My girlfriend and I have been trying to catch up to these "Everyone is 50" players for some time now after being on hiatus due to the game not being worth playing for some time. We found when we're actually leveling, the pacing feels right.

I don't understand everyone's logic to slow leveling down though. Oh wait, it's because the people who think its fast are already there and have some elitist desire to remain special.

We aren't using Power Levelers, and while we play many classes non-stop now it seems we stay in the mid 30s due to the amount of classes we're trying to level simultaneously. Maybe it really is MUCH faster with a power leveler, I haven't tried, but what's the hurry? I hear farming Darklight is fun guize. It takes a long time to get a group together to level (which server merges should help with), and once formed EXP parties break down over time and fizzle out quickly, with relatively few in the 30s to recruit in town to keep leveling with. Again, the pacing is probably correct now though and we just need more players to work with 30-40.

I think a lot of you have forgotten what was said in the poll, was to disregard Powerleveling. It takes far to long to get to 30+ right now without a PLer in a given class. I say the curve is about right 30+, but it's too slow 20-30 honestly due to a lack of things to do to raise it in that range other than powerleveling.

I wouldn't mind this if leveling wasn't a complete bore assuming it's a solo/duo situation and not party play (though grinding the same mobs constantly still isn't much more fun). They added a midlevel dungeon that no one does, and 30-40 seems to be a grind of nothing more than the same scenery we seen 1-30 with a grind on Mites near Ul'dah and Raptors later.