Final Fantasy XIV Party Leveling Guide

[Groovebox]

Keep em coming guys! If you can, take a screenshot of the mini-map or world map if you find a good camp.

[Elona]

Cassiopeia Hollow crab room is good sp from 24-? Im 29 now and been sping off these since 25 in random parties of 7-15 members. SP range is 0-500, average about 200ish and fast kills if have good setup. Place can hold 1-2 pt depending of pt setups.

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7315/crabbattlew.jpg

More western people need to start using the party search/recruitment system, most random pts ive had so far have been jp. In NA time there is like only 1-2 people recruiting in 20+ range. This is the case in Lindblum atleast.

[Elcura]

I tried to use the search, but it's... too odd. Rather ask around in shout really.

[Koga]

(48,34) to (50,35) in Coerthas

Loads of Thickshells. Green/Yellow at Rank 25 so maybe good exp spot for 2/3 people at 20-23.

[Kurokikaze]

I did those in beta with a group of 3. CON/PUG/ARC ~R18. Really good exp and easy enough with shell/protect.

[Kurokikaze]

Yo guys... I know this is gonna sound crazy but...

15 man skill up PTs are fucking awesome. Just running around Tam-Tara with a bunch of 20-30s and killing anything that moves. Lots of 250-500s. Its pretty epic. Quick video later. lol

[Kaiyoko]

Yo guys... I know this is gonna sound crazy but...

15 man skill up PTs are fucking awesome. Just running around Tam-Tara with a bunch of 20-30s and killing anything that moves. Lots of 250-500s. Its pretty epic. Quick video later. lol

~_~ Was hopping to get a few days before anyone said this lol...

[Kurokikaze]

Don't worry, it'll be ok. Not that many people late 20s anyways! By then we'll have moved camps.

Unless you're worried SE is gonna nerf it? haha

Edit: Watch my sig jump 2 ranks when it updates. Fuck yeaaaaaaa.

[Milks]

i thought your name was familiar. good pting kuroki.

[Hyan]

So what, the skill up gain keeps increasing until the party is full? That sounds... Awesome? lol

[Elona]

So what, the skill up gain keeps increasing until the party is full? That sounds... Awesome? lol

Definitely better with 15 members than low man pt (depending of hunted mob), get sp hits more often and higher.

Last nite I was partying with 10ish peeps near camp Nine Ivies. Party range was r27-r37 and sp was great for r30 (average 200+). I guess everyone was happy for the sp since no one complained. We hunt black efts and buzzards. Get fair amount of adds in this camp.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5047/ivies.jpg

[miokomioko]

So, some Abyssea-style playing carried over to XIV... :3

[Kurokikaze]

Yeah Milks, shit was a blast.



Fairly easy onces your tanks grasp the simple concept of:

1. Point away from mages.
2. Voke adds.

[Nevex]

Unless mages risk to be KO'd easily, why would you want to point away from them? Cures actually healing more people = more skill up for mages.

[Kurokikaze]

Cause they get one shot most of the time. We're fighting mobs about 15 ranks higher than us.

I feel this would be much better if you keep the level spread around 2-3 ranks. We had to keep bouncing between lower and higher level mobs so SP is decent for everyone. The spread in this PT was... 12 I think? If the rank range wasn't as wide I could see what you said being better for mages. lol

[Nevex]

I see. Meh I don't think this is nerf-worthy, aren't players expected to group for grinding and aim for the most efficient way to do that in a MMORPG?
By the way get me in your parties. Post-20 soloing sucks.

[Kurokikaze]

And thats why I posted it. More people should know that partying up is much more viable than they think at the moment.

You can do this in many different areas/rank ranges.

Edit: If this were nerf worthy, I'd keep it to myself.

[Hyan]

Good good, now if they could make it viable for quest grinding too that would be perfect. 15 players means a shitton of leves to do.

Not that I'd mind mob grinding in a large scale like that, but short term goals are always nice (and the extra gil).

[plue]

Yeah Milks, shit was a blast.



Fairly easy onces your tanks grasp the simple concept of:

1. Point away from mages.
2. Voke adds.

I'm curious, why are you using Punishing Barbs? Doesn't it just kill the mob faster, thus reducing the SP you can get from it?

[Kurokikaze]

Those bats (and many other 30+ bats) have a ridiculously overpowered HP Drain move. I've seen fights get carried out for 5+ minutes cause of it. Got tired and just pop barbs on bats and hope people get decent procs. Only other time I use barbs is when we get too many adds.