Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Mindx3]

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.

Its not that broken dude...

[Zenaku]

Its not that broken dude...

A level 1 can sit there while a 50 kill everything let's say a conj the person can get 1-30 within 1-2hours. then get 38 go to the stronghold do noting and get 38-45 then at 45+ fight and then get 50 this could easy take less then 3days or even 1days for a hardcore player. Btw the person could go to sleep and /sleep while the 50 kill for him all day.

Don't say no one going to do it when i seeing over 10+ people every day now powerlevel ppl from 1-50. It's broken it must be taken care off.

you should never get 1-50 mad quick even yoshi-p said that people should at least take 3half months to get there first high level.

[Mindx3]

A level 1 can sit there while a 50 kill everything let's say a conj the person can get 1-30 within 1-2hours. then get 38 go to the stronghold do noting and get 38-45 then at 45+ fight and then get 50 this could easy take less then 3days or even 1days for a hardcore player. Btw the person could go to sleep and /sleep while the 50 kill for him all day.

Don't say no one going to do it when i seeing over 10+ people every day now powerlevel ppl from 1-50. It's broken it must be taken care off.

you should never get 1-50 mad quick even yoshi-p said that people should at least take 3half months to get there first high level.

Have you tested this do you know for a fact that 1-50 is possible in a day? Have you been to the stronghold i havent...but i have faught around higher level aggressive mobs and i heard spawn rates are crazy in there.... you bring a low lvl into there and prepare to agro and prepare to die that is all.

1-50 in 24 hours lets break it down ...

I work 9-5 mon-fri i get home do my stuff eat dinner shower etc, get on around 6-7 play untill 11-12 5 hours avg. Now i know out of this 5 hours of play time i will only be really playing for 3hours in between afk, breaks, doing nothing,hanging out in uldah, chatting etc, so lets say i spend 3 hours lvling each day If 1-50 was possible in 24 hours that would litteraly take me 8 days to get a max lvl....i really dont mind this as i know i wont be just leveling 1 class for 8 days straight...and i could not play this game and kill mobs for 24 hours straight...i would shoot myself....weekends may increase lvling time but not by much.

[Travesty]

Have you tested this do you know for a fact that 1-50 is possible in a day? Have you been to the stronghold i havent...but i have faught around higher level aggressive mobs and i heard spawn rates are crazy in there.... you bring a low lvl into there and prepare to agro and prepare to die that is all.

1-50 in 24 hours lets break it down ...

I work 9-5 mon-fri i get home do my stuff eat dinner shower etc, get on around 6-7 play untill 11-12 5 hours avg. Now i know out of this 5 hours of play time i will only be really playing for 3hours in between afk, breaks, doing nothing,hanging out in uldah, chatting etc, so lets say i spend 3 hours lvling each day If 1-50 was possible in 24 hours that would litteraly take me 8 days to get a max lvl....i really dont mind this as i know i wont be just leveling 1 class for 8 days straight...and i could not play this game and kill mobs for 24 hours straight...i would shoot myself....weekends may increase lvling time but not by much.

We're talking about the number of actual hours it takes, not how long it will take you based on how many hours of free time you have in a day.

And besides, if the kind numbers multiple people have reported are true, it could take as little as 8 hours.

[Zenaku]

Have you tested this do you know for a fact that 1-50 is possible in a day? Have you been to the stronghold i havent...but i have faught around higher level aggressive mobs and i heard spawn rates are crazy in there.... you bring a low lvl into there and prepare to agro and prepare to die that is all.

1-50 in 24 hours lets break it down ...

I work 9-5 mon-fri i get home do my stuff eat dinner shower etc, get on around 6-7 play untill 11-12 5 hours avg. Now i know out of this 5 hours of play time i will only be really playing for 3hours in between afk, breaks, doing nothing,hanging out in uldah, chatting etc, so lets say i spend 3 hours lvling each day If 1-50 was possible in 24 hours that would litteraly take me 8 days to get a max lvl....i really dont mind this as i know i wont be just leveling 1 class for 8 days straight...and i could not play this game and kill mobs for 24 hours straight...i would shoot myself....weekends may increase lvling time but not by much.

you could get someone 1-20 within 1hour or less then you fight higher level mobs get them 20-30 within a few hours maybe 2-3 at best. Seeing how i'm seeing people doing that as i go making party for my conj i think you can get 1-35 within a small amount of time if you really stay with it and not go afk a lot and by that i mean the PL and if the pl is a conj this is how quick it would be just AOE everything to death get fast chain wait for repop which is very short and do that over and over again.

I be happy to test it by why should i? RMT are doing it as i speak also many other players in many spot in the game.

Also remember you could be AFK just be on /follow and get 1-38 while you at work just get some 1-38 with someone who have more time then you.

[Fouluryu]

Its not that broken dude...

It's not broken. They just want to push us uncapped 50 people down to make it harder to get to 50 while they're sitting at the top. All I'm saying is, it's just a method of power leveling and at the same time the lowbie players can still fight. 15 level difference is not that big a of a deal. If that was taken out, then there wouldn't be power leveling.

I already see where this is going. This thread is going to eventually convince the devs, but I hope they're mindful who are the actual real players posting on here. It might be my assumption, but this sort of crap happens with pretty much any subject willing to nerf something just because something is likable. I say this because of the strong experience of nerf attacks that were made in the past of XI to make the jobs "ballanced" just so no one get's jealous.

If it does happen, all that I ask is just put an appropriate gap level for exp chains. Can we at least agree to that?

[Travesty]

They just want to push us uncapped 50 people down to make it harder to get to 50 while they're sitting at the top.

....what?

I'm one of the most vocal people about this and my highest class is 38. And I've stopped leveling as of this patch because if it stays this way I'm not coming back. So again, wtf are you talking about?

[Issac]

I have been playing this game since release. I have trudged through it all with a smile on my face. I have led a LS, though I sucked at it, through grinding, NMs, and leve-linking. And now I begin on another server, enjoying everything for the most part, but this powerleveling issue is simply unacceptable. Sure, this is a forum, and anyone can say what they like.

But I'm not lying about how long I've been playing this game. I made our (now dead) linkshell's website from scratch after Open beta.
http://ffxiv.withfrosted.com

So if you want to knock at my credibility as a genuinely concerned long-time player and fan of Final Fantasy in general, have at it, because I know otherwise.

[Nanaya]

The difference is leves are a perishable source, rather than the unlimited, perpetual experience points device a party is.

And to put it simply, there is no reason anyone should be getting the 1k-1.5k exp off of a single mob, chain or otherwise. This isn't like classic PSO, where the gap from level 150-200 is quite the chasm, the highest exp amount you need to worry about is a rather lackluster 100k points.

Not to mention the fact that low levels can leech exp with no reprisal, and relatively insignificant diminishing returns. PLing is fine with someone outside of the party, healing and buffing you. I am completely fine with that, because you still have to kill it yourself. Where I draw the line is when a high level does all the work for you, and you reap incredible rewards for it. It breeds the contemptuous kind of gamer that thinks everything should be given to them, and can't handle it when they face any kind of adversity. And this is to say nothing of the potential boon RMT likely see. If this game actually does take off and become successful, this is the perfect opportunity for them to plan ahead and stockpile level 50s with very little work or effort involved, SE might as well have given them a machine that prints money.

[Issac]

And this is to say nothing of the potential boon RMT likely see. If this game actually does take off and become successful, this is the perfect opportunity for them to plan ahead and stockpile level 50s with very little work or effort involved, SE might as well have given them a machine that prints money.

QFT. I saw a pack of RMTs doing it already. Multiple packs.