Curious about leveling speed

[tocsin]

I didnt even consider just being a craft/gatherer. I dont think most people on here even assumed that.I think most of us assumed that the information the OP was after was in regards to Battle classes. For DoL/DoH classes things might be different. But I have to ask, most people dont do the main scenario for the battle system, they do it for the story... so why play FFXIV if you have no interest in its story?

As gillionaire said quite eloquently, I play this game because I enjoy the crafting system, and my friends decided to play here. Personally, I was bored with the main scenario quest before level 10, and skipped all of the cutscenes and the dialogue, because I found it about equal to listening to a school lecture. it was literally the least favorite thing I did in this entire MMO, drag myself through hours and hours of pointless dialogue just to unlock a few fancy items.

[JimboTCB]

I've been playing for a little over two weeks now at what I'd consider a "normal" speed (couple of hours a night during the week, more at weekends) I've got two War classes at 40 so far (started as Pugilist switching to Rogue, got bored and swapped to Lancer) and I'm just trucking through the main quest at a reasonably casual pace. Considering the amount of basically unskippable main quest scenario stuff I've had to do to unlock everything, I don't believe for a second that a new character could blitz their way to 50 in three days without substantial assistance from people rushing them through all the dungeons and stuff. Hell, I didn't even get my chocobo until about level 25 and that in itself is a huge timesink when you're forced to run everywhere on foot.

Sure, if you've already done all the unlocks on one character and you're just spamming hunt log entries and FATEs to level another class, it'd probably be quite a lot faster, but definitely not for a new player.

[Arkista]

Going by my lodestone.
8/16/13 level 10 Beta ( played lots of different classes)
8/17/13 level 20 beta capped at level 20
8/24/13 early access started at 2am PDT ( I had a late start that day was in the PM)

8/25/13 level 30 ( I remember having a hard time logging into the game for two days cause of server issues 90k days lol)
8/27/13 level 40 (hit 100 fate achievement, 10 instant dungeons, 20 battle leves, 7 guildhest same day)
8/28/13 level 50 (bumb on a log achievement)

Catrum/Praet mapping was 8/28 as well.

All in all it took me 50-60hrs to hit level 50 with my FIRST job. Hope this is what you were asking for. I'm pretty sure there are people who did it faster than 50hrs.

[SinisterJointss]

All in all fate grinds in between dungeon ques is the fastest way to get to 50. Thats pretty much it.... once you get a job to 50 the secondary ones are a little faster (50% bonus xp) so.

The one thing that will slow you down is the initial 1-50 story quests as they do take a lot of time.

[LunaHoshino]

The one thing that will slow you down is the initial 1-50 story quests as they do take a lot of time.

This. If you're just grinding to level 50 and not doing the story quests, it goes quite fast. When I first started playing, I didn't realize that I was supposed to be doing the story quests and so I hit the trial level cap in a couple of days of casual play from just killing mobs and doing FATEs and sidequests.

[MageBlack]

Also got to find out WHEN they did this. At the beginning of 2.0 the FATE train was so strong that was all people did and could level up very quickly. they skipped all sorts of content though and didnt do story or dungeons or any of that, just straight FATE train. I wouldnt doubt that this was how people do the quick leveling. While it may work to get you to max level it doesnt teach you how to play the class in a party setting, you dont earn your 5lv skills, and you miss out on the majority of what the game actually has to offer. People getting to 50 in a few days are min/maxers, only looking for the single most beneficial portion of the game then focus solely on that. I wouldnt worry about competing or replicating it, play the game at your own pace and have fun.

[Zfz]

That is indeed what I was looking for. Thanks!

I thought 8/16 was Early Access, so it was Beta 4...hmmm. How could I forget that. :3

Indeed, during the launch FATE grinding was the fastest way to level with FATEs all finishing in minutes. Would you say this FATE grind will be of the same leveling speed if someone was to do it today with a new character?

I wouldnt worry about competing or replicating it, play the game at your own pace and have fun.

Thanks for the advice, although as you could find out from my LodeStone profile, I have no problem with leveling (Lv50*2, Master Crafter, soon to be Master Gatherer). I was just curious about this because I often see people saying to newbies that 1-50 takes 2-3 days easily. IMO "easily" would take at least 1-2 weeks of consistent play, of say 4-5 hours a day, not the 50-60 hours in 3 days meaning close to 20 hours a day of play time.

[SinisterJointss]

no, dungeons give way more xp than fates do as far as time per is concerned. However, dps que's suck bad, like really bad so doing fates whiule you que dungeons is the way to go. If you are a tank its pretty much instant que so not much time for fates. Healer is almost instant also but you have time to do fates with that

[Chevrefoil]

If you grind out FATEs, you can probably level from 1-50 in a handful of days.

Not that most people will do this.

It took me from 10/15/2013 to 2/2/2014 to get my first job to 50...that was with trying out other jobs, doing storyline, crafting, etc. I think that's reasonable, if not a little slow for most new players. If you stick to one job, you can probably cut that down to 1-2 months. I was swapping between PGL/BLM/WHM before settling on WHM. Actually only took me 1 month to get from 1-50 on WHM...so most of that time was spent grinding out other jobs XD

[Vespar]

I think this heavily depends on the class you are levelling, or whether or not you can get into dungeons really quickly. If you use everything available at your disposal its easy to hit 50 really quickly. Not sure about 2-3 days but definetly not much longer than that.

Dungeons are extremely good XP, especially if you have rested xp.
Your challenge log also provides alot of bonus experience. Something we didnt have when 2.0 first came out, so its become even faster to level now.
Hunting log!! Dont forget about it. Also alot of Bonus xp. If your not doing dungeons, work on your hunt log. You get a separate hunt log for each class.
Quests! I actually disagree with above post. Quests can take you quite far. Some of them may seem time consuming but it really is worth it.
If you are waiting to get into dungeons, do fates or do your hunt/challenge logs.