Airship like what the hell, and lore quests, and continuing posts

[Raist]

You mentioned wanting job specific quests....have you not been doing any of the job specific content?

Not sure where you're getting the grind factor... at least not on the road to about 15-17. After that, you can start participating in the main story duty fights--those fights can ding you a level per fight early on (haven't progressed too far yet). Between doing the hunt lists, job story line, Leves, main story fights/quests, and the fates I come across running around for each of those I've only had to "grind" part of only 1 level per job on the way to 15---and that was typically just to get that last 1-2k to ding 10 or 15 to log the next job specific quest.

And that's not on just a few jobs either... that's been every job to 15-17 except for my level 12 GLA (which I just unlocked Monday night). That won't take much more either as I still have to run the level 10 job quest, have about 18k left to earn in my hunt list, and have some easy leves available in basically one zone that are good for a quick 12k or so as well. So, I may wind up having to run an extra round or two of leves and keep hitting Fates for 3-4k a pop to finally ding 15, then do that job quest and it's available for use on duties after that.

Granted, it's not instantaneous leveling or anything.. but it's by NO means a "grind". FFXI pre Abyssea or even TAU.... now THAT was a grindfest--especiall solo/duo like I've been doing in XIV. Oh yeah... did I mention that? I've been mostly SOLOING these jobs to 15. I've teamed up a little here and there with ONE friend along the way---but it's mostly been SOLO...I managed to unlock and SOLO ARC to 16 in ONE day for heaven's sake.

If you are in fact taking advantage of all the extra content... maybe you aren't taking advantage of all the ways to earn bonus exp.? In case you didn't know... most food gives you a 3% xp boost, and your 50% rested bonus is earned by logging out in Sanctuary or in a room at an Inn (click the Comfy Bed to log out... cute animation for it). In addition to that, you also get a bonus to your lower jobs based on the difference between that and your highest job. So you benefit more to play a job for a longer time before switching (if you aren't taking one job to 30 or further first, dont' change jobs every couple of levels... bracket them in larger chunks and you will gain more bonus exp. on the lower jobs).

If you learn to milk the bonus xp tweaks into your hunt list you can get crazy xp. BTW, you get a new hunt line with each job, each line has a new list that opens up every 10 levels on that job. You'll get your bonus xp per kill until that buffer burns down, and you get a flat reward after completing each objective in the list, as well as a big fat chunk when you complete that rank's list. Some of the mobs are in Fate's as well, so you get to kill two birds at once sometimes. I've found that I can SOLO my way to at least the level 17/18 objectives on every job before I ding 15--with some jobs I've managed to run the entire rank 2 quest (level 20) to ding 15 or 16. ARC was the last job I pulled that off on, MRD before that--that's right, I killed level 20 objectives at 15 and got the big fat bonus at the end and dinged 16. Won't lie.. it's a challenge for some jobs, and died a few times before working out a strat---but that's what makes it FUN!!

[Lyfon]

You mentioned wanting job specific quests....have you not been doing any of the job specific content?

Not sure where you're getting the grind factor... at least not on the road to about 15-17. After that, you can start participating in the main story duty fights--those fights can ding you a level per fight early on (haven't progressed too far yet). Between doing the hunt lists, job story line, Leves, main story fights/quests, and the fates I come across running around for each of those I've only had to "grind" part of only 1 level per job on the way to 15---and that was typically just to get that last 1-2k to ding 10 or 15 to log the next job specific quest.

And that's not on just a few jobs either... that's been every job to 15-17 except for my level 12 GLA (which I just unlocked Monday night). That won't take much more either as I still have to run the level 10 job quest, have about 18k left to earn in my hunt list, and have some easy leves available in basically one zone that are good for a quick 12k or so as well. So, I may wind up having to run an extra round or two of leves and keep hitting Fates for 3-4k a pop to finally ding 15, then do that job quest and it's available for use on duties after that.

Granted, it's not instantaneous leveling or anything.. but it's by NO means a "grind". FFXI pre Abyssea or even TAU.... now THAT was a grindfest--especiall solo/duo like I've been doing in XIV. Oh yeah... did I mention that? I've been mostly SOLOING these jobs to 15. I've teamed up a little here and there with ONE friend along the way---but it's mostly been SOLO...I managed to unlock and SOLO ARC to 16 in ONE day for heaven's sake.

If you are in fact taking advantage of all the extra content... maybe you aren't taking advantage of all the ways to earn bonus exp.? In case you didn't know... most food gives you a 3% xp boost, and your 50% rested bonus is earned by logging out in Sanctuary or in a room at an Inn (click the Comfy Bed to log out... cute animation for it). In addition to that, you also get a bonus to your lower jobs based on the difference between that and your highest job. So you benefit more to play a job for a longer time before switching (if you aren't taking one job to 30 or further first, dont' change jobs every couple of levels... bracket them in larger chunks and you will gain more bonus exp. on the lower jobs).

If you learn to milk the bonus xp tweaks into your hunt list you can get crazy xp. BTW, you get a new hunt line with each job, each line has a new list that opens up every 10 levels on that job. You'll get your bonus xp per kill until that buffer burns down, and you get a flat reward after completing each objective in the list, as well as a big fat chunk when you complete that rank's list. Some of the mobs are in Fate's as well, so you get to kill two birds at once sometimes. I've found that I can SOLO my way to at least the level 17/18 objectives on every job before I ding 15--with some jobs I've managed to run the entire rank 2 quest (level 20) to ding 15 or 16. ARC was the last job I pulled that off on, MRD before that--that's right, I killed level 20 objectives at 15 and got the big fat bonus at the end and dinged 16. Won't lie.. it's a challenge for some jobs, and died a few times before working out a strat---but that's what makes it FUN!!

Yes there is job specific content, but like I said before, once you do the beginning quest for each nation, your grinding fates, and job quests, and fodder mobs. So I was saying why not make the beginning quest repeatable for each job/class