I never understood this

[Deronguerra]

you wont get any exp if a person in your party is 7 levels higher, thats as good as getting rid of pl isnt it?

It would if that were the only way to powerlevel..

The previous system in 1.XX was same. There were many types of PL.

/partycmd leave and then AoE Kill...

Or you could have a WHM stand back and Sacred Prism + SS or regen , toss Aerora/Stonera on mobs from another party (or BLM... any job that can easily AoE and kill lots of mobs)

Or how Doc Mog's video showed a 42-50 PT "power level" the 42's to 50.

So.. Having XP break off if level spread is too high.. yea. Gonna say it won't break PL.

[Alhanelem]

well, happy news for you (and most people) 2.0 has removed pl and have level sync instead

they haven't removed powerleveling. It's impossible to truly remove it- you can only limit its effectiveness. You can still help people by healing outside of party or something to enable them to defeat things they might not be able to otherwise.

[IronSoup]

Powerleveling in 2.0 will probably not be worth while, instead just getting a group of people and doing quests will probably be the most efficient.

Just like Shougun says. In 1.23, you had a few ways to lvl compared to ARR and PLing was the quickest (if Wolf camp wasn't taken). In ARR, they are adding Level sync, FATE events and the lower than 45 dungeons (they are for leveling). I expect the dungeons to be pretty popular since you can upgrade your gears and get good exp at the same time.

they haven't removed powerleveling. It's impossible to truly remove it- you can only limit its effectiveness. You can still help people by healing outside of party or something to enable them to defeat things they might not be able to otherwise.

You were actually able to kill other people's mob too (even in Alpha... killed quest mobs for a random player I came across).

[Deronguerra]

Just like Shougun says. In 1.23, you had a few ways to lvl compared to ARR and PLing was the quickest (if Wolf camp wasn't taken). In ARR, they are adding Level sync, FATE events and the lower than 45 dungeons (they are for leveling). I expect the dungeons to be pretty popular since you can upgrade your gears and get good exp at the same time.



You were actually able to kill other people's mob too (even in Alpha... killed quest mobs for a random player I came across).

Aw man. You were gonna enjoy the beta until you broke the alpha nda.

[Norack]

I got all my jobs solo doing guild leves from lv.1-50, it took me about a week for each job. I would consider that very fast leveling. PL'ing just made it that much faster, I consider PL'ing cheating, so I have never and will never PL in any MMO, but that just me.

[Zenaku]

they haven't removed powerleveling. It's impossible to truly remove it- you can only limit its effectiveness. You can still help people by healing outside of party or something to enable them to defeat things they might not be able to otherwise.

Yoshi-p said that camping like we did in 1.0 wont work in 2.0. Which mean goodbye wolf camp and people getting loads of exp. I'm sure people would find a way to still PL but the old way may be gone.

[Anonymoose]

I will never get over that. Yoshida-san promotes an atmosphere where, if someone thinks you're worth the time, you can be sped to usefulness to spend time with the people who think you're worth their effort... and they decide that their teammates' progress is worthy of this shortcut... so they PL all the jobs... and then get on the forum and talk about how fast leveling is. You weren't leveling, Goober. You were leveling up by powerleveling.

I wholeheartedly support the PL system and Yoshida-san's promotion of people assisting friends that they believe to be worth their time. If someone gets PL'd and is too big of a noob to hold their own because of it, there's a perfectly good /toss button. If someone thinks they're worth the time to PL, then someone thinks they're worth the time to teach to do their damn job. I would for my friends.

[Yashnaheen]

..In 1.23... (if Wolf camp wasn't taken).

In 1.23 half your party or more could switch to WAR. Do so, stand in the middle, wolf camp is now taken. By you.

As far as level up dungeon gear goes, I'm not sure this is really a good thing. From a crafter point of view.

[Mjollnir]

In 1.23 I was able to play for an hour on my lunchbreak and get a DoW level from a behest and few leves solo from 20-50 (0-20 a lot quicker, obviously). I know that wasn't 1-50 in 10 hours by PL, but I still felt it was really quick.

But then if the game is designed so that DoW/DoM levelling doesn't take a large part of your time, that's fine by me. A lot of folk are of the opinion that reduced levelling time (in comparison to XI) is bad, especially if additional jobs are added to existing classes (and no levelling need occur), but it's a different game... If levelling isn't a major part of that, you just have to embrace the fact! If you love time-consuming content, there's always Achievments.