Level 21, no leve allowances left, what now?

Hello.

Returning player here. I got 19 on my PGL, quit for awhile, decided to come back seeing as how Tera is your typical Korean MMO, looking to get the Goobue mount and few level 50's before 2.0 hits.

Yeah, I know this game ain't great either but I got a soft spot for FFXIV. I played FFXI for 4 years.

Anyways, this time I brought my girlfriend along and we've been duoing a bit. Me, being a returning player, I have copious amounts of leve allowances. She, being a new account and all, has barely any. We've burned through them all and the wait time on getting new allowances is pretty damn silly.

So what do we do now? Is there any grind spots that you guys can recommend? Do we have to start full group partying FFXI-style?

I don't know much about the game, especially since I left at such an early level and there's been so many patches and game changes.

I mean, we could do my leve's using my allowances but she wouldn't get that nice chunk of experience bonus at the end.. kinda messes up our plan of leveling together. I'd be a few levels higher in the end.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Powerleveling.

You could always just do your leves with her unless you're dead-set against getting too terribly far ahead in levels. The only thing she'll be missing out on is the expanded exp bonus at the end (she will get 10% of what you get, I think). Heck, if you wanted to, you could start the leve, log out, log in, join party, and link back up to the leve. Then neither one of you would get the expanded exp bonus at the end, but that seems like a rather silly solution.

That said, if leves are your baseline, just go out and kill stuff. It's not that different, though you will have to go through the trouble of finding an appropriate camp.

No, not power-leveling, Bad Kitty.

Six, if I may be so bold, to reccomend something here for you.

Try out this monster locator tool.

This will allow you to see the locations of common monsters, their number, and their level. This will enable you to find your own camp wherever you may reside in Eorza.

Also keep in mind that your Leve allowances will grow back, at a rate about 6 per day. So while you're fighting in other camps or looking for quests to do, you will be growing a stockpile of leves to use again.

Hope this helps!

Meh, I'd rather not powerlevel. Seems kind of lame. I've been reading these forums and it looks like most people go that route though.

@Raldo
Yeah we are probably going to just do my leves. Then do hers whenever they refresh. Just have to suck it up.

@Hyrist
Wow, that's an amazing tool. Pretty useful, that should help a good bit. I wish the allowances grew back a bit quicker, but we'll make do I suppose. Let's hope we can get 30 before Patch 1.23!

Thanks for the information and links guys.

Options:
1) Grind
2) Power level
3) Do quests
4) Craft grind
5) DoL Grind
6) Join a GC (Long quest line)
7) Run that low level dungeon for GC seals
8) Take a break from the game till you get more Leves.

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Originally Posted by Renen

Options:
1) Grind
2) Power level
3) Do quests
4) Craft grind
5) DoL Grind
6) Join a GC (Long quest line)
7) Run that low level dungeon for GC seals
8) Take a break from the game till you get more Leves.

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What level do we have to be to join a GC? I've been looking to do those.

You can also join in on other people's leves if they don't mind you not having any left of your own.

lvl 24 i think

Also, with a Duo you may be able to succeed in your corresponding level's Behests, something to do to break up the grind of camping normal roaming monsters, at least.

I wouldn't recommend anything other than powerleveling until quest XP takes over in 2.0; even then, powerleveling may be faster

Since you're level 20 you just unlocked your class quest.
Also, do what grand company quests you can. Don't forget that you can do quests for all three until a certain point~
Go to Uldah and shout for a leve party.
Do sidequests and read the dialogue... immerse yourself in the world of Hydaelyn.
Go to the adventurer's guild and do a leve history evaluation! You'll get another leve that gives more rewards.

In fact, do the inn questline. Not only is Hildibrand freaking hilarious, but by the time you're done you might have some more leves to do.

Keeping doing this and work on your GC questline. Once you enter the Thousands Maws of Toto-rak, get parties for that instance dungeon until you get the gear you want - save your seals. You'll also get a lot of exp. Do that, leves, and whatever class/main scenario/grand company quests come up. Do that until lv30 where you can do your job quest.

Start working on your other class for the job you want and get to lv15.

Don't be afraid of powerleveling - this game doesn't have enough content yet to make leveling from 1-50 a varied, interesting and entertaining experience.

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What level do we have to be to join a GC? I've been looking to do those.

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Lv 22 for GC

And you have still a bit of time to reach lv 30. The gobbue don't become unobtainable with 1.23, but with 1.23a

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We would like to take a moment to inform you that the goobbue mount will become unobtainable upon the release of patch 1.23a.

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Ah, lots of replies! Thanks for all the information guys. Good stuff all around. It seems we are very close to the GC quests, that's cool. I'm sure we'll easily get 30 before 1.23a gets patched in.

I also forgot about Behests, I will have to look out for those.

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Do we have to start full group partying FFXI-style?

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That's usually what everyone does who is not so lazy to get himself PL'd.
20 might be a bit early but I started joining grinding parties around that lvl as well and I met many people that way with who I still play today :)
Especially from lvl 30 onwards it's the fastest way of (non-PL) leveling and you both get the same amount of exp, too!^^
It's also less nervewrecking than in FFXI so you might want to give it a try.
Put yourself up in group search or build your own party by shouting in Ul'dah.
The monster locator might be useful to find a good leveling spot :)

Everything else was already said - GC quests, miniquests, Toto-Rak dungeon, main story quests, leves,..
If you enjoy open world content try the Shposhae dungeon near Limsa Lominsa (lvl15+), the monsters deeper inside are ~lvl 20 and drop keys for various chests with decent gear until you get some drops from Toto-Rak :)

Edit: Behests are still out there, but the reward in exp and Gil is so bad it's usually not worth your time. But if you are in a camp and it's about to start it doesn't hurt to join either.

my question is what lvl is your gf?

With leve allowances it's not that long to go from 0-99 takes about 12-13 days. As for xp boost from completing a leve it's not really noticeble til the 30+ leves where you can get a nice chunk of xp for completing them. Honestly I'd say if you don't want to get the xp boost to get to far ahread of her you could do that following.

I think the following works, what you could do is this.
-Stare a leve using your leve charge.
-Abandon your leve being sure she if in said leve.
-Then join back in leve with her
-Complete leve killing mobs focusing more on xp chaining rather than the xp at the end(aka if you're ina leve where you have to uncover a mob kill all the mobs before finishing the leve)
-At the end of the leve you'll pretty much both get the same amount of xp and better yet you'll be able to do the leve again without having to head back to town by simply selecting -retry- on the leve card.

From the 20-30 path the xp is like:
From leve mobs=5-10k
From completing a leve=1k

So really the boost for completing a leve isn't as great as it is to take your time, beat the mobs and chain on them

From what I've noticed the leve mobs also seem weaker than the outside world mobs so chaining them is easier then chaining the outside mobs. Since you do have someone else playing with you, you can easily dispatch foes that are 3-6 lvs higher than you whatever you feel more comfortable with and get a nice chunk of xp from it.

take a break for a week lol

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take a break for a week lol

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in a bed at the inn after doing the hildebrand quests and get some good rested exp a decent amount of leves will you get and grab some food both of you off the market wards that boost exp and then you're golden

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Originally Posted by Airget

With leve allowances it's not that long to go from 0-99 takes about 12-13 days. As for xp boost from completing a leve it's not really noticeble til the 30+ leves where you can get a nice chunk of xp for completing them. Honestly I'd say if you don't want to get the xp boost to get to far ahread of her you could do that following.

I think the following works, what you could do is this.
-Stare a leve using your leve charge.
-Abandon your leve being sure she if in said leve.
-Then join back in leve with her
-Complete leve killing mobs focusing more on xp chaining rather than the xp at the end(aka if you're ina leve where you have to uncover a mob kill all the mobs before finishing the leve)
-At the end of the leve you'll pretty much both get the same amount of xp and better yet you'll be able to do the leve again without having to head back to town by simply selecting -retry- on the leve card.

From the 20-30 path the xp is like:
From leve mobs=5-10k
From completing a leve=1k

So really the boost for completing a leve isn't as great as it is to take your time, beat the mobs and chain on them

From what I've noticed the leve mobs also seem weaker than the outside world mobs so chaining them is easier then chaining the outside mobs. Since you do have someone else playing with you, you can easily dispatch foes that are 3-6 lvs higher than you whatever you feel more comfortable with and get a nice chunk of xp from it.

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Yeah, I've actually thought of doing something like this, lol.

It's whatever though, we'll make do. I've actually enjoyed reading some of the quests we've done. Pretty interesting and comical. I think we'll just do some quests, grind some mobs here and there, do some leves, join a Behest or two, and explore the world.

@Neorei
Yeah, maybe we should. Ha.

If you really want to level grind some mobs that give good gil, aldgoats are a good target as the horns sell for 5k each on the wards (on my server anyway) and you can always sell skins too
I always gather when I am out of leves though, couple hours for a million gil is pretty standard for a miner or botanist

I think we did level 21 opos in gridania at 17-21. 3 man party though, so you might have to adjust depending on your levels and classes.

A warning against aldgoat horns: they must be incapacitated to have a chance of dropping. You need to use skull sunder, bloodletter, spirits within, or concussive blow often and/or hard enough to break them (it will visibly appear broken off on the goat) and use it from the correct angle. I'm not sure if its horns require you to use it from the side or the front though. Incapacitation is a bit tricky.

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions, tips, and comments. You guys are pretty cool, yo. Were happily going about our GC quests as of yesterday and will soon be level 30 and hopefully get some level 50s in a month or two.

Hats off to you for not going to the Power Leveling way. It might seem like most people do it that way, but the majority of players didn't for a while. Before 2012 came around it was all 8 levequests every other day and grind parties. After a certain patch, people found out how to power level. They patched that out but many have tasted the bittersweet fruit of easy and can't seem to stop.
Alot of people that have joined recently almost exclusively powerlevel. It's kind of lame, but not our business on how other players decide to skip content.

on week-ends I see shout for exp parties from level 15 or even level 1
unfortunately it's often by Japanese people and it can sometimes be hard to get into the group because of language
but if you do so, you will level up smoothly

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A warning against aldgoat horns: they must be incapacitated to have a chance of dropping. You need to use skull sunder, bloodletter, spirits within, or concussive blow often and/or hard enough to break them (it will visibly appear broken off on the goat) and use it from the correct angle. I'm not sure if its horns require you to use it from the side or the front though. Incapacitation is a bit tricky.

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I've found that comboing into Concussive Blow or other abilities that incap from the front is the best way

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Originally Posted by MrKupo

Hats off to you for not going to the Power Leveling way. It might seem like most people do it that way, but the majority of players didn't for a while. Before 2012 came around it was all 8 levequests every other day and grind parties. After a certain patch, people found out how to power level. They patched that out but many have tasted the bittersweet fruit of easy and can't seem to stop.
Alot of people that have joined recently almost exclusively powerlevel. It's kind of lame, but not our business on how other players decide to skip content.

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Why make a post about it then?