So still pretty bad for the leveling experience? That's the one thing really holding me back. A character to being able to have every job really appeals to me but they made it so damn grindy to get there and I totally understand why.
I think I had Bard to 58-60 when I quit and a bunch of jobs in the teens - 30's.
The worst experience gap in the game comes from 20-50, the rest isn't that bad if you know how to do it efficiently. It all really depends on your goals, if you are looking to level a job quickly or you want to complete all 15 jobs efficiently. The only method for leveling a job quickly is a straight grind. The roulette system, rested, and chain bonus system can be used to efficiently level up multiple jobs at once for a much smaller time investment though.
Notes
-Armory bonus is +100% exp level 1-59, and 50% level 60-70.
-Rested Experience has a maximum capacity of 1.5 levels, which takes 4 days to fill when logged out in a sanctuary.
-On Odd level dungeons the player receives a chain bonus granting additional experience for mobbs killed.
-Multiple items grant an experience bonus while killing in dungeons, friendship circlet, moogle hat, brand-new ring, and Ala Mhigan Earrings.
-Use Squadron battle manuals for +15% experience or the free company 10-15% heat of battle buff when grinding out rested experience.
-Aim to complete dungeon and commendation challenge logs on even numbered levels.
-Palace of the Dead, Heaven's on High and Beast Tribe Quests do not use rested experience so use these to manipulate efficient use of rested experience.
-The most efficient way to do an Alliance roulette is to remove gear until you reach the minimum ilvl for labyrinth and sycrus tower. These are the fastest two. Equip when you enter.
The goal should be to get a job as quickly as possible to level 50 so you unlock more roulettes. On even levels do roulettes, potd, hoh, and beast tribe quests. On odd levels grind the highest level dungeon available to efficiently use rested experience and the chain bonus.
*HoH is not an efficient leveling method due to it being locked until level 61 and you only receive 50% of the armory bonus, with no access to rested experience or the chain bonus. There are much more efficient methods of leveling. 42 runs or roughly 11-14 hours for 9 levels isn't very time efficient. Only use this if your queues are >20m.
**Command missions consume rested experience at a very fast rate, the main one really worth doing for efficient leveling is Solm Al at level 53.
Noodleface
Pretty much what
Cybsled
said about insta-queue dungeons. The 51-59 and 61-69 dungeons will give you pretty good bang for your buck exp wise (I want to say about 30% of a level off the top of my head but that could be way inaccurate) in addition to the fact that the 50+ "leveling dungeons" (not the ones at level cap) give you a guaranteed drop from the final boss in addition to what the bosses drop. It's randomly chosen but does not give you duplicates; it will pick something else if you already have it so you can theoretically farm a given dungeon for the 2 levels or so and be fully decked out after 11-12 runs at the worst (weapons are included in the random drop). I can't recall if they made that change for the sub-50 dungeons or not as well.
