To Much Experience

[Wolven_Essence]

It would be nice if there was a way to turn off any or all bonus experience. At least the bonus from playing on certain servers. I just hit 51 in my main job and I am still doing, I think level 41 or 42 main story quests. At this rate I will be over 60 before going into the first expansion's content. And all I have done is the story quests and the class quests. Literally nothing else.

I would be tempted to switch servers if the friend who got me into FF14 wasn't playing on my current one.

I get that the bonus will be wonderful when I am leveling a new job, but right now, it's way to much. Would just be nice to have a way to shut it off until I am ready to use it is all. I just don't like being way over leveled from what I am currently doing, at least not the first time through.

Ah well, I guess I can start a new job and start doing the story quests again when I reach the proper level once more.

[MPK]

There's literally nothing wrong with overleveling. There's level sync in this game for a reason

[Wolven_Essence]

There's literally nothing wrong with overleveling. There's level sync in this game for a reason

Notice that I didn’t say there was anything wrong with it, just that I don’t like it. Not an I suggesting the game cater to me, which is why I said it would be nice. I am also well aware of level syncing, don’t really like that either. It sucks having a bunch of skills go poof.

Not really making any demands here, mostly just speaking my thoughts out loud.

[Jeeqbit]

There is an experience bonus from being on a Preferred world. You may be able to disable this by right-clicking it, or by having not made the character on a Preferred world.

You can avoid the free company experience bonus by visiting another world or joining a different free company that doesn't use it. I recommend not doing any roulettes if you don't want to overlevel as well.

You should avoid leveling alternative classes above your main class' level, otherwise it gives an experience bonus.

You said you are forced to play on this world because of a friend, but you could make your character on a non-Preferred world from the same data center, then visit their world.

[Enla]

It would be nice if they could add something like the Stone of the Tortoise from LoTRO to the game, except as an earring or some other equippable. It's not something I'd ever care to use, but for people who don't want to wildly outpace content even on non-preferred worlds it could be something nifty.

That said it's use in LoTRO is more versatile because there the game places far more importance on the stories of each individual area - and it's way too easy to massively outpace each area's level range when trying to do everything in it. So it might not have much use here.

[Wolven_Essence]

There is an experience bonus from being on a Preferred world. You may be able to disable this by right-clicking it, or by having not made the character on a Preferred world.

You can avoid the free company experience bonus by visiting another world or joining a different free company that doesn't use it. I recommend not doing any roulettes if you don't want to overlevel as well.

You should avoid leveling alternative classes above your main class' level, otherwise it gives an experience bonus.

You said you are forced to play on this world because of a friend, but you could make your character on a non-Preferred world from the same data center, then visit their world.

Yeah, that is something I was thinking about, and then like I think I mentioned transferring back onto my friends server once I am where I want to be.

Appreciate the advice though.

[linayar]

Notice that I didn’t say there was anything wrong with it, just that I don’t like it.

Ok, but there is no negative that comes out of overleveling either, so there's no reason to dislike it.

Gears do not scale with your level in this game, so you'll still receive gears that is appropriate to the quest/content that you are doing.

If it still bothers you so much, just hide your exp bar as you don't really need to see it.

[Iscah]

The easiest way to slow down your EXP gain is to pick up a second class and use it while you're running quests.

You're level 50 so (assuming you have the expansions) you can go unlock RDM or SAM now and start putting EXP into them.

If you hit level 60 of the MSQ and you've still got an issue with too much EXP on your main class, grab GNB or DNC and spread it further.

[Wolven_Essence]

Ok, but there is no negative that comes out of overleveling either, so there's no reason to dislike it.

Gears do not scale with your level in this game, so you'll still receive gears that is appropriate to the quest/content that you are doing.

If it still bothers you so much, just hide your exp bar as you don't really need to see it.

Of course there is a reason to dislike it. I already mentioned one. Because level syncing taking away my abilities all the time annoys me.

For another, I’m leveling so fast through the main story and class quests alone that they are all I do, and while the story is really good, the majority of the main story quests are ‘go here and talk to this person, then go there and talk to that person’. That’s a lot of talking. It would be good to break that up a little bit more often with action. Fates, levequests, non story dungeons, etc. Do that though and I level up faster still.

I realize this is a non issue for the vast majority of people. But I am something of a weird guy. Greatly out leveling the main story stuff makes my brain itch.

[Wolven_Essence]

The easiest way to slow down your EXP gain is to pick up a second class and use it while you're running quests.

You're level 50 so (assuming you have the expansions) you can go unlock RDM or SAM now and start putting EXP into them.

If you hit level 60 of the MSQ and you've still got an issue with too much EXP on your main class, grab GNB or DNC and spread it further.

Yeah, that is the method I am gonna go with.