Some people act like FFXIV is the ONLY game in the whole freaking world that requires time to master. Every single game works that way even the singleplayer offline Final Fantasy games.

Yes, you can rush a FF game, finish it in about 40 hours, but you character will not be leveled to the maximum level. You will not have the best weapons. You will not have done all the sidequests and so on ...

It is the same in FFXIV, so I do not see the problem.

Yes, 1-20 is a bit unbalanced at the moment, suck it up. Either quit until they balanced it a bit more or just shut up and play. People could level to level 30 if they put the time in leveling instead of crying on the forums.

I started over after patch 1.19 hit. I am level 12 ARC right now and I did not put in that much time so far. I always killed mobs my level or just one level higher. I am able to chain to at least #2 sometimes even #3 by timing my kills and saving my TP.

Again, I agree it is a bit unbalanced, but it is not as bas as some of you guys make it sound like.

Edit: The only problem I am having right now is finding the right gear in the Market Wards. SE should look into making low level gear (until level 8 or something) cheap and easy to get. My linkshell will help me later today with some gear, so that will be solved too. No problem.