Best use of Levequest Allowances?

[Berabouman]

Due to work-related issues I won't be able to renew my sub immediately when my first month expires so I will have a hundred Allowances stored up when I return.

Currently I have about 66, even after spending them on levelling.

The way I see it is :

Battlequest - Not the best way to spend Allowances since you can get more XP FATEing.

Gathering - I did burn through some to get to Level 20-ish, but gathering at this point earns me gil, so since I gather while waiting for FATEs to spawn, I don't really need to rush through this phase.

Crafting - This seems to be the best use of them currently. I figure what I should do is level a craft till the materials can't be easily acquired from the Guild vendor, then use Levees? Thing is I don't really want to level a craft, just want the rewards and don't want to waste my Levees.

Any suggestions?

[Yugl]

Crafts.

[Prothescar]

Pretty much save them for crafting and gathering only. FATEs are better by far for battle classes.

[Meresgi]

Gathering > Crafts > Anything else > Battle classes

Gathering to me is balls boring so I use leves for those to go up faster, not to mention i'm powerleveling up mining to help my ARM/BSM anyways. Crafting leves are amazing if you do the ones with multiple turn ins.

[Waraji]

Went from 32/34 BTN/MIN to 37/38 in 6 hrs, after 48 leves last night. Took a break in-between switching camps to re-gear. Judging how fast you level, I will probably re-gear every 5 levels instead of my original plan.

From the crafting point of view, they can be highly profitable (exp/gil) if you come ready with the items already made or stacks of mats for all available leves at that particular camp for that particular level.

[Meresgi]

Yeah, having a shit ton of HQ materials not only helps making $$ as a crafter, but gives a huge exp boost too as the higher quality an item is when you make it the more exp. win-win. I just need truckloads of iron ore right now >_<

[Berabouman]

Hmm, so basically crafting? My highest level craft is only a 13 in Leatherworking though. Is it worth it just buying stuff straight off the AH to turn in?

Maybe I should just powerlevel my Gathering instead...do you make mad gil at the higher levels? In which case maybe I should just shoot straight for them.

[Waraji]

Maybe I should just powerlevel my Gathering instead...do you make mad gil at the higher levels? In which case maybe I should just shoot straight for them.

You should power level them for two reasons. 1 - Using up all those allowances you've been racking up, while making some gil to make up for all the gil you're wasting on teleports and what not. 2 - When it comes time to do all your crafting classes (leves & class quests), you can go out and farm the shit yourself, saving you tons of money.

[lexicum]

Gathering after level 35 becomes a pain if you don't have leves, and isn't there a 99 cap on allowances?

[Seravi Edalborez]

40>50 ALC in ~8 hours with HQ turnins. Over 100k per completion. You can expect this level of payout starting from the 30s 3 times per leve if you pick the right triple leves.

Gathering your mileage will vary depending on what types are available at a given time. It'll be faster than "natural" gathering but is about only half as good as what leves do for DoH. At 45ish the very good ones would give maybe 60k at best. The worst ones more like 16k.

Battle leves are a waste unless you have absolutely no intent to level gather/craft.

Fishing is about as easy to level as crafts (same type of "deliver x" leves) but their natural exp gain is pretty high so I'd personally avoid using leves on them.

[Berabouman]

Ok, if crafts are really the very best for levees maybe I should just blow it all on crafts. Any to recommend? Or should I just take Leatherworker to 50 since I already have it at 13?

[Seravi Edalborez]

Get to 15 without leves in:
Culinarian, Alchemist, Weaver, Carpenter, Goldsmith/Leatherworker/Blacksmith (all optional)
I say without leves because just synthing random stuff for completion exp will be more bang for your buck when everything is easy to buy from the guild store and you won't have to waste leve allowances (unless you're already capped at 100 I guess). Those first 4 have pretty essential cross-class skills at 15 for HQing and completing synths more comfortably.

After that the "good" crossclass skills are at 50 so it's a long ways away. Would advise not leveling Armorer at first because it has no useful things for other classes.

[Raldo]

After that the "good" crossclass skills are at 50 so it's a long ways away. Would advise not leveling Armorer at first because it has no useful things for other classes.

or Culinarian. While its 50 ability does have some mild use, it's certainly overshadowed by all the rest of the 50 abilities (ARM excluded, of course).

[Kanriel]

I like the culinarian 37 ability, unless I have it wrong it's a 30% steady hand for like 3 cp more. Making it far easier to use the hasty touch spam.

[Raldo]

Ah right, most of the rest of the 37 abilities are Brand-ofs, so I often forget.

[Raineer]

Mining/Botany> Crafts > Anything else > Battle classes >>>> Fishing

Edited slightly.

Don't use leves for Fishing. It's too damn easy, levels way too damn fast, and takes a single macro click to hook/mooch/cast. I would go 2 levels at a time and never look at the screen.

A fishing leve replaces about 3 minutes of fishing. A botany/mining leve replaces 25 mins of work.

[Berabouman]

Sounds like an idea, then I can actually use all those Company Manuals I have stored up too.

But which one should I actually take to 50 first? You know, to use up the Levequests. (I know not ARM though.)

[Gokulo]

Sounds like an idea, then I can actually use all those Company Manuals I have stored up too.

But which one should I actually take to 50 first? You know, to use up the Levequests. (I know not ARM though.)

Take everything to 15 first. Then look in the crafting thread to decide which to take to what level next. Don't go straight to 50 with one.

[Berabouman]

Don't go straight to 50 with one.

Why not, if I may ask? I mean, after getting everything to 15 for the assortment of skills. Isn't it better to have one craft at 50 rather than like, say, 3 to 4 at 20-30?

[Neviskio]

Why not, if I may ask? I mean, after getting everything to 15 for the assortment of skills. Isn't it better to have one craft at 50 rather than like, say, 3 to 4 at 20-30?

Take my experience with a grain of salt since I have most at around 16-20, still, crafts tend to work well together, I can make my crafting set with wvr which needs the needles made by GSM which uses materials from CRP and ARM/BSM, culinarian makes food that gives + cp, which is nice, etc.

I think the idea is to selfsustain your leveling and since well, most of the items are tiered the crafts entwine together.That's atleast how I am approaching crafts, I am basically never checking the market since I can craft everything that I need just by changing job.Also lvl 15 as said gives you nice abilitiesi and well, after a while around lvl 20 having a good HQ crafting set + hq materials + the right abilities makes easy leveling through leves just by doing the HQ 3 turn ins ones.

I'd definitely say level them together as much as you can and wish, you can just straight 50 one, but I think you then need to rely a bit on the markets.Though if you don't like some it should be fine both ways.