Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[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.

[Andrien]

with search function coming to you soon, finding/making parties your own level will be easier. level sync is coming soon too.

stay tuned for more details after these messages.

[Rowyne]

It is a MMO you should not be able to rocket to capped level... that is not what a mmorpg is. This game has a leveling curve less then half of WoW's is and that game's leveling is ludicrously easy.

Quoted for truth. I never thought I'd see the day when I could say WoW had better pacing than a Final Fantasy game because it took longer. For the love of the Twelve, WoW's motto is practically, "Life begins at endgame" and there is a more satisfying sense of journey and accomplishment in WoW than there is in this game right now. WoW doesn't allow people to afk their way through the levels, either. In fact, they have a zero tolerance policy on exploits, in general.

I'm sure I will get a couple people point out that this isn't necessarily an exploit so much as bad game design. But I just cannot fathom that the devs planned for and expected players to get these kinds of exp gains, under any circumstances.

I always played Final Fantasy games because I always felt SE had integrity. More and more, that is no longer true.

I just wanted to quote myself, pay no mind.

P.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImrGLGJRL9c

Can anyone tell me how getting 40-50 in 2 hours is fair and balanced?

I'm not butthurt, cause I've been PLing my linkshell like a mad hatter, but how is this conducive of fair and balanced gameplay?

Anyone?

P.S. [SIZE="7"]TWO HOURS[/SIZE]

This should not be acceptable under any circumstances, and should have been hotfixed immediately.

If this is Yoshi-P's vision for 2.0, I don't want any part of it. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the speculation that this is just a way to facilitate getting people through the glaring lack of content in 1.0. Shouldn't they fix things the right way and add low-mid level content to level through instead of just ruining the game? Before anyone says that it's not worth it when we're getting a new game in 2.0, remember that we're getting ready to pay a monthly fee for this game. Which means that it should be fully supported, at all level tiers. Like others, I would like to know if the level curve and powerleveling will be readjusted in 2.0, if not sooner.

[Agoven]

Lack of content is kinda harsh for 1st years worth of content it's not bad. It's just that they spread the content too thinly across all classes. Unless you played all classes which many still haven't gotten around to...

If they had made the story a 1 to 50 sweeping story line absent of them being attached to classes...I think we would have had better reception.

I doubt this is how leveling will be in 2.0...for those just starting out in 2.0 I think they game will be much more fleshed out.

For current players this is part your perk in a way...because you got the game and played it this past year and the fact that they want to move you through the current story line and bring it to a close they need to max players out fast otherwise closing the current storyline off would be difficult.

[Andrien]

I might be optimistic, but Lv50 in my opinion shouldn't be counted as end-game. To me Lv50 is just half way to what could be more difficult.

If somebody has time to PL for hours, it is totally up to that person to sacrifice the time and effort. Got no one else to blame actually.

[AdvancedWind]

I might be optimistic, but Lv50 in my opinion shouldn't be counted as end-game. To me Lv50 is just half way to what could be more difficult.

If somebody has time to PL for hours, it is totally up to that person to sacrifice the time and effort. Got no one else to blame actually.

I agree with you about 50 not being the "true" endgame, but at this time it IS the cap and will likely stay that way for the next year as well.

Also, the main issue is still valid beyond the current cap: Throwing up random numbers in here, if a regular level 65 party makes 100k per hour and a powerleveling 65 party makes 800k, it's not balanced. Even if a PL party takes a "long" time getting 65-75, it would still be MUCH faster than a regular party.

[Sephrick]

Then what the hell is it about?

I sure hope it's not what you people with all 50's are calling "Endgame" that would just be sad.

It's about keeping us pacified until 2.0. Even after 1.20 we'll still be playing roughly half the game Yoshida intends to make. Each update brings new content designed around the mechanics and balances introduced in that specific patch.

We are 2.0 guinea pigs, that's it. We're just beta testing core mechanics for the next version of the game in exchange for some shinies no one who starts in 2.0 may have.

That's why, to me, this PLing thing isn't much of an issue. SE is asking people to pay for a still broken game in which they cannot afford to implement mid level content to justify a slower leveling experience. Sure, there's some stuff to do on your first trip to 50, but this is a game about leveling multiple classes to have a better character. There's just no reason to have a mindless grind in beta.

[viion]

PS. All that levelling legitimately to "Learn your job" was a complete, utter waste of time, as of 1.20 =D ahhh the irony.

And /out.

[Soukyuu]

The issue itself is still valid, pre or post 1.20

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Everyone gonna be a level 50 newb in 1.20 yea. It's gonna be funny lol