How am I supposed to level in Pagos?

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

You can pretend Eureka doesn't exist, and just grab a relevant iLV weapon already, which can last you to the next expansion.

This is the option I went with. After the horrific experience I had in Anemos, and the horror stories I've read about Pagos, I decided that I just can't punish myself like that for a weapon no matter how good it might end up potentially being. Eureka is just not fun for me. It's downright painful "content" to engage in. I play games to have fun not torture myself. Doing literally ANYTHING else in FFXIV is more fun than stepping foot into Eureka. I am fairly confident that if the relic wasn't tied to it, Eureka would see far less traffic than it does. I can only hope future xpacs never use this style of content again, at least not for relics.

[Nestama]

For the curious!

Low level bunny FATE gives you 30k exp (unsure if it's higher for those not. synced.
High level bunny FATE gave me (level 29) 100k exp. Those at the right level got 200k+. Those who are ~20 got 19k.

They spawn every 5-15 minutes, so... it's an option? Just don't expect the level 35's who have their weapon to spawn NM's any more. They're in Pyros now.