Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Xatsh]

People at 50 complaining has absolutely nothing to do with wanting power over others or something to brag about, we where complaining about it when SE first announced the removal of Mob claiming, we told them what would happen. And exactly what we said would happen did. Same with the removal of level cap penalty. Same with the drop out of party exploit which they refuse to address.

The game has more then enough content to keep people busy for months on end if look at level 1 through 50. You have 2 dungeons, a ton of nms, a ton of quest, escort things, main storyline, 5 different kinds of leves. At 50 you have world Nms, a dungeon, 3 settlements, and ifrit. And faction bosses if you want to include those.... Without pwrlvling a new player easily has 4-6 months of content to keep them busy if they play say 20-30hrs a week. With pwrlvling they have maby 3-4 weeks tops.

The problem with fast leveling is there is not enough endgame in anyway to support a character with all fighting classes maxed out. Which is the single biggest issue the game has (lack of content).

So you WILL run into these problems with pwrlvling:
1) There will no one to party with because the game will be instantly top heavy
2) 80% of the games content is negated because there is no reason to do it
3) People will refuse a normal party because a pwrlvl party gets SP literally 10fold faster.
4) You will get to endgame, be really happy, then log out 3 weeks later because you done everything.... and constantly complain on the forums about there not being enough content in the game.

More or less this game is not even close to being able to support a top heavy playerbase like XI did. This game also must always have people leveling in it... because despite the game being "Technically" soloable I can safely say 95% of the people will quit this game before 25 if they have to Solo the whole way. This is the worse solo mmo ever developed it is simply not fun at all, it is only fun when you play with others, at that point it is fairly enjoyable.

[weeble]

People at 50 complaining has absolutely nothing to do with wanting power over others or something to brag about, we where complaining about it when SE first announced the removal of Mob claiming, we told them what would happen. And exactly what we said would happen did. Same with the removal of level cap penalty. Same with the drop out of party exploit which they refuse to address.

The game has more then enough content to keep people busy for months on end if look at level 1 through 50. You have 2 dungeons, a ton of nms, a ton of quest, escort things, main storyline, 5 different kinds of leves. At 50 you have world Nms, a dungeon, 3 settlements, and ifrit. And faction bosses if you want to include those.... Without pwrlvling a new player easily has 4-6 months of content to keep them busy if they play say 20-30hrs a week. With pwrlvling they have maby 3-4 weeks tops.

The problem with fast leveling is there is not enough endgame in anyway to support a character with all fighting classes maxed out. Which is the single biggest issue the game has (lack of content).

So you WILL run into these problems with pwrlvling:
1) There will no one to party with because the game will be instantly top heavy
2) 80% of the games content is negated because there is no reason to do it
3) People will refuse a normal party because a pwrlvl party gets SP literally 10fold faster.
4) You will get to endgame, be really happy, then log out 3 weeks later because you done everything.... and constantly complain on the forums about there not being enough content in the game.

More or less this game is not even close to being able to support a top heavy playerbase like XI did. This game also must always have people leveling in it... because despite the game being "Technically" soloable I can safely say 95% of the people will quit this game before 25 if they have to Solo the whole way. This is the worse solo mmo ever developed it is simply not fun at all, it is only fun when you play with others, at that point it is fairly enjoyable.

people already having all 50's means they probably got there prior to adding this system of pl'ing. it took me the most of the first year to get all 50's that your getting in a week or 2. yes i did it in the easiest manner possible..at the time was 8man leve links and as boring as it was and even though it was considered crazy good exp at the time (100-130k for bout 4-5hrs of leves) it was no wear in hells like it is now. people are watching there year of pushing threw no content turn into a year they wasted. and it is becomming clear to them that if they dont' fix the pl'ing they will be pushed out of playing the game completely for idiots who want to get to max in a week since it's not a mmo they want. nor is it the game it was when they payed for it, or played it.

i'll quote myself from a thread above cause i'm cool like that:


allowing the players to power level, easy content, shorter grinds.... they are all forms of a in game cash shop without the actual cash shop being there visually. your handing over your monthly in the same manner for this game, for these items ..rather then just paying piece by piece in a cs. you might not see it that way but it is what it is.

[AdvancedWind]

People at 50 complaining has absolutely nothing to do with wanting power over others or something to brag about, we where complaining about it when SE first announced the removal of Mob claiming, we told them what would happen. And exactly what we said would happen did. Same with the removal of level cap penalty. Same with the drop out of party exploit which they refuse to address.

The game has more then enough content to keep people busy for months on end if look at level 1 through 50. You have 2 dungeons, a ton of nms, a ton of quest, escort things, main storyline, 5 different kinds of leves. At 50 you have world Nms, a dungeon, 3 settlements, and ifrit. And faction bosses if you want to include those.... Without pwrlvling a new player easily has 4-6 months of content to keep them busy if they play say 20-30hrs a week. With pwrlvling they have maby 3-4 weeks tops.

The problem with fast leveling is there is not enough endgame in anyway to support a character with all fighting classes maxed out. Which is the single biggest issue the game has (lack of content).

So you WILL run into these problems with pwrlvling:
1) There will no one to party with because the game will be instantly top heavy
2) 80% of the games content is negated because there is no reason to do it
3) People will refuse a normal party because a pwrlvl party gets SP literally 10fold faster.
4) You will get to endgame, be really happy, then log out 3 weeks later because you done everything.... and constantly complain on the forums about there not being enough content in the game.

More or less this game is not even close to being able to support a top heavy playerbase like XI did. This game also must always have people leveling in it... because despite the game being "Technically" soloable I can safely say 95% of the people will quit this game before 25 if they have to Solo the whole way. This is the worse solo mmo ever developed it is simply not fun at all, it is only fun when you play with others, at that point it is fairly enjoyable.

This. This post says it all.

The game is already suffering from a lack of lower level players to party with, and those that still have lower level classes to level pretty much *have* to resort to powerleveling. Can't blame anyone for that, tho.

After shouting in Ul'dah for level 20-30 parties for literally DAYS and getting pretty much no one, I needed a measly 1 hour to level glad from 18 to 30 while playing Lunar on my PSP when a LS mate did a quick PL party with me and a friend. 40-50 archer in a stronghold party also took like.. 2 hours, I guess it was even less......

"Balanced" powerleveling isn't that bad. Getting the last 10 levels of the current cap needing only to pop in a cure here and there while playing PSP, however, is terrible for the game.

And for those who just wanna say "don't do it", please try getting something like a Shopshae party with random people, then tell many how many 20 hours shouting you needed =)

Good luck.