Finally finished the Qitari Beast Tribe quests...

[Kalise]

... What a slog that was.

Mostly due to the fact that rewards for doing them dry up really fast, due to how easy and fast actually leveling DoL classes is. What with GC turn ins, high exp for just gathering stuff (Especially HQ materials), the Crystarium Facet quests, Ocean Fishing and now also the Diadem (Which I assume will give a bunch of exp, I wouldn't know all my DoL were already level 80 when it came out)

Now don't get me wrong, the story for the Beast Tribe quests was fine. My only qualm was the oddity that was the quests being for DoL specifically (Unlike the Namazu in StB which were both DoL and DoH)

Though, with the Ishguardian Restoration (Also, Crystarium quests and again, GC turn ins), even DoH beast tribes can easily be outleveled on all DoH classes before reaching Bloodsworn status. Depending on how much time you spend on gathering materials.

Meanwhile, all my DoW/DoM jobs are still slowly leveling up due to how little exp is rewarded from the very few activities in the game that reward somewhat meaningful exp for them...

Maybe it would be better if the tokens from Beast Tribes were more relevant for actually obtaining things, but ever since StB they haven't been, with only limited wares actually purchasable with them (I'm sat on ~300+ of each of StB's Beast Tribe tokens...) so even when DoL/DoH jobs are leveled up to max, doing the dailies would still have some worth...

But as it stands, with all the ways to gain easy and fast exp for DoH/DoL I'd prefer to see only DoW/DoM Beast Tribe dailies... But maybe that's just me.

[Kuroka]

Also for doing em on a lv 80 job we should get scripts, any of em. Not much but some... we get tome too if we do the other tribes on a lv 80 job.

[Hasrat]

While I'm not in ShB, I tend to approach this in the opposite direction. I know the beast tribes will be giving loads of exp trying to bring them up, so I do less of the other things that don't offer as much. Which kinda leaves me in a position of not having very many skybuilders scrips or the like.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Meanwhile, all my DoW/DoM jobs are still slowly leveling up due to how little exp is rewarded from the very few activities in the game that reward somewhat meaningful exp for them...

There is likely going to be another beast tribe for ShB that will offer DoW/DoM xp dailies. And outside of that you have:

Any skipped side quests to do on alt jobs for shots of xp here and there.
Squadron Dungeons for jobs that are 20-60
Daily Main Scenario Roulette 50+ (massive xp from this)
Daily Leveling Roulette (Pretty big chunk of xp here too)
Trust Dungeons 71+ (can do without limit and gives about the same xp to you as it says it gives to the trust npcs)
Weekly Challenge Log
Fates
Deep Dungeons
Currently available beast tribe quests from the Fae and previous xpacs depending on your job's level range.

There's objectively quite a few ways to get xp for combat jobs, the daily options offering significant chunks of progress and some of which have no limit to how often you can take advantage of them. Just doing the daily Main Scenario and Leveling Roulettes, along with the Fae beast tribe dailies probably nets you about 2 levels of xp for 70-80. That hardly seems slow to me. And that doesn't account for unlimited stuff like running trust dungeons as often as you like (of which I think about 4 runs gets you a level). The only real "dead zone" I've encountered is 60-71 since there's no Squadron or Trust dungeon options. For that I just do daily roulettes and Stormblood beast tribes to push through to 71.

[Krotoan]

Also for doing em on a lv 80 job we should get scripts, any of em. Not much but some... we get tome too if we do the other tribes on a lv 80 job.

This.. would have been so much better if I wasn't ONLY grinding the dang thing for the mount/pet rewards. All my gatherers are 80... why do I get "punished" for being ahead of the curve?

[Yasminou]

There is likely going to be another beast tribe for ShB that will offer DoW/DoM xp dailies.

Yoshi-P already said that the rewards of the Pixie tribe quests were "doubled" compared to HW and SB DoW/DoM tribe quests so that they are the only quests for DoW/DoM. The third beast tribe will be dedicated to DoH.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Yoshi-P already said that the rewards of the Pixie tribe quests were "doubled" compared to HW and SB DoW/DoM tribe quests so that they are the only quests for DoW/DoM. The third beast tribe will be dedicated to DoH.

Ah I see, I had not realized that was already revealed. Thanks for mentioning it.

This.. would have been so much better if I wasn't ONLY grinding the dang thing for the mount/pet rewards. All my gatherers are 80... why do I get "punished" for being ahead of the curve?

I wouldn't look at it as being "punished".

Just look at it as an easy way to earn daily currency to buy DoL materia!

[Krotoan]

I wouldn't look at it as being "punished".

Just look at it as an easy way to earn daily currency to buy DoL materia!

I don't particularly consider it a punishment, hence the quotation marks.. but it still feels like people who bothered to cap out their gatherers early on in 5.0 are getting less out of the content.
All in all I will have FAR more currency than I need once I manage to get to bloodsworn, which should be by next week at most.

[Mahoukenshi]

There is likely going to be another beast tribe for ShB that will offer DoW/DoM xp dailies. And outside of that you have:

Any skipped side quests to do on alt jobs for shots of xp here and there.
Squadron Dungeons for jobs that are 20-60
Daily Main Scenario Roulette 50+ (massive xp from this)
Daily Leveling Roulette (Pretty big chunk of xp here too)
Trust Dungeons 71+ (can do without limit and gives about the same xp to you as it says it gives to the trust npcs)
Weekly Challenge Log
Fates
Deep Dungeons
Currently available beast tribe quests from the Fae and previous xpacs depending on your job's level range.

There's objectively quite a few ways to get xp for combat jobs, the daily options offering significant chunks of progress and some of which have no limit to how often you can take advantage of them. Just doing the daily Main Scenario and Leveling Roulettes, along with the Fae beast tribe dailies probably nets you about 2 levels of xp for 70-80. That hardly seems slow to me. And that doesn't account for unlimited stuff like running trust dungeons as often as you like (of which I think about 4 runs gets you a level). The only real "dead zone" I've encountered is 60-71 since there's no Squadron or Trust dungeon options. For that I just do daily roulettes and Stormblood beast tribes to push through to 71.

My personal pet peeve is that most "options" not shoved behind dungeons in whatever form offers a pitiful amount of xp. I mean, sure, let's keep dungeons and/or roulettes as the very best xp-earning way, but outside of pixie quests, sidequests offer only a pathetic amount of roughly 2-3%. Fates aren't much better if the challenge log bonus is already earned. Depending on how farm-happy someone is, doing the same stuff over and over and over and over may get boring "fast" (relative to how fast the "limit" is reached) and with CM in MSQ roulette + Leveling you sometimes scrape barely at one level up. However, to be fair, that's complaining to high heaven.

[Kalise]

Any skipped side quests to do on alt jobs for shots of xp here and there.

Which give pathetic exp and are limited (To be honest, ShB's MSQ was also pretty bad for exp so I ended up actually needing to do a majority of the side quests on my main job to keep up with with MSQ level requirements)

Squadron Dungeons for jobs that are 20-60

Which doesn't help my level 70+ combat jobs.

Daily Main Scenario Roulette 50+ (massive xp from this)
Daily Leveling Roulette (Pretty big chunk of xp here too)

These are once per day. Also, pale in comparison to what GC turn ins give.

Trust Dungeons 71+ (can do without limit and gives about the same xp to you as it says it gives to the trust npcs)

Without rested exp, Holminster Switch gives ~3 million exp. That means to get from 71 to the next Trust dungeon at 73, it takes 10 runs.

Weekly Challenge Log

Available once per week. Also, doesn't scale well past level 70. Where rewards are ~1-1.6 million exp, but exp requirements are 10-37 million.

Fates

Which provide absolutely awful exp. 300-400k each, with maybe a Twist of Fate occasionally to double that.

Deep Dungeons

Which don't exist beyond level 70.

Currently available beast tribe quests from the Fae and previous xpacs depending on your job's level range.

Which is only once per day.

There's objectively quite a few ways to get xp for combat jobs

There may be objectively quite a few ways to get exp for combat jobs, but the fact remains, there's very few ways that give meaningful exp.

It's basically, just daily Roulettes and Beast Tribes but even these pale in comparison to what's available for DoL (GC turn ins for HQ stuff nets like 10-16 mil on top of the exp you get from harvesting the stuff) heck, just gathering a single HQ material gives more exp than a FATE gives a combat job...

Though I digress, the main point of this thread was how easy it is to get to a point where the DoL beast tribes feel unrewarding to grind out, even if you didn't spend 5.0 and 5.1 leveling them to 80... Even more so with the materia you can buy from the vendor being devalued thanks to the improvements to extracting materia from spiritbonded gear no longer destroying the gear.