To Much Experience

[Blakemere]

msq would've given you gear, you should also be doing your class quests, you should already be a paladin at level 53. you should've been a paladin at level 30.

I was a PLD at level 30. I know how to level a job as on my previous account I had all but AST, SAM and RDM capped. Your reply has nothing to do with anything I said but I appreciate the passive aggression anyway bud.

Edit:
Yeah MSQ would have given me some gear but also massively compounded the exp problem. Not really a solution then.

[linayar]

Yeah MSQ would have given me some gear but also massively compounded the exp problem. Not really a solution then.

Unless you're going to keep buying MSQ boost, you're going to have to do the MSQ anyway to unlock further dungeons. It's really the best solution to your gearing problem.

And if you are going to keep boosting through the MSQ, then leveling dungeons gives one guaranteed gear now every run and you can also earn poetics. Also, those boosts should come with gil, so you can buy vendor gears as well at strategic moments of your choosing.

[Blakemere]

Unless you're going to keep buying MSQ boost, you're going to have to do the MSQ anyway to unlock further dungeons. It's really the best solution to your gearing problem.

And if you are going to keep boosting through the MSQ, then leveling dungeons gives one guaranteed gear now every run and you can also earn poetics. Also, those boosts should come with gil, so you can buy vendor gears as well at strategic moments of your choosing.

I'm more than happy to do Heavensward and onwards, looking forward to it in fact. It was just ARR I didn't want to do again. The problem I found was I didnt get gear anything like fast enough from dungeons because after one run I'd be on to the next and roulette groups tend to want to go straight to bosses rather than clear side rooms and stuff for extra chests. The 300k didn't last very long either to be honest.
I just want to mention though that I'm not whining about it, I solved it by putting my last 60k into crafting when I realised I couldn't afford to gear up much more. I'm also level 53 now so can just get poetics gear now which I know lasts a good while.
My original post was just to empathise a little with the op and to point out that exp can actually be too fast at times which surprised me as well as a returning player.

[Solarra]

I think it would be nice to have the option to turn off XP gain for those who don't want it. If you like getting bonus XP, (I'd fall into this camp btw) you won't be affected at all.
With the stat squish coming, levelling is going to get even faster in the near future and if being able to slow things down is going to please some players and make them more likely to stay subbed, then I can't see an issue.

[Hasrat]

Additional point, if groups don't want to full clear, and you're already running as tank anyway, just go back after you finish the dungeon and bull rush your way to all the chests. Personally, I love backtracking and picking up chests everyone forgot after they all leave. Slightly less fun in ARR runs with the side routes, but eh, so what if you die? Just pick yourself back up and on to the next.

[Blakemere]

Additional point, if groups don't want to full clear, and you're already running as tank anyway, just go back after you finish the dungeon and bull rush your way to all the chests. Personally, I love backtracking and picking up chests everyone forgot after they all leave. Slightly less fun in ARR runs with the side routes, but eh, so what if you die? Just pick yourself back up and on to the next.

Thats a great point, I didnt consider that so cheers for the tip

[Wolven_Essence]

So although I still dislike the bonus experience for doing quests, I am finding I really like having it for leveling up crafting jobs, lol. I played around on a server without the bonus exp, and when I started working on crafts.....whooo boy it was going slow. So...definitely gonna stick with the bonus exp world.