Increase EXP from side quests once main quest complete or max lvl a class

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

The main point of all the side quests is to add tons of little details to the local lore, for people interested in it. If you aren't one of those and skip skip skip all the dialogs, these quests are so quick to complete that you can not give them too much xp as a reward for nearly no effort at all. There is already enough people complaining of max level players not having a clue of how to play their job properly, we don't need to make that worse by allowing to level entire jobs just by speaking to a few npcs.

I leveled RDM to max level in Stormblood exclusively doing beast tribe dailies. 0 effort was given as I abandoned the dailies that required me to kill mobs. I got it to max level in one month without ever touching a single dungeon, doing any fates, killing any mobs or learning how to play the job. And no, I didn't learn how to play the job from the job quests as they were already so easy to do in Stormblood that all I needed to do was spam Jolt and win. So your point about effortless leveling is moot. And now you can fail on purpose and set the quests on very easy to win even faster.

I also immediately bought crafted gear off the MB and went into the Drowned City of Skalla, which was the very first dungeon I did as RDM. So you mad about effortless gearing too?

[Necrosaro123]

Side quests? Why not Fates, Battle Leve's and othey daily quests?.

I think some features related to leveling a job are quiet dead and almost pointless to do, if they reward so few XP.

[JTWrenn]

Side quests? Why not Fates, Battle Leve's and othey daily quests?.

I think some features related to leveling a job are quiet dead and almost pointless to do, if they reward so few XP.

I'm fine with a whole lot more avenues but right now side quests is way down there. Fate grinding is faster I believe right now.

[StriderShinryu]

I agree that it would be nice for them to get even a little bump. It's all fine to say that they just exist for the lore and/or world building, but it literally feels like you're being punished for choosing to do them over just about anything else unless the lore is literally the only thing you care about. Plus, if they did reward more XP, it could encourage more people to do them and end up enjoying the story and lore even more than they already do.

[JTWrenn]

I agree that it would be nice for them to get even a little bump. It's all fine to say that they just exist for the lore and/or world building, but it literally feels like you're being punished for choosing to do them over just about anything else unless the lore is literally the only thing you care about. Plus, if they did reward more XP, it could encourage more people to do them and end up enjoying the story and lore even more than they already do.

It's also not how any rpg really works. Side quests should be there for lore, story, fun, gear, and EXP. Just another path to play the game, and right now that exp part is way out of balance.

[Deveryn]

Since Shadowbringers, the side quests already give a lot of good xp for little to no effort and they scale up. It was very easy to level up DPS jobs this way.

More XP isn't the solution to everything and they certainly don't need to spend the time going back and tweaking hundreds of quest rewards just because. There's plenty of xp to be earned just for logging in and running content. You've got Hunts, WT, Challenge, Dungeons, Roulettes No one really suffers from a lack of xp unless they're just in here for the wrong reasons.

[Jirah]

I have a laundry list of things I can’t stand about the game , this would be like #6 or so but they think “Road to 90” will solve all the leveling woes but what the game really need it

ALTERNATIVES

Leves, side quests, beast tribes, Fates, Explorative content, Deep dungeons, perhaps more systems similar to WT literally anything. The game has lots of avenues but none of them are valid enough and Leves even got exp removed.

[Lustre]

I agree. They should vastly raise the exp from sidequests. Maybe not to the levels of dungeon spam, but make it viable as an option. If they gave more exp, I'd probably do them all. But it's not worth the time as it stands right now. I can hand in my book and get 2/3rds of a level, millions of exp, or I can grind out these side quests for 2k a pop.... the choice has already been made for me lol

[LeonKeyh]

I think that it should just be reasonable to take a second job from previous expansion cap to current cap through the side quests in an expansion. It's not a big deal that they don't give amazing xp, but it would be nice.

IIRC, Endwalker sidequests were closest to that, being able to take something from 80 to 86/87. Just as a way to bump up their value a little bit and offer a slight reprieve from dungeon spam/Bozja for at least 1 more job.

[GrizzlyTank]

Doing all the side quests should net about enough exp to level 1-2 extra jobs to max.

Side quests can only be done once so giving them such a tiny reward does have the unfortunate effect of just making them depressing to do, even if the story is interesting.