At this point in the game, "rushing" is not a valid argument.

[Starlord]

Where's this "slower at higher levels" thing coming from?

From about 34 and onward it starts to slow down. But ya know, that's just me and how I feel.

It's about how many hours you put into it not days.

You can say "I got 50 in 1 week". That's 168 hours. ( that 1 week thing seems to be for hardcores more than casuals to be quite honest)

If a casual plays 2-3 hours a day. That equals out to 56 days ( if you divide the whole thing by 3), 56 days is nearly 2 months for 1 class to 50 as a Casual.

I'm with you. I could have easily powered through the storyline with my Legacy 50s but decided to casually go through it while leveling ACN. So now about 1.5 months later I'm sitting at level 48 and @ westwind. Not too shabby, but people who jumped in new with one 50 are now doing coil. I don't really get it. What is the point of rushing with ONE 50 through coil -you're totally missing the point of this game. Is it that other games which tie you to one occupation have put blinders on these people? Meanwhile I've gotten 2 additional crafts to 50, done all my class quests, making gil, gathering, back to ACN sometimes and grind boring fates, back to making gil. Its been enjoyable. I spent all of last night rearranging my FC's company chest which was totally out of hand XD.

Yeah, it's also how the game was designed. It's not like Most MMO where you have 1 class and that's all you have. This game in the armory system perspective, needs the use of other classes actions to make things easier per say. For Jobs, You have the base classes skills + the class that's accompanied with it skills.

So if you really want to get technical and get the "full" use of your "1" Job, you really need to get your accompanied class to 34 ( as it seems the last thing you can take from any class cuts off at 34) as well to get the full experience of that 1 Job.

Be glad to share with you what I did. Saved my hunting log until 49. Fully explored each zone(was a huge chunk of exp, like...hundreds of thousands), and then did some leves. BAM. 49-50 in less than 2 hours. Try it on your main job when you get there. You'll see.

I bet you can't do it again with your schedule without FATEs on a second class. ( and do it as fast as you claim you do it in).