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What makes players want to hit 75 so badly?

While LVLing BRD I realized several things; I'd probably miss out on static PTs because there are so few NA BRDs and they'll always be in demand, LFP or not. I've dinged 67 recently and gained 18K in one night, a night I wasn't flagged up.

I'm not intending to LVLing up as much because I've thought about the game a lot and how much we emphasize that sniper rings and haubergeons are a must piece of equipment, and how mobs damage and you must have yellow curry to improve your performance. I'm honestly getting tired of it.

4 hours to camp a NM that will give me 100K at least to buy a cape. Even then I've been 0/6 on this NM. Then I start to realize...

This is pretty ridiculous.

All I'm asking for several players to take a break from the power EXPing, the whole notion of "I-gotta-have-this" "I-gotta-have-that". I too have been caught staying up until 3 am in the morning simply PTing, in this quest to get better, get stronger, get more powerful. But then, FFXI is a game, it's meant for entertainment. So what if your PT MNK has +INT gear? Criticize him all you want. What if your BRD has a BLM sub? Criticize him all you want.

You can bash and drill into a person's mind that MNKs don't need INT or BLM isn't the right sub for BRD, you can even call him stupid.

And that's why I'm slowing down in EXPing. All this scrutinizing has made me sick of this game. Especially when approaching endgame activities. I hate hearing my fellow teammates putting down another PT member in /tell because they aren't playing as they way they like it. I hate hearing people say "n00b" or "This guy's an idiot." "Don't PT with this guy."

I hate all this criticizing and these players wanting to be like gods in this game. I realized that I'll never admire a person for their gear or how much hours they have put into obtaining it.

I'd admire them for their sportsmanship.

Well, I will tell you, after gaining 10k xp in one day, I will say doing pt's get kinda boring and I just want to sit there and do something else to be honest, lol I was on Hiatous with my PLD at 30, 40, 50, and now 60 lol, and to tell you the truth, everyone might have passed and got higher, but I dont mind, I enjoy the finer things of the game, I take time to smell the roses, work on other things, help people out, etc. I want to become stronger, but I just think I will get bored and quit playing if I just continue to xp, I mean, the lvl 50's took alot out of me, AF's, Genkai's, and now we got Promyvions, *argh* It was kinda stressful there, so I am taking a time to relax, do a couple missions here and there, and bounce between this and console gaming.

:)

The powerleveling isn't really to help get to 75 faster (after a certain point, PLing doesn't really work as well anymore), it's usually just a means of getting out of the lowbie level areas faster (particularly the dunes). In many peoples' cases, it means they're playing a job they might not like or might not be used to (leveling a sub) and sometimes people with WHM or RDM friends will call on them to help make the experience a little less painful.

And yes, there is definitely no need to rush to 75, but I can understand the people who are sick of the low levels, because you can't really go out and do much of the fun, rewarding stuff with others, or help them with things like rank 3-5 missions or AF and whatnot, until your level is around 40-50.

I'm a WHM and I powerlevel friends, and if they happen to be in a party, the rest of them get a free ride. I've never had anyone complain about having a PL, but every once in a blue moon I have had the WHM who noted that he felt pretty useless with all the Cures I was throwing out. In which cases, I'd have them do something like Banish and enfeebles, or I'd ease up on my Cures a bit so he could feel like he was doing something useful too.

I can see your point in the fact that it's not all about leveling.
I am in a roleplaying Linkshell, and I must say, roleplayong is A LOT of fun. And last night for example, I decided not to get level 52 and my AF2 because I wanted to roleplay. What did I get out of it? Nothing except for fun, and that is good enough.

Exping can be tedious, but when I chose to exp, I want to exp. It is my time I am taking and I don't want to sit there chatting for 10 minutes between pulls.
There are also times I just sit in my mog for hours chatting to my Linkshell friends, but as I say, there is a time to exp and a time to have fun.

So basically just remember this IS a game, but it's a game where you are playing with other people and you can't just waste their time. So you can't treat this as if it were just any other offline RP.


Damn... I'm so bad at making words of what I am trying to say...
/slap <me>

Ok heres my reasoning. I currently am lvl 70 and the reason I blow through exp is because I really would like to finish my character. See Im moving in August and I will no longer have internet connection. I used to hang around and do random things at like lvl 40 but after 50days of playing time (back when I was 40) I would feel imcomplete knowing I didnt finish something I put so much time into. I may not finish everything in the game but when I 1st started the game I had a list of 6 goals I wished to accomplish and thats what matters to me I never intended to finish everything in the game. So thats why I began to concentrate on lvling only. Now this is just me, Im sure everyone has there own reasons and even ppl who have their reasons for not blowing through lvls. Gotta remember every person is different. As for ppl putting others down for how they play their job thats bad. ppl shouldnt be doing that, you should be able to play your job how you like, thats what makes ppl special. If we all played the same job the same way we'd be robots.

Heh Im probally the lowest lvl member (in main job that is) in my LS because i cant stay put to do one thing. right now i spend my days lvling my woodworking while lfp. I did LVLing benges of like 10 lvls while caring all the equipment and spells for those lvls, then quest and farm for a few weeks to a month (did like nearly 2 months after kahzam [30] before lvling again to 42).

Be a high-LVL BRD.

It's very stressful.

You get /tells every 30 minutes asking for PT.

You get /tells every 10 minutes asking for general assistance.

Then you have to worry about your preparations for Maat, and endgame equipment you ought to buy, and the gil it takes to buy it.

And thank you very much for your sympathy. I wrote that post while I was going through a tough time. I went through a family member's death just recently so please excuse me for my attitude.

I'm very pissed off at the general idea. LVL-up LVL-up, I kind of wonder what's shoving in everyone's *** to get there so quickly. But I guess there's an ignorant person on every server.

I'm not asking for sympathy, I'm asking to think about how much time you've devoted on an online game; neglecting the RL things that really matter. I'm also asking for common courtesy. I went anon the past few weeks after dealing with my RL situation, just to play alone and talk to people ingame that are close friends to me.

No one gave a **** about my RL situation, they didn't consider my feelings or what I went through.

Common courtesy, please.

Edited, Fri Jan 21 15:29:52 2005 by Mireisen