I hope they have exp party levelin contentFollow

I agree. I want traditional party grinding to be viable, even if I don't prefer it... options are best.

Its dead get over it.

Party grinding was viable in 1.0 i got a few jobs to 50 in parties.

Yeah, 1.0 definitely had partying for exp, and for sure the dungeon content introduced early is there to teach players how to group and work together. Not much to worry about from all the public information available.

As far as I can tell from the reviews of the different media people, party grinds as been replaced by dungeon grind. I saw no review that those dungeon was very hard.

Instead of setting camp and never moving/pulling mob to the group, you run around in the dungeon, clearing objective and getting good loot and a couple of very interesting battle for the bosses. Probably that there will be some little puzzle or switch to press in order or something like that, but past the first couple of time your group clear the dungeon, it will be easy enough.

Most of the review described the mob in open world as low difficulty mob. I don't know if any reviewer test a small group challenging higher level mob as a party grind objective. If they did, they never talked about it as far as I can tell. (Maybe Wint can talk about it if he tried).

And good riddance. Mindlessly killing the squishiest enemy you can find for hours is not my idea of fun.

And from the perpsective the OP takes (It's like going into a battle and being taught to use a gun) isn't this type of leveling just like working at a butcher and being qualified to go into battle?

"Son, I hear you have killed over 2,000 Colibri birds. With training like that, it's time to fight the Empire!"

Edited, Jun 4th 2013 2:11pm by Louiscool

People will ALWAYS have the option to band together and go out and kill monsters... there's no way that can ever be taken away.

However, from how FFXIV is being designed according to interviews from the producer, I believe the min/max mentality of MMORPGs will draw most people towards dungeons.

dude! I got this awesome game you gotta play called final fantasy 11! Sounds just like what you are looking for.

I loved ff11, but I hope ffxiv doesn't turn out the same in many ways, including leveling style. It's Final Fantasy 14 a Realm REBORN..... not a realm Reincarnated of ff11... not ff11-2

Well said!

I had some good times at xp camps too, but what is the difference between grinding the same dungeons with your friends or a group that is put together for you and grinding at the same camps with a group you have to put together or wait (sometimes hours) for?

The dungeon will drop things you need, test and hone your skills far more, and have a point to it. People are thinking this game will be for more solo oriented than FFXI. I completely disagree. I think far more people will be introduced to and allowed to participate in group content than there ever were in FFXI.

The pure EXP mob grind isn't in XIV anymore. From what I hear there's still difficulty settings you can choose so it's harder and a group is helpful. But I like the get quest and go w/o waiting for a party. Leves are still a thing and their dynamic content seems great.

I don't miss XI's party grind.. nor the people falling asleep in 5 hour ones.

I had as many horrific party experiences as I did amazing ones (in XI). Personally, I found it did aid in honing skills for my particular job. Specifically, I was able to almost perfect my enfeebling/enhancing/back-up healing spell cycles by level 50/55 RDM/BLM or WHM or NIN etc. while also learning, developing and maintaining my various macro sets as I progressed. (I was quite proud of them when I was rocking 60-75 actually :p)

Furthermore, some of my best friends I met were via xp parties in FFXI. Yet, if there wasn't engaging conversation in said group, regardless of your xp/hour, it could become soooooo monotonous. My advice in that circumstance was to call up your closest friend with ADHD and grab a few of his/her Dexedrine. Of course I was joking(ish) ;P.

The way I see it, because there are so many different avenues to gain xp in XIV in comparison to XI, we will be able to develop not one but several ways to level in whatever fashion we find most effective, and more importantly, the most enjoyable.

Edited, Jun 4th 2013 8:55pm by chomama

Interesting on the chests. I know 1.0 had them early on and I think they were...adjusted?... later on to include consumables more, but mostly they were just gil chests or random crystal shards.