Leveling Speed?

[Twilite]

It's only possible to get a DoH class from 1-20 in 2 hours, if you have every last material for every recipe. After lvl15, the guild merchant wont be carrying a lot of materials you need, so you end up needing to farm/gather.

SO you'll have to get all of those first, oh and the crafting log wont level you all the way to 20 on its own either.

[Quinnie]

My first class took 1-2 months to get to 50. Wasn't powering through it and skipped most of the text, but had no idea what I was doing. Leveling classes after by running dungeons and fates, I usually go 1-50 in about 10 days. The first one will take a while longer for reasons mentioned above - perhaps people forget what it's like playing the first time around but I'd be surprised if someone did it in a week, unless they're not doing much else! I'm leveling an alt character now for RP and to read the story, but as I know what to expect (and leveling tips) I've got to level 16 in a few hours easily. I think it'll take about 2 weeks? Will come back and update this if I'm way off, haha. I'm also leveling a DoH on the alt (BSM and ARM coincidently) and it's taken about 3-4 hours to get to level 20 BSM. I don't know how people did it in two hours.

Crafting gets expensive quite quickly. It'll take a little while to level the first class up, so it might be easier to work on once you've done your first battle class to 50. If you do want to get into crafting, as a general tip: the DOH classes have abilities that help each other out, which is why most people who get into crafting end up leveling them all. Getting all the crafting classes to level 15 early on to get your first cross class abilities will be really helpful towards making HQ items, and it's cheap to do! I wish I did it before leveling my first class, makes a huuuge difference. You can get nearly all the materials needed from the supplier in the guilds.

I'm rambling now. Hope you're enjoying the game! Don't worry too much, you're doing great.

[Cirgellon]

My first class took much longer than a week. You'll get an experience bonus for all other classes after you level your first though. That will help you level other classes faster. You'll also start leveling faster as you start getting into dungeons. I usually get a level per dungeon and those don't take long.

[GenJoe]

I'm also leveling a DoH on the alt (BSM and ARM coincidently) and it's taken about 3-4 hours to get to level 20 BSM. I don't know how people did it in two hours.

You just get to lv 10 on any of the DoH by spamming crafts.. then you can quick synth any base mats, 2 or 3 stacks will take you to lv 15. Then a couple more stacks will get you to 20 easily.

It does require some basic resources though. Shards mainly, for the mats, you just throw money at it.

I've been leveling my alt crafter and I'm able to get to 1-50 for each DoH in about 2 days just by spamming macros. I do have all my mats in place though, if I had to go out and gather them, it would take considerably longer.. Hell, just going to the MB and buying the right mats in the right quantities add significant time to the equation. There's a lot of room for optimization in leveling in this game, so once it's streamlined it can go extremely quickly. Having already done it a few times by getting your base class to 50 helps of course.. 50 in a week? I guess I could see it as a possibility, just not feasible for most, myself included..

[Flett117]

If you skip the text you can get to 50 in about three weeks, I think I read half of the text playing 0-3 hours a day for three weeks to hit 50. Also, since I'm at work and sleeping majority of my day when I do play those 1-3 hours I had a ton of rested exp. With the rested exp I could do a dungeon and a couple fates/quests and lvl 2-3 lvls till about lvl 45. Then at lvl 45 it was about one lvl per day playing 1-3 hours. Also, I was bare minimum when I hit 50. Only one cross class at lvl 15, which only took 3 hours to get to 15, just doing fate fate fate with a couple quests mixed in there. I had no crafting leveled up too. Shoot this past sat it took me 2-3 hours to get bsm to lvl 15 but a part of those hours was understanding and learning how to craft.

[Atrayl]

Thanks for all of the responses.

To those saying to ignore crafting until I get one combat class to level 50, how can I get upgrades otherwise? I got some tanking gear from level 15 quests, but I haven't seen any since (which is why I started leveling armorer). My weapon is from my level 15 class quest still. Maybe I just hit an odd patch of quests, but it felt like I wasn't getting the right gear from them.

[Flett117]

Thanks for all of the responses.

To those saying to ignore crafting until I get one combat class to level 50, how can I get upgrades otherwise? I got some tanking gear from level 15 quests, but I haven't seen any since (which is why I started leveling armorer). My weapon is from my level 15 class quest still. Maybe I just hit an odd patch of quests, but it felt like I wasn't getting the right gear from them.

You lvl to quick to worry about armor and at 22 I wouldn't worry that it is way under lvl. I think I wore green lvl 15 armor till 25. Then every 5 lvls the town your in will sell armor your lvl. In dungeons you don't make much of an impact because most likely your in there with people lvl 50.

[Niwashi]

You lvl to quick to worry about armor and at 22 I wouldn't worry that it is way under lvl. I think I wore green lvl 15 armor till 25. Then every 5 lvls the town your in will sell armor your lvl. In dungeons you don't make much of an impact because most likely your in there with people lvl 50.

For DPS and caster classes, the green level 15 sets are better than level 20 gear, so 25 is generally the first time you'll find anything that beats it. Comparing by levels alone (or even item levels) only works when comparing items of the same quality.

As to having other players at level 50, for a tank that just makes it harder, so gear is all the more important. An on level tank trying to hold more hate than a bunch of over-geared level 50 players needs every point of damage and strength he can get.

[Flett117]

Also, at that lvl you're running the dungeon once till lvl 50 because they throw a dungeon at you every 2-3 lvls.