We should get exp boost in the game.

[kaynide]

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I did something similar where I rerolled and am doing a new character currently 54ish. I've only done roulettes rather sparingly and the main story/job related quests and the XP has been much faster than I remembered. I finished the base 2.0 story with around level 53. (I am using the XP boost headpiece if that matters).

It didn't take me long at all. Were I not watching so much Netflix I probably could have knocked it out in I dunno... a week? I'm kinda holding off on the 2.X->3.0 content because holy hell that drags on. Hoping the patch cuts a lot out.. Not that it takes so long to do, it's just tedious.

So..yeah. For a new player looking to enjoy the story (which they should) it could take a month to digest 2.0 slowly. Maybe 2 months to get to Ishgard? That's not too bad imho.


All that said, I'm fairly confident that I could burn through the entire story to 80 in a month if I went full-on nerd mode. (I do work/have a family...)