21 guild leves per level at 43

[Zumi]

I don't have my Gladiator that high but I've done level 30 and 40 grand company leves for my Lancer and Conjurer and got around 10-12k exp per leve. I raised the level of the monsters to either equal level or above so I could chain and would usually get chain 3-4 no problem. Guardian's favor was used too. Without guardian's favor I can't remember but it definitely wasn't anywhere near 4k exp for a 15 minute company leve. This was after 1.20 so it should be still possible, I imagine if my Conjurer could chain easily enough a Gladiator could too.

Experiment a bit. I know that now if I'm doing a leve and I'm not getting 10k+ exp with favor it's not worth my time and I'll go back to one I know that will.

For the most part gladiator is very weak damage class. If I set the level up to the point where the mobs can chain my level or higher they roll me pretty hard. I do not do enough damage to kill them before they kill me. One of the pure damage dealing classes probably do have an easier time doing stuff on a harder difficulty from what I heard from friends but not gladiator for sure.

[MariyaShidou]

For the most part gladiator is very weak damage class. If I set the level up to the point where the mobs can chain my level or higher they roll me pretty hard. I do not do enough damage to kill them before they kill me. One of the pure damage dealing classes probably do have an easier time doing stuff on a harder difficulty from what I heard from friends but not gladiator for sure.

There's something wrong with this, I solo'ed my GLA from 45 to 50 right after patch 1.20 release, doing both normal and GC leve. I never had any problem with mobs 1-3 levels higher than me. Granted I do use some cross class skills, they are Protect, Stoneskin, Secondwind, Invigorate and Cure, but that's pretty much all you can cross class nowadays because of the severe restriction patch 1.20 brought. The Riot Blade combo do very very big damage and it's easy enough to pull solo, except on the Toads as they are too big that they block your entire screen and you don't know where you are. You may want to check where you are doing leves, because I think Ul'dah still receive a big penalty on EXP reward upon completion. I was doing leve in Gridania and without GA the normal EXP reward with speed is around 5.5k - 6k alone, not counting mob kills. With GA and kill type GC leve, I could get close to 15k EXP per leve.