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.

[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..