Currently lvl54, advice for levelling?

[Saccharin]

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).

My nirvana lasted until level 58 too. The HQ white was just marginally better!

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.

The new relic will have no connection to the HW one so you can leave your current one as it is. It will stay as Zeta.

There will be a single stage skip for those that have any zeta, one per zeta, but Yoshi-P said that there's very little effort in doing it so upgrading your 2.x relic just for the stage skip is simply not worth it.

[Malzian]

There will be a single stage skip for those that have any zeta, one per zeta...

You skip a step on all of your new Relics if you have a Zeta (note, a Zeta, doesn't matter which) and it will only be that one step even if you have all the Zetas. It's not, 'have 10 Zetas, skip 10 steps', it's 'have at least one Zeta, skip one step on all of the new Relics'.

[madolyn]

patch notes said HW dungeons give increased xp. Anyone confirm how much of an increase?

[zakalw3]

Thanks all.

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.

I have Zenith Sword and Shield.

A little confused with the above talk of skips, should I be leaving my relic for now or levelling to Zeta?

[Ksenia]

MSQ is mandatory for unlocking pretty much everything. 98% of the game is gated behind it at some stage or another, directly or secondary. MSQ and all it entails is also enough to get one class to 60 with more to spare, though unfortunately not enough to bring two classes up at once and keep speed.

I just leveled a character from 1 to 53 with only the MSQ and just made it to HW. Gear to 50 I crafted but at 50, did so knowing I would have duplicates. Once in HW you are going to get 2 full sets of HQ 50 and 2 full sets of HQ 52 handed to you in MSQ rewards. (left side, some right but not all) Strangely you don't get weapons from MSQ but I crafted those as well.

short answer, run MSQ and take rewards you can use. Right side stuff at the end of 2.55 are 110 level jewelry. Left side will be fed to you in rewards at HW. At 54 the crafted is iLevel 133 complete and you will have no trouble with level content.

[Saccharin]

Thanks all.



I have Zenith Sword and Shield.

A little confused with the above talk of skips, should I be leaving my relic for now or levelling to Zeta?

Unless you have tons of gil and time and you just want a zeta. No, leave it as it is.

You skip a step on all of your new Relics if you have a Zeta (note, a Zeta, doesn't matter which) and it will only be that one step even if you have all the Zetas. It's not, 'have 10 Zetas, skip 10 steps', it's 'have at least one Zeta, skip one step on all of the new Relics'.

I should have made it more clear but that's wrong too.

If you have five zetas then you can skip the first stage on any five new relics. You can't skip the first stage on all new relics with one zeta.

[Rikku1987]

patch notes said HW dungeons give increased xp. Anyone confirm how much of an increase?

Yes its a good buff, im lvling a SCH so was running the same HW dungeons pre and after patch
Pre-patch about 300k
after pach over 700k+

Yesterday roulette Lvling (the one lvl16+) i got into that nidhogg dungeon and total xp received 1.2mil.... (with roulette bonus)

[Laerune]

I am leveling my AST right now and she just dinged level 55. My advice is to do the :
- Level 50, Main Scenario, Leveling, Guildhest Roulettes.
- Complete the FATE/Dungeons/Guildhest and Levequest section of the challenge logs.
- Do the Clan Bills 1 and 2 (3 has some mobs that you can kill, but most of them are level 57+)
- Beast Tribe quests (they provide decent exp and will give you rep)

Always have a food buff on, ask fc leaders to activate the combat exp buff and on whenever you can, use chocobo for combat so you kill mobs fast.

[Malzian]

If you have five zetas then you can skip the first stage on any five new relics. You can't skip the first stage on all new relics with one zeta.

Having gone back and reading the Live Letter digest, this is correct according to the official translation. I was going off of what I'd heard from other translations. It's really a pain how different all of these translations can be especially when you realize that even in official translations the system we get in the end often doesn't end up being what they told us it would be beforehand. Guess I'll just have to wait and see how it really turns out once 3.15 hits.

[enthauptet]

Aside from MSQ on your first character just grind dungeons. FATE zones in HW are pretty dead most of the time in my experience and the dungeons are decently fun and not too long.