Leveling is way to fast...

[Teakwood]

If you are basing your sentiment of XP being too fast on being powerleveled may I perhaps suggest not being powerleveled? You've got to be able to find an LS of like-minded folk who want to XP grind in a party, the game actually supports it well now for most level ranges. Or solo and do leves or something.

Edit: Also my point to Keramory was that FFXI /had/ no, or next-to-no content that wasn't at level cap, which is why there was the big rush to /get/ to level cap, because that's where everything fun was.

I'm told that in FFXIV 2.0 there'll be content from 1-50 and not just clustered around the level cap, but there's not a whole hell of a lot to do in 1.xx under level cap unless a bunch of friends are also doing it. Maybe once 2.0 rolls out I'll have a different opinion, but grinding mindlessly isn't content, and there isn't any content from 1-45 at present outside of random sidequests and Toto-Rak (which I had lots of fun doing at the appropriate level a few times, and glad my LS gave me the chance to!)

For clarity's sake I'm not actually a huge fan of the quest-hub model of most MMOs; having content spread out means there's -less to do at level cap-, which is where most people are. I also think that minimising the effect of mindless boring shit is an excellent game design decision. I recognise that this is an unpopular opinion on these forums with a heavy heart.