PL Woes

[darkstarpoet1]

but you forgot about 1 to 40 which takes considerably more time to level up then 40-50 in an SH party

ok without power leveling how long would you think that would take to level up? i'm asking an honest question here. how many hours?

the reason i am asking is not because i want it to be like xi where it took months and months to level a class. i agree with yoshi's vision that a casual player should take right around a month to cap a class. of course a hardcore player would cap in way less time than that, but that is not my point. yoshi stated his idea of a casual player as someone that plays 1-2 hours during the day and then plays a few hours on the weekend. that's 7-14 hours on weekdays and i'll even say 4 hours on weekends. going by those low numbers that's 11 hours a week and 4 weeks in a month that's 44 hours to reach cap.

it can be done nowhere near that length of time. it would probably take someone a total of 6-10 hours to reach cap using a power leveling party. that's just too fast in my opinion.

i'm not saying someone should have to play 10 hours a day each day grinding to get a capped class in 6 months. i'm not of the xi mentality either, but i think xiv went from one extreme to another.

[Krausus]

ok without power leveling how long would you think that would take to level up? i'm asking an honest question here. how many hours?

the reason i am asking is not because i want it to be like xi where it took months and months to level a class. i agree with yoshi's vision that a casual player should take right around a month to cap a class. of course a hardcore player would cap in way less time than that, but that is not my point. yoshi stated his idea of a casual player as someone that plays 1-2 hours during the day and then plays a few hours on the weekend. that's 7-14 hours on weekdays and i'll even say 4 hours on weekends. going by those low numbers that's 11 hours a week and 4 weeks in a month that's 44 hours to reach cap.

it can be done nowhere near that length of time. it would probably take someone a total of 6-10 hours to reach cap using a power leveling party. that's just too fast in my opinion.

i'm not saying someone should have to play 10 hours a day each day grinding to get a capped class in 6 months. i'm not of the xi mentality either, but i think xiv went from one extreme to another.

I agree with 3-4 weeks but why do you care so much if someone takes 6-10 hours in a PL party? No one really really learns their class until they start doing end game content anyways and chances are PL or not your gonna run into baddies in PUG groups anyways. I think people put way to much emphasis on how someone levels and not enough on the fact that some people are just bad.

To be honest the only Issue I think you have with it is you leveled to 50 before PLing was available and are pissed because people have an easier time at it then you.

[darkstarpoet1]

I agree with 3-4 weeks but why do you care so much if someone takes 6-10 hours in a PL party? No one really really learns their class until they start doing end game content anyways and chances are PL or not your gonna run into baddies in PUG groups anyways. I think people put way to much emphasis on how someone levels and not enough on the fact that some people are just bad.

To be honest the only Issue I think you have with it is you leveled to 50 before PLing was available and are pissed because people have an easier time at it then you.

my problem with is it 2 fold.
1. you are partially right. it does upset me that i took a long time grinding and learned my class while leveling up then people can do in a month what took me almost a year and a half to do.

2. the long term of the game worries me. look now at the percentage of people that have all classes to cap. yoshi is already starting to talk about limiting people from bringing up only one craft past 50 due to the pure number of people with all crafts capped. the economy is in ruins due to that same issue. there is no low level gear for the low level players that want to exp the correct way due to the speed of power leveling so nobody makes the gear anymore.

what if yoshi decides that too many people have every battle class to cap so he's going to limit that to one class as well. this game advertised being able to play every class on a single character, but due to the leveling speed increases that yoshi has put in that idea is being gone away from.

i am not a former xi player that played for years. i left the game after trying it for a very short time. i'm not asking for the horrid slow leveling from that game to make a return, but i don't want to see the abby leveling rate either at this point in the games life.

[Krausus]

my problem with is it 2 fold.
1. you are partially right. it does upset me that i took a long time grinding and learned my class while leveling up then people can do in a month what took me almost a year and a half to do.

2. the long term of the game worries me. look now at the percentage of people that have all classes to cap. yoshi is already starting to talk about limiting people from bringing up only one craft past 50 due to the pure number of people with all crafts capped. the economy is in ruins due to that same issue. there is no low level gear for the low level players that want to exp the correct way due to the speed of power leveling so nobody makes the gear anymore.

what if yoshi decides that too many people have every battle class to cap so he's going to limit that to one class as well. this game advertised being able to play every class on a single character, but due to the leveling speed increases that yoshi has put in that idea is being gone away from.

i am not a former xi player that played for years. i left the game after trying it for a very short time. i'm not asking for the horrid slow leveling from that game to make a return, but i don't want to see the abby leveling rate either at this point in the games life.

I would say there is an extremely slim to no chance that would ever happen. Its like saying you should douse your house in water encase there is a fire. Also PLing for the most part stops at level 40 and 50 is not always going to be the level cap.