Leveling is way to fast...

[casker]

going to chime in again

anyone here ever played Guild Wars 1? You get to max level extremely fast in that game, like within a day easily, and it got shorter with each expansion. Ease of leveling doesn't necessarily mean the rest of the game is easy or unfulfilling, and there are ways to make a player get a feeling of accomplishment then just making a long arduous journey to max level.

Leveling speed is mostly beside the point to me, what's more important is that along the way there is enough content and things to do to keep you occupied along the way. FFXIV leveling doesn't need to be massively short like Guild Wars 1 or anything, after all it was designed with level 1-50~ in mind. But along the way, there just needs to be enough stuff to do.

I chose "just right."* Why? I came back in february and tried to level a character like I would as if I had just started the game. There were enough quests and things to do to keep me occupied up to about 35 without getting bored, at which point I did exp groups and such to 50, because the job quest I did was ridiculously hard. I feel that if it were longer with the current content available then I would have to grind, which would be stupid. Anyway, I earned new abilities at a decent pace. I bought new gear regularly, etc. If you're not powerleveling you're pretty much going to need new gear every few levels. It's not the speed of leveling that is hurting the economy of the game, its fucking powerleveling!

*Just right for one class. Trying to do a second class legit is goddamn mind numbing because there are no more quests or story except for a few scarce class quests.

Right now, there isnt enough content to sustain a longer leveling curve. I am okay with Yoshi saying he will make the leveling a little longer if in 2.0 it has the content to back it up. But please don't argue that people are lazy because they don't want to deal with fucking leves and simply grinding monsters all day all the way to 50, especially once you try to do a second class, the experience of doing it legit is pretty retarded