"New game plus - quests will have no rewards..."

[Melichoir]

Why? WHYYYY

Are you gonna seriously stand around and grind goblins and rolis when they offer like 6 exp and you need 15k to get to the next level when your lvl 50? I mean you could, but that is in no way even remotely practical. Because of this, its pointless to be fighting those mobs in NG+.

The most practical way to grind EXP in NG+ is defeating the Black Omen in reverse chronology IIRC, but thats way later in the game.

In any case, NG+ giving exp for FFXIV is predicated on 1 of 2 models:
1) NG+ will scale its exp - So if you do the first start quests, but are level 50 on a class, the exp will scale so it will award exp that is comparable to level 50 MSQ even if its only level 5 MSQ. This means finding the quest chain thats the quickest/easiest and spamming that one till 80.
2) NG+ will not scale exp - Exp will remain the same regardless of level. If this is the case, it is not like CT, because CT does not reset you back to level 1, where FFXIV would if you were to be leveling a new class. Youre not comparing like models anymore so why even then use CT as an example. CT doesnt promote you 'leveling' in NG+ on the early monsters. Then this deals with gating - Its gonna require that you wont be able to do MSQ above your class level, otherwise youd just queue into later MSQ events that are mainly text based and power level that way. Which would mean the likely way to get around gating is to repeat a quest chain until you get past the gate. This then means that people are gonna number crunch and figure out what MSQ are most optimal to power level, turning NG+ into nothing more than an expedient power leveling tool and not a means of replaying the MSQ.