Leveling classes other than main

Does anyone know of any word on if anything can be expected to change when it comes to leveling other classes after you complete the main story? It's just always such a monotonous task that really isn't all that fun because you're either constantly queuing or staring at the map waiting for fates. It doesn't feel very adventurous or anything. I hope they don't plan to always keep it that way, but I haven't heard much about how the devs feel about leveling in a while.

If I have one complaint about the game, it is the leveling of jobs after the main story. It is a shame that there isn't a way to 'replay' the campaign after you hit 50 to help the leveling proses a bit.

There are lots of ways to lvl already and it feels faster than the main story. You already get a bonus on anything below your max level job. Doing one roulette a day is usually enough to get you a full or close to full level. Then you have logs, challenges, fates (there's plenty around that you dont have to chase them), and then more than enough side quests around to fill the gaps.

I have not found it hard at all. 3 jobs to 50 in a couple may 3 months now. Challenge log, leves, dungeons.

I didn't say it was hard, nor did I say there weren't numerous ways to level. I simply said that it's not fun. It's monotonous. I would just like to see more variety and more fun. It's not fun queuing for the same dungeon 8 times in a row, and it's not fun to just run around a zone and do the same types of fates over and over. It doesn't feel very adventurous; it feels like a chore.

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Originally Posted by Hurlstone

If I have one complaint about the game, it is the leveling of jobs after the main story. It is a shame that there isn't a way to 'replay' the campaign after you hit 50 to help the leveling proses a bit.

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But fates give more exp then story quest it self, I don't know why people expect leveling there second class to 50 in 2 days.

I think he's mostly talking about how repetitive and boring it is.

I totally agree, working on my 3rd 50 and it's a dps so long dungeon ques. It's taking a lot of patience and there's only so many times I can watch svara fall before I'm sick fed up of it .

Agreed, levelling is a chore. But I find dungeon spam teaches you a lot about your job by the time you hit 50. Fate spam is just....you can always tell when a tank levels to 50 with fates :3

Well, I faced the same situation, because of my completist nature made me level all my classes. The things I did were:

1- Do your daily roulettes. (The money, the exp and the possibility to train yourself with that job)
2- Do some FATEs (Giving you GC seals to help your gear to be updated)
3- Do some leves. (Leves give you almost the same exp than a FATE of your level and some pink gear, which is free and nice to keep your gear updated). They also can be done in party, as long as the party member get the same leves than you.
4- The weekly challenge log. Seriously, it gives a lot of experience and gil.
5- Help lowbies in your FC. I used to ask first if people needed these dungeons, so we queued together and I helped them.
6- Hunting Log.
7- Guildhests. Thankfully, they made it so you can queue them with every job and you'll receive the bonus exp you received the first time.
8- Have some goals: e.g "I want the green gear from Brayflox", "e.g I need to practice my class... as I receive some commendations as well".
9- Once you reach the higher levels, you can start doing: First room pull in Dzemael Darkhold. First room clear in Aurum Vale.
10- Beast Tribe dailies. Not much exp, but money and ventures.
11- Always log off your character in a sanctuary, even if you're not leveling up, so you can stack rested exp. I recommend you to burn it in dungeons.


These might be my suggestions to ease the process. Keep in mind that you'll be spiritbonding gear as well, so it'll help you to get materia for personal use and selling.

In about 2 months of playing, I have almost all my classes (including hand and land jobs) maxed. In less than 2 months, I had all my combat classes maxed.

Now, that being said, it is a chore. It is work. There are a few tricks to make it go faster, but in the end, it is a rough grind.

From what I've seen, I doubt that there is much in terms of plans to change this. What you can do, however, is to only do grinds as your get bonus exp from resting in a sanctuary so that you are doing less grinding and otherwise just do your dailies and weeklies.

I've also found that the daily roulette helps A LOT. At low levels, it grants me almost a level's worth of EXP. I think there are plenty of ways, just takes time to level.

I think OP, but not only s/he, taken it wrong on the purpose to level all jobs to 50.

In first place, why do you want do that? When someone likes be an healer and doesn't like or find boring as hell do other roles, s/he does not need to play that roles, to keep just your only role is enough to do all the content (DoH excluded, of course).

If the reason is show to everyone else how much l33t you are with all maxed to 50, you also must be prepared to boredom and do things you don't like, that is something expected and really no one must be surprised, unless XIV is his/her first mmo ever.

I like to be an healer, and have anyway maxed all to 50, but for a precise reason on mind: I'd like know all the jobs, how they works, what are their good and bad points, and so on. First hand, not stuff read on the interwebb ;) This makes me more prepared on MY job, on PvE when I know how some role must fight a battle, and ten thousands more on PvP, when I know what the job trying to get me down can and cannot do.

When you do other jobs, the world does not change, it is the world you left when you made the last main story. The thing that really changes is YOU! You will get new knowledge about other classes, you will learn when you have pugilists it is best your tank keep mob on its position and do not move it all times, and so on. It is your personal experience that changes. This is not a minor thing.

When you're done with your main class, you cannot expect so much from a world you already have explored at large, you main focus will become to learn how other classes works, and try to get out the best from them.

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

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I hit 50 for the same reason. Since I am a healer by nature and preference, I like to know how all the classes work so I can better know how they will position themselves, how they will take damage, etc.

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

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Mhm, doing what you mentioned has that interesting synergy. It truly makes you even better with your main class, since you know what other classes need and their limitations. My main job is tank, so knowning how the others move helps me to adapt the run according to their limitations/potencials.

Use side quests to level other classes while leveling your main.
I know this may be a 'too late' thing for some, but it made leveling way easier and more interesting. I just finished my last available 2.0 side quest on my fourth class. Thankfully, there is also the exp bonus you get once you've leveled a class, so at least it goes faster.

Oh SE, let us buy a potion from vendors that will get give us exp.

When we log on everyday please give us experience

When we walk round the whole map twice please give us exp points.

Most everyone is so off topic haha I'm not hoping for things to be easier. I don't need to be walked through the ways to level. I enjoy every class, but I don't enjoy the fun of the class being overshadowed by a shallow leveling experience. Just because I'm leveling something else doesn't mean that experience shouldn't still be designed so be fun and rewarding. I don't want all 50s for any other reason but simply wanting to experience all the class design and fun of knowing about the other classes. The leveling system in place is inarguably effective. I'm not stating otherwise

I'm simply saying it should still be designed to be fun. I don't see people posting on the forums because they are ecstatic that they've grinded fates and dungeons all day. No one WANTS to do that, but people do because they want the class leveled. But as a developer, why would you want to put players in a bind like that? I just wish/hope there are plans to make me excited about the experience I'm going to have while leveling a new class. This game isn't just about end game, so for someone that simply enjoys leveling and experiencing the content as different classes, I don't think it's unreasonable to desire a better way.

As much as their are tons of ways to earn xp, I too agree it would be nice that once you complete the main scenario, you can unlock a reset quests button, remove rewards, just have them give xp
To add, it's not just to get quick xp, sometimes it's nice to go back to a quest, a lot more wiser.
Yes I'm looking at you annoying quest in Coerthas against the guy and his wyvern, or the annoying sylph one to find klaxio

I actually had a lot of fun playing the dungeons with each class. What wasn't fun was having to queue for so long as certain classes and how many times I had to go through those queues.

It would be cool if they'd put in a good chunk of side quests that are unique to each class. Not taken from the guilds, but from the citizenry. Even just a quest or two every couple of levels that are specific to each class. You'd get more depth about each class' role in society, more life to the world, and a bit of a break from the monotony.

Or open up dailies/repeatables (with more story to them than leves/hests) earlier on. Beastmen dailies are a nice bit of spice, but they come too late to keep interest piqued as you're starting a new class. Those get monotonous, too, but only because there's such a limited selection at each tier. If they'd bring the same total number selected at random, without any tiers, it wouldn't get boring quite so quickly.

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Originally Posted by melflomil

Oh SE, let us buy a potion from vendors that will get give us exp.

When we log on everyday please give us experience

When we walk round the whole map twice please give us exp points.

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Well, the first two of those are... kind of available. Though the potions that exist (from Grand Companies) only provide benefits for DoH/DoL, IIRC. But you can get the FC buffs to give you a bonus to Exp =D And provided you logged out in a sanctuary, you do get an exp bonus when you come back. But just like with online gambling sites, you don't get said bonus if you don't put something in of your own :p In this case, you need to gain some exp on your own to benefit from those buffs/bonuses. (Or boni, if you want to go by Latin grammar :p)

Honestly my alts got to 50 faster than my main did doing the story missions and quests! With the boost in XP in dungeons and leves, Duty Roulette, first time completion bonuses when someone is doing dungeon for the first time, first time completion bonus for Guildhests when you do them on new classes, challenge log and hunting logs, it makes leveling super fast and easy!

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Originally Posted by Tagihi

But fates give more exp then story quest it self, I don't know why people expect leveling there second class to 50 in 2 days.

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I am not saying they should expect that. All I would like is perhaps a bit more structure when it came to leveling other classes. That is probably just me though.

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Originally Posted by EnverHoxha

Does anyone know of any word on if anything can be expected to change when it comes to leveling other classes after you complete the main story? It's just always such a monotonous task that really isn't all that fun because you're either constantly queuing or staring at the map waiting for fates. It doesn't feel very adventurous or anything. I hope they don't plan to always keep it that way, but I haven't heard much about how the devs feel about leveling in a while.

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Honestly, after about level 25 I can barely tell the difference. If you think about it,you do about 5-6 standard Leve-Like quests for every story quest you get anyway. Im on my second character, doing the story again and ATM I just wish I could sit back, do some leve's/fates while I wait for queue to pop... but I cant do that if I want to unlock most of the dungeons so im stuck. Believe me its MUCH faster without having to bounce around all over the world just to talk to some guy who only sends you to another corner of the world to talk to someone else (seriously many of the mid-level story quests are BOOORING!)

And for what it's worth, I really don't care to go back through the main scenario on the the other classes either. That'd turn out to be the same situation now, doing the same thing over and over to the point that is has no appeal. I don't want to do the same quests all over again; I want new activities that reward me but are inviting to take part in not solely for the exp but for the actual experience and fun of the activities themselves.

Actually the Main Quest just make things slower. My opinion.