So I "speedran" 5 fresh characters to Endwalker+

[Remolia]

I cant even complete MSQ on main character, I am so jealous now

[Syalyx]

Good job! There is people saying it takes 6months+ to do it lol. Of course I told them they were wrong as I’ve ran many chars from arr to ew without a story skip as well which none of them took more than a month or two even without progressing every day.

Surprisingly, it took me over the span of 4-5ish months to complete all 5 characters since I was (of course) playing on-off. Also, thank you!

And you have more control over saving situations than on other classes and wipes not only cost time but there is also a small risk of people getting into arguments/ leaving. But it was interesting to see the differences between classes/ roles.
While I didn't attempt any speedruns, I always leveled a healer while doing MSQ for fastest queue times and more control over the situation and I wasn't locked to playing MSQ at prime time since MSQ trials popped decently fast even at odd hours.

Very true! What I've learned from playing all roles for the first time is to just do your best and ignore/dont respond to negativity. Most of the time it's best to just not say anything at all. As for playtime, around the time I started the Paladin is when I began to play only during peak times during the day (when people got off of work/folks were out of school) and played on weekends to be as efficient as possible.

I don’t see how you can do that in a month without skipping cutscenes and a lot of other significant side content, even if one can afford playing several hours per day.

Also, nor the op or these people are wrong: there are many ways to play the game and neither is right or wrong. To each their own. I am about one year in on an alt that I play actively and I just finished 5.0 but I did a lot of side content.

Also by curiosity, I wonder when Op reached level 90 in the story doing a speedrun. Players starting fresh runs but playing “normally” in my fc become over levelled pretty fast.

That's the beauty of basing the speedrun off of /played, so you don't have to no-life it for several hours haha. When it came to hitting 90, I usually hit it around the time of completing the Aitiascope or a bit before/during The Dead Ends. The roughest part about the whole leveling ordeal is when you have to be level 48 and 50 during the ARR stopgates (Castrum/Praetorium) because you have to spam the leveling roulettes 4-6 times which wastes a bunch of time. I have a possible solution for this and I plan on beating this record again but not anytime soon.

I cant even complete MSQ on main character, I am so jealous now

Enjoy the story and take your time~ It's definitely a treat the first time around.

[Nyxs]

That's the beauty of basing the speedrun off of /played, so you don't have to no-life it for several hours haha. When it came to hitting 90, I usually hit it around the time of completing the Aitiascope or a bit before/during The Dead Ends. The roughest part about the whole leveling ordeal is when you have to be level 48 and 50 during the ARR stopgates (Castrum/Praetorium) because you have to spam the leveling roulettes 4-6 times which wastes a bunch of time. I have a possible solution for this and I plan on beating this record again but not anytime soon.

When I do them I pick up the others jobs along the way to siphon some of the exp into them. Works pretty well up to EW which seemed to not even out as easily. Probably have to test out a few things to see where to spread the exp and where to just get the exp as the main job. Ran into a few spots where I was lacking the level to continue which was unfortunate.