Levelling First Alt Class to Fifty?

[Barta]

Greetings,

I just came back from extended hiatus and hit 50 on my Summoner, this is my first level fifty class/job/thing...

Anyways I don't actually like SMN, the summons are kinda weak and pathetic. Not mechanically but aesthetically, they aren't summons they're neopets. Summons are massive creatures as old as time and magic itself, legends and myths with unsurmountable power.

So I wanna level Black Mage, and I don't have any idea how to go about doing this now that my quests are over....

Is there any way that won't feel like a teethgratingly bad grind?

[Eye_Gore]

If you did all the side quests, then there isn't much left to do to level another class, unless you make a new character and do the story again. Otherwise its grinding leve's, FATES, dungeons, Guildhests.

[Mimilu]

Sadly, if you did all the quests, it's a grind fest from here.
I would recommend that you at least get SMN to 50 though, because you get a 50% exp bonus when you get a class/job to 50 for all of your classes/jobs.
There are things like hunts and levequests that feel like quests, so you don't have to just do dungeons and FATEs, so it's not too bad. Just be careful to not burn yourself out.

[Barta]

Sadly, if you did all the quests, it's a grind fest from here.
I would recommend that you at least get SMN to 50 though, because you get a 50% exp bonus when you get a class/job to 50 for all of your classes/jobs.
There are things like hunts and levequests that feel like quests, so you don't have to just do dungeons and FATEs, so it's not too bad. Just be careful to not burn yourself out.

He is at 50, the forums don't seem to update. He's not even a Seadog anymore, I made him Hellsgaurd. And yeah.... That is super old intel. Not my server anymore either.

Alrighty, so Dungeons it is! I do not like FATEs sadly....

[Niwashi]

I would recommend that you at least get SMN to 50 though, because you get a 50% exp bonus when you get a class/job to 50 for all of your classes/jobs.

It's now been increased to 100% and No, you don't need a job at 50 to unlock it. It's automatic from level 10 on. As soon as you can unlock multiple classes, all but one of them will have the full bonus. (That bonus is 100% from levels 1-50 and 50% from 50-60, but only requires another class higher than your current one. How much higher, or whether that higher class has met any milestone level numbers is irrelevant.)

[EdenArchangel]

You could work on thaumaturge hunting logs between queueing for dungeons.

Also, do you have the weekly challenge log unlocked? That gives you nice bonuses like "complete 3 dungeons" for 15 percent of your xp bar.