Thread: 2.0 Leveling

Originally Posted by Skies

Okay so, this has 17 pages and was a thread started by Rokien. Even if he did not directly incite things in the first post i'm very sure that he has answered with his usual responses to later posts telling him just how bad his idea was, but let me get a thing straight:

What he implied there was that your levelling and progression would come naturally from doing the main story. Look at all of the most recent games of the franchise, hell even the SNES-era ones. As long as you proceed directly with the story, without stopping to grind, and don't run away from a single battle, you will be appropriate level to face every challenge that comes in your way. That is a feat of preparation, the rate of random encounters, difficulty of encounters as you go and all.

That is what the article Rokien quoted means. Different from now where you do the a mission in the main quest, grind for like 5~10 levels, do the next, rinse, repeat, no. There will be a story that, if you progress through at a normal pace, will guide you to the highest level and will also throw you challenges for the proper level as you progress.

That is all he said

This is not entirely true.. You never actually gained xp from completing any quests, you indirectly lvl up by getting in random battles along the way and depending on how many you had you could be weaker or stronger then needed when you get to your destination. On average you could handle the content with some skill but it was not guaranteed that you were strong enough just because you did the story. And I didnt even mention the games where they removed random battles.

Originally Posted by Raagnar

This is not entirely true.. You never actually gained xp from completing any quests, you indirectly lvl up by getting in random battles along the way and depending on how many you had you could be weaker or stronger then needed when you get to your destination. On average you could handle the content with some skill but it was not guaranteed that you were strong enough just because you did the story. And I didnt even mention the games where they removed random battles.

I think his point is you didn't have to go out of your way and grind to make it to end game, following the story progression as long as you didn't run from a lot of encounters was sufficient enough. That pretty much sounds like what Yoshi is going for which is like every FF game (aside from XI and current XIV).

Originally Posted by Krausus

I think his point is you didn't have to go out of your way and grind to make it to end game, following the story progression as long as you didn't run from a lot of encounters was sufficient enough. That pretty much sounds like what Yoshi is going for which is like every FF game (aside from XI and current XIV).

Yeah.. and thats not always true. Sometimes, if you arent strong enough you go grind for 20 min and you can take out the boss. Point being, you never got xp from quests.. ever. But there was a good balance so you did not have to grind your ass off but could if you wanted.