty biblical.

[Blarp]

I am 100% sure that you can still level at level 20 in a day which is still very fast leveling and no, levelin to 80 in a week like in some other MMOs is just sad, they might as well give you your character at max level...

A fresh character won't come anywhere close to 20 in one day. I just got done ranking LNC, PUG, and THM to 9 and the only reliable way I could get steady XP was to kill the R1 Coblyns until about rank 3/4, then go kill R2-3 Coblyns until about rank 6, and finally I would do 6-9 on rank 4-5 Chigoes. I did 4 rank 1 leves on the PUG. I'm not sure how long it took, but it was longer than 2 hours.

There was downtime even when I outranked the respective mobs by 2-3 levels. I tried killing a rank 10 Marmot as a rank 9 PUG and it nearly had my ass. It's not an L2P issue because killing a stationary mob and only having 3 or 4 abilities isn't exactly rocket science. I was wearing my weathered stuff the whole time, but what do you expect a new player to do? Spend the very little gil he gets from the first two storylines on what will probably turn out to be 3 pieces of gear he'll have to replace in 3 or 4 levels? Seems a bit unrealistic and for a new guy, it's pretty damn frustrating.

The pacing of combat just sucks in my opinion.

I don't want handouts or to be level capped in two weeks, but is it really going to hurt to let people solo mobs a bit faster for a bit better XP? Half the reason I moved here from XI was because when I played XI it was a massive grind, and this game was supposed to be more casual friendly, but it seems like they're moving away from that. I really have no problem with grouping, but I do have a problem when grouping is so vastly superior to solo for leveling my character I feel frustrated even trying to go do something solo. I think there should absolutely be forced grouping at endgame for certain activities and even a part of leveling should include grouping, but I don't like the idea that a player who wants to solo is so severely hampered from the start.

Sorry for the wall o' text.

[Vinncent]

I may be new to the game seeing as I started about a month ago, but combat seems to have taken a turn for the worse...i've only had experience with the previous patch, but i prefered combat before this one. It seems like a bad idea to me to focus gameplay so heavily on groups when the game is pretty much socialy dead.

[Aion]

I may be new to the game seeing as I started about a month ago, but combat seems to have taken a turn for the worse...i've only had experience with the previous patch, but i prefered combat before this one. It seems like a bad idea to me to focus gameplay so heavily on groups when the game is pretty much socialy dead.

Do you say hello or hi? just asking

[Vinncent]

Do you say hello or hi? just asking

I try talking to everyone, drop buffs and heals on random people while running around and spam /wave etc.
Most of the time it's just the cold shoulder. Unfortunate.

[kurokawa]

I may be new to the game seeing as I started about a month ago, but combat seems to have taken a turn for the worse...i've only had experience with the previous patch, but i prefered combat before this one. It seems like a bad idea to me to focus gameplay so heavily on groups when the game is pretty much socialy dead.

So..... your life injecting idea for a game that is socially struggling, would be to enhance solo play? O, kkkkayyyyyy....

[Vinncent]

So..... your life injecting idea for a game that is socially struggling, would be to enhance solo play? O, kkkkayyyyyy....

First off, sarcasm is not needed. Second, I never said that. Don't put words in my mouth.

I'm all for group play, in fact I prefer it. However this game isn't social at all right now, especialy to new players and I believe that something needs to be done about this lack of player interaction one way or another.

[kurokawa]

First off, sarcasm is not needed. Second, I never said that. Don't put words in my mouth.

I'm all for group play, in fact I prefer it. However this game isn't social at all right now, especialy to new players and I believe that something needs to be done about this lack of player interaction one way or another.

Haha. Chill out dude.

Firstly, sarcasm is needed, I'm Britsh and it's part of my heritage.

There's too much seriousness, arguing and maoning bounding around the forums. Some people take life too seriously, it's just a bloody game for god's sake.

It also happens to be shaping up into a good one.

Secondly, erm, nothing. I'm done. Byyyeyeyeeee

[Meleena]

At its current rate (so a level one character starting today, post patch), if going solo, theres absolutly no way i can see you getting to 20 in a day unless your playing 12 or more hours. Especially without help. Your dreaming.

The rage forums on hp and xp levels post patch should be pretty biblical.

Youre doing it wrong I suppose, do you want to know what slow is?
Having aquired the 500 enemies slain achivement before getting the 15 level achievment.
12 hours is nothing for having gained 20 levels in the game, although I am 100% sure that you can get there faster MUCH FASTER, also try to party, or quit the game if you dont like it or you cant play it.
The game is fine.