Dev clarifaction on exp switch

[MrKimper]

Are people legitimately upset that a job locked at 50 and can't even learn skills through leveling up is...being power leveled with an exploit that's been in the game since literally 1.0?

Come on now, I understand being upset at people stealing mobs from others who are legitimately trying to level, but if someone is doing this in somewhere like, one of the level 49 beasttribe areas and out of your way. How in the world does this effect you?

[HiroesX81]

For those who were trying to start a witch hunt on players useing the technique.SE themselves have stated they arent counting it as an exploit.


We are making the investigation and addressing of this issue a high priority, but as explained above, it involves changing the core structure of the EXP gaining method, making it difficult to address with a mere hotfix. Currently, we are aiming to address this issue with Patch 5.0.
As a result, using this method for levelling would normally be classified as an exploit, but since we were not able to address this promptly despite it being a known issue, we will not be issuing any penalties for players who are levelling in this way. However, since this was not the intended design, we do not recommend engaging in this behaviour, and exhort players to level in the normal manner as was intended.

Full post here
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...8f3d8978271a55

Arent they saying it does technically count as an exploit its just that they cant take measures right now? Ya know they could just make it so you cant switch jobs in the ARR zones temporarily unless youre in a sanctuary just like before but oh well. That being said its totally an exploit. Personally dont care how ppl wanna level but if anyone who uses this exploit gets to 50 and then complains about lack of content and enjoyment then I no sympathy for em

[Metalwrath]

Arent they saying it does technically count as an exploit its just that they cant take measures right now? Ya know they could just make it so you cant switch jobs in the ARR zones temporarily unless youre in a sanctuary just like before but oh well. That being said its totally an exploit. Personally dont care how ppl wanna level but if anyone who uses this exploit gets to 50 and then complains about lack of content and enjoyment then I no sympathy for em

but since we were not able to address this promptly despite it being a known issue, we will not be issuing any penalties for players who are levelling in this way.

They are saying usualy they'd consider it an exploit but they arent treating it as so.

[Fawkes]

Pretty disappointing response, I expected we'd at least get a post from Yoshi asking people not to use it with some stronger language. Now people are just going to feel justified with their bad reasoning, as if it being in the game a long time or not directly hurting other players makes cheating totally okay.

[seraseth]

We used sleep with our bard friend so the mobs wouldn't eat our faces off if he was too far away to save us. Did no dmg, obviously, but got full credit on them all.