Level Pacing?

I'm loath to level crafting and gathering levels because of the sheer tedium involved from lvls 1 to 50 but especially DOL

So I'm trying to find both tips on how to make leveling faster and a good pace to avoid burn out. I'd like to do multiple levels per day but their so slow to increase.

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Originally Posted by Transient_Shadow

I'm loath to level crafting and gathering levels because of the sheer tedium involved from lvls 1 to 50 but especially DOL

So I'm trying to find both tips on how to make leveling faster and a good pace to avoid burn out. I'd like to do multiple levels per day but their so slow to increase.

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With crafting using leves can help you speed level , get a friend to make all the hq turns ins for u and you will jump levels pretty fast. Also do your gc turn ins everyday, get the gc manuals for crafting, big thing is Id prob level up a miner or a botanist because having the matts you already need on hand goes a really long away

With the level 15 cross class skills, and level-appropriate HQ gear (no need for melding), you can fairly reliably HQ any 70 or 80 durability recipe starting in the lower-mid 20's. 40 Durability recipes will be harder and may take some HQ materials.

With this in mind, you are giving up exp per leve allowance by having someone else craft your hand ins. Your call, spend some time crafting (with a decent, though less-than-certain, chance at HQ) or bug someone to make them for you for less exp.

Manuals, I did not try the ones from ARR. The ones you get for HW, I found, I simply could not craft fast enough unless I was using Quick Synthesis. At that point (Birch Syrup from Culinarian, I'm looking at you) the manual offered enough exp/time to make it faster leveling than crafting a bunch of 100% items.

As for the DoL jobs, for Mining and Botany do Leves. Those will go through 50. After 50, if your gear is good enough (and you have 600 GP, through some combination of melding and food) start doing Collectibles, especially the 10, 12, and 2 oclock ones. For Fishing, I found that I got levels at a decent enough clip just fishing, without paying any attention at all to leves or Collectibles. That was 1-60.

Miner:

Leves! Bread and butter of your way to 60 imo. I hardly did any collectibles from 50-60 or bothered with the gathering log. Unfortunately we can't buy the items required for leves from the market and just turn them in so each leve must be done completely. Personally i used the squadron gathering manual as a tool for more xp from ~40lvl on + gathering food. I don't think its much of a help to use manuals before that level as the bonus is not that sufficient.
Some bit of guide now for your leves: Always complete them with the safest difficulty. Believe me, going way above the recommended difficulty will result in earning low xp or sometimes fail it completely so do them according to the gathering percentage and not rely on luck.

Currently there are 3 types of leves for miner and botanist, evaluation, minimum amount and simple gathering. In the evaluation leves you are asked to gather 2 items (one easy, one more difficult) from each node and on success you earn points. When you reach specific amount of points you earn bonus xp up to a maximum of 25%. You should manage to reach the maximum points even if that means to use all your GP for it. I won't be analyzing the other 2 types as they are pretty straightforward and much easier.

Fisher:

My first gathering class. From what i remember i used leves here to level up and in many cases i bought what was required from the market (provided they were cheap and i could afford the gil) and rarely did any fishing. What matters most for fisher is hq fish as the bonus xp earned can be 100% or maybe more. I for one, did collectibles from 50-60 and they helped me a lot to be honest so i would suggest you do them as well. Now regarding leves they are all easy but there is a catch.
Some leves require you to fish and turn in 3 fish to complete it, but afterwards the npc asks for 6 more (3+3). Of course this is optional but i can't describe its usefulness. Its like doing 3 leves in 1 and not to mention if you turn in 9 hq fishes. The bonus xp is MASSIVE. In such cases, all i did was just find all the fish required for the respective level leves and then sit for hours on the fishing spots to fish them. In the end, i got myself +2 levels or more.
Comparing to miner, fisher was much more easy to level for me so i would recommend that you start with it.

Well this was how i did it. You can experiment yourself to find out which way works best for you but i got the best results with what is mentioned above. Unfortunately, i don't have any crafted class atm so i can't help you with that.

Okay here are the tips and tricks:

Crafting: daily GC turn ins HQ, (chose a base mat that is used in many synths) quick synth in mass or put a short macro together that does a few quality steps then finishes the synth, ixal dailies till 50, leves, moogle dailies 50-60, collectables.

Gathering: daily GC turn ins HQ, grind gather (check what mats you need a lot of, ex. Walnut or check mb for what sells well ex. Flax), leves, unlock every node (bonus exp).

FC buffs help, food buffs always, if you have extra GC seals Manuals. The class quests also give out exp and have good stories. Always play the MB if you can make or gather something easy and make a profit do it. Lastly when your gear SBs convert it, the materia will be useful later even some level 1s.

Considering the amount of exp you get from doing the 10, 12, and 2 oclock Collectibles as a Miner and Botanist, Leves become a supplement to Collectibles. Once I hit 57 and got Single Mind, I was literally able to gain almost 1 million exp for either miner or botanist every 36 minutes (this was before they added the other, regular node Collectibles). Even just doing the Yellow Copper Ore or Old World Fig, you can get 240k+ exp every half an hour for a minute or so at a node. No Leve gets you that kind of exp, though it is somewhat stat dependent (gotta have enough Gathering and Perception, 500+ GP at first, then later on, 600+ GP).

YCO/OWF : Toil (300 GP) to reveal. Discerning Eye (200 GP). Methodical Appraisal (1 swing, 5 swings left). Methodical Appraisal (1 swing, 4 swings left). That should put you over 240 Collectability. Collect x4. If it did not, then up your Perception.

Not doing that slows your miner/botany leveling down. It only gets better from there.

The daily GC turn-ins are absolutely broken in terms of how much exp they give. I actually had to STOP using them on by crafters, because I was leveling faster than I wanted to (I wanted to do all the different leves and such along the way). Definitely use these if you (unlike me) want to power level your crafters and gatherers! They may only be a once-per day thing, but they hit hard.