Please bring back old leveling up and longer battles!

[Airget]

The old system led to such an imbalance of level gains and discouraged people from playing jobs that didn't level as fast as others. It also encouraged people to take their time fighting a single mob to get the most xp out of it rather then outright killing it and move on. A game that encourages you to level up through means of holding a mob isn't a good way to go about it, it's better to fight a horde of mobs rather then attacking something and waiting for the random number generator to grace you with xp gains.

[Sephrick]

The old system led to such an imbalance of level gains and discouraged people from playing jobs that didn't level as fast as others. It also encouraged people to take their time fighting a single mob to get the most xp out of it rather then outright killing it and move on. A game that encourages you to level up through means of holding a mob isn't a good way to go about it, it's better to fight a horde of mobs rather then attacking something and waiting for the random number generator to grace you with xp gains.

Ah yeah, the good old days of Salamander parties and the phrase "Dude, don't use weapon skills, you're stealing our exp!"

[Firon]

I don't understand why ppl wanna spend 5 mins fighting a world fodder mob. Leave the long fights for the more bigger monster's.

[Hubert]

Nope, terrible idea. Standing around hitting one mob without using any skills was one of the worst gameplay experiences I could remember. Even worse now with auto attack, at least before you had to press buttons.

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[Noir]

Soo, if you didn't play FFXIV when it was first released, to level up you had to skill up, to skill up you had to hit the mob(which makes more sense than what we have now.) The only thing wrong with it was that the battles were too short. Not everyone had time to get shots in on the mob. If they balanced it right, it would also make leveling a little longer(good thing). The rested exp would make more sense as well(at least to me). The other good thing is, you wouldn't be able to level up if you just sit afk/pl . Pling would be gone, it would most likely turn into the FFXI pl system which I didn't mind, because they didn't help in kill the mob, they just cured.

If you guys don't like that, I think they should get some type of "skill up" back in the game.

Yeah right... I bet you were a pugilist back then. No more milk for you ok? The old system sucked and everyone knows. Leave as it is. We need to improve the game and not walk backwards

[AlaulaTheGreat]

We'd go right back to the horribleness of us healers not being able to get SP, or curing people granting SP(Which in itself grants an exploit.).

The whole idea of us having to drag out fights so others can get SP is ridiculous.

[Gao]

You guys are also fast to say "this sucks, stupid, whatever"..

Uh, people can reply to this quick because we already been through it....

[Renshi]

We tried it.
It sucked.
The team fixed it, and now it's better!
Now it sucks.

F*ck people, damnit!
In a not serious way of course

[Rokien]

Yes it was bad back then, though leveling didn't take long(only fatigue made that happen). Thats what made the leveling experience worse.

I would like to think that people would think that I'm not just asking for the same old same old. I want something new of the old style, or add some type of "Weapon-Skill-Up".