Are HW Beast tribes decent XP?

With all the suggestions I've gotten for leveling in my own way at my own comfort, I've really appreciated being awakened to the fun of beast tribes for capping out some "almost there" levels in Stormblood and for getting from 70-71 (to get jobs into trust range) in Shadowbringers.

I am now faced with my steepest climb on my last job to go from 51-70, and I think I recall someone saying that ARR and perhaps even HW beast tribes were in a different format from later expansions... so I'm wondering if HW beast tribes are worth seeking out for XP relevant for the time spent.

Am I remembering this delineation of format correctly, and if so are they still as worthwhile as their later incarnations?

Thanks in advance for any and all helpful replies!

From memory they only give you decent EXP if you are within the level range of the expansion. Not sure if it's exactly 50-59 or 51-60 or whatever, but I think it will vary on the "accept quest" pop-up according to your current job.

HW and up beast tribes are indeed good experience while you're in the level range for the expansion they're from. So HW will fall off at 60 but they are a good daily amount until then. Also your daily Hunts.

I dont recall them being that useful, maybe 75-90k xp per quest. Not much out of the millions you need to level through. They take a lot longer to complete than SB and ShB dailies too.

Beast Tribes are worth it for the rewards not the XP - apart from the DoH ones.

I don't think they should be one's only source of exp, even for alt jobs. It's a considerable time investment otherwise. Stormblood's beast tribe quest exp isn't much of an improvement but it's still slightly better. Shadowbringers beast tribe exp though...wow. That's all I can say. They are a nice daily alternative if you don't want to do anything else to level.

On their own, they're not great, but it's a way to pass the time during duty finder queues. Same for Stormblood.

Shadowbringers only has one combat beast tribe, the pixies, but they give ridiculous XP. It's been a while since I finished leveling, so I can't check, but I think at max reputation they give most of a level for three quick quests. It's absurd.

They're okay, but not really worth it on their own. It's more a thing to do when you've already done your dailies/weekiles or if you're waiting for a queue to pop. In SB they're better. It's not really until ShB that they're really worth doing even if it's the only daily task you have time for.

Daily beast tribes and daily hunt bills are great experience for their intended level range, so for Heavensward ones that is 50-60. They can be boring to do compared to a dungeon though so most people do them while in a queue for a dungeon.

It may help to know the experience gain increases when you max the rank of the beast tribe.

So if you get into a routine. HW's hunts and best tribes take 20ish minutes. Memory is a little fuzzy think it was two levels every 6 days. But that is only if max rank with tribes as xp bonus went up with rank. The mobs for beast tribe quests scale to your lvl so they don't get much faster. But hunts will get faster. You can do all hunts at 50 with bird an ilvl 130.It might be a little boring. Was a lot more fun when they first come out and beast tribes are really active. But now it is great if you just want some quiet stress free xp that doesn't bother anyone else.

I recently leveled job from 50 to 60 only by HW beast tribe quests. It was jarring to say the least.

Wouldn't change a thing though, you're not probably meant to level anything by one note like that.

You should be able to level up a single job in its entirety doing enough beast tribe quest from zero to max rank. Post this, it's still a decent daily boost...but it's not necessarily better than, say daily PvP. I would also say, don't forget that Wondrous Tails offers a pretty large boost for fairly minimal work.

If you are limited on time and are looking for options outside of the obvious roulette, beast tribe quests aren't a bad option.

As mentioned, they're best used in tandem with duty finder stuff, or while in the zone gathering/questing.

Do note, accepted quests do not expire; you could theoretically accept 3, wait until the next day, and do 6 when you have time.

Even if it's not the most efficient XP gain, beast tribe quests are a nice diversion from other content/grinds and net a decent amount of XP.

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Originally Posted by kaynide

Do note, accepted quests do not expire; you could theoretically accept 3, wait until the next day, and do 6 when you have time.

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This was my favorite trick with beast tribes and daily Hunts because sometimes I was home from work very late and too tired to keep up on them.