Quote Originally Posted by Linkurrra View Post
Also it really flies in the face of of the FF community logic of setting up a party camp and grinding out XP quickly. I know your suggesting bonuses and it does not change this aspect of FF. but you do have to admit it's a staple trademark of FF MMOs.
I think that's the point. There's no "staple of FF MMOs", there's only been one so far and it's changed dominant play paradigms enough times in and of itself that you can barely use it as an example. They clearly want to move -away- from that style of static camps and long XP grind parties in favour of something more like GW2's system in the first place - even FFXIV as it originally released was not the sort of game where static camps were viable compared to leves and roaming parties.

Personally, I really like this system in GW2 - occasionally, you go somewhere out of the way, fight something you wouldn't normally, and a huge XP pinata drops out, and it's a very cool feeling! The numbers would have to be finessed, obviously- they're exaggerated here- but I'd love to see this spread to other MMOs.