Quote (enna @ Oct 5 2010 10:48pm)
You can do 16 leves per 36 hours. 8 battle/field leves and 8 crafting leves. The crafting leves are 100% free as they provide you with the mats and you get increased exp/skill from them. If you're a hardcore player then I guess the best suggestion I could give is don't tunnelvision into one aspect of the game. For example, I have level 16 thaumaturge, 15 conjurer, 16 weaver, 14 carpentry, 14 botanist, 9 alchemy, 4 leatherworking and I have plenty of gil from crafting. It's hard for some people to get into crafting but I would highly recommend it in FFXIV, not only is it extremely rewarding (upwards of 2k exp/craft (10-12k/leve)) it will also enable you to make your equipment for free, use all the materials you've found while leveling your favorite combat class, and allow your combat class to become less fatigued so you can level it more later. I haven't bought a single piece of gear yet and I have almost completely updated sets of gear for every one of my classes (including crafting classes) with 1 million gil on top of that.
I consider myself casual-hardcore, I play enough to level fast and learn all the ropes but I try not to play so much that it becomes my life, I know several people that grind out one class and have the exact same complaints as you and after I suggested they pick up crafting, they stopped running into fatigue and seem to enjoy the game slightly more.
Usually what I do every 36 hours is I solo the level 10 and 20 levequests (6) then do the 2 botanist leves (8), then do my 3-4 weaving leves and finish off with carpentry leves. This usually takes several hours to do and there is absolutely no grinding involved during this whatsoever. After I finish my leves I craft gear that I need, set up my bazaar on ffxivpro, buy/sell various materials, and craft using the crystals/materials I found during my leves. If I still have time leftover after all of this is said and done (there usually is), I'll take my conjurer or thaumaturge out to a cave to grind out some exp until leves reset. I have yet to run into a fatigue issue and I've yet to run out of things to do.
But I guess everyone plays differently, this is what I do and I'm enjoying the game, if you hate crafting and refuse to try it then the game might not be for you, but I'd say right now this game is very heavily centered on crafting. There's no content and crafting is probably the most rewarding aspect of the game right now.
Thanks. I have currently been leveling armorer blacksmith and marauder. I am going to widen it though to leatherworking and miner as well probably. Thank you for all the info. I had no idea about the timer and such heh. I guess it isn't as bad as I thought it was I saw a lot of forums saying 8 hours per week. I don't know if it was originally going to be that and it changed or what. I dunno how so many sites claimed that.
Quote (muert0 @ Oct 6 2010 12:54am)
When you do your craft levees make sure you use all the materials they give you even after you complete the items for the quest.
Yea took me a day or two to realize that haha.
Quote (Lublar @ Oct 6 2010 01:53am)
People are dumb. People always whine and complain about how all MMOs are too linear, or are just WoW clones. Then when something original comes along they whine that it's not like other generic systems. Make up your fucking minds... or do you people just like living in a constant state of pity?
And again I wil say I have never played WoW and have not changed my mind on anything. In fact this is the first mmo I have ever played. K thx. God a lot of you people are retarded aren't you?
This post was edited by Chenoah on Oct 6 2010 03:30am