Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Xatsh]

My ls did mass powerleveling today... it is broken but honestly if you want to do endgame stuff fast it is going to be done.

Took 7 people 20-40 to raptors at Iron lake, I went on my 50 mar. gathered 6-8 raps aoed them all down in about 30secs. and got the whole group about 7k per raptor group.

The rest of my ls did the bstmen settlements in 2 partys (basically an alliance) to farm the chest and get materia, they took a rank 38 into it because the lowers group filled up... when that nights events where done that 38 was now 43. That is a ton of sp btw in about 3hrs.

SE needs to get alot more top end content in the game with this new system. SE more or less removed the leveling curve if you party now.

The issue is this patch did not help partying at all, it is just encouraging pwrlvl groups (they need to put the sp penatly back in for level range too large in the group and this patch would be ok even though sp would still be sky high). You will have some low levels and a high level killing everything, that is not how it should be. People can use well only if people choose to, well that is the optimal way now so it will be done. If someone does think that is right all I can say is wtf? Grouping should be a focus in the whole game, the whole leveling experience. This atm is just a quick rush to endgame where players will not even know what sentinel or Aegis Boon does.

[Rinsui]

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 ?

Ignorance at it's finest. You throw a exploitable mechanic in a MMO, and expect players will not exploit it.
Welcome to wonderland.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Ignorance at it's finest. You throw a exploitable mechanic in a MMO, and expect players will not exploit it.
Welcome to wonderland.

Thank you. But then explain me why in all the 1000000000000 mmorpgs with this sistem you don't see the PL army you seeing now.

[Ava]

Okay, this seriously needs to be fixed immediately.

Now, before you all say, "Oh come on dude, why you gotta crap on something so awesome," honestly think about it. The consequences will be a domino effect that just might force SE to do a server rollback.

Here's an example: I just got 25,000EXP in less than five minutes. From level 24 to 25 with a friend killing and chaining crabs for me in my party.

The above is far far too extreme. Given these possibilities, and even more if she killed something at a higher level, everyone will exploit the crap out of this and no one will have a job below level 40 within a month. Do we really want this? Do we want to make the journey to cap so utterly pointless?

I'm really concerned for the future of this game if this is what SE intended in this patch! This is bad, really bad. Please, SE, let's get an emergency maintenance and fix this before it is too late!

I don't think it's that bad. It's the only thing keeping some of my friends from immediately quitting again due to the lack of some very basic/standard MMO features... Plus, I don't see it being nearly as effective mid-late levels as it is in the low levels.

Thank you. But then explain me why in all the 1000000000000 mmorpgs with this sistem you don't see the PL army you seeing now.

You do? Did you never play FFXI? Did you never visit low level instances in WoW? Powerleveling is, and always has been, in every MMO. Whether they are doing it in instances or in plain sight, well that depends on the design of the game. But it always exists.

[Betelgeuzah]

I don't agree with Yoshida on this. Leveling should feel like an achievement. Otherwise there is simply no point to it.

Levels allow there to be things to look forward to. It's not the same when you're already at level cap. It shouldn't be made into feeling like a race. Then what's the point in the first place? Why can we apply materia to gear lower than level 50? Wasting time with things like that only holds you down. Level 50 is where everything is at.

[viion]

Whats wrong with 1.25 in 30 mins? What is so bad about it? What is wrong with 35-44?

If people want to do it, let them, if you dont like it, dont do it.

Dont get what the problem is, people hit 950 rank within couple months, i have 1. do I care, nupe? doesnt ruin my gameplay.

You all have your head to far up each others business. lol

[Dzo]

It doesn't hurt your gameplay until you stop being able to find parties because nobody wants to use a non-optimal method of leveling up.

[Travesty]

Whats wrong with 1.25 in 30 mins? What is so bad about it? What is wrong with 35-44?

If people want to do it, let them, if you dont like it, dont do it.

Dont get what the problem is, people hit 950 rank within couple months, i have 1. do I care, nupe? doesnt ruin my gameplay.

You all have your head to far up each others business. lol

For one thing, it kills the game lol. There's no argument about it. Especially in a game with such little content waiting at the level cap. If everyone is 50 a week from now, which is what will happen if people are going from 35-44 in 2 hours, in 2 weeks there's nothing left to do and everyone leaves.

[tragic]

This is what SE does nerf and buff then nerf and buff. Get use to it. When I got my first R50 class on FFXIV I thought to myself I never want to do that again. 40-50 took about 100 hours of grinding the same mob. Over these cycles I have got most DoW/M to R50. I look forward to testing out the new sp on one of the two classes I have to get to R50.

I do really see the problem having these nerf and buff cycles. If someone gets all 50 when it happened to be the easiest time to rank up that doesnt effect me much at all. I have my experiences and my memories and isn't that what this is all about?

[Nayt]

Wait what? We'll actually be able to progress in the game without spending several hundreds of hours grinding? Nerf!