
Originally Posted by
Belial
This isn't really true, leves are viable, but you can reach 1-8 alone with one or two Behests (taking one hour *give or take* of gameplay) at the first camp you reach, and grinding mobs/doing behest in between at the rank 10 camp will launch you to 16 within an hour or two as well. Considering there is 36 hours between resets, simply doing leves will take you several days to reach 20. Grinding out Behest in the early stages is your best bet to rank quickly. I have all DoW/DoM classes at 20+, trust me, SAVE your leves, use a few for rank 20 leves to push you to 23 then grab the rank 30 leves. Also you'll want to look into leve-linking and see how that works. It's basically a way for you to increase the SP/EXP gained from leve mobs by joining a group of other players. Although, with the current game state this is sometimes a problem.
Like I said, you can easily reach rank 20 with a good 3-5 hour sitting by doing Behest/grinding mobs at the first camp, doing the same at the second camp, and then doing leves/behests at the 3rd camp. I'm not sure on what your camps would be if you started in Gridania or Limsa Lominsa, but for Ul'Dah, your first camp will be Black Brush, then Drybone, then Horizon.