Quote Originally Posted by SniperDaria View Post
I have been playing for about 6 weeks and I am level 70. I have been doing only MSQ and unlock quests for the most part. No side quests, roulettes, leves or fates. I am still constantly so over-leveled for the content I am doing that everything is trivial.

In addition, I keep hitting dead zones like at 50 and 60 where I can't get job quests or gear upgrades until I slog through 40-50 MSQs at which point I enter the new expansion even more over-leveled.

I just hit Stormblood and I am 70. I asked in the Novice Network and was told I should be in ilvl 400 gear at 70. I was told I could get the tomestone gear at Rhalgr's to get to 400. I looked it up and I won't be able to get tomestone gear at Rhalgr's until I complete the Stormblood MSQ. I have literally 90 MSQs to go through to get to that point. By then I will be almost 80. So I will be level 80 before I am able to get the gear I need at level 70.

It just kind of feels really broken to me. I do enjoy the story, but let's face it, most of the quests I will have to slog through will be fetch quests and busy-work and it's really hard to find the motivation to slog through all that just so I can get gear which will be trash to me at level 80..

If you are levling just one job, and have a bunch of XP bonuses - then the leveling pace can indeed be too quick. Best solution for that is to level two or perhaps even three jobs in parallell so the XP gets split between them.

As for ilvl.... ilvl 400 is the really good end-game gear for level 70. When you have just reached level 70 you are expected to have around ilvl 285-290. And that's for the early level 70 quests.
The gear you need is not dependent on your level, but on the level of the quests you do.