Leveling 70-80

[Kanosi1980]

Hello Everyone!

I just returned to the game after being gone for 3 years. Last I played I got through the last of the MSQ that launched with Shadowbringers. I'm trying to get my Reaper to level 80 so I can finish the MSQ and start Endwalker. The barrier I'm facing is finding efficient sources of xp. The last two nights, I've put in about 3 hours total and gained just over 1 level. In that time, I did 2 leveling roulettes for level 70's, 1 leveling roullete for 1-50's, 1 trial roullete, and 1 MSQ scenario.

Last time I played I paused MSQ progression to level up a bunch of classes to 65 and I believe I was doing a mix of PoTD, HoH, and roullettes. I've exhausted xp giving quests for Shadowbringers. What do you all suggest I do for efficient xp?

Thank you!

[Duskane]

Bozja is best XP for 71-80 if you have it unlocked AND the instance is fairly popular but if not best bet is just to que up for highest level dungeon your reaper can enter and just spam that

also dont forget to do Frontline/pvp roulette it gives loads of EXP aswell daily and you can unlock the Pixie tribe to get another decent boost of EXP daily

[Casti_EL]

Also don't forget your weekly Wonderous Tales - getting that done each week will get you about 1/2 level's worth of XP for free (plus if you complete it by running the content synced you'll get the XP from that too).

I personally used a mixture of Roulettes (especially PvP as you can swap jobs when you've entered but still get XP on the job you queued with, and it's quite a good amount even if you lose), running highest dungeon with Trusts (usually 2-3 runs will get you a level), Wonderous Tales (if you have second chance points you can easily complete this by re-running a low level extreme un-synced several times for like 20 minutes) and beast tribes (pixies).

[Kanosi1980]

Okay, so highest level dungeon available to me, PvP roullete, and Wonderous Tales. I never heard of Wonderous Tales. I'll have to look that up.

If I run dungeons with trusts, do I get the same xp/hr as queuing for them? Do I still get gear drops? I played tank throughout Shadowbringers, so I only have tank gear and wouldn't mind saving some gil by getting some dungeon drops if I should run "at-level" dungeons anyways.

Thank you all.

[Boblawblah]

Not going to lie, after roulettes, it's painful. If you can stand it, just keep running Holminster Switch until 73, then Dohn Mheg till 75, etc. It helps your brain to level the trusts while you're doing it, at least it gives you something else to work on while you're leveling.

One bonus is that you'll get a bunch of leveling gear doing it this way.

[Kanosi1980]

Thank you for the help. Painful or not, I'd rather know what I'm up against so I can mentally fortify myself towards my goal. I hear Shadowbringers and Endwalker stories are very good, and that's my end goal. It helps that I have Reaper to play and get used to. I mained primarily Paladin throughout all expansions. I'm excited for the new melee class coming out. I suspect I'll have to go through all of this again once that class releases.

[NegativeS]

Psst...

Don't tell them that I told you this, but if you transfer your character to a Dynamis server, right now, you'll get +100% XP from all sources for at least the next 90 days, up to level 80...

[1313]

Not reading all the comments to see if what I say has already been mentioned, but the best way to earn exp is always daily roulettes and then spam high level dungeons (except those 50/60/70/80 dungeons give crap exp, so run 47/59/69/79 dungeons if you're lvl 50/60 etc...)
71-80 bozja is great exp if you have access AND if people are there farming stuff. If you're solo it'll be slow and boring. When it's busy you can speed run fates for like 300k exp per fate iirc) which seems like nothing but they go fast and add up real quick. I used bozja to level dps in early ew since queues suck.