Leveling without Leves?

[Alistaire]

I found that grinding the nodes with food and Survival Guide II from GC was the most effective.

I felt leves was slow compare to node grind. But just my feeling

At least I could sold what I got

Yup, leves for DoL are only barely faster than grinding in the best of cases. And you don't get to sell anything you gather in leves.

Except fishing, definitely use leves for fishing, since most of the fish involved you make a profit buying nq off the market board to trade in.