Square-Enix you didn't think this through (alt leveling)

[Kaedan94]

The FATEs in low level zones like lower la noscea and central shroud can all be solo'd.

After level 12 or so, you should be going to Aleport. You do FATEs in Aleport (preferably with a FATE party... there's almost always people in the zone) until level 20.

At 20, you go to Quarrymill and get in a FATE party there. Quarrymill can take you all the way to 40 if you like, but most stop around 32 to go to Dragonhead. Level 39-40-ish you can go to Revenant's Toll (way better than Dragonhead). Once you hit 43-45, you go to Northern Thanalan (Cerulean Processing Plant). That will take you to 50.

Very much like FFXI and the "best" leveling areas.

[PSxpert2011]

What happens when your game evens out and low level zones are empty?
What happens when hunting log isn't enough to grant my alt classes levels?

I'll tell you what happens... running around as a level 7 Lancer struggling to gain experience because nobody is doing Fates and the Fates don't scale properly for me to solo them.

I'm on a very populated server (Behemoth) and as of right now, Central Shroud and Western LaNoscea are both empty with roughly 6-7 people in them, and nobody is doing fates.

I'm asking you, how do I level? my hunting log alone isn't enough and since I've done every quest on my 50 and nobody is doing fates, what can I do?

you want my suggestion? ...

Take up crafting... Gathering? Be a useful asset to the community? Jump ship?

(just saying)

[Rekujen]

when i leveled thm all i did was spam blizzard II for 30 levels... it's not a great way to learn the class but why on earth would i slow down my exp rate?

like i said, reset side quests when u switch class, make dungeons give WAY more EXP than they currently give and reset guildhests for each class

problem solved.

[GarrEphemeral]

The only significant point that can be added to ANY of this is that there should be more viable ways to level your characters that are of EQUAL opportunity. As it stands FATEs are far and away the most efficient, therefore making it the ONLY viable option for someone who wishes to level at the best rate of exp per hour. A lot of content here is wasted due to the fact that it's just not a better option to experience grind dungeons/levequests/quests etc when there is something else that supersedes it by such an immense margin such as FATEs do. Make the experience equal on most, if not all levelling options so as to make the experience that much more fun. I don't see how that effects the difficulty in any way. FATEs are what the majority do right now, but there would be less congestion in places like Coerthas (which on some servers isn't even possible to do for PS3 users) if everyone and their mothers weren't fate grinding their faces off, because there are no other worthy alternatives.

[Seraphita]

What happens when your game evens out and low level zones are empty?
What happens when hunting log isn't enough to grant my alt classes levels?

I'll tell you what happens... running around as a level 7 Lancer struggling to gain experience because nobody is doing Fates and the Fates don't scale properly for me to solo them.

I'm on a very populated server (Behemoth) and as of right now, Central Shroud and Western LaNoscea are both empty with roughly 6-7 people in them, and nobody is doing fates.

I'm asking you, how do I level? my hunting log alone isn't enough and since I've done every quest on my 50 and nobody is doing fates, what can I do?

You know you could always form a party and grind higher level mobs like in FFXI...
With the armory bonus it isn't that bad...

I agree with you though, there should be more solo options like the ones you listed.

[tymora]

If there is anything wrong with leveling, it is how easy it is...not the opposite.

[Aaron_T]

Maybe you guys are just really good at this game? Just saying.

[DanteMog]

Ignore the alt Grind completely make an Alt and get the Story and quests to help. If not find a game that isn't such a stupid grind just for the sake of slowing you down, to please hardcores.. they do exist.

[Crescent_Dusk]

Leveling is the least of your worries. After doing all that leveling, it takes 77 runs of CM/Praetorium to get that alt in full DL+relic to be able to raid anyways. Repeat the same boring easymode dungeons 77 times, that's the real grind in this game.

And I'm not saying 1-15 is a pain in the ass. What most do is wait till lv11 or lv12 and go straight to aleport.

1-10 is plain horrible, lv 7-10 is that gap where you can't do crap but grind mobs.

[Rekujen]

Yeah sorry having to work 60 hours a week and don't have time to spend 5 hours doing 1 level.

What is this, 2001?