Double Exp weekends in FFXIV

[Shougun]

Rested bonus helps keep a reasonable schedule double xp events are like "have no life weekends".. lol

Not saying I wouldnt take advantage of an event but I much prefer a system like resting which works to my time table and helps players make a habit (rest bonuses are great player habit builders and help keep a steady pace in leveling-- both good for the game).


so yeah /#204 rested bonus chime in

[Forgo]

I did get my first 50 job in a week (5 days, actually; not the whole week) in this game, and within 2 weeks or so, I had already obtained my first "endgame" drop: an Ifrit's Harpoon that I couldn't even use yet. So, I took my time to level DRG to use it. Took me a week also.

In XI, it took me NINE MONTHS to get my first 75. It really felt like quite the acomplishment. I wasn't bothered at all by how long it took me to get there, because really, the game had some content to do before hitting the level cap, and I always thought of endgame as, well, ENDgame.

It's a real shame to see all of that go. Nowadays, games start at the level cap, and leveling is just a mad rush to endgame. It has pretty much no prerequisites at all, just shoot to max level and in a matter of days, you'll be there.

Do people REALLY want all of this to be even faster and more simplistic? Really?

9 months for 75? it took me 3 years for lvl 55 on my first chara (of course that was back in the old grind days w/o books)
anyway no to double exp weekends...rested exp is ehough of a boost and if you take the lvling out of mmos and leave the end game, soon everyone will beat and get the best gear then there will be no reason to play at all...

[Klefth]

9 months for 75? it took me 3 years for lvl 55 on my first chara (of course that was back in the old grind days w/o books)

I got to level in Bibiki Bay and such, too. Thing is I focused mainly on a single job (and kept doing so through the almost seven years I played that game; only had 4 75s by that time, 2 of which I leveled just because), and didn't craft for a very long time. All I did was party, farm a bit to update my gear a little, and the occasional BCNM.

[Forgo]

I got to level in Bibiki Bay and such, too. Thing is I focused mainly on a single job (and kept doing so through the almost seven years I played that game; only had 4 75s by that time), and didn't craft for a very long time. All I did was party, farm a bit to update my gear a little, and the occasional BCNM.

lol you got me there i started on one and changed a few til i found the job I like best, I did a lot of other things like the first pvp thing they started on there and just roamed around looking for parties since there was no lvl sync or anything like that back then...

[Colino]

Can we also get special codes for l33t loot in our mountain dew?

[Zumi]

Can we also get special codes for l33t loot in our mountain dew?

I wouldn't knock mountain dew. Stuff like that works, look how many people bought Halo 4 and bought dew just so they could get double exp. SE could use some promotions like this.

[Starlord]

This thread makes me miss FFXI =(. I WANNA PLAY NOW! :P

[Reika]

I would say rested bonus, but instead I thought about it and concluded that rested bonus doesnt count towards quest/leve reward exp, at least in 1.0. Nothing about a change to that was said for 2.0. And while monster grinding will not be the main way to go in ARR as it was with 1.0, I have to conclude that they either extend rested bonus to quest/leve exp, or have a double EXP weekend.

[Bowen]

This thread makes me miss FFXI =(. I WANNA PLAY NOW! :P

Ohey Starlord, where have you been?

[Starlord]

Ohey Starlord, where have you been?

Australia and back ( Sarcasm) XD.