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

[Enla]

Stopping to do FATEs is absolutely worth it this time around since the gemstone vendors offer the riding map at rank 2.

This. If you can spare the time do just six fates for this alone. It cuts SO much time out of traveling it's insane and gives you a good chunk of EXP too.

[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

[HyoMinPark]

Stopping to do FATEs is absolutely worth it this time around since the gemstone vendors offer the riding map at rank 2.

Perhaps it is, but as someone who has farmed FATEs to heck and back, I’d honestly rather do the dungeons. At least they’re more engaging and I can get gear. I’ll worry about riding maps later since I tend to fly most of the time anyways.

[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.

[Skogli]

"SB2".. I like it! Using that from now on. Good Job!

[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.

[Kaedan]

I've never NOT had to do some extra dungeons or roulettes. In every expansion, I remember having to run at least and extra dungeon or two per level.