Is it just me, or is ShB quest exp really under-tuned?

[Duskane]

yes i was really scraping bottom of the barrel in some of these quest
i also didn't have my level roulette to get a little boost

even the dungeon feel like that have Less EXP

[Anarnee]

I didn't mind it. Nothing that a dungeon or two didn't fix.

[silentwindfr]

i did every secondary quest and generally 6 fate per area, until reach the 6th area (at this point i was 80 when i have finish my first dungeon 79) i didn't do any secondary quest passed this point (will use them for my sam hehe)

ahh true i did a few hunt and did get as many exploration point as possible, same for the exploration (half a million for this one by example)

[RyuDragnier]

No, the side quest experience is about the same as it was in SB, around 1-3% of your exp bar.

[Kahnom]

Never knew a lot of ppl struggle with their leveling.
I just get through MSQ, Side quests that give rewards(gears,food,aether current), Daily hunt, Bonus Fate(I don’t do normal Fate), 3 Roulette per day(trial,leveling,50-70) I don’t queue anything else.
Now I’m almost lvl 79 but my MSQ quest is still at lvl 77.
I don’t even rushing anything...

[Lanze]

I saved all my Side quests for 2nd job. Doing all sides quest in SHB gets you 4 levels max. with no fates or dungeons. I would imagine it would give more with how many quests there are. took me a whole day to complete

[ADVSS]

I saved all my Side quests for 2nd job. Doing all sides quest in SHB gets you 4 levels max. with no fates or dungeons. I would imagine it would give more with how many quests there are. took me a whole day to complete

Add to that the armory bonus from having a previous job at max level

[Krotoan]

In my personal opinion there are wayyy too many sidequests and they give far to little XP. I've done maybe 2 fates so far, and at level 74 I've had to do a couple roulettes to catchup. In my opinion merely doing the Sidequests and the MSQ should give you the necessary XP to continue from area to area, but as it is I have to do maybe 20 sidequests AND the MSQ AND faff about with something else (some fates or roulettes) and it feels like I'm just not being rewarded enough. I've just passed the Fae area and without spoiling anything I will say that the amount of sidequests that pop up at certain points in the story is ... overwhelming and disheartening. I think they could have been xp tuned up and volume down a bit.

[NefarioCall]

I do agree that the MSQ itself should be enough to level one job to cap.
I mean, at this point we've got over a dozen jobs to level anyway.
Frankly, I also think that doing any dungeon at least from Lv50+ should award equal exp as well since they're all the same length and difficulty.
It keeps things varied and relevant. That would be my one main complaint with the game design. ... but eh.

Overall though, I'm leveling WHM and BRD together and not feeling to grindy about it at Lv73 so far.
I hop into every FATE that spawns in my direct path though and do all the quests.

[LalaRu]

It is not under-tuned, it is that we were so used to all that exp buffs that went off at 70+. In the old times the road to 50 had a number of "waiting for level" steps.

If I remember correctly, the most notable was the 47-48 gap, and when 48 you run to 50 at light speed because the AV unlock.