Stuck at 55 as DPS and yet POTD is BORING and lack of fate grind party :(

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Originally Posted by Jiao

The answer is simple really; I wanted the most time efficient method to 60. Unless I'm missing something that method is, unfortunately, palace. For me personally, it wasn't so bad. My buddy wanted to level red mage as well and considering we have near enough identical work schedules, we pretty much went in together everytime. So tou know, watching paint dry vs watching paint dry with a buddy over some good conversation.

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Actually, unless something's changed; POTD is only most efficient from 1-50. After that? Not so much anymore.

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Originally Posted by Lustaria

Actually, unless something's changed; POTD is only most efficient from 1-50. After that? Not so much anymore.

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Hm. Is that so? Ah well, the damage has been done. I'd say lesson learned for future, but alas, I have no more jobs sub-60.

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Originally Posted by Lustaria

Actually, unless something's changed; POTD is only most efficient from 1-50. After that? Not so much anymore.

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POTD is definitely still the fastest way from 50-60. You will get a little over 1/3 rd of a level to 1/2 per sub 15 minute 51-60 run. I leveled my PLD from 50-60 in about a day.

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Originally Posted by Eclipsed

POTD is definitely still the fastest way from 50-60. You will get a little over 1/3 rd of a level to 1/2 per sub 15 minute 51-60 run. I leveled my PLD from 50-60 in about a day.

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exactly that, however that only works, if you have one character higher than the character you're trying to level. If you try to do 50-60 on a new account/character for example, oh boi you're in for a treat, because it will take quite some time. But if it's a new character/account, you still have ARR MSQ and HW MSQ, that would be quicker in that case.

Fates are so much easier with having at least 2 people then solo. SO you can do fates and beast tribes as you wait for queues if you do not like POTD. Just find someone that would like to tag along with you.

Just out of curiosity, doesn't your FC have some kind of role rotation parties? or have friends for a role rotation party? IF PotD are too boring or unreliable, you don't like PvP, Hunts / beastman aren't your thing, Fates get on your nerves why not just do a rotation party? make a static...

Dungeon grinding seems to be the fastest way from 50-70, I'll give you PotD 50-60 if your bored, but mainly I would only do it until 30's to 50's.

It's not hard, have no friend make a PF rotation party as well.... all you really need is a Tank friend. Don't have a tank job leveled up, Raise one.

Turn on some music or netflix and just burn through POTD asap. It's the most efficient way to 60 as DPS, like it or not.

Dunno about tha rest of ya but Palace o' tha Dead is, if ya go with randoms, about 20 minutes.

Frontlines 're about 10, and two together is far more experience than one palace run.

Doin' 'em ta level tanks, healers an dips I found 'em about the same, equitable wit' an on-level dungeon thassabout 30 minutes.

I think tha real shame issat 50-60 leves is AWFUL fer combat, 'specially since ya gotta go back ta Ishgard between trips. No leves fer combat past 60 is absolute wank, too. FATES are also pretty shite, though tha new bonus experience ones're nice. How come that ain't retroactive too? Would do a lot ta get FATE trains goin' again at low levels, ah think.

Just do PvP. Yes it's not as fast as PoTD but at least you are getting exp in those 50 minutes you would be waiting for a dungeon and it's actually fun. That's what I did for my RDM and what I've been doing for my SAM. I only do roulettes with some friends everyday if it's possible and the rest I PvP. I am lvl 63 SAM now and I think I started around 5-6 days ago. For the record, leveling and trials roulette are the fastest queues for DPS. So when I'm solo I only bother with those two. I don't even bother queuing up for specific dungeons. I only did it once for the Vault and that's it. I haven't touched PoTD for any of them. Then again I find PvP fun so maybe that's why spamming it is bearable for me.

If you're having huge wait times for leveling, you may want to check to see how many languages you have selected. Unless they changed it, more languages can shoehorn you into waiting longer for more people that selected a less common language.