ARR Leveling Speed?

[Orophin]

yoshi said 1-15 in 30 hours right? seems a lot slower to me

That might be from the perspective of a new player. Veterans who know the ropes can probably get that done in considerably less time.

I felt the pace for leveling through leves (assuming you had a full amount available, and I hope SE doesn't limit you on how many you can do in 2.0) was just about right in terms of how long it'd take to get from 1-50. Once you reach 40, you can typically get a party in Natalan and grind out the last 10 levels within a couple hours. This may change in ARR though since the focus is shifting away from grinding and more towards quests.

I think the xp bar in the pre-alpha footage also showed 500k xp for a level, but I don't know if that was some arbitrary number or if the xp needed/xp earned is going to scale up a lot.

I started up FFXI again recently after 5 years of not playing it and I like how it's not a chore to level up anymore. BG Wiki summed it up nicely saying that since there's so much other stuff to do in the game, leveling shouldn't be such a process to undertake. ARR is not quite there yet since it's more or less starting over fresh and will only have limited content, so getting all battle classes to 50 shouldn't be a walk in a park, but it shouldn't be mindnumbingly boring and tedious like it was in the old school FFXI days either.