Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[CrystalWeapon]

in xi people had to really try hard to get to 50 in a month. in xiv they can go afk for about 8 hours and get there. you are comparing things that are complete opposites.

If you were trying hard and it took you a month to get to 50, then you were doing something wrong. My record while trying hard was 2 and a half weeks to get from lv 1~75. This was pre-abyssea and pre-level sync smn burning. I was bored out of my fucking mind and hid the fact that I had a rdm from every endgame event ls I went to after that.

I agree that this game is way too fast, but I at least don't get burnt out on any of my jobs duo'ing / solo'ing (leves)/ partying. I'm fairly sure that they are going to remove the drop party form of pl'ing they have now, but I doubt they are going to gimp the exp rates for fighting. My money is on us not hearing anything about it till the changes are made.

[darkstarpoet1]

If you were trying hard and it took you a month to get to 50, then you were doing something wrong. My record while trying hard was 2 and a half weeks to get from lv 1~75. This was pre-abyssea and pre-level sync smn burning. I was bored out of my fucking mind and hid the fact that I had a rdm from every endgame event ls I went to after that.

I agree that this game is way too fast, but I at least don't get burnt out on any of my jobs duo'ing / solo'ing (leves)/ partying. I'm fairly sure that they are going to remove the drop party form of pl'ing they have now, but I doubt they are going to gimp the exp rates for fighting. My money is on us not hearing anything about it till the changes are made.

show me where you got from 1-75 on release in 2.5 weeks. the point is the first person on release got there in 1 month. we all know there are the grindaholics. it may be boring, but there is no disputing the fact that some people stared on doing the 24/7 marathons trying to be the first to cap just like there was in this game.

if it took the full time grinders a month to cap then it's pretty safe to assume that you couldn't do it in 2.5 weeks.....especially once you joined the cap was 75 which meant the sp curve had already been altered.


edit: i am not talking about xi post abyssea nor am i talking about it after the cap was raised to 75. i was responding to someone talking about how quickly someone hit their first 50 on the original release on xi which was 1 month. they are comparing the 1 month on release of xi to the 8 hours you can do in xiv today and stating you could do it in 1 week in xi if you tried and they are comparable.

[CrystalWeapon]

show me where you got from 1-75 on release in 2.5 weeks. the point is the first person on release got there in 1 month. we all know there are the grindaholics. it may be boring, but there is no disputing the fact that some people stared on doing the 24/7 marathons trying to be the first to cap just like there was in this game.

if it took the full time grinders a month to cap then it's pretty safe to assume that you couldn't do it in 2.5 weeks.....especially once you joined the cap was 75 which meant the sp curve had already been altered.

I didn't say on release and the exp curve wasn't adjusted till a year or so after my 2nd 75. I'm assuming you are talking about the redux in the curve between (was it... 40~50? or 50~60) something like that. My first two jobs were drg and rdm done around the time that all drg's were marked rmts. The good old days of persecution and drg comradery amongst the ones that stuck with the job.

Dragoon took me about 5 months due to a lack of love for the job, but rdm only took 2 and a half weeks. It was all the luck of the draw but for jobs that got constant invites it wasn't shit to get to lv 50 quickly. 1~10 (solo) 10~20 (dunes) 21~25ish (qufim) 26~30ish (jungles) 30ish~40ish (Garliage/Crawler's Nest) 40~50 (Altepa + Quicksands). You could blaze through each one of those camps in a day or two of play provided you're hardcoring it. The only reason why people took nearly a year to get their FIRST lv 75 is the fact that you had to take up all possible subjobs, had to do limit breaks, had to get KI's to progress to certain areas, and had to build up gil so that you could purchase equipment. Once you did all your prepwork you could blaze through levels.

I'd love to show you when and where I got my rdm up at, but unfortunately I don't have a timemachine that can take us back before the fishing sytem got changed so I'm afraid it's impossible to show you exactly when / where / how I did it. I just remember how fast I got it up because I was joking with a friend that I could get maxed in a month because I was getting invites w/o seeking due to the job's popularity at the time.

Now I'm all nastalgic <.< I remember when Tahrongi Canyon had stupidly overpriced chocobos because all the endgame camps were in Bibiki Bay, and Sky.