Let's talk about SP/EXP Chains!

[Duelle]

In one word: No.

The long version: Exp chains causes people to rush to get the most exp/hour. In FFXI this meant that anyone that caused downtime that would lead to breaking the chain was not wanted in a party. This is largely the culprit in turning casters like Black Mages into liabilities and Red Mages into refresh whores, so no thanks.

[Kurokikaze]

In one word: No.

The long version: Exp chains causes people to rush to get the most exp/hour. In FFXI this meant that anyone that caused downtime that would lead to breaking the chain was not wanted in a party. This is largely the culprit in turning casters like Black Mages into liabilities and Red Mages into refresh whores, so no thanks.

Rush to get the most exp/hour... Because that isn't the entire point of any grind party in this game or any game. Raptor parties totally wan't to take 1 minute to kill them instead of 10 seconds.

[northernsky]

In one word: No.

The long version: Exp chains causes people to rush to get the most exp/hour. In FFXI this meant that anyone that caused downtime that would lead to breaking the chain was not wanted in a party. This is largely the culprit in turning casters like Black Mages into liabilities and Red Mages into refresh whores, so no thanks.

Every party aims for best exp/hour regardless. What you do with expchains is adding goal oriented challenge to lower the tediousness of grinding

[Physic]

In one word: No.

The long version: Exp chains causes people to rush to get the most exp/hour. In FFXI this meant that anyone that caused downtime that would lead to breaking the chain was not wanted in a party. This is largely the culprit in turning casters like Black Mages into liabilities and Red Mages into refresh whores, so no thanks.

this is why i would want more types of chains than speed chains, but ultimately people will always want to have no downtime, luckily this game was designed to have little to no downtime. in fact there wasnt even a way to regen mp at all before.
Anyhow if they add a lot of different types of chains other than just speed, people with different playing styles can play differently, at the same time adding more of a goal to fights.