Best leveling strategy Btn/Min???

What level item do you gather - or maybe it's better to ask what % gathering chance do you gather?

What do you use your GP for?

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Lately, I've looked for items that I have a 95% gathering chance, so that I can use 50gp on field mastery 1, and always be at 100%

Often I can run between the node that gives gathering bonus, HQ bonus, and extra attempts, and use field mastery 1 on the 2 that have 95% chance, and never miss. Of course, I prefer to gather after resting in an inn, and use the survival guide too ;)

Use LEVES if you want to level your gathers quickly. As long as ur nodes give you at least an 80% chance. You wont need Field mastery, unless its the evaluation Leves.

The leves normally switch between normal gathering leves and evaluation leves. Evaluation Leves can net you up to 25% extra XP if your points are high enough.
Two types of Evaluation Leves:
1. 8 Node Evaluation leves: Use Field Master I for regular nodes, Field Mastery II for the gathering bonus nodes, Field Mastery III if you've got enough left at the last node.
2. 4 Node Evaluation leves: Use Field Mastery II for all nodes, Last node Use Field Master III to maximize on Eval. points
The other leves, you dont need anything.

NOTE: Generally if you have around 400 - 500 GP, this method is usable 100% of the time. (You wont really have this much GP until you get your lv 25 accessories)

Got my miner from 30 - 50 in the last 3 days with this method. Gonna do the same with my botanist :D

I use leves + GC manuals to level my gatherers. Use a manual at the counter then pick up another one to maximize it.

I only grinded Botany when I needed materials for cooking. Otherwise it was all leves.

I did evals. If you pick up the leves but only do the eval, you can lock it so it only gives you the eval. You spam the easier item till chain 4 then use vigor for the 100% hit and use it on the harder item. This will get you max eval.

Okay...let's say I have NO leves to use...

What is the best method of gathering for experience (obviously rested, food, and manual are boosts).


Reiterating the OP, how do you use your GP, what % gathering chance do you look for???

I usually farm an item a little below or at my level. HQ gathering gives substantial EXP bonuses.

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Originally Posted by Simaril

Okay...let's say I have NO leves to use...

Reiterating the OP, how do you use your GP, what % gathering chance do you look for???

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Gathering the normal way isn't really suggested but if you have to do it, Pull up a good movie and just grind by gathering normally. Trying to level off HQ gathering is something that's done by chance and isn't 100% reliable. Just make sure your gather chance is at least 85%. The plus side is that u have make extra money from the HQ/NQ mats

Using JUST evaluation leves, you wont need more than 30 - 40 leve points. So keep in mind that u want to save as many leve points as possible.

I've felt that a 95% gather rate is the best XP. I go to the nodes that gives 10% bonus, 5% HQ chance bonus, and extra attempts ONLY. I use the ability that gives 5% bonus to gathering on the two nodes that don't have the gathering bonus. So I'm gathering the highest level item which I can always have a 100% chance - using about the amount of GP I recover as I run from one to the next....

Gathering and Mining was a grind for me, there was no strategy, only endurance and persistance. As someone said, the survival manual from the GC +3% routine + rested bonus if possible + a movie or whatever helps you get through it.

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I've felt that a 95% gather rate is the best XP. I go to the nodes that gives 10% bonus, 5% HQ chance bonus, and extra attempts ONLY. I use the ability that gives 5% bonus to gathering on the two nodes that don't have the gathering bonus. So I'm gathering the highest level item which I can always have a 100% chance - using about the amount of GP I recover as I run from one to the next....

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I'm amazed and disapointed more people haven't considered the most effect use of GP and % gathering chance (yes, I just quoted myself).

Yes, obviously leves and manuals help, but there are other subtleties like really taking advantage of the rested bonus, and how you gather what you gather... If I always log out in a sanctuary, and always start playing with 30 minutes of gathering (while registered in DF) it’s really not such a grind.

I'd suggest staying with 90% or higher chance. When you're closer to 90%, use sharp vision, when you're closer to 100%, use Unearth (best results on the 5 swing nodes). I personally did mythril through most of the 30's, just because there was nothing else even remotely sellable through that range.

Side note - Use a double survival guide. You can only have one on you at a time, but you can use one before you leave town to dig, and buy a 2nd one to use after the first wears off.

the best way to lvl a miner is to grind regular nodes till lvl 30. Why 30 well cause itll take u atleast around a 100+ leves to go from lvl 1-50 and leves are very precious so best to grind to lvl 30. after 30 u want to grind leves especialy the evaluation ones (side note every 1 lvl the evaluation leve is higher then urs equals 1 more eval point per a harvested item, this also works the opposite way so becareful to not do eval leves lower then ur lvl) all the way to lvl 50. Id say it will take u around 4-6 days depending on how much time u dedicate to it and how many leves u have to hit 50 from lvl 1.

For more better detailed info on lvling miner to 50 i recomend this site http://www.osirismethod.com/ffxiv-ar...-for-fast-exp/ (i have no connections with the site so enter at your own risk!)

I am a lvl 50 miner myself and this is how i hit lvl 50 myself, hope it helps other players hit lvl 50 in mining :D

I HATE gathering. Simple fact, hate it. I got to level 42 miner on my character i had at release. The true grind of mining eventually burnt me out totally on the game. There doesn't seem to be any scaling on the xp gained. I'm a lvl 50 wvr, gsm and alch , so it really behooves me to be able to gather my own mats.

So, i bit the bullet on the character i'm playing now, started levelling mining. Last night i was level 7. 35 minutes later i was level 8. Compared with DoH, the xp is ridiculous. Time invested is purely crazy. I had hoped they would have tweaked the xp gains on Mining by now, but it seems it's been left as it is.

**edit addition** after reading the osiris link. good information. i used leves to grind out the 42 on my old character. do these now give a lot more xp?

I follow the achievements when I am low on leves. I will also try and pick a zone which has something sellable or craftable. So like on my botanist I am doing oak/flax and have been for the past 4 levels. I then incorporate the provisions each and every day. I just put a show on. You'll get multiple stacks just running around zoning out.

Another way for good exp is the supply and provision missions at your Grand Company. I do mine every day and I only turn in HQ items. This gives you about a third of a level every day for just turning in 10 HQ items.

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Another way for good exp is the supply and provision missions at your Grand Company. I do mine every day and I only turn in HQ items. This gives you about a third of a level every day for just turning in 10 HQ items.

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I was going to add this. Do your daily GC provisioning missions and always turn in HQ items. Just stay out there until you have the HQ you need.

Double XP, double seals, great way to help keep Ventures in the pocketbook.

Also I will add -

- Anything worth gathering, is worth gathering a full stack. If you're going to lug around the material and use a precious inventory slot, you might as well carry 99 of them.

- For mining, I had the best luck mining the fool out of silver ore near Buscarron's Druthers, and Mythril ore near Bronze Lake. 3, 4 stacks a trip; and even the NQ sells quickly on the market, if you're smart and sell in small stacks, stacks of 20 or 25 ores, market priced.

- For botany, see what's in demand by Culinarians.