Quote Originally Posted by Lux_Rayna View Post
Its not really their fault though. SE has not given them much in the way of pleasant levelling content. If they put as much effort into the early level content as they did to endgame dungeons/primals, a lot more ppl would be perfectly happy with grinding it up, myself included. Right now im levelling arc and all im doing is solo leves, its just awful. That is not an MMO experience at all, but a single player game. Once we have more new players, and better early-mid level design grinding should be fun again. FFXI grinding was the best, I loved partying in that game. This sytem doesn't really deliver in the same way though, they need to work on it.

Well I'm glad you enjoyed the story and more importantly caught the subtle (Ok not so subtle) point I was hoping to get across. Leveling in and of itself is almost never actually 'fun'. It is of course by its very nature kind of repetitive and long tasked. It is the attitude which you carry into a PT. The people you meet and your own willingness to tough it out that turning a boring grind into one of that most satisfying sessions of FFXIV's I've played so far. My story was hardly perfect and I even mention the hard times when I am dual purposing tanking some feisty and looking for that elusive 8th member. I never gave up and because of that I was able to keep myself and my new friends going.


FFXI was much like this actually. Much much more slow in actuality. It is because people didn't have the option to blast through the levels with a PL and the game made it very clear in the beginning that partying up was how things were done that made it much simpler to get people in the same mindset. The other major hiccup is because of PLing not only are those people jumping past what should be their stomping grounds losing out, so are the rest of us trying to get a stable EXP pt up and running. When you take 7 people from 20-30 in 2 hours while they AFK. You also take 7 people in range of forming PT's out of the equation. It has happened at least half a dozen times that I will form a partial PT to do leves and find enough people already out in Eorzea who could fill out the rest of my band. Yet they just want to sit there even though a PT is being handed to them, personal deliver style.

It sounds like you aren't having fun on your Lancer which is sad. I also notice you're grinding leves all by your onesy. Why not schedule a little leveling PT with your LS? Even if you only get a few at a time and don't feel like gathering an entire PT doing the leves together will at the very least make it a tad more fun.