Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Fouluryu]

You can buy mats on the markets too. That's a terrible argument cause you still have to craft everything yourself, you can't have someone else make you physically craft faster.

Okay genius. Raptor sinew went from 1k to now 10k and up. http://www.ffxivpro.com/item/10007506/raptor-sinew
You really think I can throw gil like that out there? Will wand of tremor from a simple 100k item to 440k currently on wutai. You call that normal? Every time the wards reset, so does the market leaving the ward campers to F((( with the prices.
Cotton yarn from 600g to 5k a piece. Need I say more.

You people want to complain after using an advantage. I'm not surprised.

[Travesty]

Okay genius. Raptor sinew went from 1k to now 10k and up. http://www.ffxivpro.com/item/10007506/raptor-sinew
You really think I can throw gil like that out there? Will wand of tremor from a simple 100k item to 440k currently on wutai. You call that normal? Every time the wards reset, so does the market leaving the ward campers to F((( with the prices.
Cotton yarn from 600g to 5k a piece. Need I say more.

You people want to complain after using an advantage. I'm not surprised.

You missed the point entirely. No matter how you get the mats, you still can't have someone make you physically craft faster. And people who've been in the game long enough have more than enough money to buy all the mats.

Feel free to ninja edit your post again.

[Blarp]

There's people that donate crafting materials to a person so that he can achieve lv 50 craft. So, while gather and slowly and painfully craft grind slowly, it's okay for that person to get donated crafting items? I can easily complain he got help while everyone else are busting their asses burning time just to get 1 level crafting rank a day.

What a terrible comparison.

[Mindx3]

My buddy just hit 50 Lnc and wanted to help our lS out by helping us level up, so we decided to go and kill raptors. It was 3of us 31arch 39 cnj and 50 lnc fighting against 46-49 raptors.

1st. There is nothing wrong with this scenerio my 50 lnc friend is doing nothing wrong by helping us kill these raptors it is his choice to do so, he is not exploiting anything he is simply killing raptors for us while we toss him heals. He managed to get mostly chain 4 with 1133 xp going from 850 1k 1070 1133 each group of links took about 3-5 minutes to kill. And keeping him alive wasnt always easy although he never died. All in all i managed to get 40 and pretty much the end of 40 but not quite 41 in about 1hr 30min.

In all honesty while he didnt do chain 5 chain 4 is pretty high and our xp bar was moving at a decent rate...but its nothing ground breaking....

In fact i had another ls group going earlier with a 50 glad killing ixalis by camp glory (25thm 30arch 31 pug 50 gld), while the gld didnt kill as efficiently we were only getting 550+ xp with low chains, meanwhile a group of 34-36 were killing much more effectivly than our group and definatly doing chain 5. All in all in about 6 1/2 hours playtime in between fighting dieing looking for camps breaks etc i managed to gain 2 3/4 lvls on my cnj and about 2 lvls on my thm about 20 more minutes of fighting raptors it would have been 3 lvls for cnj.

Thats not that bad really.....maybe we are doing it wrong but we cant seem to get 24k in 5 minutes Are Mages rly this strong !?!?

Now that i think about it 1 star R40 leves gave my con 4.5-5k xp plus 350+ for each mob for a 5-10 min leve and the raptors which took about 5 min gave me a bit less . I think this whole system is balanced after all

[Mindx3]

i think this topic has been officialy hi-jacked by the trolls

[Travesty]

i think this topic has been officialy hi-jacked by the trolls

Yeah, I'm not gonna reply to this guy anymore. Let's get it back on topic.

[Teknoman]

I guess the actual rate isnt a bad thing, but the rate given to parties with larger differences in player level should be toned down. I dont think exp rates should be anywhere near XI levels...but not everyone should be able to blitz through 10-15 levels in a flash (exaggeration).

[Nanaya]

At this point, the post count speaks for itself, we just need to keep it in most popular until the devs get back from their weekend of making it hail from the tens of dollars they've made off of this game.

[Teknoman]

At this point, the post count speaks for itself, we just need to keep it in most popular until the devs get back from their weekend of making it hail from the tens of dollars they've made off of this game.

lol took a double take.

[Issac]

We've been sitting at 79 "thumbs-up" in the OP for a while now. I want to see it breach 100 by Monday. This really is a serious issue and it stands a better chance at being fixed if we all stand firm and work together. If you agree and haven't pressed that little button yet, please do so now, and voice your opinions loud and clear.

Quick edit:
Holy crap, it worked! Whoever pushed it to 80, thank you. =]