To Much Experience

[Blakemere]

I must admit I've also found a few issues with the enormous Xp I'm getting from preferred world status. Namely gear. As a returning player on a new account I bought the ARR story skip as I just didn't want to do it again. I was happy to start on PLD and level through dungeons until I get to heavensward which I'm looking forward to doing again.
The problem is I'm leveling so fast I cant keep up with gear. Level synced roulette players rarely want to do full clears and after one dungeon run I'm already high enough to do the next, but haven't got the gear for it, especially as the tank.

My solution was to make the most of the xp buff and level my crafting and gathering jobs so I can just make my own gear. Its working well to be fair but leveling too fast wasn't a problem I was expecting to be honest.

[MilkieTea]

I must admit I've also found a few issues with the enormous Xp I'm getting from preferred world status. Namely gear. As a returning player on a new account I bought the ARR story skip as I just didn't want to do it again. I was happy to start on PLD and level through dungeons until I get to heavensward which I'm looking forward to doing again.
The problem is I'm leveling so fast I cant keep up with gear. Level synced roulette players rarely want to do full clears and after one dungeon run I'm already high enough to do the next, but haven't got the gear for it, especially as the tank.

My solution was to make the most of the xp buff and level my crafting and gathering jobs so I can just make my own gear. Its working well to be fair but leveling too fast wasn't a problem I was expecting to be honest.

msq would've given you gear, you should also be doing your class quests, you should already be a paladin at level 53. you should've been a paladin at level 30.

[Blakemere]

msq would've given you gear, you should also be doing your class quests, you should already be a paladin at level 53. you should've been a paladin at level 30.

I was a PLD at level 30. I know how to level a job as on my previous account I had all but AST, SAM and RDM capped. Your reply has nothing to do with anything I said but I appreciate the passive aggression anyway bud.

Edit:
Yeah MSQ would have given me some gear but also massively compounded the exp problem. Not really a solution then.

[linayar]

Yeah MSQ would have given me some gear but also massively compounded the exp problem. Not really a solution then.

Unless you're going to keep buying MSQ boost, you're going to have to do the MSQ anyway to unlock further dungeons. It's really the best solution to your gearing problem.

And if you are going to keep boosting through the MSQ, then leveling dungeons gives one guaranteed gear now every run and you can also earn poetics. Also, those boosts should come with gil, so you can buy vendor gears as well at strategic moments of your choosing.

[Blakemere]

Unless you're going to keep buying MSQ boost, you're going to have to do the MSQ anyway to unlock further dungeons. It's really the best solution to your gearing problem.

And if you are going to keep boosting through the MSQ, then leveling dungeons gives one guaranteed gear now every run and you can also earn poetics. Also, those boosts should come with gil, so you can buy vendor gears as well at strategic moments of your choosing.

I'm more than happy to do Heavensward and onwards, looking forward to it in fact. It was just ARR I didn't want to do again. The problem I found was I didnt get gear anything like fast enough from dungeons because after one run I'd be on to the next and roulette groups tend to want to go straight to bosses rather than clear side rooms and stuff for extra chests. The 300k didn't last very long either to be honest.
I just want to mention though that I'm not whining about it, I solved it by putting my last 60k into crafting when I realised I couldn't afford to gear up much more. I'm also level 53 now so can just get poetics gear now which I know lasts a good while.
My original post was just to empathise a little with the op and to point out that exp can actually be too fast at times which surprised me as well as a returning player.

[linayar]

My original post was just to empathise a little with the op and to point out that exp can actually be too fast at times which surprised me as well as a returning player.

Maybe, but as you've seen, it's a situation with an easy solution. You could even just continue to spam the previous dungeon if you're unable to meet the next dungeon's item level and you don't want to buy/craft gear as leveling dungeon should be getting you one guaranteed gear now at the end of every run.

[Blakemere]

Maybe, but as you've seen, it's a situation with an easy solution. You could even just continue to spam the previous dungeon if you're unable to meet the next dungeon's item level and you don't want to buy/craft gear as leveling dungeon should be getting you one guaranteed gear now at the end of every run.

The guaranteed drop is nice and as a tank you can obviously need anything you actually need which did help. I did think about replaying some dungeons but was worried I would just skip further ahead, I skipped 2 or 3 anyway as it was common to gain 3 levels on a roulette run.
Im lucky really because I had crafting experience and could remember a few solid money making synths in the level 25-30 range so I just did those and got my game back on track.

The people this could really effect are first time players who experiment a bit with jobs and blow that 300k. In future if I end up in Stone Vigil with a tank who's gear is 20 levels out of date I might have a little more insight into how that happens. It took a concerted effort and some experience for me to not end up in that position.