Currently lvl54, advice for levelling?

[zakalw3]

I've returned to the game after a 2 year or so break. Working through the story (which has actually become quite engaging, for an mmo at least), running my daily dungeon roulette, gearing using Poetic tomes, and running into the odd FATE here and there.

Is there anything I should be working toward specifically at this point? I'm pretty lost with all the new end game content, airships, diadem, savage, etc...

Should I be running Coil at all? Is Poetic gear the best I can get currently?

Thanks for any advice. Game feels huge again, enjoying that while it lasts. :3

[Rikku1987]

New Heavensward Dungeons give really good XP, if you're far enough in story i'd recommence them. Also drops gear to progress while lvling, no need to buy from market.
Fates? No really. Boring and slow. Coil is really nice but not for lvling.

[Bixillarla]

I run the dugengeon that is for my level on the Heavensward tab in the Duty Finder. I try to get the complete set of gear from each dungeon for my job before the next one unlocks so you stay current on your ilvl.

The real grind starts when you hit 60 with Law and Eso tomes for top gear to get into the end game raids.

[Serilda]

You're going to get plenty of gear upgrades from the main questline with the odd sidequest so if you're enjoying that, stick with it; it will take good care of you. The Vanu Vanu beast quests are a good supplement for levelling once you have access to them, and you will also find that doing the daily Heavensward clan hunts (from the board outside the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard once they unlock) will get you some extra experience as well as starting you off with the Centurio marks you'll need to buy things later on. Coil isn't run very often with PUGs since it doesn't offer much besides lore, a challenge and some glamour goodies.

If you have a FC, it's good to start working on your workshop and airship fleet as soon as you can; it's a pain but it will put you in a good position to start Diadem hard when the time comes. Exploring to unlock hard mode takes a long time so you'll want to get your airships launched and working on discovering new areas as quickly as you can. If this is already underway (or complete) then you can wait until later to dip your toe in Diadem.

[zakalw3]

Thank you both.

How about Relic weapons? Is there something I can be doing toward upgrading my set or does that come later?

[Kurogaea]

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Don't know all the details as my memory fails me alot, but poetic gear is really good up to like 55. By then you should have a dungeon that drops 57 gear and you should be good by the time you get to the other dungeons. The coils won't do much really but it'd be nice for that little extra story if you get bored from the lvling. Also sidequests help. Ummm..... I think thats it. Oh right, if you get to ilvl 180 try out explorotory missions (normal) as they have 210 gear you can get. Good luck dude, welcome back

[Kurogaea]

Thank you both.

How about Relic weapons? Is there something I can be doing toward upgrading my set or does that come later?

Oh relic weapons? Their kinda useless after lvl 58, but they're adding a new relic quest soon so it'll help if you have the old one (You don't need the previous version to stat the new though they said).

[Serilda]

Thank you both.

How about Relic weapons? Is there something I can be doing toward upgrading my set or does that come later?

They're not updating the Relic weapons until the next patch so you don't need to worry about that yet. They have advised that having a fully completed weapon will give you a head start on the new ones, but it's not worth the time to start doing that from scratch if you don't have one prepared already. It will be faster to start the new kind of Relic from the beginning and catch up when the time comes.

[Malzian]

Oh relic weapons? Their kinda useless after lvl 58, but they're adding a new relic quest soon so it'll help if you have the old one (You don't need the previous version to stat the new though they said).

58? I replaced my Zeta at 54... Augmented Ironworks is good to 55, non-Augmented is replaced by 53.

So I only do 2 things every day to level my battle classes (only have 3 left to cap at this point): 1. Do my hunt bills, including the older bills since those FATEs give EXP plus the challenge log. 2. Do all my roulettes (Guildhest, Trial, Leveling, Main Story and lvl 50 dungeons).

That will get me a level every 1-1.5 days on average, you're millage may vary if you haven't gotten the third tier Centurio bills.

[Saccharin]

You don't need to do any old content to level, just continue with the story and do any side quests. If you want run the dungeons a few times but you don't need to do them more than once. Quests will give you enough gear. If you did the 2.x MSQ 2.1-2.55 then you should have gained some extra xp too for mroe than enough for 60.