How fast is fast?

[Daemon]

You dont' need money, everything is rare/ex now.
Do war because you can kill faster in your solo to eitehr 10 for burn or 30 for aby.
Whm though dose get you an easier in for any event, ut like you said, you will have to spend money on it. There's no way aroudn that on whm.I've never done skirmish.
Bayld farmed kariyeh body/legs/feet, crafting rings x3, turd body.
Already tossed kariyeh body/legs.

Well if you are starting a brand new account, you do need gil. Silent oil, prism powder can be pretty high in price when first starting the game with absolutely nothing.

That was my take on how to get past maps fastest way possible. Also need some basic gear to play in Gusgen mines. And as WHM, RDM need to buy spells.

Gear and food contributes to how fast you can speed level up until you reach Abyssea.

My point of view was based on as if I start a brand new account how fast could I reach 99, skip a good portion of content and earn a delve weapon/gear.

I've never done skirmish too, just getting Orvail set allowed me to play delve easier.

[Spectreman]

I went from a new account to 99 in 3 weeks. Had to farm a bit and do enough missions/quests to be able to reach 99 without being in chocobo gear.

[Daemon]

I went from a new account to 99 in 3 weeks. Had to farm a bit and do enough missions/quests to be able to reach 99 without being in chocobo gear.

Can you post your method? That way others can see that it is possible.

[Stompa]

This is the method I would do it.

Job Thief
Starting from level 1-10 outside of Windurst. Do Gov Pages, earn enough conquest points to buy emperor band. Head to outer Horontoro ruins. Earn fire crystals, Wild onions to sell and earn gil for gear.

Ebands are free now, you just talk to the npc near the signet guard and do easy tasks (use a ws, get lvl 5) and she gives you Eband, meat jerky strips and a reraise "raising earring". All part of the /easymode stuff after 2010.
I personally liked the pre 2010 game better because I liked long-term goals, grind and sense of accomplishment. I actually preferred the pre-patch skill-up rates, they were medieval and grim but you really felt you had achieved something when you cleared 250~ skill and also they were a symbol of your proficiency in playing that job. If you had capped skills it meant you had played the job for a long long time, and so you were reliable in event parties.
I would sooner have mythic gaxe than delve gaxe, so I dont really see the 'obtain a delve weap' as a meaningful end goal in this test. But people can get new char 1-99 in 2-3 days, some have built Maat's cap on a new char in a few weeks. I'm sure you can get delve on new char easy enough too.
I think rieves are very fail indeed, they are unfit to walk in the footsteps of 'campaign battles'. I still do WOTG area battlefields today, because imo wotg was the last real ffxi expansion we had.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Well if you are starting a brand new account, you do need gil. Silent oil, prism powder can be pretty high in price when first starting the game with absolutely nothing.

That was my take on how to get past maps fastest way possible. Also need some basic gear to play in Gusgen mines. And as WHM, RDM need to buy spells.

Gear and food contributes to how fast you can speed level up until you reach Abyssea.

My point of view was based on as if I start a brand new account how fast could I reach 99, skip a good portion of content and earn a delve weapon/gear.

I've never done skirmish too, just getting Orvail set allowed me to play delve easier.

You don't need any of that in this day and age. Go into zerhun mines, page to 10, stay in zeruhn mines and burn whatever you can get your hands one. At least 30. Go jeuno, start aby, get your chocobo. Burn in la thine until done.
As for war, get your AF, grab a hauby. Get a GA for around 50k. Easy Maat.
The only thing lengthening the time frame is skill ups.

[Daemon]

You don't need any of that in this day and age. Go into zerhun mines, page to 10, stay in zeruhn mines and burn whatever you can get your hands one. At least 30. Go jeuno, start aby, get your chocobo. Burn in la thine until done.
As for war, get your AF, grab a hauby. Get a GA for around 50k. Easy Maat.
The only thing lengthening the time frame is skill ups.

Ok I just thought thief helps in earning gil to support buying spells also but good to know this

[Limecat]

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I remember my third character, my first was on someone else's account and my second, we don't talk about that.
Since I knew what I was doing, I leveled blm to 15, whm30. Back then, people would help you with anything if you were a whm. It was a pretty good scam. Got nin, leveled it to 10. Thf to 20, nin to 37. Thf to 70, Maat.
Maat.
Maat...
Maat... >.<
Maat... -_-
Maat... ..i..
Maat.......................................................
Blm to 37. Whm to 70. Borrowed a n00ble and a terra. Maat.
Whm to 75.
2.5m for raise II... screw that.
Thf to 75.
Pay 1m leveling cooking 1-90 over the course of 9 days.
Abuse the RMT inflation and make 1m a week just selling mithkabobs.
You know what? I think I realy liked whm...
Gear whm.

I went to level RUN when it came out and DAMN, they have it so easy these days.

[Daemon]

I remember my third character, my first was on someone else's account and my second, we don't talk about that.
Since I knew what I was doing, I leveled blm to 15, whm30. Back then, people would help you with anything if you were a whm. It was a pretty good scam. Got nin, leveled it to 10. Thf to 20, nin to 37. Thf to 70, Maat.
Maat.
Maat...
Maat... >.<
Maat... -_-
Maat... ..i..
Maat.......................................................
Blm to 37. Whm to 70. Borrowed a n00ble and a terra. Maat.
Whm to 75.
2.5m for raise II... screw that.
Thf to 75.
Pay 1m leveling cooking 1-90 over the course of 9 days.
Abuse the RMT inflation and make 1m a week just selling mithkabobs.
You know what? I think I realy liked whm...
Gear whm.

I went to level RUN when it came out and DAMN, they have it so easy these days.

Lol.. I guess I was lucky.. Went Thief, stole warp scroll and bam I was outta there..

Then again made all my gil off fire crystals and stacks of Wild Onions, they were about 28-30k per stack for onions when I came back. The one item that i know will always sell on a daily basis. Fastest way to make gil at level 10 even better at 15 once you get TH1.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Yeah, those gobs in the ruins outside of windy dropped them like water. lol
That reminds me, I have 19 stacks of onions I need to use. >.>

Oh I left a few out. I'm still 0/37 on trying to steal from Maat. I even went back at 75 with full steal gear less the dagger and tried 3 times.