How to level DPS classes these days?

[PArcher]

Range DPS get the worse queue times; half-hour or more

If you were leveling a MNK (like I am) or DRG, your queues won't be nearly as long (I had a 5 min wait yesterday for roulette as PGL; Toto-Rak :\)

You need to either just wait out the queues (do some leveling in the world as you wait; Fates, Leves, Hunting Log, etc), or find someone willing to take you through dungeons (heal or tank)

[AlrikRouge]

With the amount of FATE running for Atmas, there's also a good chance that you can go into an area that has FATEs 7+ levels above yours and score some decent experience. If you have a tank class, you can do all but one dungeon run as a tank, then do the last run as your DPS to fulfil the challenge log requirement if you're not keen on que'ing for that many runs as a DPS. I think there's another challenge log that gives a chunk of experience for killing "X" amount of mobs with your Choco companion. And always eat food for the 3% boost. Cheap eggs or what have you. If you also have one other person to pair up with, doing leve's that are 5 levels above you at middle difficulty is possible, especially if one or both of you have your chco out. They give more experience than.

[JonBigwood]

Hi, roulettes give nice exp (low level roulette and guildhest roulette), then also dungeons. As I am doing fates for the atma while I wait queue to level DPS, I don't do fates for leveling.

When you have already done the daily roulettes, if you click several dungeons (up to 5) in Duty Finder, the queue time will be lower, it took time for me to know that, lol. You don't get as much exp as if you choose only the highest available, though.

You learn more with dungeons than with fates, too.

You also have the levequests that give quite much exp. You can do levequests while you wait the dungeon queue too. Hunting log also.