Did you (or do you plan to) level your Trust NPCs to 80?

[Canadane]

I got them all to 80 and the next patch increased their exp gain.
I basically did double the work lol

[Infindox]

I did cause I wanted the title, nothing more.

[Jettinson]

I legit was planning to level up Trust but Urianger/Alphinaud tend to die on the 2nd boss of Holimenster because they forget to heal or get stuck in the puddles so I pretty much gave up on that.

Plus playing with Trusts does not feel like playing with Squadron and I leveled everybody up to 60. You see how hilarious overpowered the squadron members are once they hit max Offense and can steamroller most of fights and mechanics (although they are still stupid, doing Wanderer Palace Hard without being tank is painful in the end)

[Soge01]

Not really. I don't really see the benefit in doing so for myself when I can just rund duty finder/roulettes, unless I get really curious about any additional dialogue I missed with certain character participating with me. :/

[CKNovel]

I did, before they actually buffed the exp gain. It was painfull and useless, I don't want to do it again.

On top of that, I tested a few things:
A clear while actively doing DPS will take 20 to 25 minutes. A clear with actual people will take less than that.
A clear while not doing DPS will take 25 to 30 minutes because the trusts starts using their burst action such as Urianger instant kill. When I leveled tank or DPS, it was better to pull and afk, you lose 5 minutes but you can do something else for 25 minutes, except bosses.

I always do a first run with trusts and never touch them again. They need to reward being active, why not the trusts buffing your damage and you could go banger while they continue their single target rotation.
In short, they're useless except if you want to afk while leveling.

[Nyarlha]

Let's be honest, they've been made even more useless with the addition of Bozja leveling.

It would be nice if you could jump into a dungeon here and there with them while leveling a job, but the fact that they are stuck at Holminster's Switch level if you did not level them prevent that.

[Ftail]

I didn’t realize you could level trusts until I read this thread, I dont think I’ve ever touched it before.

[ZedxKayn]

Waaaaay too boring

[gotaname1]

got a few to lvl73 from trying to level my NIN to 80 during the lul in the day where q times are guaranteed to be longer than 30 minutes.

I will NEVER EVER level trust. There is absolutely no value in it. And no, I do not count the elimination of q times a boon since any runs in trust completely negate the 1 waiting time anyways with how horribly slow everything goes.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I did, before they actually buffed the exp gain. It was painfull and useless, I don't want to do it again.

On top of that, I tested a few things:
A clear while actively doing DPS will take 20 to 25 minutes. A clear with actual people will take less than that.
A clear while not doing DPS will take 25 to 30 minutes because the trusts starts using their burst action such as Urianger instant kill. When I leveled tank or DPS, it was better to pull and afk, you lose 5 minutes but you can do something else for 25 minutes, except bosses.

I like to add as well that for once I tried going in with trust as a healer out of curiosity. The average run ended up finishing about 3-6m faster than when I’m running as a DPS.