Once again, something new and fun comes out. And instead of experience it, most people find a way to take a shortcut.

This time it's low level blue mages (e.g. lvl 20) running around in lvl 50 zones 1-shotting things to level up. Which is fine except that people leveling up normally have to jump on a mount to find mobs, because so many people are just tearing through them.

If this kind of 1-shot-insta-kill leveling is supposed to be the norm (and I'm not talking about 1000 needles, as that's fine), we should just get an option to boost blue mage to 50 instantly.

It's not game-breaking or a crazy annoyance. But it's just rationally pointless. Why expect people to level a job when half the people leveling it are just going to use an exploit to do it fast? Either don't allow the exploit, or make leveling completely optional (e.g. optional boost).

Again, if exploiters just stuck to a small area I don't think it would be a huge issue.
But when they are clearing zones out rapidly it kind of ruins the leveling process for people who want to play legit.

And obviously people exploiting have no desire to actually level the job.