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

[Tatiana]

I agree it is very slow, I have to spam dungeons just to make sure I am high enough to do the MSQ. I thought side quests were going to grant a lot of exp, just from how they made it sound on the streams but if you're leveling from questing it's only like half as much exp as you need, so then you need to do a lot of FATE's or dungeons to make up the rest. It feels weird and messes up the flow, SB & HW were tuned way better iirc.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Seems ok to me so far. I've leveling two jobs at once in tandem. I did 1 roulette on each job, main story on one job, sidequests on another, a few fates in each zone since I was walking around the map anyway. Both jobs are above MSQ. I'm not super deep into it yet though, so we shall see.

[ApolloGenX]

I haven't had trouble, but I have rest exp. Also I have been farming dungeons for gear and saving coffers for my other job.

[xXAzurePrimeXx]

Definitely not. I did every single sidequests I came across and a few fates here and there. I was level 80 before I even got to the level 78 area.

[enthauptet]

The only point I thought was a bit absurd was when I had to run a dungeon to do the level 73 dungeon unlock quest as it was the first 73 quest lol. I had to run a dungeon to run another dungeon lol. Been stopping to do fates here and there when I see people running them along the way as well. Had to run an extra dungeon(s) two times so far to hit 73 then to hit 74.

[Barraind]

I was thinking the same thing, OP. Even without sidequests, I thought the exp from MSQ quests were more substantial in previous expansions.

Leveling an alt through the story a few months ago, I had to do exactly 14 side quests in stormblood (that weren't part of flying unlocks) and ran each dungeon once, with 3 total roulettes (I did it in just under 2 days, and only did a roulette when I was stuck at level to not have to do sidequests).

For shadowbringers, I had to do 3 runs of every dungeon, 12-15 fates per zone (was kind of useless in 2 of them as I had flying before mount speed bonuses) and sidequests in all but 2 hubs to keep on pace with the msq.

That's with full rested xp (lasted me through 80 and 78 of a gatherer), 100% food uptime and 15% xp buffs.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Leveling an alt through the story a few months ago, I had to do exactly 14 side quests in stormblood (that weren't part of flying unlocks) and ran each dungeon once, with 3 total roulettes (I did it in just under 2 days, and only did a roulette when I was stuck at level to not have to do sidequests).

For shadowbringers, I had to do 3 runs of every dungeon, 12-15 fates per zone (was kind of useless in 2 of them as I had flying before mount speed bonuses) and sidequests in all but 2 hubs to keep on pace with the msq.

That's with full rested xp (lasted me through 80 and 78 of a gatherer), 100% food uptime and 15% xp buffs.

That's bizarre. I did all the side quests, really only 6 fates per zone, 11 in 1 just for fun, not exp. Only ran the dungeons once. Did a trial and normal raid roulette with friends once, and only hit a lvl block 4 and a half mil from 80.

[disturbedcobra]

I skipped every sidequest, only did the MSQ and the aether current quests and was level gated like 4 times. XD Though each time I was only a few levels away so Went and did the Role quests as well as hunts and spamed fates. I wanted to make sure to get all the Riding maps and rank 2 in all 6 Zones. Only one level gate quest was a pain and that was the lv79 one. At that point I still need well over 20mil exp to get to 79, one of a few times I actually ran a few dungeons to push forward.

[Yeul]

The MSQ on each area always let me like 50/55% for next level, Then i do the most high dungeon i can one time, fates e just some sides and i level up. No problem at all, im 78 atm

[Astrus]

Going in with full rested Exp, Tier 2 of the FC buff and the earring to throw on in sub-71 content I always was at least 1.5 levels ahead of the requirement for my current MSQ. Aside from the MSQ this includes daily roulettes, two completions of the weekly agenda's PvE part, 6 FATEs per region, all the +Quests, the role questline for melee DPS, full map exploration and one set each of the rank 1 and 2 hunt bills.
The only normal sidequest I've done so far was one for the i415 ring coffer.

My next two jobs are likely going to level through Trust dungeon runs since I need to level my NPCs and then I'll see about leveling a job through all those sidequests.