Leveling miner and botanist.

Is leve quests the fastest way to level while doing turn in for gc? I'm asking because people Have told me to just gather and that doesn't seem to work well lol.

leves are way faster.. but gathering gives you lots of gil..p

so its a toss up really.

i favoured gathering myself but partly because i needed the mats at the time to help leve lcrafters after xpac landed.

and yes gc turn ins are totally worth your time or gil. whichever is most convenient for you to do as sometimes you may not have time to gather before turn in period ends.

GC hand ins are great, but only once-a-day for any given class.

Leves are your best bet up to 50 or so. Simply gathering stuff works well, but not quite as well as Leves.

Once you unlock Collectibles (50 or 51 I forget which) and flight in the various Heavensward zones, forget everything else, that is what you want to be doing. Aim at getting the highest quantity of the lowest collectability rating that you can hand in, for the most exp. IE - Old World Fig gets 60k exp at 240 Collectability, 66k at 400 Collectability, and 72k at 450 Collectability. You actually get more experience handing in three 240 Collectability OWFs than you do handing in two 400 Collectability OWF's. The same principle applies to all the Collectables you gather.

Leves are still good in the 50+ range - but not as good as Collectables. They do supplement Collectables though.

I agree with Roth. Spam leves until you unlock collectables then use collectables/gathering for the remainder. The leve allowances you would use between 50 and 60 would be better used on another class. You could even coast from 50 to 60 by gathering materials necessary for leveling crafting classes.

For fastest leve/collectibles - for profit normal - I did a mix of both really. Just so it's less monotonomous.

collectibles for the win in regards to leveling.. i rarely done any leves on my gathering classes XD

Leves, collectibles, and GC turnins are all fine but if you actually gather stuff you learn the markets.

That knowledge is invaluable.

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Originally Posted by Shadygrove

Leves, collectibles, and GC turnins are all fine but if you actually gather stuff you learn the markets.

That knowledge is invaluable.

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that is a very good advice,once you level by nodes an see what items an how much they sell,an thats something you wont learn from levequests, i understand that is little slow but you can try to mix it. some levequest some nodes?, or split the 99 levequest between the 3 gatherers?. an if you going to level by nodes dont forget to buy the scrolls that increase the experience also GC turn in must be HQ dont forget that. best of lucks.

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Originally Posted by Shadygrove

Leves, collectibles, and GC turnins are all fine but if you actually gather stuff you learn the markets.

That knowledge is invaluable.

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i leveled my gatherers like that in 2.0 in HW however the distance between nodes turned me off leveling that way lol so just collectible leveled once unlocked it XD

I did leves and GC until level 50 on each of them. For miner (my first to 60), I did leves and GC turn in's. I had no idea how to do the collectables. XD For my bot, I did a couple leves, the GC (of course), but mostly collectables. Especially level 57+. Those last couple levels seemed to go by waaaay faster than they did on my miner. Dunno if it's just a perspective thing, tho. It really helped that I had my miner at 60 to farm the blue scrip gear so I could jump right in at the higher end of the collectables (not the ones that only give like 10 scrips or whatever.)

The problem is with some of the gathering, you don't know you've gathered something worthless unless you look on the MB beforehand, which can be a pain if you're leveling.
Like Wyvern Obsidian. For some reason it costs nothing on Diabolos. And Silver Ore/Ingots are more expensive than mythril. And randomly one of the gems will be worth getting, but most of the time unless you are leveling a GSM the gems are worthless too.

From my own leveling experience:
Anything with Ore in name sold
Anything with Alumen in name sold
Anything with Log in name sold
With 3.x the amount of mats is staggering so a lot of the stuff sells...
Various sand and ore and logs.

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Originally Posted by FunkyBunch

The problem is with some of the gathering, you don't know you've gathered something worthless unless you look on the MB beforehand, which can be a pain if you're leveling.

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I will always collect stuff when I level into different nodes then look at the MB after. Like you I had to NPC Wyvern Obsidian.

If you're going the leve route make sure you only do evaluation types. The 25% bonus exp is way more efficient than doing all of them.

Leves are the quickest, but are you also a crafter? If so, gathering high yield stuff (i.e. darksteel ore) means you can CRAFT high yield stuff (darksteel nuggets) and then sell a more valuable product on the market place. You get experience for gathering AND crafting AND you make money. And sometimes you just want to do some brain dead gathering for 20-30 minutes. Get into a rhythm and whack away. And like Roth says, GC hand in's are a nice supplemental source of experience AND you get GC seals. BTW, there's really no short cuts for fishing, it's just a pain in the ass, LOTS of monotonous grinding.