How to level in Heavenward

[Riastrad]

It's obvious, Fates suck hard. Despite that, it's still worth the small amount of time to do them if they are close by. All those 10 and 15k exp rewards add up in the long term.

I am currently level 58 at level 56/57 main story quests because of this. At this rate I will hit 60 well before the main scenario quests catch up to me. I owe this to opportunistic Fate grinding.

[Geryth]

It's obvious, Fates suck hard. Despite that, it's still worth the small amount of time to do them if they are close by. All those 10 and 15k exp rewards add up in the long term.

It's exp/hour that's the killer with Heavensward fates. They have tons of health and actually take a while to complete. The effort for reward just isn't there. If you're going to FATE grind it's actually more experience per hour to grind Northern Thanalan for FATEs. I just do my 10 needed for the challenge log and ignore them in heavensward unless it's opportunistic to join in on an epic FATE. I pretty much meander around the zones these days just for the clan hunts and doing FATEs in between would actually slow my leveling down.