Dont Be Silly Like Me-I didnt Level to 70 in 90 days

Dont be like me and take your time. Dont read quests, craft or watch cinematics. Straight up level level level. Get to dungeon level and do nothing but level before your new character xp buff goes away at 90 days. Some Square Enix developer is sitting in his leather chair laughing his a** off at me. I probably knew, but didnt know. Make the most of the danged buff before it goes away. WOW refugees beware. It is different from WOW.
i feel like im being punished for taking my time as a casual player. My guildies just told me, take your time on the second class once you get the first one to max. DO THAT. :eek::eek:

Even if people read all quests, craft and watch cinematics...it doesn't take most people 90 days to reach lvl 70.

I've been taking my time, reading and following along with quest story lines, and I've managed to get 3 jobs leveled close to 70; plus all the time I've put into crafting jobs and stuff.

I think it's more of an issue concerning time management than following story lines. Also, I think Road to 70 is a bonus, not something owed to us that we lose. We are lucky to have it to begin with I think.

People are constantly turning this into a bigger issue than it actually is - there are so, so many ways to level in this game and so many different buffs and bonus-exp that you can get that I'll never understand why people feel the need to rush leveling or why they're worried they might miss out on bonus exp.

Make sure to always log out in a sanctuary (like a city or an inn) so you'll get your rest-exp-bonus. Buy some cheap food for the extra 3%. Get FC-buffs or manuals from your Squadron for more bonus-exp. Some special items will give you an exp-bonus up to certain levels aswell. Keep and eye out on your weekly agenda and make sure to complete all the easy tasks here! Daily roulettes will give a lot of exp aswell.

This game really isnt like WoW - its a lot more about the journey and in my personal opinion you should make the most of that and actually enjoy the story, take your time and watch your cutscenes. You'll have time enough to level a second, third, fourth job to max-level if you wish to do so.
If you rush through the story to get your first class to max-level there wont be much left to take your time with with your second class. Theres also little benefit to reaching endgame super fast - yes, there are raids and mas-level content, obviously. But at least to me the story really is the mainselling point and until we get New Game Plus you wont get that experience back.

Bottomline: Bad advice, in my opinion. Play the game in a way thats enjoyable to you, not in a way that is dictated by some buff thats absolutly not required which is to reach max level asap.

Lmao. You’re given a free buff - just for being new - to level faster and you feel punished when it’s gone after 90 days.

Let’s sit here a moment and think about how long 90 real days are.

It's really not that serious.

Good warning in case people don’t know.

However, I leveled from 60 to 70 without realizing I could have used the XP earring.

Trying rush through everything will only burn you out and put you off the game.

Does this xp buff even apply to things like quest xp, roulettes, or Deep Dungeon?


If not it's kinda worthless anyway.

According to lodestone the guy's got 53 monk, every DoH at 50+ and every gatherer at 60+ not much time for reading dialog. Troll thread for sure.

What even!?

Sorry OP but that is horrible advice to give to any new player. You are greatly over-exaggerating the situation.

90 days is a huge amount of time and the game tosses experience by the bucket load as you level your first job through the game.

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Originally Posted by SerLuke

According to lodestone the guy's got 53 monk, every DoH at 50+ and every gatherer at 60+ not much time for reading dialog. Troll thread for sure.

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How did you arrive at that conclusion?
ARR has a lot of dialouge to read. Crafter and Gatherer quests have a lot of dialouge to read - and depending on how you level them that can take quite some time. Considering his level 53 monk is the highste DoW/DoM he has, getting his miner up to 67 must have been quite painful - his monk only being 53 means that he probably doesnt has access to HW-areas and for sure not to SB, where the nodes for level 50+ or 60+ are found.

So I can easly see how he "wasted" his 90 days of bonus exp on leveling crafting and gathering job through uneffienct methods, taking a lot of time - and now he feels like he shouldnt have spent that much time on those jobs and focussed on leveling instead. It would be a pretty eloborate prank to slow-level a miner in ARR-areas to 67 just to create a troll thread.

Either way: One can for sure take their time playing through the mainstory without ever worrying about exp, wether they have the new character bonus or not. Given that you use the right methods for leveling your job in question, leveling is quite quick and easy aswell.
And at the end of the day its a game - and you should enjoy playing it. So best to figure out what it is you enjoy the most and then find a way to ensure you can focus on that.

Edit: Just for the record though... in a sense the OP has a point. Leveling gatheres and crafters this much ahead without access to the new areas is indeed silly. But not because of the new character bonus, just because its an extremly uneffecient way of leveling.

A twitch streamer/youtube reviewer named SkillUp went from 1-80 in about a month. He didn't rush, he worked at a steady pace and enjoyed himself. Now I hardly expect anyone to play 6-8 hours a day for 4 days a week but you can easily stretch that time out and still be done in the 90 day time limit with the buff.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

How did you arrive at that conclusion?
ARR has a lot of dialouge to read. Crafter and Gatherer quests have a lot of dialouge to read - and depending on how you level them that can take quite some time. Considering his level 53 monk is the highste DoW/DoM he has, getting his miner up to 67 must have been quite painful - his monk only being 53 means that he probably doesnt has access to HW-areas and for sure not to SB, where the nodes for level 50+ or 60+ are found.

So I can easly see how he "wasted" his 90 days of bonus exp on leveling crafting and gathering job through uneffienct methods, taking a lot of time - and now he feels like he shouldnt have spent that much time on those jobs and focussed on leveling instead. It would be a pretty eloborate prank to slow-level a miner in ARR-areas to 67 just to create a troll thread.

Either way: One can for sure take their time playing through the mainstory without ever worrying about exp, wether they have the new character bonus or not. Given that you use the right methods for leveling your job in question, leveling is quite quick and easy aswell.
And at the end of the day its a game - and you should enjoy playing it. So best to figure out what it is you enjoy the most and then find a way to ensure you can focus on that.

Edit: Just for the record though... in a sense the OP has a point. Leveling gatheres and crafters this much ahead without access to the new areas is indeed silly. But not because of the new character bonus, just because its an extremly uneffecient way of leveling.

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I'm calling it trolling because he said his reason for not being 70 was reading quest dialog, that had nothing to do with it clearly. He chose to spend his time leveling every doh/dol for some reason then he jumped on here making a thread giving bad "advice"

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

Does this xp buff even apply to things like quest xp, roulettes, or Deep Dungeon?


If not it's kinda worthless anyway.

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yes, road to 70 applies to quest exper, hunt logs, levequest, GC turn in, everything. It's a really powerful buff and should have been something we could choose over delete all quests up to 70, jump potions.

Taking 90 days to reach level 70 isn't being a 'casual player'.

That's just straight up not playing the game. Or at least not even attempting to make MSQ progress for over a month.

Not like the buff matters anyway. Just do a few more quests and you won't know the difference.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Even if people read all quests, craft and watch cinematics...it doesn't take most people 90 days to reach lvl 70.

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That is an insane amount of time even if you do all that for sure.

Maybe if you were playing like and hour or two a day max?

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Originally Posted by SerLuke

I'm calling it trolling because he said his reason for not being 70 was reading quest dialog, that had nothing to do with it clearly. He chose to spend his time leveling every doh/dol for some reason then he jumped on here making a thread giving bad "advice"

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Oh there it is. Even I couldn't do that. Crafting is BORING.

As Luke said, OP spent most his time crafting and crafting does take a bit of time to do, plus doing the gathering things.
No only that, OP is doing the MSQ as a DPS, so that takes even more time and couple that with daily life...then...yeah...not sure what was expected lol.

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Originally Posted by randcome

My guildies just told me, take your time on the second class once you get the first one to max. DO THAT. :eek::eek:

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That's not good advice anyway - there's no reason to rush one job to max level. They may be going on the outdated information that the amount of bonus EXP you get on second jobs is affected by the level of your highest job - it is not. Any job other than your highest will get an EXP boost based on its own current level and nothing else.

Also, your advice to "get to dungeon level and do nothing but level" makes it sound like you're recommending grinding Sastasha, which would be absolute hell - and certainly not efficient use of your double EXP.

Do quests. Enjoy those quests. Do your daily roulettes for big chunks of bonus EXP every time. You'll get to max level eventually, and it's not that exciting to be there.

Oh please... the buff doesn't make THAT much difference.

If you are not into the "mmmos begins at lvl max where you have to farm raids for better stuff, so i have to rush rush rush to be there as soon as possible" mindset, it can take a very long time to reach 70. In fact when i did begin the game it tooks me 4 months to reach 60 (that was the max level then), and i sure dont play two hours per day only. You might have lose track of it if you are only doing daily expert roulettes, but FF14 is a game with a huge choice of differents things to do. A new player has whole years of content to discover, you dont catch up to that in a few weeks.

I still remember the first player i added to my friend list, who was in the "rush to reach the end game raids" crowd. While i was cutting wood with my botanist, going back to level 1 to try another fighting job, and doing another side contents not caring that much about the MSQ, he was awfully quick to reach 60. And did leave the game right away, not even doing the raids he was wanting to do. Which didn't surprise me when he was forcing himself so much to go so quickly through quests he didn't like. Since then the first advice i do give a new player is usually to not burn themselves out on the MSQ, and to take a break doing something else if it becomes tiring doing it.

So yes, think a bit before following blindly what the OP is saying XD

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Originally Posted by randcome

Dont be like me and take your time. Dont read quests, craft or watch cinematics. Straight up level level level. Get to dungeon level and do nothing but level before your new character xp buff goes away at 90 days. Some Square Enix developer is sitting in his leather chair laughing his a** off at me. I probably knew, but didnt know. Make the most of the danged buff before it goes away. WOW refugees beware. It is different from WOW.
i feel like im being punished for taking my time as a casual player. My guildies just told me, take your time on the second class once you get the first one to max. DO THAT. :eek::eek:

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I can't tell if you're being serious or not, but if you're taking your time as a casual player, you honestly shouldn't/couldn't care less for exp buffs.

Take the exp bar off of your UI, Mr. Casual. I dare ya. I double dare ya!

Back in my day, we didn't even have a Road to 70 EXP buff!

Punished? I never felt that way. It took me half a year (yes, you read that correctly) to level up my one and only combat class to 70. I dunno. It feels like I earned my 70 and all, to me at least.

As long as you aren't causing grief in partied content, you should play how you want to play.

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Originally Posted by randcome

My guildies just told me, take your time on the second class once you get the first one to max. DO THAT. :eek::eek:

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This is exactly the wrong thing to do.

Take your time with your 1st class. Rush the 2nd class. This games biggest strength is the journey to level cap. You rush through that and all you are going to take away from this game is grinding.

What's the rush? I have a friend who is straight 80's now including land/craft. He has his Amaro mount... so now what does he do? He's not the type to use alts. We're only about 2 months into the xpac.

This fascination with leveling everything so quickly is a bit beyond me and I have lots of alts.

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

What's the rush? I have a friend who is straight 80's now including land/craft. He has his Amaro mount... so now what does he do? He's not the type to use alts. We're only about 2 months into the xpac.

This fascination with leveling everything so quickly is a bit beyond me and I have lots of alts.

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Admittedly that’s what I’m doing though I just kinda want to get my amaro mount so I can spend more time playing other games, for example I still need to beat Nier Automata two more times before 5.1

Just reroll another character on a preferred server and you'll get the buff back. Honestly I'd use the buff to level crafting and gathering first. MSQ will pretty much level you from 1-80 so the buff is nice but crafting is what takes too long. Also remember you can rewatch skipped cutscenes in the Inn. So you don't have to sit through all of them if you're in a rush.

Road to 70 is an assistive feature and it's certainly not required.

Many of us levelled up just fine without having the "Road to 60/70" buff. Heck back in my day (now I feel old...) we didn't even get quest exp for all the 2.1-2.55 story quests and we didn't have things like Palace of the Dead/Heaven on High either, but we still managed to get 50/60/70 on multiple jobs without much effort.

If you've got the buff, great, try and take advantage of it, but when you lose it, don't even worry about it. It's not the end of the world and it's not worth rushing through content and burning out instead of just enjoying the game you're paying to play.

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

What's the rush?

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Problem is: Content before max level is pointless aside from the story. Any farm, achievement, whatever can be done unsync at max level for the same reward. Getting sidetracked before max level basically means wasting time, objectively. That's the way the game was designed.

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Originally Posted by RoyalBeef

Problem is: Content before max level is pointless aside from the story. Any farm, achievement, whatever can be done unsync at max level for the same reward. Getting sidetracked before max level basically means wasting time, objectively. That's the way the game was designed.

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Wasting time? I enjoy the game at all levels. I don't need all my roles at max to be happy. Guess that's me but I just don't see the need for speed like some want.

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Originally Posted by RoyalBeef

Problem is: Content before max level is pointless aside from the story.

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Content before max level is what gets you to max level.