How PL'ing killed FFXIV.

[Zozor]

I was getting about 125k per hour in a balanced exp party in copperbell mines a couple of weeks ago.

The post above mine isn't quite right. You can certainly level fast in there but I've never heard of anyone getting 300k per hour anywhere in the game. Ultimately the point is that in Copperbell (as well as a few other prime leveling locations) and with a balanced party of players with reasonable gear you can easily break 100k per hour. PLing is usually around 150k per hour. The difference between PLing and a good exp party then isn't really massive.