Problems With FFXIV that SE should do something about.

[Zumi]

I am a long time FFXI player I was in the FFXIV alpha, my char from FFXI http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Phoenix/Zumi

I posted this in hopes that someone from SE will read my concerns and do something about it. I posted a lot of similar suggestions on the alpha/beta forums but they really seemed to have gone ignored which resulted FFXIV being released in the unfinished state it is today. I don't like posting on someone else topic when presenting my own ideas.

I have several level 90 jobs on FFXI. I don't have problems grinding exp like in FFXI for example it feels like I am making progress. Back in the day when they came out with ToAU my friend and I did a set party my monk and his whm needless to say we were level 75 in 5 days. I even did tons of dynamis grinding for 2 years to get a relic weapon, Excalibur.

My biggest concern is the lack of exp or any type of advancement in FFXIV. A guild leve which takes almost the full 30 min only to get around 3k exp with huge TNLs past 20 makes it feel like you are not getting anywhere or much accomplished at all. And the wipes and waiting for weakness to wear, this may be due to class imbalance but doing rank 30 guild levels gives at 28 results in getting to very low HP every mob you fight thus having to wait for hp to regen or use cure spells which don't heal much due to not having stats for it since I am speced for melee. The grind in FFXIV is far worse then anything FFXI had to offer, I didn't have a problem with it at all and killing mobs and exp camps were actually fun. I never run out of the exp buff you get from the crystal when playing FFXIV even with that it seems slow still.

[Randis]

I posted a lot of similar suggestions on the alpha/beta forums but they really seemed to have gone ignored which resulted FFXIV being released in the unfinished state it is today.

Yes that must be why it is unfinished.

BTW, the things you have listed were discussed many times, those are the most obvious points an, there are probably also a zillion Blogs on this topic.

[Zumi]

Then maybe if a lot of people post similar points then SE will fix some of this stuff.