Quote Originally Posted by Tezz_Xivectro View Post
How fast were you killing (1 per minute, 2 per minute?), how are the respawns? What did you make per hour (20k - 40k/hr) ?
I've seen R35s solo them in about 30 seconds flat, and they take about as long to respawn (and 4 of them respawn).

Party grinding is flat-out the best way to get SP.

For solo play, levequests and sidequests combined will get you a good amount of SP.

And only some of the levequests give bad SP now, while some of them are pretty easy sauce (the R20 Gridania one with the Foraging Doe's and the Swarm of Bees comes to mind, I could solo both of those on 3 Stars once I got used to CON changes). The bees die in two or three spells and give 180+ SP each and there's a lot of 'em, the Foraging Doe's gave 200+ and there were at least 4 of them.

EDIT: SP/hour may have been reduced for solo play, but if you play 2-3 hours after that and do some party grinding/questing, you will notice that you are getting more SP than pre-patch.