New player looking for a guide to the game

[LunaFaye]

For the record, a lot of the quests right at that moment dont give a ton of exp, so you wouldnt be losing too much.

Wrong, as I have shown in many other threads on this forum, after reaching level 50 and than ending up with doing the side quests, daily roulette's, trials and dungeons you need to unlock anyways etc. gets you to level 55 without skipping most of the content, and level 53 with skipping most ARR content, when entering Ishgard. The first part of the heavenwards msq together with the first 2 maps/zones can easily get you to 60 if you're not skipping anything. So that would give you plenty of ARR dungeons that you might have skipped, and the whole msq including their dungeons from 3.1 - 3.35 for your other characters.

I would recommend buying the expansion as soon as possible or lose out on the exp.

[Gemina]

Wrong, as I have shown in many other threads on this forum, after reaching level 50 and than ending up with doing the side quests, daily roulette's, trials and dungeons you need to unlock anyways etc. gets you to level 55 without skipping most of the content, and level 53 with skipping most ARR content, when entering Ishgard. The first part of the heavenwards msq together with the first 2 maps/zones can easily get you to 60 if you're not skipping anything. So that would give you plenty of ARR dungeons that you might have skipped, and the whole msq including their dungeons from 3.1 - 3.35 for your other characters.

I would recommend buying the expansion as soon as possible or lose out on the exp.

I'm pretty sure she was just referring to the 2.x MSQ's to get to Ishgard. There are 100 of them and each quest grants 4800 exp, which won't even get a character halfway from 50-51. If you do side quests, FATEs, roulettes etc. Of course you're going to get crazy exp from them. Most things you unlock post 50 (lv50 relic, HM dungeons/primals, Frontlines, Odin instance, etc.) are not required to progress the MSQ, which is what you need to do to get to HW, and there is a TON of other things a player can do while they're grinding the MSQ on their main(s). Things that will make them a little more self sufficient going into 3.0

2.x is amazing, and so many just blast right trough it. I encourage for OP to take his time not only with 1.0 content, but the 2.x content that follows afterwards.

[Frizze]

I'm pretty sure she was just referring to the 2.x MSQ's to get to Ishgard. There are 100 of them and each quest grants 4800 exp, which won't even get a character halfway from 50-51.

That is absolutely what i was remembering and refering to. Before that the story quests had been rewarding like a quarter mil each, then it dropped to less then 5k for the 100 quest string that gets you into Ishgard. Someone doing "everything" will certainly end up with more. But i also didnt want to argue on the forum about it with someone who has taken part in "many other threads on this forum" about the subject.