Hit level 30, unlocked job.. feeling a bit lost and a bit bored

[Quixotica]

I'm a little lost on what to do honestly. I've leveled most of my classes to 15, got one to thirty finally.. but Exp rewards feel so paltry for everything, even the limited leve quests, that it just feels like a slog. Dungeons are usually my reprieve in MMO's, I've been a dungeon rat for years as it's usually a lot more fun for me. Sadly XIV's dungeons feel excessively long and somewhat unrewarding, seems like they aren't really meant to be done more than once or twice.

Any advice? I played XI for years, which was obviously a lot less sophisticated in regards to leveling options. That said I almost feel like I preferred XI's grinding parties, at least it had a social aspect to it, whereas here I just bounce between leves and Fates by myself for ultimately what feels like very little Exp assuming there are even enough people around to do them, which with Boss fates seems rare.

[Crystel_Leah]

Fate parties which depending on your server may or may not be hard to come by.

[Quixotica]

Fate parties which depending on your server may or may not be hard to come by.

Might just be my server but I think I've only ever gotten a couple of those in over a hundred hours of play and none lasted very long.

[PantslessPrince]

Are you in an FC or LS?
If not be more social, knock out some maps instead of grinding dungeons or trying to solo fates.
If you play with more people it may start to be more fun.

[StrejdaTom]

Well all the people and fun are on level 50 now.
And yea, only reason to repeat dungeons is tomestones collecting and that happens only at level 50 too.

My advice is to get one job to 50 asap or you will get bored and leave earlier than you can actually start experiencing the fun in this game. Story quests, hunting logs, dungeons (every once), side quests and guildhests should be enough to get to 50 without doing FATEs and Leves (except 44-45 I think, not sure now).

[Mugiawara]

Edit: Nevermind my last post since I re-read your post. I think you'd like the end-game dungeons. All in which, as I said, can be blasted through easily because of speedrunners.
So they don't no time at all in comparison to the newbies places.
Do what everyone else said and get a 50 going. You may have more fun.

Join a FC/LS and find friends and stuffs, makes the game super interesting.

[LunaHoshino]

Yeah, you should definitely get one class to 50 before you start leveling all the others because you get a 50% EXP boost for every class after your first 50.

[Cakekizy]

The bonus is for any job below level of your highest, doesn't have to be 50 to get the bonus.

[Spawnie]

game really doesnt start to level 50.. most reference 1-50 as tutorial nothin else XD

[Tiggy]

Yoshi-P, the producer, has specifically said the real game starts at 50. By continuously sticking at low level where there isn't any real content you are specifically keeping yourself in the "boredom" zone. Take a job to 50 where all the real content and other players are. You aren't doing yourself any favors by sticking to the low levels forever. Most jobs don't even have their proper identities until the mid 40s when they get their final skills, and many features don't even unlock until you get at least one job to 50 and finish the original 2.0 storyline. Heck even the dungeons at 50 are better and generally quicker than the ones used 15-50.

Might just be my server but I think I've only ever gotten a couple of those in over a hundred hours of play and none lasted very long.

Fates are almost always up. When one despawns due to timing out or being completed another spawns shortly after. You should never, ever find yourself in a situation where they are unavailable. This isn't a server to server thing either. The game rotates out the fates in each zone with a bit of randomness so that they are constantly popping up.