Leveling is pain

[Rueby]

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Just do your custom deliveries every week (bonus)...You also have beast tribes, weekly challenge log. There's also leve quests. Crystarium quests and the one like it in EW etc give big chunks of EXP. There's plenty of low effort and fairly easy ways to level, unless you want to rush it.

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That aside, leveling sucks as dps because queues are long and there's just too many dps players/jobs so unless you get a healer/tank to help you out then it might just be abit meh.

I leveled many chars with varying degrees of investment (max jobs), I'll throw in my recommendations I guess, tho it's in no particular order

• Have FC EXP buff OR Squadron Battle Manual (assuming your squadron isn't neglected) and pop food in dungeons (raisins/boiled egg)It'd
• challenge log (weekly)
• khloe (weekly 50% flat EXP at any level, best used on transitionary points or to evade scuffed dungeons, ie. 70 to 71 and 80-81 etc, I personally don't like aurum or bardam or vaspanati so I tend to skip those but it's up to preference. Khloe to me is more valuable to use the higher level you are)
• beast tribes (from ShB onwards give decent exp, worth unlocking and maxing)
• msq roul (the forbidden one)
• frontlines (once a day is nice, you get pvp series from it if you want)
• deep dungeons (if it pops quickly, from my experience is usually better for a dps rather than sitting in queue for a dungeon)
• fates (kinda meh, but okay filler if you're desperate)
• Huntmarks (daily/weekly) go to the huntboard and go kill some mobs for some pocket change exp, worth doing if you're waiting for rouls too and you get some seals/nuts. Seals for aetheryte tickets and nuts for...well whatever you want to do with nuts, current expansion uses nuts too, so it's not horrible.
• side quests (hardly worth the effort, the exp is pretty bad, but if you're the kind that wants a clean map devoid of quest marks, this is on the checklist)
• leve quests (battle leves are depreciated I think, not really worth doing unless you're capped and don't plan to use them on crafters and you're desperate for exp)
• hunting log (useful for getting you up enough for dungeons, ie: 1-16 bracket, you can also throw yourself into palace of the dead as early as level 1)
• At level 80, Bozja becomes an option for leveling, it does have the issue of having to progress to get to where people are grinding which is usually zone3 of Zadnor (though I'd rather die than go there)

They still want you to remain subbed and do some ~grinding~

They're already remedying that by making any new jobs start at a relatively high level and you need to pop 20 levels. This isn't unreasonable at all I think. Then getting 10 levels for each job every two years is...well not hard at all.

I think Fates could benefit from exp bump, also ARR and HW combat beast tribes didn't really give that much exp when I tried to do it...