Leveling up makes me want to quit.

[Loony_BoB]

We have new members in our FC all the time, starting at L1 on everything, and they catch up to us without complaining. Dungeons and FATEs and hunting logs and quests boost them up pretty quick, and if you're having a problem with dungeon timers, avoid roulette and just select a few dungeons near your level and queue for them that way. I got into dungeons pretty quick yesterday as a L25 Rogue and leveled up about once per dungeon.

I do FATEs solo pretty often. How fast are you expecting to level? Once every how many minutes? I'm leveling Rogue. I'll let you know how long it takes me to get through a complete level for me once I get my next level up.

PS. You've repeatedly stated that you are going to leave and yet you are still posting. This is a common troll tactic, so I suggest you pick stance (I'm going to complain but I'm not leaving) or another (I'm going to leave - and actually leave). I don't say this because I want you to leave, but because you paint a very poor image for yourself that leads everyone to see you as a troll and this is probably the main reason people have reacted badly. I personally have no beef with you, take this as advice and do with it as you will. Just trying to help you get more helpful responses, as helpful responses come to those who aren't coming across as trolls (whether they are actually trolls or not).

EDIT: Can you please confirm which character it is that you are leveling? You have NIN 60 already. Sorry if someone has already asked, it's a lot of posts to read through!

[Cheraa]

Yeah okay GG. So I am the idiot according to all of you here. Try to level up something new then I'll laugh at you. I dare you to try it. But since you all seem to think your system is perfect then I won't use forums any more to complain. I'll just quit and stop giving my money to Squeenix.

Leveling is fine here. Most time, I'm sitting on my 100 Leve Quests, because during working, caring for famlily & friends and playing my Paladin Main. There is not that much time left for other Jobs to level.
But even though I have leveled until HW Release, where I starteed with FF XIV:

PLD 60
WAR 27
PUG 15
BRD 15
PIK 15
NIN 15
WHM 34
BLM 28
SMN 23
DRK 30
AST 30
MCH 30
MINER 10

Level 1-15 grinding Mobs for Hunting Log. 1x Leves at lvl 10+
Level 15-45 Challange Log, Daily Lowlevel Dungeon, Fate Grind in PT or with your Chocobo, Leves if possible, Quests if possible, Hunting Log.
Level 45-60 Beast Tribe Dailies, Challange Log, Daily Lowlevel Dungeon, Daily High Level Dungeons, Fate Grind in PT or with your Chocobo, Leves if possible, Quests if possible.

We have at least options.
Other MMOs like WoW only offers you: Dungeon Grind (and do some quests during Queue if you are DD).

[Loony_BoB]

Are you in an FC with Heat of Battle II enabled, btw?

[Paladinleeds]

Are you in an FC with Heat of Battle II enabled, btw?

With the post quoted in the post just before this one, it's making me want to grab my alt, and go from 1-50 without food or FC buffs. Can't do it on my main though... but I honestly am struggling to see an issue with the levelling system.

[Violyre]

I leveled ACN to 30 about a week before 3.1, but by that time I had around 40 leves. I had been playing other games in the interim to build them up. I got WHM to 50 in about two very casual weeks of play, but I had the MSQ for that, which you've already done.

Are you also doing all of your guildhests and hunting logs? Guildhests give you bonus experience the first time you run them as a class.

Check around and see if you have any quests here or there to do. I deliberately leveled CNJ in Gridania, THM in Thanalan, and ACN in Limsa areas deliberately to cover each one.

Maybe you can do DoL gathering while you wait for queues, or get into crafting. Or both! Make a little money and maybe stave off some of the boredom.

Balmung may also be a problem for you as well, it's a Legacy server, so it probably started with a lot of people at 50 on multiple jobs when ARR released. You also don't have much circulation in players, with it being nearly 100% closed to new players and transfers. Do you have any attachment to Balmung? If not, maybe consider a server transfer.

[Yurihyuga]

I got my monk from 15-52 over two to three weeks playing casually(got 52 last week) and just doing dungeons longest queue was maybe around 35-40 minutes. I think you are over exaggerating either that or your data centre is dead and maybe look into a move.

And I have 60 PLD/BLM/SCH again all done via dungeons ok except BLM since I used the HW quests.

[sayafrost]

With the post quoted in the post just before this one, it's making me want to grab my alt, and go from 1-50 without food or FC buffs. Can't do it on my main though... but I honestly am struggling to see an issue with the levelling system.

I think I'll try to go to do something like this on my alt, she has just 2 things to 60 most are like 0; I never had issues with leveling (hit on my main all 50 like a week before HW); and I don't need 2 hours to get into leveling roulette with dps... and if I do... I go grind gatherers (that's how i got them to 60 on my main)

Anyway I get first to 15 doing fates around Horizon and then I start with dungeons, guildhests and trying to do the challenge log

[DarkmoonVael]

Yeah, but no, I do not agree with this. The current method is bad and as an older player if it took you months with all the constant fate runs around, then you are just bad. Not my first character here.

You are just plain wrong here. Absolutely catagorically wrong. Levelling when ARR first came out was significantly slower, with no roulettes and no weekly challenges for bonus Exp. It took a long time to level classes.

The only issue here is your mindset. I recently levelled an alt to 60 from scratch and it took less than 2 weeks with all cross classes obtained again. So to turn it round on you, if its taking you so long, you are doing something wrong.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Yeah, but no, I do not agree with this. The current method is bad and as an older player if it took you months with all the constant fate runs around, then you are just bad. Not my first character here.

Or perhaps most players aren't looking to rapid level? For someone so eager to declare other players bad, they're not the ones struggling to level now are they? I had no issues grinding monk up via the MSQ and dungeons. I leveled dragoon from 35 to 50 in a single day grinding out fates in Coerthas and Northern Thanalan. Frankly, you sound like you aren't willing to put the effort in and want leveling gifted to you. Too bad.

[Taika]

Two hour dungeon queues sound unbelievable, especially on a very populated datacenter. Are you playing during server prime time? Others already reminded of checking all languages for faster queues. Leves would be the last thing I'd do for leveling DoW/DoM too (other than maybe complete the challenge log for them).

Here's what I'd recommend for leveling:
- ask your FC to keep the exp buff up
- make sure to always gather rested exp when bossible (don't log out outside sanctuaries)
- always eat food (any food, just for the 3% exp bonus) while leveling
- do your daily low level roulette (this is my personal primary way of leveling since I'm lazy)
- I'm not sure how much exp you get from guildhests, you could try completing them in order as well (you get a bonus for completing them the first time on a job), there's also a daily guildhest roulette but I haven't done it
- make sure to get all of your challenge log bonuses for the job you're currently leveling (don't waste dungeon or commendation bonuses on your level 60 job for example)
- complete your class hunting logs
- from level 50, start running level 50 roulette and trials roulette in addition to the leveling roulette
- from level 53, start doing your daily solo clan hunts
- other than these, mainly run your current highest dungeon and during the wait times maybe solo FATEs or do any level appropriate quests you still have open in the world or do beast tribe quests (DoW/DoM beast tribe quests are mostly level 40+ I think)