Leve Ranking & SP

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Originally Posted by Chardrizard

The SP differences are pretty small, 400-500sp at best but Gridania leves turns out to be less annoying than Ul'dahs or LL's.. Ul'dah's has shitton of moles, wolves, and piestes.. While LL's has too many annoying defense leves.. Camp Nine Ivies and Treespeak are the new hotspot on my server.

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If you don't have the leve, it is indeed small. If you do start/link the leve, it is much more noticeable.

R30 Nophica's Well ~ 2,000 SP non GA speedy finish 5 stars
R30 Humble Hearth ~ 3,000 SP non GA speedy finish 5 stars

GA = 1.5 times SP

It's pretty simple, Gridania has 1.5 times multiplier to the SP reward. You can ask for a dev confirm if you want, that's what it is, no thing mystifying about it.

Maybe ones in BW are more solo-able than the others. At least Treespeak R40 leves are very solo-unfriendly you often guard spots with wild efts around ,etc.

Just adding to a place.)

Gridania is just a better city than all the rest.

Gridania > ALL

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Originally Posted by MariyaShidou

You only get less SP for under recommended rank, or over 10 ranks the recommended rank. For example r30 leves, you need to be r30-39 to get the full SP reward.

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Well if that's the issue then yeah, all my SP values should be accurate. I was in that range during the rank 40 leves. The only thing that matters is the leve difficulty as long as you're in that range.

I would say that even though some of the Grid leves have you defending areas near efts and such, overall they are still easier mobs that die faster than Uldah and some of Limsa. Plus, there are some that are so easy you can 5 star them fairly early such as Open Season, Lemurs, Slugging it Out and Tickling Whiskers. I foresee changes to the mob ranks to make some of them harder, in Open Season at least.

The only thing left is to figure out the total SP gained by adding in SP from the mobs themselves. That would vary of course based on rank differences though. But even doing that, i don't think Uldah leves have a higher number of mobs to kill than the others on average. So that wouldn't make up the gap. I just think this is SE's way of getting people out of Uldah, lol.

The only downside is Grid's retarded layout, with the 40 camps on complete opposite ends of the forest -_-

My Ls does leves and we have tried all 3 regions multiple times.

Atm the in the order from best sp/hr to worst it is

Grid (Highest) => Limsa (Middle) => Uldah (Worst) Broken water is just garbage now.

Not sure if it was intentional or not, but those who still have not left Uldah need to... I guarantee you will like the results.

It is probably alot to do with the layout, but Grid leves are just faster to complete (many you can finish in like 2-3mins in a group and get over 7,000sp with aspect for doing it).

I was getting 6000-7000 from 3-4 star gridania leves and only 4-5000 from uldah leves at r42 pug. Gridania definitely seems better at the moment, despite the anima increase from doing those leves.

Limsa has about the same SP bonus from leves as Grid has. Closer nodes if you want to save anima but you have some leves that make you deal with some more annoying mobs such as Mongrels.

Fantastic information, quite relevant to my interests. Wish I had known this sooner for my Marauder because I'm done collecting marks so the region makes little difference to me.

I added some notes on a few of them regarding difficulty. There are a couple defense ones in Limsa where you get one massive wave that may kill you if you're trying them at too high of a difficulty. On The Beating Path in particular is kind of BS, it gets me almost every time when the eyes pop. But i do them all solo so that's probably the only reason.

And if anyone has numbers for the ones i'm missing, i'll put them in if you provide them. I hate how some leves are so damn rare.

For anyone interested:

The completion bonuses are pretty much all done. I've started to add a "Total SP" column that attempts to incorporate SP from the mobs themselves. It's all theoretical approximations but it satisfies my curiosity. Details are in my Blog:

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=243278

I've also added a handful of rank 30 Leves in Limsa so far, as i am working on ranking up a 30s class right now. There should be some more of those coming soon.