No desire to play now

[Hyrist]

I think some of you folks, on your first 60, had full rest bonus.

I didn't.

In fact, I had to grind out the last 3/4 of a few levels because I ran out of quests, challenge logs, FATEs are crap, and not all hunts are doable first time around(level, location).

I started with 0 rest bonus. I came here 6 weeks ago. Bard to 50, and a bunch of others between 20 and 46 before HW started up for cross class skills. Then took AST to 60 first.

I got all day every day to sit here and level. Just really boring after the first job.

Rested bonus doesn't factor into quest experience though. And, honestly, rested is really easy to gain (Rest anywhere marked Sanctuary each night, most times, you won't burn out unless all you are doing is grinding fate mobs)

I have to ask what you're doing in your pastime to gain Exp. It sounds like nobody gave you any help in now to work downtime to your advantage.

I can't help you with boredom though, that's a subjective thing. Everyone is entertained by different things. For me, there's enough variance for me to enjoy the time it takes to level. To the point where I could ( and did) skip questing in specific areas and still not mind the pacing.

[Arkista]

if you do your roulettes, you don't need the side quests for your first job.

If you want to take 3 weeks.

IDK how many hours it took me to get to level60, but it wasn't that bad. All MSQ, almost all SQ (have two open in last zone), two days of Hunts, Trials, Low Level, and less than 15 fates, also 3 (L) leves at level 59, only ran one extra dungeon at like level 57. I was 60 on the 3rd day.

Doing all the Side Quest on your first 60, is better than saving them for the second. I hit 51 DRK today it's just god awful boring (I love the job though).

[seida]

It took me all of my MSQs, all of my side quests, a little bit of hunts, and ~5 dungeons of grinding to get up to level 60 on my FIRST job.

5 dungeons is... grinding? I did at least 5 dungeons per level, probably more because I like to get the gear.

Dungeons are really good exp. Add in roulettes and hunts etc and I really don't see the problem.

[AlphaFox]

I kinda expect them to raise the fates exp eventually in the new areas. I would like to assume they give crap exp because they don't want people farming those and ignoring the story and other side quests. Perhaps they will increase later on?

[Kaedan94]

There are plenty of options to level quickly.

1) Dungeons. These are almost as fast as using the MSQ. All the time you spend running around, fighting, and watching cutscenes is not much shorter than just running a dungeon like the Vault. And if you do the Daily Roulette for High, Low, and Trials, you can get a huge chunk of XP in a very short amount of time.
2) Daily Hunts.
3) Challenge Log. Again, a huge chunk of XP to be gained very quickly by doing the following: Dungeons, Player Commendation voting, FATEs, Guildhest (just the 3 one, 10 isn't really worth it), and the first Levequest one (20 leves isn't really worth it unless you've been doing leves for crafting and use the last one you need as DoW or DoM).
4) FATEs if you're somewhat masochistic.

If you want to take 3 weeks.


Doing all the Side Quest on your first 60, is better than saving them for the second. I hit 51 DRK today it's just god awful boring (I love the job though).

Completely disagree. I have been skipping all Side quests except for the Aether Current ones, and it doesn't take any longer than if I did the Side quests. In fact, it has taken me less time than if I did the Side Quests because I don't have to spend all that time running around everywhere and talking to NPCs. I fill in missing XP with Dungeons mostly.

[Rhysati]

if you do your roulettes, you don't need the side quests for your first job.

Only if you don't mind taking weeks to level to 60. I did all my roulettes, a whole slew of extra dungeon runs and it still took me about a full week to level WITH doing all the side quests along the way.

My alt classes have nothing to do other than FATE grind until they can access new dungeons, then just grind them endlessly.

[Rhaja]

Huh... I did 1 and 2 star, Low, High and Trial Roulette, and I got about forty percent of the EXP I needed from level 57-58.

I think the biggest problem your facing is one I helped some FC mates of mine with. Stop looking at it as individual levels, and that each level is equal to ten levels. They said it would take as long as getting 1-50, and its living up to it.

Oh and these dungeons are actually fun to run, wouldn't mind doing the grind again. Just gotta figure out which class that's going to be.

[nuyu11]

Take a rest and do it slowly....

[Lorielle]

Okay. Take a break. Let you rested EXP build so that it moves faster. Outside of that, you ARE going to grind. You are NOT going to get around this. Period. HOW you want to grind is completely up to you and what you can tolerate. People can tell you the most EFFECIENT way to grind, but it's still mindless no matter what. Your first job will be leveled PRIMARILY through MSQ quests just like back in 2.0(though falling short in the end again). Now you're back with the second job which gets Armory Bonus. How did we level now?

- Fate Grinding
- Hunting Logs
- Leves
- Dungeons
- Roulettes
- NPC Quests

You have a number of ways to get EXP now. However, the EXP gain is all fixed according to your level to prevent EXP Gain abuse. The BEST way for tanks and healers anyway, is to dungeon grind(actually DPS too, but you get the option of staying out long enough to Fate Grind in between). You will potentially average about 330-360k each dungeon run(Armory Bonus factored). You can also do Northern Thanalan Fates if the train is active and fast for about 21k each with Gorgimera and DD factored into occasionally(Forgot the numbers here). These are your two effective ways of leveling anything else. Don't want that? You can also do some Hunts to get a fresh of breath air. Leves too, leves these days are best used for your crafts and gathering classes IMHO.

That's my advice. It's EASY to level. It's just long and mind numbing if you want to shotgun it. It takes 1 day of straight grinding to get a job to 50. About 1-2 days to get it from 50-60 of straight grinding. It's all a matter of how much patience you have.

[Lemuria]

It took me all of my MSQs, all of my side quests, a little bit of hunts, and ~5 dungeons of grinding to get up to level 60 on my FIRST job.

How? No, seriously. It's literally impossible to level a job purely on quests alone because so many of them are gated behind MSQ, and so many others will be higher level than you thus unable to turn in for rewards. I know, because I did this.

By the time I hit 60 on my White Mage I found there were tons of new quests which had arrived as a result of me progressing through the MSQ and other sidequests. Most of which, I can't run yet because they're higher level than the jobs I have.

I currently have three other jobs at 52. These include Paladin, Black Mage, and Bard. This didn't take me too long on the face of it, since running dungeons and daily quests earns you a significant amount of XP. I'll probably be doing the same thing to 60 on each of them, filling in with the extra sidequests both to ensure the XP doesn't go to waste and to explore more of the lore behind the game.

Sure, it's not going to happen overnight, but that's half the fun. If you don't enjoy grind, then don't grind. Sit back and let yourself level up more naturally. There's no rule that says you have to have every job at max level within the first few weeks of the release. Or any other time besides.