Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Issac]

I was really hoping you'd go away because your constant barrage of pointlessly quoting yourself seemed genuinely narcissistic in a misplaced sort-of-way.

Allow me to demonstrate:



FTFY

See how easy that was? You don't substantiate any of your points, and yet you spout this stuff like you wrote the Bible yourself. Why should I care how many times you quote yourself? Make a point, sometime. Maybe I'll care then.

And now I have to do it a fourth time. Points have been substantiated all throughout the thread. Here are just the first 20 pages.

Alright, I went through the first 20 pages picking up random points of interest in the issue at hand. I'm not doing this to show how many people agree. Heck, the list started getting too long and I was growing tired of rereading everything so I skipped to the end for the last point. Anyway, here they are:

I completely agree. It might as well be considered cheating >_>

When leveling is that easy, all the gear from 1-49 is completely and utterly useless.

I'm just not sure I understand SE's design methodology. Character progression is the most crucial part of an MMO.

You throw a exploitable mechanic in a MMO, and expect players will not exploit it.
Welcome to wonderland.

There isn't even 10% of the end game content they'd need to satisfy advancement as rapid as this. Even if you argue leveling should be easy or nonexistent and the game should focus on content for high levels, that content needs to exist before people get there and right now it doesn't. How can anyone be in favor of this?

Ok, why not just start the game fully geared, inside the Ifrit instance, in a party. I mean why not, let's just cut to the chase. Screw the working up to it. This leveling nonsense is tiresome. Let's just make the game a circular room with doors to a bunch of different raids. Sounds like an RPG to me!

I loved this game and I'm here since Open Beta. I'm a fan of Yoishi's work, but this is ridiculous. I can't find a good solution for this. An update? People are powerleveling like crazies right now. They can do a rollback, but I don't think they are going to do that.

What?
And, what's is the point of the economy? I haven't said anything about that. I just said the content pre-50 is pointless. Why instances of level 15 and 25? Why all the sidequests? Why reforming levequest system? Why are you going to level up "normally" if you can powerlevel?

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.

Let's push everyone else's opinion aside and just say I'm a narcissist. Hey, it's not that bad.