Quote Originally Posted by Vaer View Post
There are actually people grinding 50+ jobs in northern thanalan on the FATEs there which seems to indicate there is an efficiency problem in HW areas once you finish all the quests.
Yeah, I've seen that, but there's no real point. You get a marginal increase in XP over doing FATEs in Ishgard. The people doing it haven't even gotten their first job to 60, so it's not indicative of a efficiency problem after you've finished the new MSQ.

The best XP 50-60 is the new dungeons. FATEs will be essentially the level they were before the expansion once people get their Armory bonus back (getting level 60).

That seems to be the biggest lack of understanding: The armory bonus for 1-49 was DOUBLED and the armory bonus for 50-60 doesn't exist until you get your first job to 60. I think that's causing a lot of confusion.