Efficient ways to level without city and story quests

[kisada]

chaining dungeons can't be faster than an 8-man, full bonus fate hopping group can it?

[Cantih]

chaining dungeons can't be faster than an 8-man, full bonus fate hopping group can it?

My memory is fuzzy, but when I was grinding Haukke to desperately reach Brayflox's just before P3 ended, I think it was amounting to 35k each run, and the fastest crew I ran with did it in about 45 minutes.

[Kami]

Thank you everyone for all the replies.

I found East Shroud to be an excellent place to level all the way to your late 20s and early 30s due to how frequently the Lazy Laurence FATE spawned. It gives 9-10k exp and other FATEs in the area spawn almost as frequently and are very close to Lazy Laurence.

South Shroud will probably be better when you're in your late 20s and early 30s during retail though since the Golem, Coeurl King, and FATE to the South of the Golem will be cleared. No one really bothered to do them phase 3.

Given I got all the TP access traveling around with my 3 mage classes to level 20, where is a particularly good spot to hunt FATE 10-15 ? Must be a better spot somewhere right ? thoughts ?

[Reve]

Thank you everyone for all the replies.



Given I got all the TP access traveling around with my 3 mage classes to level 20, where is a particularly good spot to hunt FATE 10-15 ? Must be a better spot somewhere right ? thoughts ?

Around Camp Horizon is a good 10-15 FATE spot. The mobs are a good level to chain at those levels while you wait for FATEs, and level appropriate leves are at the camp. I know there are two FATEs north of the camp, and maybe 3 just South of the camp if I remember right.

[Kami]

Awesome, thank you Reve.

Fuck me for burning all the quests on 3 different mage classes in the 3 different cities before realizing i might want go for something else after all lol

[Raldo]

You only burned the stuff up through level 20. I don't think that's a huge deal.

[Ahmera Mae]

Utilizing our "Oh-you-got-a-50-already,-have-some-free-XP"-Bonus seems to be a good idea. We know that it applies to fate XP, but how about quests and dungeons / mob grinding / leves?

[Raldo]

quests, no
mob grinding (open world / dungeons / leves / whatever), yes
leve rewards, unlikely since it's probably considered a quest, but I cannot confirm

Does it apply to crafting/gathering? Between 3102 and having most things over 20, I couldn't check.

[Tokitoki]

quests, no
dungeons / mob grinding, yes
leve rewards, unlikely since it's probably considered a quest, but I cannot confirm

Does it apply to crafting/gathering? Between 3102 and having most things over 20, I couldn't check.

The exp bonus for lower level classes did not apply to crafting gathering.

ie. I have 20CNJ, my 18ACN was getting +50% exp, but my 16BTN was not.

[Ahmera Mae]

I did a lot of crafting and gathering in p4 and both seem unbonused.

[Kami]

The wider the gap between your current class and your highest class, the bigger the xp bonus ?

[Kiarax]

The wider the gap between your current class and your highest class, the bigger the xp bonus ?

Help text said yes but it was a static 50% regardless of gap in p4.

[Sylvrdragon]

Awesome, thank you Reve.

Fuck me for burning all the quests on 3 different mage classes in the 3 different cities before realizing i might want go for something else after all lol

Personally, I think getting all of the mage classes out of the super-low-level range is a good idea. Now you won't have to every worry about re-acquiring low-level mage gear again (until they add more cloth mage classes).

[Akiyama]

At/around Limsa:

Aleport at 15 for FATEs
Swiftperch/Moraby at 10 for FATEs

Actually, here is a good map that gives level ranges, FATE locations, gathering nodes, etc.

Requoting this because it's an excellent map. I assume there's one for Gridania/Ul'Dah area too? Any chance you could post that up? :>

[Foxer]

That one has all three.

[Akiyama]

That one has all three.

oshi didn't realize it was clickable LOL. Silly me.

[Tokitoki]

Requoting this because it's an excellent map. I assume there's one for Gridania/Ul'Dah area too? Any chance you could post that up? :>

It is the best map I've found. Other people have pieced them together with screenshots, but this one has all these spiffy locations too.

And yes, it has all three regions.

[Ahmera Mae]

Titan Protocrystal is off. Not a big deal though, just wanted to point that out.

[Zzsark]

Speaking of maps, did anyone else notice the island we couldn't travel to yet in Western La Noscea?

[Gokulo]

Speaking of maps, did anyone else notice the island we couldn't travel to yet in Western La Noscea?

Yeah, annoyed me because I wanted the map achievements done in P4.