I never understood this

[leomike35]

Heck I did leves behest and kobolds solo and got 50s that way. Was fun. But I did pl friends from time to time.

[SinisterJoint]

Well this is good news considering ill be coming back with 0 lvl 50 jobs (i slacked, i know) Maybe i'll be able to hook up with a decent LS when someone flips the switch back to on.

Excalibur here

[Aion]

Well, there was a time when we level up by behest....

[strallaalaa]

i miss 16man grind parties so much. that system didn't give you any exp if you yourself didn't cast and do moves. you couldn't not afk, could not leech or pl people that way at all. that is a truely awesome system that they should of stuck with and just fixed the broken parts to. the game was broken but the leveling system and crafting alone was good enough for me to stay till they fix the game, and then they destroyed what i loved about the game. sad ...

[CSLionheart]

Wyyote, there could not have been a better gif. Seriously.

[Kagato]

I don't see what the issue is. Level-grinding is just a time-waster for people to participate in certain fun events. After I took Warrior to 50, I was looking for any way to speed my Dragoon and Monk to 50 too because all I really wanted to do was Primals and other endgame content. It was too fun.

I'm a boss fight fanatic. I just want to get levels fast so i can go have fun battling bosses.

[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.

[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.

[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.