Leveling Speed?

[nuyu11]

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.

If you are in FC ask them to craft something for you, if you leveling DOH & DOL at the same time then there is nothing to worry about because you can provide a gear for your self. No need to be HQ normal gear also sufficient if self craft. But for your level, crafting HQ is easy for high level crafter so just ask you FC they sure help you.

[Atrayl]

I took the time and now ARM and BSM are pretty much caught up to my level. I'll probably just keep those two going for now and then revisit the others later.

[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.

[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..

[Pyretta_Blaze]

For gear without crafting or Gil I tend to do a bunch of Guildleves. Many of them reward gear that you can use and sell if you don't. Also when doing Guildleves many of them have a treasure chest randomly spawned in the area that often has something you can use.

Running dungeons over a few times will help with the gear but takes longer.

[HBLR]

You CAN hit the cap in a week. But it'll be a boring grind. You'd have to fate grind all day long, do leve quests and bang out the roulette's you have. At 44 you'd go for speed runs to 50. I did it in 2 days from 44 to 50 simply because it's boring. Also, it dependent on the class you play. If you play a healer or a tank. You'd find a duty finder match in 4-5 minutes while a dps might have to wait 20-30 minutes. There's a few things that can help also. Buying food of the market gives you 3% bonus. And the rested bonus is nice aswell. After you hit 50 with one class you get a permanent bonus for any other jobs you want to level. Ofcourse this is all hardcore gaming. If casual. I'd suggest you do all the story quests. Do your leve quests. Focus on 1 char first. Find 3 friends to play and level with you. And than you can casually get to 50 in a week or 3 maybe 2,5 or so.

[Niwashi]

After you hit 50 with one class you get a permanent bonus for any other jobs you want to level.

That doesn't come at level 50. It comes at level 10, as soon as you can unlock other classes. You'll only ever have full XP costs for one of your battle classes, whichever is currently your highest one. All others will get a 50% XP buff. (If you're leveling multiple classes in parallel, alternating back and forth between which is highest, that trades which one is getting the buff, but regardless, you'll still have it on all but one of them. Any time a new class takes over as your top one and loses that buff, your former top class gains it.)

[Atrayl]

After getting Leatherworking up to 15 now, I think I'm just going to save crafting for when I at have at least one level 50 combat class. It doesn't appear like crafting in this game is meant to be leveled up with your class to supply gear, which I guess is something I already knew but hoped to be able to power through.

Maybe it's more so the fault of my server's economy than the game itself; I could definitely just level Blacksmith and Armorer within reason, but the materials from the other classes are always only in expensive stacks on the market. In other games, I could usually just buy the one or two I needed to make specific items.

I'm going to try to just level via dungeon runs and hopefully gear up that way (the gear appears to be better anyway).

[GenJoe]

Maybe it's more so the fault of my server's economy than the game itself; I could definitely just level Blacksmith and Armorer within reason, but the materials from the other classes are always only in expensive stacks on the market. In other games, I could usually just buy the one or two I needed to make specific items.

Jenova actually has a very healthy market.. The reason the low lvl gear is cheaper to buy than make is because people make those while leveling, so there's a large surplus and very little demand since most people can just get quest/dungeon gear that are better. Also.. as for the stack sizes, there's not enough people gathering low lvl mats, so there's only 2-3 people selling each kind, if that.. Usually it's just 1 person. In that case, there's no need to split the stack sizes, it'll eventually sell and it's less of a headache to do it that way. On the bright side, when you start gathering, that means you can actually make some money while leveling, considerable amount.



But having to get all of your own mats as you level your crafting, that isn't exactly the fastest nor the most efficient way to do it.

Just get a combat class to lv 50, then botany/mining to 50 to make some money.. After that, you can just powerlevel crafting by throwing money at them (about 100-250k each for 1-50)
Or if you have no interest in gathering, just get to lv 50 then start spiritbonding for gil, once you make a stockpile of around 5m gil, you should be ready to work on your crafting.

[JimboTCB]

It's also good to hold off on crafting because leves are far and away the best way to level. Wait until they stack up to near the max of 100, buy or craft the necessary turn-in items in bulk, and just go nuts. Same applies for levelling gathering, it's good to just burn through a ton of leves really quickly if you want to level fast. Using your leve allowances on combat leves is a pretty weak payoff by comparison.