So the easiest way to level...

[Kalam]

I hate to sound impatient and lazy, but are there any 1-50 guides? I just like being as efficient as possible. Or can you safely complete your craft journals + triple leves, while trying for HQ each time as a effective way to level?

[Corkafish]

I hate to sound impatient and lazy, but are there any 1-50 guides? I just like being as efficient as possible. Or can you safely complete your craft journals + triple leves, while trying for HQ each time as a effective way to level?

Haven't done any craft journals since level 15. You can either do the triple leve turn-ins, or if efficiency with mats/gil is more important to you than efficiency with cards, you can just do the single turn-in with the highest XP.

[Kalam]

Guess I'm trying to figure out the best way to level quickly, without making a ton of mistakes.

[thuswindburn]

Yea triple turn in leves are definitely the fastest, and if you can turn in some hqed stuff on those the xp gets insanely high

[Corkafish]

Guess I'm trying to figure out the best way to level quickly, without making a ton of mistakes.

It's pretty simple. Make/gather/buy the HQ base mats, then use those HQ mats to make the HQ goods more easily. What you don't want to do is just spam the easiest single turn-in, which is what I did for about 20 levels of Armorer and burned through way too many leve cards.

[Pellegri]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Turn-in-Leves

Aslong as you are willing to put worth the gil or just flat out farm the mats yourself, these leves are by far the most efficient way to level.

[Raldo]

Those leves are only most efficient if you're trying to conserve leve use. If you don't care, then you're better of spamming a leve that only takes 1 item.

[Corkafish]

Those leves are only most efficient if you're trying to conserve leve use. If you don't care, then you're better of spamming a leve that only takes 1 item.

This is sort of true. One of the level 45 triple turn-ins for ARM requires turning in 3 chestpieces (three times of course), which use 4 Mythril Plates each. Each plate takes 2 ingots, and each ingot takes 2 ore, so 3*3*4*2*2 = 144 HQ Mythril Ore for one leve. That's a serious resource investment. But then there's another one which only requires 3 Cobalt Ingots.

[Kalam]

Thanks for the replies guys! I'm used to crafting in other games where you collect xxxx amount of mats and then power craft to max level in a few days. So you can imagine my shock at starting a (Goldsmith) and seeing the in depth attention given to crafting. Ha I still feel totally lost. So I guess I'm supposed to craft until 20 and then start on triple leves?

[Draygo_Quick]

I'm in the same boat as you. I tried cooking first and was just overwhelmed by the amount of mats you need, so I switched to GSM, I'm up to lvl 10 but still feel lost lol