LEVELING guide: Get to 50 within a week guaranteed

[Olmfest]

The FATE system should be more difficult. I've been in a few larger boss-type fights (granted only in the lvl 20s) where virtually no one took any damage. They need to increase the difficulty/damage/vitality of the MOB according to the number of players joined in the FATE or something to that effect.

[Meliae]

the problem with fate is that mobs are too low of a lvl sure they kept in mind making mobs 1 mybe 2 lvls below what the lvl of the fate is but they then went on to give 5 lvls synch meaning on lvl 20 fate with lvl 18 mobs you have lvl 25 people hammering down on them, as they are normal hp mobs they go down quick so its easier exp for people to spam them, what they need to do is either raise the mob lvl so that they are about 2 or so lvls higher then require lvl for fate or give the mobs about 50% or so HP/Def boost that way they last longer and people who are playing those fate get to work for them.

right now fates around Quarrymill give 20k+ xp each for lvl 28-30 fates in those all you have to do is claim a mob cast few heals and possibly raise one player if needed to get your full 20k xp, the only thing that can come close to this is higher lvl dungeon runs with xp/chain boots where you are getting about 500+xp a pop on mobs, but since that is only 4 player dungeon run most people avoid it since it means they have to do alot more work and learn to play their class properly else they keep getting killed.

as for the megitek mount thing yes people have those because its alot easier to go through the storyline as lvl 50 then it is to lvl a class with the mainstoryline, in ffxi you could tell who was a good player and who knew how to play the game all you had to do was look at their rank in those early years when you saw a rank 10 you know you were getting someone who put the effort in their jobs, but here you can pretty much get power lvled to lvl 50 not cos there are power lvlers in game but its so easy to get max xp in the fate.

as for the NM fates they are really easy as well as I have tanked them on SCH being able to negate the damage and side stepping on special attacks makes it quite easy to tank, they really need to make the NM tougher as the current NMs have same stats as base mobs in fate only they have higher hp and dmg on special attacks but since they are quite easy to avoid it all boils down to how long you can poke the mob till it dies.

[Warlyx]

today i started leveling a 2nd class , while LFP on my main....after hunting log....what ? FATES ....because dungeons arent worth the wait on low lvls ,and im already LFP with my 50. so no way i will put lfp on my low lvl char

so its hunting log and FATES and thats it...because leves are "ok" but way better used on crafting (or bored)

[Razla]

The problem is when people scramble to level 50 through FATEs and never learn how to play their jobs. There's no point being level 50 if you don't know how to play.

[Dodgefate]

I'd personally like EXP completely removed from FATE events.
Rather than giving copious amounts of experience for people zerg rushing FATE events, how about they swap the XP gained for some kind of special FATE Tokens... those tokens could then be exchanged in a major town for special items.

Now that my friend would be a smart move all around

[Zareth]

I think I'm going to use this method to get my mage jobs up to 50 so I can stop caring about it.

[Heakinakai]

I work in the medical profession, my hours are 18 hour shifts and very little down time, if I were to get on 1-2 times a week and not be able to get a few levels then I would grow tired of the game and never see the light at the end of the tunnel, it took me 3 years to get 1 lvl 50 in 1.0 with the hours I have available to me. a lot of the comments in this feed are all based on their personal experience of the game and how they should see it work, but have any of you stopped to think about the people who want to enjoy this game for small 1-2 hours windows a week without having to spend their life trying to achieve level 50?

Yoshi said in his mission statement that he wants people to have fun. Nerf fates to a point where they don't give much exp then you may as well just stay in the city and queue for dungeons all day, or run out do a days worth of fates and cap your seals... sounds like a great game, i'm glad you guys didn't design it.

[Zareth]

To Heakinakai:

While what you said is true, you're committing the same crime you're accusing people of doing. You're only looking at how it affects you. Sure, it's nice that you get to level 50 fairly quickly but then what? You quit the game? You join an endgame group and compete against others that used other methods to get there? And what about the people that have more time to play? Do they have to suffer the people that would abuse this system just so you and the few that play in a similar schedule like you can get level 50 quickly?
Don't bother rushing to endgame because you need more than 1 to 2 hours a week to do anything after level 50. Enjoy the journey there instead because chances are, you'll just quit after 50 when you have nothing to do there anyway. If it's not something you want to do, maybe you shouldn't be devoting your spare time to this and instead enjoy other things in life? After all, this is just one game out of many out there.

Edit: The only point to doing fates right now is the exp gain. They don't seem all that entertaining.

[Amerand]

Sometimes... getting to 50 (or top of the server) is all people live for.

[Panz]

I must be doing something seriously wrong (please let me know what I need to do to get crazy exp in Fates). I've never seen a 20k exp from any fate. I'm lvl33 at the moment. I've done full FATE parties and I'm an archer so I've sat there and just spammed my DoT on every single mob (trying to tag them first), do my AoE... The only time I've come close was on a couple ones that just give a lot out, like 13-15k. Those give out that much regardless though...

If they nerf the exp on FATES, I hope they retune exp on other activities. If not, come your 3rd+ class it's going to be really painful to level.