prior to ToAU this mindset was non-existant. pld's having to soloing to get exp back? only thing more out of place then that is blm's having to resort to soloing for steady exp gain. i was in Pso 'jxa to day and tyrath spotted me down there. at first he assumed i was doing something with CoP but when i told him i was soloing he pulled a ":shok: WTF" on me.
maybe SE should just shatter the exp party aspect of this game all together. except for cannon jobs of course.
Yes, because there was absolutely nothing that a PLD could do besides party or solo to regain their exp before ToAU. Oh wait, escorts and ENM's were added years before ToAU came out. Before besieged, you could get around 3,000 EXP per week through the solo ENM, an escort and one of the exp quests in riverne: site B; plus there were more ENM's you could do to gain even more exp. Yeah, it's impossible for a PLD to gain exp by themselves before besieged. :wacko:
Even without looking to solo/low man methods to gain exp, they can still get parties. It's called friends, if you hit 75 and you don't have any, you should quit immediately because you wasted your time getting there. You don't want to invite a paladin, that's your business, but get off your high horse first.
enjoying your exp parties is a relative term though. personally i like manaburns & traditional parties over cannons. i've healed cannons and although the exp is nice i get bored way to fast. im just glad that they dont last to long. i dont need 20-30k an hour to feel accomplished. in the past the feeling i got when i joined an exp party it was to interact with your fellow gamers while having a fun time taking out the mobs. now its about who can parce the highest and rake in the most exp in the shortest amount of time. it seems everyone with a cannon job feels they have waisted their time if they dont reach a certain exp per an hour quota. said attitude "implies" that everyone should lvl a cannon job and also is slowly making the game more and more stagnant. least thats how i feel about this.
You join shitty cannons then. I only party with friends, so when I cannon, we have fun. Hell, during the original 2-hander parsing party, we had a ton of fun; telling jokes and making fun of how gimp Jamal was the whole time; all while pulling in over 20k an hour. Hell, unless someone says they're parsing the party, no one else knows or even cares about the results; only having a good time and getting the best exp they can get.
You're making it sound like trying to improve your performance is a bad thing and it's ruining the game; but then you seem to be of the opinion that any exp > no exp(which is lol). Efficiency is a good thing, since you don't seem to understand that; there is
nothing wrong with wanting to not waste your time/gil/items getting shitty exp, so trying to improve that performance is in no way bad. Hell, some people flat-out
hate exping, so the less they have to exp, the more time they have to spend on the things they do enjoy. If everyone listened to you and didn't care about improving themselves or actually trying, then all of those people would probably quit the game because they'd have to drudge through significantly more of the thing they hate.
Reauland, I didn't see anywhere that Necro said that everyone should have to level a cannon job, or that only cannon jobs should get invites; just that they get the most exp, which is a fact. The closest thing he said was that he prefers cannon exp, so those who are fine with the exp gain of normal parties can stick with those if they want. Still no where near to what you were responding to, especially with that paladin crap. He laughed at pup, because that's their role in the game at this point, to laugh at.
