Message from actual new player

[Betelgeuzah]

Speaking as someone with a secondary character that has no other classes leveled, as well as someone with MRD sitting pretty at rank 15, even with 4 other combat classes 30+.

Which still gives you a significant advantage (and significant bias to play the game in a certain, unintended way, as we can see from your second paragraph).

Soloing is not even close to 'effective' for lower levels. I was almost killed by a level 3 sheep from full health because I was level 2 with no class skills other than Trunksplitter. It took me an entire leve to go from level 4 to level 4 with 3/4s of my way to level 5. (Which by the way, is only 850 experience to get to.)

It took me 15 minutes to get from level 1 to 5, in which time I also earned 60k worth of mats to sell (at level 13 I now have 140k). I have no secondary characters, I didn't do any magical tricks to accomplish this. The difference between you and me is that you are stuck in trying to level in a way that isn't effective anymore, while I level in a way that is much more effective and sensible.

It's even more hilarious because you out of all people should have the resources to keep yourself up to date and know how to play the damn game. I should be the one struggling, but nope.

I mean, how much does one have to be stuck in an archaic mindset to not realize that leves that send you across half the world to kill 2 mobs just to earn 100xp and 200gil at the end of the task is not as effective as killing the dozens of easy-to-kill targets crowded in one place that earn you enough EXP to level up with ease up to level ten, not to mention drop a lot of good mats to be used for acquiring currency at the same time?