Thread: PLEASE do NOT allow level skipping in 4.0

Originally Posted by DarthSanguine

The way I'd implement it, would be to make you have to level one job normally, and then you could use the jump potion. But, you would not skip any content, and would have to clear all of that roles tests in the hall of novice in order to do group content as that role, and would also have to clear that class/job's job quests up to the level of the content you are trying to queue for, in order to be able to. Level 60 would still be the maximum you could go to, but at least you'd get some experience before going into the new leveling content.

That would entirely defeat the purpose. The main purpose is to allow a new player to catch up to their friends quickly.

Also, the idea that someone would need to "train" by leveling "manually" has been debunked dozens of times over in this thread. People can, as of right now, completely avoid any sort of group content and get to cap solely through FATEs and other solo content.

I'm not at all opposed to a leveling potion on grounds of people not knowing how to play the class at endgame. Plenty of people already do that.

Just annoyed when a game dev puts a value on the time I spend playing. Just spent the last 2 weeks getting an archer from 1 to level 60 bard as my second class. Imagine all that grinding amount to 'just give us $20 and we'll do it for you instantly'.

Granted it's a minor issue since I got plenty of potsherds and a nice weapon to go with, but still, a tinge of envy that money can have you skip the grind.

Originally Posted by SDaemon

Leveling normally doesn't do this either...

Palace of the Dead is proof of this.

They should allow it just to spite you all who'll swear you'll quit if they do, yet come back in a few days anyway.

man i feel this game is going to keep copying WoW and that's going to suck a lot. I'm hoping i'm wrong, but they've announced a lot of things that seem like they're trying to be like WoW and I can't stand that game.

leveling potion should exist simply because of this, dungeons are nothing they are the game at its most basic level once you do them enough times they are just simple. The person using a jump potion will have the same chance of doing content as someone else running it the hard way simply because of how the community in this game is. Will the jump potion player get to do any of the hard content in the game I doubt it, when storm blood hits alex will be dead, coil will be dead, all extreme primals will be ran unsync , and if its sync the amount of time spent on doing old content sync will be very limited. So its really zero point to go through leveling to not even be able to do the content thats worth doing at the levels your going through. So the best thing to do is just skip it all instead of finding out that you have to skip it anyway.

Originally Posted by szalkerous

Level skipping does not force people to learn their classes, and then dilutes the pool of experienced players in endgame and near-endgame content. People need to learn their rotations and how to play in easier content.

I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, but FFXIV is all but handing out a leveling potion as is, anyway. Leveling is far too easy, and doesn't teach you how to properly play your job in and of itself.

Were this FFXI, I'd agree. Leveling to 75 there (pre-Abyssea) really taught you how to play, and if you were a moron, parties would quickly stop inviting you as word of mouth got around. In that scenario, a leveling potion would be an absurdly bad idea. In FFXIV, it's more just distasteful. I don't like the idea of having a pay-money-to-win button. But I don't think it's going to do much to worsen the skills of an already-weak pool of players at level cap.