Recommended grinding locations?

[REDace0]

He might of died on the leve. Let us pray to the elementals.../bows head

Thankfully not! I just haven't been home yet. I could've sworn I typed "later" in my previous post...oh well.

[Estellios]

For solo it seems that the game is now balanced for you to fight and XP chain enemies 0-1 levels above you, and it's best for you to set leve enemies to as close to that as possible when soloing. There actually seems to be a ton of random gaggles of same-level enemies added. If you check around rank 10 camps you will probably be able to find something. At 14-15 you can try the non-aggro enemies in Shpshaoe (however it's spelled).

[kensredemption]

For solo it seems that the game is now balanced for you to fight and XP chain enemies 0-1 levels above you, and it's best for you to set leve enemies to as close to that as possible when soloing. There actually seems to be a ton of random gaggles of same-level enemies added. If you check around rank 10 camps you will probably be able to find something. At 14-15 you can try the non-aggro enemies in Shpshaoe (however it's spelled).

I just might have to look that up on the Eorzeapedia, ha ha ha. Thanks for the tips thus far though, guys. I won't be home for another 4-5 hours, but tonight: Hard-core grinding until 18, then I'm off to Ul'dah!

...Uhh...how far is it from Gridania, by the way?

[CrimsonReign]

Thanks for this, this'll help me out a great deal. I was wandering around the Shroud last night and with the new and more numerous mobs they placed I managed to find a spot with a TON of level 8-9 funguars that gave me about 100 XP each and since no one bothered to touch them I managed to make it to 13 in about an hour, finally managed to complete the "Beckon of the Elementals" quest, so now I'm going to work my way to Ul'Dah to progress with the story.

Truth be told, I don't care much for loot or leaderboard standing or whatever. I just want to complete the story, but with the way that they changed things with this new patch...I just don't know if going solo will be as easy as it was before. I barely have enough time to play the game as it is, but if this is going to become another MMO like WoW or what XI was I have my doubts that I'll be sticking around. That was the appeal for me in the first place: To be able to progress on my own. Especially because a majority of players I met in the past were melodramatic and all the LS's I joined before were chock full of arrogant, conceited players. Never doing anything constructive to help me learn to play my class, etc.

I wanted to avoid elitists at all costs, especially.

please dont walk to uldah... you can take airship for 2500 to it. so much easier=D

[VydarrTyr]

Unfortunately it isn't at least not in the 1-20 regions.

Grinding chains either solo or with a small party is defiently the way to go. Myself and a duo partner were doing Leves with as many stars as possible usually +3 or +4 last night and getting less than 1 extra mob worth of XP for completion.

Leves seem pointless now and we are saving them for crafting. Maybe that changes at higher levels tho.

I'll give an L40 leve a try solo and let you know.

I'll wait for Robert's definitive answer. But 2 nights ago, I did 6 level 40 leves on Arc in the Black Shroud. I was level 40, and 1 star on all of them (the basic mobs were level 40, and the bosses were 2-3 levels above that). I used Guardian's Aspect on 4 of them. I was able to get a few Chain bonuses by killing grouped mobs quickly. And I ended up with 39,462 XP.

I'm not sure if that's typical or not. But it's not bad.

Of course, I also tried to solo a behest (suggested for level 45). It was in an area where there were plenty of level 45-47 mobs that aggro. I killed zero of the behest mobs, and I died 5 times. So, I can't say how much SP behest gives. Obviously.

0:5 -- that's not a good K/D.

[REDace0]

Can't you take the airship? In fact, if you speak to the starting NPC at the Adventurer's Guild when you hit...18? She'll tell you about that low-rank dungeon that starts with 'Sh' and give you a ticket to LL. The dock is in the basement of the guild.

Edit: No, I didn't perish on my L40 leve, I just wasn't at home yet. Then I kinda got distracted hunting Apkallu so I could make myself a nice beret. But it looks like Vydarr has confirmed that battle leves still offer good XP, even solo. Grind away!

[KyegimyaAsura]

Speaking of guildleves, I probably just haven't looked into it enough but I've got a question about Guardian's Aspect.

It seems to be an extra 50%, but even if I were to do guildleves without it (I can tell doing leves causes it to go back up), would it generally be faster than soloing mobs even without the exp bonus? I can already tell it's faster than soloing was turning out for me. Then again I'm only a level 18 Lancer, lol

Just trying to think about my options. I haven't had a single exp party yet.

[kensredemption]

I haven't had a single exp party yet.

Me neither. :/ Anyway, I think it's pretty fast to do a bit of both. I'm doing the Main Scenario quests to level up my LNC at every opportunity I get, getting about half of the total of the EXP required for the next level when I finish it.

[KyegimyaAsura]

Wow good to know, I'll have to take a look into those quests. Thanks. ^^