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.