Guys... what is the best way to Lv up now?(please)

Well... i'm back after aproach 3 months... i hear the fates got "nerf" and new ways to lv up has been here after some patches like duty roulette etc... so, the best way to lv up still FATES? please ^^ and sorry for the bad english,is not my native language.:)

Fates always have been a steady way of leveling. There's also of course leves, dungeons, hunting log, and guildhests.

I mix the low duty roulette daily with the duty roulette guildhest daily, plus challenge logs and all the coventional methods.

I queue for the highest dungeon I'm allowed into on that class, and chain run it as many times as I can stomach. If it's a DPS class, I also fill Hunting Logs while waiting, but at least on Hyperion, lvl 15-49 DPS queues were only ~5 Minutes while leveling my Dragoon a couple weeks ago. Also don't forget to do each Guildhest at least once per class, and do your low level roulette every day, and make sure to be on your lowbie when you get challenge log entries.

I found chaining leves while in queue for dungeons the fastest.

Low level roulette is insane. If you are lucky. At the end of the run, 160,000++exp. Once per day. It is good to mix in leve, GC leve,etc.

Hum... interesting... so, there is several methods to farm XP now +_+ and the fates areas i think still more deserted x.x i read all coments here and really apreciate it ^.^ it will help to lv up my low lv classes( and i hope others players too). Also,feel free to coment more lol informations/sugestions is welcome ;D

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Originally Posted by HumsterMKX

Low level roulette is insane. If you are lucky. At the end of the run, 160,000++exp. Once per day. It is good to mix in leve, GC leve,etc.

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Is this after you do it for myths or instead of?

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Originally Posted by EternityFate

Hum... interesting... so, there is several methods to farm XP now +_+ and the fates areas i think still more deserted x.x i read all coments here and really apreciate it ^.^ it will help to lv up my low lv classes( and i hope others players too). Also,feel free to coment more lol informations/sugestions is welcome ;D

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Fate areas aren't more deserted, if anything they are much more used than ever before, down to atmas and alexandrite :)

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Originally Posted by Wobble

Is this after you do it for myths or instead of?

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Just low level Roulette. Example, you are lv35, you queue for low level roulette you got placed in satasha. Upon completetion. You a msg that you get extra exp for doing a low level dungeon.

Only once per day, and also quite rng. The higher your lv the chances get better. Highest I ever got is 165800exp as a lv44 doing a low lv roluette and got placed in tam tam deepcoft

Keep the food buff up all the time. If you don't care about the stats just cart around a ton or so of boiled eggs from one of the NPC culinarians.

I just do the lv 44 dungeon. Basically you pull everything on the 1st floor of the that dungeon into the 1st room and spam AoE's. Then when they are all down leave the duty and do it again. Its 50k exp. per go and only (should) take 3-5mins. This can be done with one healer and three dps or just a regular group. You can also farm Lv 47 dungeon this way. Down side is you have to make your own party to do this.

This is just my way of lving. but until you get to lv44 to do this. I would suggest doing what others. have listed. Dailies, leve's, ect.

The best way to level up is the one you may enjoy the most. Now and always.

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Originally Posted by Umo

The best way to level up is which you may enjoy the most. Now and always.

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Yup ^ this.

It's so easy to level too. You can die endlessly and still succeed. You can level naked and still get there! :p Pants optional leveling!(tm)

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Originally Posted by Wobble

Is this after you do it for myths or instead of?

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It's instead of the myth reward. You get myth tomes if you do it as a level 50 or you get a huge XP boost if you do it as a sub-50 job. Personally I always make use of it to level an alt job every day as the myth can be easily farmed in other ways.

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Originally Posted by HumsterMKX

Just low level Roulette. Example, you are lv35, you queue for low level roulette you got placed in satasha. Upon completetion. You a msg that you get extra exp for doing a low level dungeon.

Only once per day, and also quite rng. The higher your lv the chances get better. Highest I ever got is 165800exp as a lv44 doing a low lv roluette and got placed in tam tam deepcoft

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Actually the exp you get at the end isn't decided by RNG the game will give you more end reward exp if you're doing a much lower level dungeon, I would assume this is because the monsters give less exp than the higher level one :D, I would love if the primals were removed from the low level duty roulette for this reason, it is a very fast way to get 100k exp as a chunk but you miss out a lot of monster exp :/

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Originally Posted by Memex

Actually the exp you get at the end isn't decided by RNG the game will give you more end reward exp if you're doing a much lower level dungeon, I would assume this is because the monsters give less exp than the higher level one :D, I would love if the primals were removed from the low level duty roulette for this reason, it is a very fast way to get 100k exp as a chunk but you miss out a lot of monster exp :/

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This.

They tried to make the bonus from doing a low level roulette close to the experience you would get from running a dungeon at your level by queuing for it manually. It's their way of making leveling in dungeons faster by not having everyone queued for a specific dungeon and no one getting groups.

Oh and as far as I know they didn't nerf fate experience. They just enhanced dungeon experience to make it equal to or better than fate experience.

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Originally Posted by Ryans

This.
Oh and as far as I know they didn't nerf fate experience. They just enhanced dungeon experience to make it equal to or better than fate experience.

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They also buffed, or rather changed how the FATEs scales. Making it harder to farm them as effectively as before.

Doing low lvl roulette for the first time each day is nearly enough to get a full level, after that its the highest dungeon you can do. Tanks and healers get near instant queues, dps can fill in the wait with fates/quests/logs. At 44 Dzemael can do the first big pull to the boss for good xp over and over, but these groups tend to want only AOE dps. At 47 doing the first room of Aurum Vale is great exp as well, I dont know if these always want aoe though, I've only done it once as tank and we pulled one group at a time.

With how easy it is to level, I wonder why they don't just start everyone at level 50 with all the skills, since that's where they say Please Look Forward To It the most. It's not like anyone bothers reading the skills or using them in a rotation! And people hate playing, er grinding so much that they ask for info on how to make the misery of leveling pass by the fastest anyways.

lol jk...
Really.... jk

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Originally Posted by Ouria

They also buffed, or rather changed how the FATEs scales. Making it harder to farm them as effectively as before.

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They didn't change them, there were just fewer people doing them so the zerg wasn't there to steamroll everything once people realised dungeons were better XP.

2.28 actually saw them change the scaling though so now they scale much better. Those big boss fates that used to be impossible without a zerg are now quite easily soloable. When I got The Four Winds for my animus last week I was expecting to need a group for it but it's soloable since 2.28's scaling fix.

-FATEs are still ok-ish to level in. If you liked doing them before, you don't really have to stop now. Just keep in mind they're a bit tougher since you'll likely be solo or very few people

-Leves are a quick source of exp, believe it or not

-Guildhests

-Dungeons

-Take a look at your challenge log (the quest to unlock it is in Limsa Lominsa in the Drowning Wench from a Miqo waitress). You can get lots of exp and money from doing things you'd normally be doing anyway!

I would avoid FATEs. In the thread where people complain about the Atma, I have been told that FATEs shouldn't be used to level up your character and that that's the Duty Finder's option. I just think it is unfair but we can't help it ... I think it is pretty obvious that now if your level is low, chances are you won't even have get to hit mobs before the fate ends ...

At the moment, I guess that :
LEVEs are the fastest way to level up at least until level 20 (more or less), not sure about how they are convenient after that;
Guildests reward players with a fair amount of exps the first time you do them with a new class;
Duty Roulette is always a good choice;
Don't forget of logging off when your character has a job /class you have mastered to lvl50, this will give you an exp bonus that should make faster leveling through dungeons;
Hunting Log: if you are a DPS waiting for duty finder, this is really helpful (doing this with a friend is better)
As soon as you unlock Dzamael, recruit 3 party member through party-finder and have a couple of speed runs (50k exp each run); do the same when Aurum Vale is available (100k exp each run)

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Originally Posted by Alberel

They didn't change them, there were just fewer people doing them so the zerg wasn't there to steamroll everything once people realised dungeons were better XP.

2.28 actually saw them change the scaling though so now they scale much better. Those big boss fates that used to be impossible without a zerg are now quite easily soloable. When I got The Four Winds for my animus last week I was expecting to need a group for it but it's soloable since 2.28's scaling fix.

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They changed the way the FATEs scaled in 2.1.
"A FATE's difficulty will now be determined by the number of players who participated in the previous"

Before even without a large zerg, most FATEs were easily doable in a short amount of time. With the changes, it made doing the FATE next time rather hard if the number of people doing them decreased. As well as making the FATEs generally require more time to complete, even if there was a zerg going around clearing them. Making dungeons even more attractive.

Fates daily quest and dungeons^^

I have always done dungeons because I have always hated FATE's. I hate them even more now (if that is possible).

Not to mention FATE's are far from what they used to be when it comes to participation.

I just queue up the highest and second highest dungeon (unless its a dungeon i wont touch with a 100 foot pole *cough*AV*cough*) as well as roulette/hunts/challenge.

Having just raised DRG from 1-50 in the last few weeks, I did:

--Levequests
At each new tier, only do them at +4 levels. The XP this way (including bonuses) is similar to FATEs in the area, and you don't have to wait on them. Use your chocobo companion, even though it sucks away 1/3 of your kill XP for itself. Level 35+ it starts taking around 20 leves and more to gain a single level from only leves. Do whatever FATEs are in the area first, and then do the Levequests until the next group of FATEs spawn.

--FATEs
Not only are there far fewer people doing these now, they seem to spawn less frequently than before. Most Atma farming groups will let you in, though, just because it's faster for them even if you aren't there for the same reason. Northern Thanalan for 42+ on my server was a ghost town, but I managed to get into one small group for a couple of levels.

--Dungeons
For the time it takes to fully clear a dungeon, the actual XP you get is about on par with FATE grinding, maybe a little slower, but it provides a break from the grind. Of course, still do whatever FATEs or levequests you can while in the queue.

--Other
Each Hunting log entry is about equal to a single FATE or Levequest.
Each Challenge log entry for Levequests, FATEs, and Dungeons is worth about 1/6 of a level, I believe, maybe 1/8? Each entry is obtainable only 1/week, though.
I didn't do any Guildhests, but the first-time bonus is per class now instead of per character.
Around 41+ you can do Beastman daily quests, but this is less XP than a Levequest, and only 6/day.

Once you get to LV42-ish, you can also start running the Tribal dailies for a decent amount of EXP.