Botanist Level 45 --- And Beyond! -- Why?

[Eruantien]

Ya xp is much faster on leves, set home point to halitali, get leves at hali, once leves complete final node appears have it take you to drybone, choco/gobbue back to uldah, return, 0 anima used and take you about 15-20 minutes round trip including doing leves, and since moogle and ifrit you need to wait 15 minutes before re enter and you get less xp per time. leves are clearly faster.

[Haru]

Also with leves you are guaranteed an item.. Not like Ifrit/Moogle where you will only get Dark matter.
And you get faction points which can be used as well.. WIN WIN!

[Catapult]

Fine, lets go with 10 minutes. Regardless, when I grab two new leves I'm waiting 5 minutes on my return timer from the last batch of leves. And the anima will last pretty long. 50 anima is 100 leves... I'm not saying you should rush to 50, I'm just saying that Ifrit is NOT the fastest way to level it if people do want to grind to 50.

True, but if you are intending on fighting Ifrit/Moggle anyway... may as well make good use of that exp that pops from every win!