Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Zenaku]

Wait.. so its ok to powerlevel as long as its slower pace? /spinhead

And again if you have the money to afford PL chances are you already knows how the game works and doesnt need days of mindless beating raptors to learn the game (which was the initial argument that people cant learn their job well) and thats why you are just skipping out the painful part, also not all players can afford these luxuries.

Powerlevel in ffxiv someone kill 20+mobs and they repop within secs vs FFXI party kill mobs the same speed but they can just go on without downtime but still take a while to level. The same way better then ffxiv in my book even in ffxi i dislike powerlevel and everytime someone had one i left but if it was late at night and no one really looking jp only type of things i stay.

[Esk]

Have you considered that SE may be raising the Cap at Ps3 and making SP lots faster then so they are just being nice now.. Unlikely imo atm but a thought non the less.

Its a different line of though, If your right we#ll see it reduced at 1.19a
If it was intended we wont..

So wait and see..

[Zenaku]

Have you considered that SE may be raising the Cap at Ps3 and making SP lots faster then so they are just being nice now.. Unlikely imo atm but a thought non the less.

Its a different line of though, If your right we#ll see it reduced at 1.19a
If it was intended we wont..

So wait and see..

That could happen but it would only be what maybe 10 levels at best which at this fast speed ppl can get it within 1day.

[Alexis_Arteme]

This is pretty good. There are literally two threads next to one another, one screaming levelling is too slow, the other saying it's too fast.

[Blarp]

I'm just not sure I understand SE's design methodology. Character progression is the most crucial part of an MMO. It's something that should be iterated upon and decided in pre-production and the varying stages of public testing. The year that follows launch should not have to see changes to that system, yet here we are for the third or fourth time with drastic changes to that system. And for the third of fourth time there's been problems with it. Progression is but one example of many where SE makes changes seemingly without considering the repercussions, and they ultimately end up in more of a mess than the last time they tried to fix it. This game has been in development for at least five years, and it's still not figured out. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

[indira]

lv50 is not the final cap. powerleveling is there regardless either how it is now or out side healing.
the thing that destroyerd the balence of the game was people hitting lv50 in the first 2 weeks the game came out everything before 1.18 was super easy and you got tons of exp fighting, gathering and synthing

[Madruk]

The real grind isn't 1-50 anymore.

[Travesty]

Anyone who doesn't think this needs to be fixed is a fool lol.

You can't have an MMO where people can, in any way, be power leveled through 80% of the levels in a matter of hours. That's absurd. If that is possible, it's game-breaking. End of conversation, no debate.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

there's a lot to debate instead. I still haven't seen a single person asking for PL or seen around with a PL. Where is this PL legion right now ?

[Arlekiel]

I really dont see the issue here...

So..?? You can achieve a higher level amazingly fast...
Now multiply that for all the DOW and DOM.... and now for the future jobs in 1.20... even if leveling just got easier.. you still can level up LOTS of classes.


Plus... lets say that you achieve a 50 in your DOW and DOM.. you still have

Beastman strongholds
Gathering (DOL)
Crafting (DOH)
Chocobo (I think they said something about raising it)
Quests
Mainstream quests
Grand Companies
Caravans
Materia system to hunt, gather and improve your equipment.


The way I see... they are focusing in GAMEPLAY and content.. rather than grinding.. they are just taking the grinding out of the game and focusing more on other aspects.

Im kinda excited to see where this is going...