Leveling Speed?

[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.