Hit level 30, unlocked job.. feeling a bit lost and a bit bored

[chococo]

Fates are almost always up. When one despawns due to timing out or being completed another spawns shortly after. You should never, ever find yourself in a situation where they are unavailable. This isn't a server to server thing either. The game rotates out the fates in each zone with a bit of randomness so that they are constantly popping up.

I believe the problem OP is experiencing is the lack of other players to clear FATES, rather than lack of FATE spawn. When new jobs are released, they are indeed really quick EXP farming methods, cos you have bazillion people zerging them to death in mere seconds. But when the rush dies down, FATES for small number of players takes a while.

[chococo]

Anyone who played XI would probably agree with me that it beats going through the game blind, not knowing what's safe to level on and what isn't.

No sorry, I've played alot of FFXI and I still agree with Dimitrias. There was more fillers in between as you leveled. XIV is rush rush rush to 50 then grind grind grind to get everything AT EVERY STEP EVERY PATCH. Surely several-year-old content will inevitably be abandoned, this would happen in any game. But by TOAU the game was already several years old and the world/system well established.

[Ashkendor]

If anything, it's the Hunting Log that doesn't really contribute to much, I think.

The hunting log gives a total of over 560,000 exp, which is enough to level you from 49-50.

Not bad for just plinking at a few random mobs here and there.

[BreathlessTao]

The hunting log gives a total of over 560,000 exp, which is enough to level you from 49-50.

Not bad for just plinking at a few random mobs here and there.

True.

If you leave the entirety of it alone until you reach 49. Which I don't believe is possible even if you're only FATEing.

[sirDarts]

I don't know, but I remember that till level 40 I basically never had a road-block in my way, just doing quests and one roulette daily is more than enough to get you to 40 without ever running out of new stuff to do.
After 40 it slowed down very slightly, but I only considered the last two levels a grind (easy grind for me due to quick roulette).

[Black_Wing]

I don't know, but I remember that till level 40 I basically never had a road-block in my way, just doing quests and one roulette daily is more than enough to get you to 40 without ever running out of new stuff to do.
After 40 it slowed down very slightly, but I only considered the last two levels a grind (easy grind for me due to quick roulette).

Yeah, those last few levels drag on if you aren't doing quests. I was doing a combo of fates and leves in Mor Dhona for a few classes, a few others I just stuck it out in North Thanalan when the zone was hot and fates popped like candy and many players to zerg them.

[starLivitation]

Why does the game really start at cap? I remember back in ffxi there was tons of stuff to do as you leveld. Things like eco-warrior, bcnm's, hunting rare nm's which were in every single zone, helping your nation control regions on the map. Plus as the game went on they added even more mid lvl content like the promy expantion which i think started at lvl 20.

The whole lvl 1-75 in ffxi was soooo much bigger than what we have from 1-50 in ffxiv.

I wish they wouldn't treat the leveling like a tuturiol.

i agree and it's pretty sad. most of the content below 50 becomes irrelelivant. re-doing trials or guidhiest is not a challange nor its worth it. ffxi had low level BCNM challlanges where u need to work your arse, and u get rewarded with rare items and stuff for crafting.