Going to double post for something I wanted to see discussed, but I also wanted the discussion to be broader than just this so I left it out of the OP.
What are the new leveling paths people prefer now? I have my own I've used to solo a lot of jobs from 1-30 in fairly short order, but now with Grounds of Valor I've gotta take a second look again.
Everyone used to be familiar with the "classic" old FFXI leveling path of: noobie zones > dunes > qufim > jungles > garliage etc. All that is dead and gone now though. So what would you pin down as sort of a one-size-fits-all generally good suggestion for leveling paths for 1-75ish. Astral burn followed by Abyssea burn is obvious, I'm talking about soloing or a small standard party here.
For reference here was my old routine for soloing jobs to 30, it worked pretty well for me. Levels 1-13ish: Noob zones obviously, west/east ronfaure, west/east sarutabaruta, south/north gustaburg. The expanded range of exp from EP makes it a breeze to just grind on through easy to destroy EP mobs pretty long up til as long as you can stand it. Some of the new Grounds of Valor offer regimes at low levels though so there's new options to look into.
Levels 10-13ish: Teleport Crag areas. La Thaine Plateau, Konschtat Highlands, Tahrongi Canyon. If you move here on the low end like level 10 you'll need to just roam and solo shit or do the lowest FoV regimes for a couple levels. I find those particular ones to be annoying because they require killing plantoids plus a few of these fucking bees. And the bees are always way the balls far away and not worth detouring for. Do whatever you don't find annoying until 13-15ish.
Levels 13-15ish: Relocate from the crag zone entrance to the FoV manual at the crag. Do the regime that has you killing only one particular mob, quadavs, akbabas, or funguars. For me it's just easier to spam and return to get a new regime. Quadavs are nice to grind or the funguars since there's a big clump of them slightly northeast near Jugnear exit.
Levels 15-20ish: You might expect me to say head to Valkurm Dunes or Buburimu Peninsula now. But I really loathe Valkurm and I don't recommend it if you're soloing. Maybe if you're a duo or party. That frigging long walk through the tunnel and how spread out it is just sucks. I go to Bubu and spam the 7 sylvestre +1 rarab regime. They're right there by the outpost or if it's busy lots of sylvesteres south more.
20-25: Relocate to the FoV manual outside Mhaura. Then I spam the FoV regime for 5 dhalmels + 3 crawlers. Dhalmels are all over and crawlers can be found just to the west or east of Mhaura near the coast. These can start out rough on the lower level end.
Alternatively there's Jugner, Meriph, and Pashhow. I've tried them but they're so out of the way and I'm not fond of their mobs.
25-30: Battalia Downs is full of mobs and dickhole tigers that aggro from a few planets away, but I still prefer it to Rollanberry or Sauromogue. I spam the first FoV regime for saplings + 2 flies. Locate at whichever end of the zone manual you prefer, you have to hunt a little either way. At level 27/28 the FoV regime for 5 saplings +2 Bas is about the same if you want to switch it up.
So there's some of the new options for levels 1-30 without going to the damn Dunes, Qufim, or the Jungles. Like I said Grounds of Valor might make me re-evaluate my old path. I have never solod past level 30 yet so I have no real suggestions there. Let's hear how you guys like to go about it.