Quote Originally Posted by Petdo View Post
The OP might look at other people that have no life and play game for 24/7 and envy them.
The DoH/DoL class take too much time to lv up ( without helping hand of cause! )
If people can play only 2-3 hour per day, it will take around 40-50 days to finish 1 DoH class
So it take around 9-10 month to reach all DoH classes ( assumed you play everyday! )

DoL is a time-consuming class too because you have to walk around to find node and that count as time sink too.
I bet it might take some 4-5 month to reach lv 50 of all DoL classes

DoW/DoM is kind of easy if you have PLer.
But finding dedicate PLer that will PL you every class to 50 is very hard ==' Who gonna help you for many many hours and he go nothing in return? ( If you are REAL girl it would be another story :P )
So lvl DoW/DoM class might take another 3-4 month at least for soloing and PTing sometime.

So total time is around 1 year+ to reach all 50 classes,
And this game also released for more than 1 year, no wonder why ppl reach all 50.
But for new player, it will take another 1 year to lv up everything. And I think that's the correct pace.
After 2.0 launch, SE might lift lv cap and everything should be good-to-go again
Not to mention going after the DoL/DoH achievments, go ahead and add on another 3-6 months of chasing those bad boys.

I think it is possible for them to make XIV more difficult without adding time synchs. What most people don't realise is I am sure SE has more difficult content planned, but they can't add things from the top down. Wait for 2.0 and then wait another 6 months after that for them to start actually releasing 2.0 content, and THEN we can have a conversation about how difficult the game is or isn't. So much of the games current state is still left ofver from the old development team, its not at all fair to try to judge it in its current state.