Quote Originally Posted by Phobos View Post
Though I haven't been able to do this yet, it sounds reasonable. I'm curious, though, what did the guy do that got from 30-50 "in a few hours", apparently specifically relating to the 30-42 part of that? Is it just assumed everyone gets PL'd or was that post just some extreme exaggeration? If so I'm sure the rested exp will do nothing for that anyway as it applies to leves.

Personally guardian's favor is doing a lot more for me than I'm guessing rested exp will, but I'm curious how to get this crazy exp that seems to elude me. My last party I went from 30-35 "in a few hours" which seemed quite reasonable at the time. We were killing fairly quickly, but as you can see we got 15 levels short of the norm apparently.

Sorry, I just seem to be having a normal leveling curve (getting more time-consuming as the levels progress) so I'm very curious how others are having a different experience, or if it's just exaggerated nonsense about getting PL'd which won't happen to everyone every time.
If you are sitting around level 35, you'll have to grind a bit until level 37. Once you hit 37 you can switch to the level 40 grand company leves. These are solo only and you'll get roughly 10k xp per 15 minute leve. Once you get to level 40, you can switch to doing stronghold parties (SH parties for short). There is one in Coerthas which is a better xp imho, and there is one in Thanalan which is lower XP but you also get ifrit tapers as drops. Stocking up on tapers will help you immensely at endgame, since you will be able to do lots of ifrit runs right off the bat.

If you run SH parties you can get 40 -50 in a matter of hours with normal play. No PL, no exploits, no specific team setup.