Is it just me, or is ShB quest exp really under-tuned?

Only block I hit was at 72, and I was just a smidgeon under it, so quickly got it with a FATE. Otherwise, I've been doing side quests, map exploration, and FATEs (minimum of 6 in each zone, though I did a bunch in Lakeland with a friend when he was getting his currents/FATEs too). Not a single roulette yet, though I did go back and do all three dungeons up to the Greatwood a second time to run with friends, so there's a bit of extra exp there.

Just hit 75 before Maint tonight and haven't been hit with level requirements locking out MSQ and I haven't done any quests beside Ones with + signs or MSQ.
Just doing Fates for movement speed and a few DRs. which I do anyway.

I normally save side quests for a 2nd job.


But 30k at 71 doesn't really seem worth my time.

Kinda the same in my experience. You run out of MSQ and have to do FATEs or side quests whatever to continue. Its always been that way with current content. Past content always gets adjusted up so you don't have to do anything but MSQ to level.
If you are seeing an adjustment then maybe its because they really want you to do FATEs this time around. You need to do a bunch to unlock the riding maps from the gem vendors

I haven't done a count to see, but it feels like a result of being given coffers instead of gear (I am quite happy we get coffers now, please don't take that away).

But in Heavensward and Stormblood, when the MSQ handed out gear, it did so with three separate quests, because there are so many gearsets and each job needed to have an option for gear available. While playing Stormblood with little or no sidequesting, I only hit two level gates. In Shadowbringers, I hit every single level gate. Had I more time, I'd go through the quest catalaog and do a comparison of the Stormblood and Shadowbringers MSQs to see if this is more than just a feeling.

I've done a good many Fates along the way and very few side quests. I'm saving those for other jobs. Between Fates and random roulette queues I'm not falling behind at all. I might actually be a level and a half higher than I should be for where I'm at.

yeah, i get lvl block but luckily its only 1 lvl block and usually i almost level up so its not a big deal anway.

they are indeed clearly trying to get us more into fate now

I've had zero issues hitting required levels. Since early access started, I've done:

• Zero roulettes for my main / job progressing SH with;
• No elite mark bills have been picked up, since they are actually a great source of EXP (lots of people forget this exists);
• No extra dungeons at all;
• Constant Heat of Battle II from FC buffs;
• Still have rested EXP;
• Kept my chocobo up (can reduce EXP gained*);
• Been in party with someone else (increases EXP, but also splits EXP gained*);
• Constantly run a food buff when killing things;
• No F.A.T.E.s;
• All side quests as they pop-up;
• Grabbed any vistas along the way and not going out of the way / purposely seeking them out;
• Obtained EXP from discovering a new location on only the main / job progressing MSQ;
• Ran trust an additional time on the first dungeon to see how Alisaie reacted (since someone told me for the first dungeon to do this); all others have been only once.

* = Pretty sure these only apply to mobs killed in the open world and does not effect quest EXP at all.

I'm actually ahead of the required level for MSQ, though unsure by how much. Maybe by half of an EXP bar? We've only done MSQ and new side quests.

I'm out leveling the MSQ something awful. I'm level 75 and just now hitting the level 72 quests, but I do my roulettes every day when I can. If you do JUST quests, you'll never make it. This game has a lot of exp alternatives, challenge log, roulettes, dungeon grind, FATEs...just have to be more flexible.

I had a ton of leftover Stormblood sidequests that I wanted to clear out while leveling dancer, and the amount of exp was pathetically small and overall it would have been much faster to spam FATEs or dungeons or HoH. Unless they went back and nerfed those then they've always been bad. They definitely don't give enough EXP in Shadowbringers either.

Ive literally gotten away with doing no sidequests, but did run each dungeon a few times, and did main scenario roullette each time it reset. 80 and doing 79 story quests. This is absolutely the lightest expansion on level locks, way more so than arr or hw