Quote Originally Posted by DGMart View Post
Hate to tell you this but grinding on mobs doesn't make you a good or bad player like it did in 11. This game is a easy grindfest and no one cares about that sh*t. Getting high enough to do end game content is what most care about. Why should you care if someone gets PL'd. It doesn't effect you unless they are in your party.

What happens if say your gf/bf wants to get to end game asap without having to go through all the tedious grinding. Why not just PL them especially since the likely hood of them having played your character at some point is high. I guess I don't agree with you the OP.
^ This, for real guys.

You really don't learn anything from SP-grinding. Well maybe 320SP x 300 Raptor = 96,000 EXP of boring ! Mobs die in less than 40 seconds. If you have a GLA that actually knows how to tank or a mage that knows how to manage MP when they reach 50, that is a surprise.

For all those people relating this to XI.. SE said they didn't feel Astral Burning was an exploit, so why would this be any different to them? Dood, you could even get temp banned if you messed with an Astral Burn pull that someone else had. But did everyone Astral Burn, nope ! Was it broken as hell, yep !

I have friends that recently came back to XIV (because of this update) and it is exciting that I am able to party with them and help them level up. I came back to XIV probably 3 weeks-ish before the leve-nerf and I feel that was an exploit; this linking mob thing, not-so-much. Purposely failing leves to keep them just because you could get 1200 SP a mob.. yea, come on, lol!

My friend and I actually figured this out by mistake.. He was on his lvl37 PUG trying to get a little extra EXP after his leves up at Treespeak and I was farming Boar hides for a LS mate that needed some extras to synth new gear. We were honestly blown away with how fun the linking system was working and then taught ourselves how to maximize it for higher chains. We had a couple other friends come join us and our Light Party was like umm 37-40s and myself as 50THM...and we had fun farming and grinding EXP. No you read that right! For once grinding and farming was not a masochistic event!

This is exciting for me because now my brother can join XIV with PS3 release and not feel left behind. I can actually really help him level up, not just stand outside passively..Instead I get to actively kill the same mobs that he does! * 'o')b

And the way I see it, there is no scare that gear will become obsolete from lvls 1-49 either because of the new Spiritbond system. It is pretty random which materia you get from each piece of gear. From my experience so far r40+ equipment doesn't always mean you get a IV materia...I honestly see in the future people mass synth'ing gear and then heading into the strongholds all miss-matched and having spiritbond farming hahah

As much work the Devs have done with XIV recently, I think it is safe to say they tested this to the max and it is working as they'd like. Yoshida-san said that he wants people to play with their friends and I really think he has achieved it here.