Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
I still say there's no need to flesh out the grind longer than it takes for you to learn how to use the abilities that come with those levels.
Speaking as someone who also enjoys a little more meat on my leveling curve, this is a pretty reasonable statement, and something I can get behind. That being said, I would argue that what we have right now isn't serving that purpose well. Players never really get the opportunity to learn their skills, either because they got power leveled, or because they ended up soloing all the way to 50, or just because the mechanics in parties are completely different than the mechanics in end-game content.

I'd like a middle road please. Can we have some meatier leveling that actually teaches us our roles without grinding us into a fine dust? The thing about FFXI party based leveling was that, while it was tedious, often easy, and slow, at least the formation of the parties, and the way you played was very similar to your ultimate roles in end-game. I don't really feel we can say the same in FFXIV.