The whole leveling experience of a new player... is this?

[Nixxe]

The only time I really hit a wall with the MSQ was in the upper 30s. I had basically finished Coerthas and the MSQ was above my current level. Otherwise simply doing everything I could get my hands on kept me moving without ever having to specifically try to get XP. If you're trying to just to the MSQ and as little side content as possible though, I'm not surprised you're encountering this problem.

[Llus]

I am mostly doing fates to grind out the exp. Duty and dungeons are out of the question since my que time is over 1 hour and most of the times I don't find anything at my level.

To be honest, I kind of feel that something is wrong as grinding for hours at lvl 30ish is pretty ridicculus.

Grinding fates is going to take you forever. 3-4 mobs in a level relevant dungeon gives about the same exp as one fate.

[Aaran]

Seriously, trying queuing for leveling roulette again. Everybody likes to complain about long DPS queues, but they're nowhere near one hour. Usually around 5-15 minutes.

[Taika]

Seriously, trying queuing for leveling roulette again. Everybody likes to complain about long DPS queues, but they're nowhere near one hour. Usually around 5-15 minutes.

This is my experience as well, and I'm on the same data center than the OP. Also, when you queue for leveling roulette, try setting all the languages (E/D/F) from your duty finder settings. That might help with the queue time. Also remember you don't have to queue for the roulette alone: ask if other people from your Free Company need their roulette as well, and queue together! If you get a healer or tank to queue with you, there might not be any wait time at all.

[Dualblade]

If you really find the leveling rol takes too long to que go do PotD. Takes much less time to get in and you don't even need to worry too much about not having tanks or healers if it happens.

That said I've been doing level rol for some of my lower level jobs and it doesn't take that long usually to get in. As well as your first time through each dungeon you are guarenteed extra exp for each first run. Your challenge log can give quite a bit of exp even if it feels boring, AND completing it all will net you a lvl 50 ring in Gridania (I forget the name of the NPC though). Doing FATES while waiting on Leveling Rol can also work, do some Leves if you wish. Find that to actually be my favorite way to do 45-50.

[Serilda]

I'm going to disagree with the roulette suggestion. I find roulettes boring too and have actually never once done levelling roulette; once I know the dungeon I don't like going back there for a while as scripted content is too repetitive and unchallenging once I know it by heart. Being forced to grind roulettes to do the MSQ would have completely broken my spirit.

But by skipping the sidequests, you're skipping a ton of content which will help you stay up to date with the MSQ without repetition. There are entire dungeons and game mechanics unlocked through sidequests, and while the very early ones only reward junk or small sums of cash, you'll be missing some of the best content later on by continuing to skip sidequests. As someone has said, the hunting log is easy to complete and gets you a bonus ring for when you're a fresh level 50 which will help; if you're running around doing the MSQ and sidequests anyway then killing a few extra monsters is free experience.

[Hasrat]

No I am not doing roulettes as they take too much time to que up as a dps. I am not doing hunting logs and challenges since they bore me to no end. These things are side things. Things you do when you don't want to quest around or when you are done at max level in my opinion. And the whole thing about levequests and the other side things it is just too much to stay on top of as a new player.

The problem with this way of thinking is that all these side things will be completely irrelevant if you put them off that long. The hunting log alone is ridiculously easy, and a substantial exp boost early on. Many times, you can even combine hunting with FATE grinding, if you know a mob also spawns with a FATE somewhere (which comes with the additional bonus of they're usually lower level/weaker, on top of the FATE reward). The challenge log does scale with your level, but it also resets every week; not hitting a few of those is just throwing exp away, and, again, it's stuff you're probably already doing to begin with, at least with FATEs (hell, you might even already be doing that without even noticing). Battle levequests aren't incredibly substantial, but at least they take about 5 minutes each, and if you're lucky, you'll pick up a few nice pieces of gear doing them. And if you can't tolerate leves, chances are you won't much care for beast tribe quests when you get to them, another alternate source of leveling (and a good early source of tomes of poetics for big gear upgrades when you hit 50, imo).

Fact is, if you're avoiding queuing for dungeons or guildhests (quicker, sometimes easier, still some challenge log bonuses you can complete with those), then you better be prepared to grind like hell. And if you're going to avoid other sources of exp on top of that, you're just making life difficult for yourself. You can run dungeons for big exp, or you can grind everything else to slowly get you up, but you can't just expect to ding by idling.

One last bit of advice, though, that hasn't been brought up, is rested bonus. Are you logging out while in town (or any other aetheryte zone)? The more time you spend with the little moon next to the exp bar, the more bonus exp you can accumulate, represented by the blue segment of the exp bar. It might not be significant or really noticeable, but again, it's free exp.

Also, and you're already over 30 so this isn't applicable anymore, but did you run the Hall of the Novice around level 15? It's another side thing you might've ignored, but one of the rewards was a decent ring accessory, which also grants 30% bonus exp while you're under level 30, which maybe could've kept you from hitting a wall until that stopped working.

Tools are there, just gotta use them.

Also, on behalf of the game, I'll apologize for that ridiculous set of fetch quests leading up to Titan. Pretty sure everyone agrees that needs to be cut down a lot, and nobody enjoys slogging through it. Unfortunately, there's several points in the MSQ that are similar, doing a series of small things that just feel like a waste of time, but, they're all chunks of exp at least, and often offer gear which is probably meant to keep you somewhat relevant.

[LunaFaye]

There shouldn't be any wall when it comes to leveling nowadays. Exp have been buffed, so let's try a couple different method's here to get you back on track. I've to admit I didn't read all the pages, if it was already answered ignore it.

Make sure you unlocked your challenge log, this is a weekly log that's unlocked at level 15, however most people forget about it since it's a side quest that starts in limsa upper decks. Good exp especially when it comes to leveling more than one class. Higher level you're, more exp you will get for finishing it. Now I am not saying you need to complete all of it, since it has crafting parts etc, but at least try to finish the dungeon, guildhest, player commendation. If you still have time on your hands, try aiming for fates, beast tribes (40+) and leve quest.

Do your hunting log, sometimes it can be tedious but it's a good chunk of exp. Fates, do them if you are close or going in that direction for your MSQ. Don't get out of your way because it's not worth it anymore. Side quests are great, but not needed either anymore, only areas if you have the time I would recommend are Sylph area down in gridania, Coertas Highlands, Little Ala Mhigo. Again not mandatory. If you have run the first 3 dungeons, which I do assume since you're level 30, unlock palace of the dead. Just in case you run in a wall as you call it, solo level 1-10 or join a group, quicker than grinding fates for hrs somewhere. Same as with the challenge log, as higher your level, more exp you'll be getting.

Dungeons in general, you mentioned you having a queue time of nearly an hr, try opening your duty finder and enable all languages. Later on you might want to turn that off, since it can cause longer queue's, but for lower level dungeons it's a great option. Also don't queue for just one dungeon, sure if you get into an dungeon that's your level you'll earn more exp but if you can get in a couple of lower level dungeons, and run let's say 3 of them in the time you're waiting for your level dungeon to pop, you will end up with more exp at the end. Duty finder let's you select up to 5 dungeons, go ahead do that, exclude satasha, tam tara, copperbell mines because it isn't relevant and doesn't give many exp.

If you have not unlocked it yet, I see a lot of new players not even knowing about that, pick up a leve quest in your starting city and complete that one. After you've done that, you've unlocked guildhest roulette. That roulette takes literally 2 minutes and gives a huge chunk of exp, as well as just doing the guild hests itself. You will have to unlock them till level 45 anyways, so why not just do that on the way while leveling up.

Daily Dungeon Roulette, here again, great chunk of exp so don't forget doing these once a day. Another tip, no matter what you're doing, dungeons/fates make sure you having exp food. It don't matter what stats are on it, if you don't want to invest into some pricier food, you can go to npc's and grab a couple of low level food that give an exp bonus for 30 minutes. If you're in a free company and it's not enabled, ask your faction leader or officer to enable the exp buff. While a lot of people don't think it's worth it, all these buffs can stack up and making your leveling experience much faster.

When logging out for the night or a couple of hours, make sure you're doing that in an Sanctuary, that will give a good boost to your exp as well if that little exp bar turns into rested exp (blue color), try running your roulette as example right after you log back in and have these kind of exp.

I understand that are the basics tho, but you would be surprised how many players I find when leveling my alts, that didn't think it's worth while or veterans that forgot that these things even exist. See if that takes you somewhere closer without hitting that wall. GL.

[AnaviAnael]

Seriously, trying queuing for leveling roulette again. Everybody likes to complain about long DPS queues, but they're nowhere near one hour. Usually around 5-15 minutes.

To add to this suggestion, while you're flagged for roulette you can also do some other side stuff like your hunting log or quests. It's a good way to kill time waiting for duty to pop.

[MysticWoolie]

Ive run into a stop once, and that was when I did literally nothing but MSQ for a while.

This happened to me at level 40 (i am 42 now).
I did some PotD, a few leves, any FATE's i ran into and it hasn't been a problem.