Curious about leveling speed

[Sleigh]

I think it took my alt three days of serious grinding in 2.1 to go from 1-50 but I had help. Even without the armory bonus it's not too bad, but you need to abuse a few things.

1-20 can be done in a couple hours if you have someone power leveling you out of party and then you do dungeons which give a level until 20.
20-30, you can get to 22 with hunt log boosts, then it takes probably 5-10 hours in Quarrymill to get to 30 without the armory bonus.
30-40 takes a while without armory bonuses or rested. 10-15 hours probably.
40-50 either takes a really really long time if you just play it straight, or it can be moderately fast if you abuse map completion bonuses at level 48 and do speedy DD first section spams in a premade party from 44-48.

Most of what I wrote is unnecessary or counter-productive to a fresh character though, since you have to do the story which is in combination with mandatory dungeons probably 70% of the experience you need to get to 50. It really helps while leveling beyond 20 if you have a buddy doing Leves for you while you do your story fetch quests. It can keep you constantly current and never have to actively stop doing the required story just to do FATEs or anything.

[Ultimatecalibur]

A couple things I've noticed as I've been working on leveling 7 classes in parallel.

• XP requirements per level have logarithmic growth, but most XP rewards outside of story quests and dungeons have linear growth.
• The XP rewards for turning in a level X levequest is barely 1k greater than those gained by turning in a level X - 5 levequest.
• The XP rewards for doing a standard FATE (not a Notorious Monster FATE which doubles rewards) that you meet the requirements for that you do not need to levelsync to participate in (i.e. you are no more than 5 levels over) will be greater than the rewards for participating in a FATE above your level.
• Dungeon mob XP increases logarithmicly. It will take the same amount of dungeon runs to go from 32 to 35 running Brayflox's Longstop as it would take to go from 47 to 50 running Aurum Vale. Biggest limiting factor is queue times which make timely leveling this way unfeasible for DpS. Both Healers and Tanks can take full advantage of this.

[aerialrave]

2 things

(1) leveling to 50 and completing the storyline passing Ultima are NOT the same thing
(2) many people "claim" the 2-3 day thing after already having another 50 first. there is a big EXP boost that helps out a lot with this

I personally don't believe it is humanly possible to pass Ultima in 3 days, even with hardcore play sessions of like 18 hours per day.
Took me about 5-6 weeks my first time casually playing, watching all the cutscenes, reading the storyline, and playing around on other classes.

Personally I think it is possible to do in one week if you skip all cutscenes and rush through everything.

[Arkista]

I personally don't believe it is humanly possible to pass Ultima in 3 days, even with hardcore play sessions of like 18 hours per day.

It's possible and it's been done.

Back on page one I posted my dates from 1-50 when I 1st started to play, took about 50-60hrs. I'm pretty sure there are people who did it faster. Really not hard to grind to 50 If you have the time. 12-18hrs a day you'll be done in 3-4days faster if you do it smart. Its about knowing what areas to do fates, When to hit up dungeons and doing hunt logs. Even without rested exp you can do it.

Here
1-40 takes 3,608,200exp
41-50 takes 4,125,800exp
I did 41-50 in a day no rested, no armory exp, that's 517k more exp than 1-40. So its not impossible to do 1-50 no bonus in 3 days.

[Charisma]

It's possible and it's been done.

Back on page one I posted my dates from 1-50 when I 1st started to play, took about 50-60hrs. I'm pretty sure there are people who did it faster. Really not hard to grind to 50 If you have the time. 12-18hrs a day you'll be done in 3-4days faster if you do it smart. Its about knowing what areas to do fates, When to hit up dungeons and doing hunt logs. Even without rested exp you can do it.

Here
1-40 takes 3,608,200exp
41-50 takes 4,125,800exp
I did 41-50 in a day no rested, no armory exp, that's 517k more exp than 1-40. So its not impossible to do 1-50 no bonus in 3 days.

Your post only shows 6 days, and 1 day left out inbetween, as long as no one shows this achievements gotten within 3 or 4 (considering no one is a machine) days, no one did it.

[Sleigh]

Your post only shows 6 days, and 1 day left out inbetween, as long as no one shows this achievements gotten within 3 or 4 (considering no one is a machine) days, no one did it.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...ement/?page=11

I started this character late on the 19th, which is why I only have 5 achievements on that date, and got my beating the game achievements past midnight of the 23rd, technically the 24th but it was really just the night of the 23rd for me. It was basically 3 1/2 days of grinding. I wasn't even that efficient about it, I just played a lot and did a little DD farm and saved map completions for when I was leveled up.

Not very proud of that level of grind I did but it certainly can be done.

[Arkista]

Your post only shows 6 days, and 1 day left out inbetween, as long as no one shows this achievements gotten within 3 or 4 (considering no one is a machine) days, no one did it.

If you go back and read what I posted in parenthesis, Day one I played several jobs, I could have hit the 20 cap in beta the same day, but I choose to level other classes. Early access started at 2am PDT but I was unable to play until I got home from work in the afternoon. I see that you started in april 2014, So you weren't around for the great 90k days of 2.0 launch/early access. Aside from that I did 41-50 in a day which is 500k more exp of 1-40. So it is entirely possible to do 1-50 in 2-3 days with no armory bonus. As I said took me 50-60hrs to do it. I don't see why people find it so hard to believe someone could do this in 2-3 days. There are people with no life you know?

[Ryans]

I really don't see the point of this thread. People will level at whatever pace they want to level at. If it takes 3 days, does that really matter? Not unless you are on some kind of deadline. If it is just for curiosities sake, why are you questioning peoples' firsthand accounts so much? It is possible. Leave it at that. I think what you should be asking is how long does it take, in hours played not calendar days, for a fresh character to go from 1 to 50 if you actually want valuable information.

[Chihaya]

Eh... yea people say you can hit 2-3 day all the time, which is true.

Why people keep bringing up making new characters, going through main scenario and stuff? Yea these things will slow you down.

But leveling another class to 50 can be done super fast, heck, people were close to 50 within 24hr release of NIN and was well under 2 days before the first NIN on Balmung hit 50. You get 50% exp bonus after DoW/DoM to 50, dungeon exp have been boosted, queue for dungeon while FATE/Hunting Log/Leve in the mean time. DoH/DoL is even more of a joke to hit 50 with some leves available...

[CGMidlander]

Dungeon leveling is pretty damn fast. The only problem is the queues are a huge limiting factor for DPS if queuing alone. (But this problem isn't very prevalent for healers/tanks)