Recommended grinding locations?

[kensredemption]

Unfortunately it isn't at least not in the 1-20 regions.

Grinding chains either solo or with a small party is defiently the way to go. Myself and a duo partner were doing Leves with as many stars as possible usually +3 or +4 last night and getting less than 1 extra mob worth of XP for completion.

Leves seem pointless now and we are saving them for crafting. Maybe that changes at higher levels tho.

I don't mind doing mobs solo, though because I'm a LNC I don't really think I can handle chain mobs. I tried once already and failed miserably. I'd rather just be in active mode for 3 consecutive mobs, take a break, and then continue. It's worked so far. That, plus I can invoke my guardian's aspect for a leve, kill some of the objective targets and leave one left and just farm a few more mobs for whatever time I have left then kill the last one. That should work too, right?

[VydarrTyr]

Unfortunately it isn't at least not in the 1-20 regions.

Grinding chains either solo or with a small party is defiently the way to go. Myself and a duo partner were doing Leves with as many stars as possible usually +3 or +4 last night and getting less than 1 extra mob worth of XP for completion.

Leves seem pointless now and we are saving them for crafting. Maybe that changes at higher levels tho.

I'll give an L40 leve a try solo and let you know.

I'll wait for Robert's definitive answer. But 2 nights ago, I did 6 level 40 leves on Arc in the Black Shroud. I was level 40, and 1 star on all of them (the basic mobs were level 40, and the bosses were 2-3 levels above that). I used Guardian's Aspect on 4 of them. I was able to get a few Chain bonuses by killing grouped mobs quickly. And I ended up with 39,462 XP.

I'm not sure if that's typical or not. But it's not bad.

Of course, I also tried to solo a behest (suggested for level 45). It was in an area where there were plenty of level 45-47 mobs that aggro. I killed zero of the behest mobs, and I died 5 times. So, I can't say how much SP behest gives. Obviously.

0:5 -- that's not a good K/D.

[Estellios]

For solo it seems that the game is now balanced for you to fight and XP chain enemies 0-1 levels above you, and it's best for you to set leve enemies to as close to that as possible when soloing. There actually seems to be a ton of random gaggles of same-level enemies added. If you check around rank 10 camps you will probably be able to find something. At 14-15 you can try the non-aggro enemies in Shpshaoe (however it's spelled).

[kensredemption]

For solo it seems that the game is now balanced for you to fight and XP chain enemies 0-1 levels above you, and it's best for you to set leve enemies to as close to that as possible when soloing. There actually seems to be a ton of random gaggles of same-level enemies added. If you check around rank 10 camps you will probably be able to find something. At 14-15 you can try the non-aggro enemies in Shpshaoe (however it's spelled).

I just might have to look that up on the Eorzeapedia, ha ha ha. Thanks for the tips thus far though, guys. I won't be home for another 4-5 hours, but tonight: Hard-core grinding until 18, then I'm off to Ul'dah!

...Uhh...how far is it from Gridania, by the way?

[REDace0]

Can't you take the airship? In fact, if you speak to the starting NPC at the Adventurer's Guild when you hit...18? She'll tell you about that low-rank dungeon that starts with 'Sh' and give you a ticket to LL. The dock is in the basement of the guild.

Edit: No, I didn't perish on my L40 leve, I just wasn't at home yet. Then I kinda got distracted hunting Apkallu so I could make myself a nice beret. But it looks like Vydarr has confirmed that battle leves still offer good XP, even solo. Grind away!

[KyegimyaAsura]

Speaking of guildleves, I probably just haven't looked into it enough but I've got a question about Guardian's Aspect.

It seems to be an extra 50%, but even if I were to do guildleves without it (I can tell doing leves causes it to go back up), would it generally be faster than soloing mobs even without the exp bonus? I can already tell it's faster than soloing was turning out for me. Then again I'm only a level 18 Lancer, lol

Just trying to think about my options. I haven't had a single exp party yet.

[kensredemption]

I haven't had a single exp party yet.

Me neither. :/ Anyway, I think it's pretty fast to do a bit of both. I'm doing the Main Scenario quests to level up my LNC at every opportunity I get, getting about half of the total of the EXP required for the next level when I finish it.

[KyegimyaAsura]

Wow good to know, I'll have to take a look into those quests. Thanks. ^^