Quote Originally Posted by syntaxlies View Post
i used to grind efts in ff14 that took around a min to kill for 350 xp. It took a few months to get my first 50. everyone complained and now you can get 50 over night if you want. I dont think the xp was really that bad, what made it bad was the honorably slow pop rate.

the 10 lvl cap for xp is what made the battles so fast. no one wants to kill something harder if there's no extra xp for it. they have adjusted the stats to make mobs harder at lower lvls which is a good start. The problem is, is that if you throw 8 people at a mob that you could probably solo of course its gonna die fast. Se compensated for this by adding links. It turned into an aoe spam fest. I haven't xp's since 1.20 but id think its more dynamic now with more 1 on 1 combat and less aoe.
It's still an aoe spam fest.