Leveling choices?

[Kafeen]

Idk, I did ACN 0-49 so far almost completely on quests, only running most dungeons once (not just the main story ones, but all optional ones as well). There's always side quests in the areas the main story takes u to, plus I did all Guildhests and my class/job quests a long the way. I made it a habit of completing every quest in the area before moving on, which actually delayed my main scenario progress significantly. Then of course i completed the Hunting Log, which the main story also pretty much takes you to areas where the mobs for that are if you pay attention. But there were only a couple times I had to grind exp, both in Coerthas, and I did that on leves.

I think SE did a really good job with the quest progression. Every time you get to a new area there's lots of other quests you can do before moving on, most of which are from the same NPC or only open up at other NPCs after you have done certain other quests in the area.

This will get one of your classes to 50 quite easily, and I don't think it should be possible to quest every class to max lvl. It's just too fast and easy.

I did pretty much the same. I just hit 50 with ACN/SCH/SMN yesterday. Most of this was done going through quests and story missions that were appropriate for the level at the time. I did the hunting log for both ACN and the grand company as I went along. Only did most dungeons once with the exception of Haukke Manor due to the Sentry gliching so we couldn't complete. I did FATEs but didn't really spam them, just did them as they popped in the area I was in at the time, only a couple of times did I go out intending to do do some. The only time I joined an actual FATE party to spam some was to get from 49 to 50.

That said, I have now pretty much ran out of quests so I'm sure any other jobs I want to take to 50 will be vastly different and require a lot more FATEs and leves than what I did on ACN.