Suitably ranked local levequests are now more readily available.

[Soren_Levnin]

Could you guys, I don't know, actually implement what you said you did?

Beyond rank 25 it's a barren wasteland. Barely any local levequests worth mentioning, even if you travel to all three cities.

This coupled with the SP nerf, makes it kinda hard to stick with Synthesis, I know a lot of people are actually mainly using Levequests to grind their classes, because we simply do not have the time to do so any other way. It's still slow enough, but beyond rank 30 it's pretty much halted as it is right now.

It just feels insulting to say that you implemented the levequests more suited to your rank only to see that we're still getting 4 rank 1 levequest when we're in the 30's.

[JasonMarkle]

Soren is right. Offering us Levequests any lower than our Rank is useless compared to just grinding. 8 Local leves should average the same SP as 8 Regional leves for the same ranks. Why should battle classes average 70K on 8 Regional R40 leve quests when crafters might average 10-12K if they're lucky at those same ranks. That's a huge discrepancy.

[Suzaku]

The heck with 25+, I'm seeing it at 15. Given the massive SP drop off of doing leves even 5 levels below you, it's totally ridiculous. I had at most *two* carpentry levequests available from each city last time around in the 10-20 range, and only *one* out of all the leves I picked up was R15. The rest were R10. I tried a 20, but failed miserably.

So...umm...yeah. If they're going to drop the SP, they need a much better selection of leves to compensate.

[Wynn]

I have to agree. At first I was really happy to see that at least they were separating leves with 20 rank slots (though I don't understand why 20 and not 10 like the others). But it really hasn't changed what has been happening to crafters since even before the game officially launched. I still end up with resets where I have no leves in any city that will provide any kind of measurable xp for my main crafting job. Battle classes and harvesters get guaranteed leves for each 10 level tier. Each and every reset. With crafters it is a crapshoot and that is just disappointing.

[Soren_Levnin]

I think what's the most disturbing is they said they would be implementing this, only it didn't happen, just the nerf happened. Which means now, almost only levequests 5 ranks higher than your current rank are worth your time.

It's quite disheartening to see this as this was something I've been waiting for a long time, almost since launch.

I know a good deal of people who are mainly concentrating on Crafting until they fix and balance the battle system and the Disciplines of War and Magic.

Now it's pretty much like they're saying to stop playing until a further patch for local levequest or a further adjustment to skill points gains.

For the moment almost all that's possible is to level a Discipline of the Hand class to 20-25~ and then move on to another, which is what I've been doing for a while.

Until they fix something that is. Sure you can grind your way, but even the people who grind would benefit from this as everyone needs the Guild Marks from the quests.

[JasonMarkle]

What if Local Leves functioned the same way Faction Leves do, in that they can be picked up in any major city, but still have to be done in the same area. IE: I can get a pick up the same Local Leve in Limsa, Ul'Dah, or Gridania that needs to be turned in to Camp Tranquil in the Black Shroud.

So each city has all of the same Leves available and you can take the ones you want to do on your reset, and if you take one of them it no longer appears in that city or the other 2 cities.

Of course there would still need to be some adjustment so that the leves you get are at least your own level about 40% of the time, 5 levels higher 50% of the time, and only below your current level about 10% of the time.