ITT: "I got mine, so screw you."

This seems like a change done for the sake of the false god In Era. Should be trying to make a better game; SE in 2007 were not infallible.

While I do understand and like that ffxi is a game of slow progression and grind(I gridned to 99 on the original ff7 demo disk), I would think that before we took something meaningless as exp value of mobs down a notch, we should of granted exp rings. For some, days where you can log on and just solo a little is just as fun as those days you have 5 hours to party. When so much of this server is ooe, I fail to see the need to make this change. I'm not seeing the gain for doing this. As for myself I have just adjusted to fight more EM or tough mobs on the days I don't feel like dealing with parties, but I have an alt to support that. So it really didn't do much to me, but I can totally understand the frustration from new players.

New players are something that we tend to not embrace as much we should. It wasn't hard on me at all to progress here, much easier than it was in retail for sure. I'd like it if it was like that for everyone and again, I don't really understand the need for this change.

Nas has made the decision that he wants XP rings to be used during events and special occasions, so he has kept the 15 minute cooldown.

Era accurate XP rings would be generally available, but have a 16 hour cooldown in between uses.

Unless you're just only going to level your low level jobs when you have a band available, this makes extremely minimal difference on the 1-12 process.