Leveling is pain

[Toutatis]

The real levelling pain is the queue times as a dps. You want me to wait 20 whole minutes just for one dungeon?! That’s against my human rights! *cries in healer main*

you can do other things in the meantime: Arkasodara tribe quests for about 3.5M XP, the ShB fairies quests for 1M, fates for about 500k each, daily hunt targets for about 470K xp each target or you can just use the highest dungeon you can do with npcs. For trusts/duty support, to speed things up, I aggro the next pack of mobs and the npcs will start moving with the other adds. Daily frontlines is a very good source of XP and you can queue on a job you don't care about, switch inside and get the XP on the job with which you queued.

[Rueby]

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Just do your custom deliveries every week (bonus)...You also have beast tribes, weekly challenge log. There's also leve quests. Crystarium quests and the one like it in EW etc give big chunks of EXP. There's plenty of low effort and fairly easy ways to level, unless you want to rush it.

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That aside, leveling sucks as dps because queues are long and there's just too many dps players/jobs so unless you get a healer/tank to help you out then it might just be abit meh.

I leveled many chars with varying degrees of investment (max jobs), I'll throw in my recommendations I guess, tho it's in no particular order

• Have FC EXP buff OR Squadron Battle Manual (assuming your squadron isn't neglected) and pop food in dungeons (raisins/boiled egg)It'd
• challenge log (weekly)
• khloe (weekly 50% flat EXP at any level, best used on transitionary points or to evade scuffed dungeons, ie. 70 to 71 and 80-81 etc, I personally don't like aurum or bardam or vaspanati so I tend to skip those but it's up to preference. Khloe to me is more valuable to use the higher level you are)
• beast tribes (from ShB onwards give decent exp, worth unlocking and maxing)
• msq roul (the forbidden one)
• frontlines (once a day is nice, you get pvp series from it if you want)
• deep dungeons (if it pops quickly, from my experience is usually better for a dps rather than sitting in queue for a dungeon)
• fates (kinda meh, but okay filler if you're desperate)
• Huntmarks (daily/weekly) go to the huntboard and go kill some mobs for some pocket change exp, worth doing if you're waiting for rouls too and you get some seals/nuts. Seals for aetheryte tickets and nuts for...well whatever you want to do with nuts, current expansion uses nuts too, so it's not horrible.
• side quests (hardly worth the effort, the exp is pretty bad, but if you're the kind that wants a clean map devoid of quest marks, this is on the checklist)
• leve quests (battle leves are depreciated I think, not really worth doing unless you're capped and don't plan to use them on crafters and you're desperate for exp)
• hunting log (useful for getting you up enough for dungeons, ie: 1-16 bracket, you can also throw yourself into palace of the dead as early as level 1)
• At level 80, Bozja becomes an option for leveling, it does have the issue of having to progress to get to where people are grinding which is usually zone3 of Zadnor (though I'd rather die than go there)

They still want you to remain subbed and do some ~grinding~

They're already remedying that by making any new jobs start at a relatively high level and you need to pop 20 levels. This isn't unreasonable at all I think. Then getting 10 levels for each job every two years is...well not hard at all.

I think Fates could benefit from exp bump, also ARR and HW combat beast tribes didn't really give that much exp when I tried to do it...

[Wolf_Necros]

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Thank you so much for the advice I really appreciate it

[Lak14]

just play 1 job.

[Turtledeluxe]

Isn't this just a long way of saying this game is boring lol.

At least if leveling jobs all at once is your thing anyway

[Zyvex]

Isn't this just a long way of saying this game is boring lol.

At least if leveling jobs all at once is your thing anyway

No, unless the game is built around leveling to be the main content

[Wolf_Necros]

At least make crafting easier to level! high level crafting is brutal.

[Kuroka]

Honestly, leveling is the part i enjoy most, the updating of gear is what bugs me ... the only thing i really hate is how they hold back all the easy exp stuff till many/most players are long done, 7.0 again no custom delivery (leveing crafters and gatherers is easy enough, but wasting that exp every time just sucks) and no extra stuff like the field missions or at least the first beast tribe...

[Avoidy]

They had a good thing going when Endwalker trials gave busted EXP. No clue why they fixed it. Leveling felt sort of fun when you could just do fun fights to get nice exp.
All my jobs are 90 except the handful I got to 100 before burning out. I have viper at 80 with no motivation to level it further. Leveling a dps right now feels terrible. You either wait in a queue forever, or you do fates I guess. Oh, or go spam Aglaia, that place you've probably done a lot since it's been out for like 3 years.
My proposal: make side quests give a LOT more exp. Make FATEs mostly boss fight styled instead of trash mobs and increase the EXP gain from those as well. Make normal raid and trial roulette give meaningful exp again. Do the frontline thing, where you can queue up as one thing but play as another and have that exp transferred to the job you actually need exp on. I have a healer at cap. If I could queue that and play as that for the instant queue but put the exp on my rdm or something, I'd do it.
Leveling still wouldn't feel very fun under this system, but there'd at least be more avenues to get exp than just "spam highest dungeon" "spam aglaia" "run fates while watching a movie"

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They had a good thing going when Endwalker trials gave busted EXP. No clue why they fixed it. Leveling felt sort of fun when you could just do fun fights to get nice exp.
All my jobs are 90 except the handful I got to 100 before burning out. I have viper at 80 with no motivation to level it further. Leveling a dps right now feels terrible. You either wait in a queue forever, or you do fates I guess. Oh, or go spam Aglaia, that place you've probably done a lot since it's been out for like 3 years.
My proposal: make side quests give a LOT more exp. Make FATEs mostly boss fight styled instead of trash mobs and increase the EXP gain from those as well. Make normal raid and trial roulette give meaningful exp again. Do the frontline thing, where you can queue up as one thing but play as another and have that exp transferred to the job you actually need exp on. I have a healer at cap. If I could queue that and play as that for the instant queue but put the exp on my rdm or something, I'd do it.
Leveling still wouldn't feel very fun under this system, but there'd at least be more avenues to get exp than just "spam highest dungeon" "spam aglaia" "run fates while watching a movie"

Trusts? Queue with friends?


It's an mmo, why does it always seem like no one plays this with friends lmao.