Quote Originally Posted by Buttons View Post
The problem is that instead of being casual leves are the most efficient way to gain SP at the moment. For the most part party grinding has died out, hardly anyone does it anymore. People hardly go out anymore and just grind on mobs. People make static groups, meet a few times a week with the group, link their leves and level together for an hour or two and get nice SP. It's just too slow to actually grind on mobs.

The whole dynamics of the game on how you are supposed to level are not really well thought out. People just found the thing that gives the most SP per hour and now do that.
I. HATE. LEVES.

Before the November patch, not everyone did leves. Everyone was like 'oh look, I have leves'... EVERYONE was in grind parties, and you felt a sense of accomplishment leveling up. I grinded two days ago, and I was having fun doing it granted there was only two of us grinding. Everyone was waiting for behest, soloing leves, or mass leve linking.

I'm one of the few people that actually preferred sp BEFORE the November patch. I miss grind parties. The randomness, yeah everyone bitched every so often, but you had parties of people exploring the world. Not just staying by the damned aetherytes