Is Leve EXP Far Too Generous Now?

[Artemiz]

I understand and accept that SE have made crafting easier but having finally got around to focusing on my crafting a bit the leve exp seems really generous above level 80. I had done GC turn ins a bit so my crafters were all about level 83-84 and I did have penta melded crafting gear from the last expansion but it takes about 3 or 4 turn ins to level up and I didn't even upgrade my gear from the level 80 stuff. In just a few hours I had 3 level 90 crafters, that seems far too easy to me.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Nah. Could be easier.

Leveling 1-90 on all crafting is still a massive task.

[Kranel_San]

Maybe it's too easy. Maybe it's not. Leves weren't made in mind with Penta melded crafting gear or with a mind to keep players away from Lv90 so it shouldn't be very challenging to begin with.

[Jybril]

Please don't nerf my leves!

[gotaname1]

you are probably just reaping the reward from having leveled and melded everything in the previous expansion, making crafting stuff from endwalker a cakewalk and therefor skews your perception of how fast leves help you level.

[Bsrking5]

Even if you don't have penta melded gear, just hq facet no melds will be enough to easily get to 90 fast. Its to fast imo.

[Duskane]

leves are fine in terms of EXP
what leves need is a leve NPC in each area so you dont have to return to the main city to collect rewards for DoL

[Jojoya]

XP was too good last expansion as well.

I never did understand why everyone was raving over Firmament when leves were a much faster way to level (assuming you had the allowances available).

leves are fine in terms of EXP
what leves need is a leve NPC in each area so you dont have to return to the main city to collect rewards for DoL

Why would you need to return when the summoning bell is right there by the leve counter and the MB is just a quick jog up the stairs?

[ErryK]

leves seem fine to me. collectables would just be spammed if leves were low exp anyways so people would be able to get to 90 either way.

Why would you need to return when the summoning bell is right there by the leve counter and the MB is just a quick jog up the stairs?

gatherers gather outside of old sharlayan so they just return you to the closest settlement (aetheryte) instead of taking you all the way back to old sharlayan, but the issue is you're spending at least three teleports everytime you do a set of gatherer leves (once to old sharlayan, once to the region you're doing leves in and then once more to return to old sharlayan to receive the rewards for completion), it's a tad bit ridiculous it's been this way since heavensward.

Yeah but, 3-4 items per level, with easy synths to boot...?

well, the minimum amount of hand-ins for leves is actually five per level at lv80+ and with some of the mid-level leves giving a ridiculous amount of exp (eg. the saigaskin fending coat leve being better than both of the leves at level 86 for leatherworker) so it's no surprise it takes such a short amount of time but i would argue it's fast because there's 80 other levels to go through before you get to these.

[Artemiz]

well, the minimum amount of hand-ins for leves is actually five per level at lv80+

I think a few of you guys are underestimating how broken leves are at the moment, I'll give an example and it's not even 3 turn ins, never mind 5

Level 84 to 85 requires 7,948,000 exp to level up

Level 84 blacksmith leve Records of the Republic is 1,746,150 exp for NQ. Turn in the HQ for 3,492,300 exp. Just 3 turn ins is 10,476,900 exp. You could probably do 2 levels with 5 turn ins.

That's way too easy, in my opinion.

EDIT:

I just did this to get a bit more info,

Level 85 to 86 is 8,287,000, so to go from 0 exp at 84 to 86 is 16,235,000

First time bonus for the synth is 175,221

Each synth is 252,214 at 100% quality (350% bonus) or 1,261,070 for 5 items.

In total then, with 5 turn ins, 5 synths and the first time bonus you get 18,897,791 plus about 50k gil which pays for 90% of the mats.

2 full levels plus 2.5 million exp extra, in what, 10 minutes?