Final Fantasy XIV Party Leveling Guide

[Carraway]

I've been using the party recruit/search function a lot over the past couple days and I just want to clarify how it works. If I set up a recruit, I typically will not setup up a purpose, but I will set up a location (ex. Camp Bloodshore), and then set classes to Any and the desired level range (ex. 18 - 23). Now if someone searches, it automatically searches for groups that are recruiting for their specific class? And do they need to be within the required level range as well?
For example...

Jim sets up a recruit at Camp Bloodshore, seeking Any class, level range 18 - 23, and sets a comment.
Bob is a level 19 Lancer, presses the search function and sees Jim recruiting. Correct?
Dave is a level 25 Pugilist, presses the search function and does not see Jim recruiting. Correct?

Correct.

[Carraway]

[Milks]

I finally got to try out the party function, and it works better than I thought it would have. I tried it in the morning the other day when i joined a random japanese party going to skill up on skeles in nanawa. despite the stereotype, they were very friendly and glad to have me come along. the system would work just fine if more people would use it. like someone mentioned earlier, it needs a lodestone entry on the front page.

[Joyo]

Jim sets up a recruit at Camp Bloodshore, seeking Any class, level range 18 - 23, and sets a comment.
Bob is a level 19 Lancer, presses the search function and sees Jim recruiting. Correct?
Dave is a level 25 Pugilist, presses the search function and does not see Jim recruiting. Correct?

If Dave has a level 19 MRD but is on his level 25 PGL right now and sets "Target" in the search window to MRD he should see Jim recruiting right?

Does anyone know the range of group teleport?
If Jim is at Bloodshore, Bob in Limsa, Dave in Uldah and Bob decides to teleport to Camp Glory will everyone get the teleport option?

The search option is really better than i thought at first and even if we cant get a Lodestone entry on it maybe the fansites should do it. Im sure a lot of people read ZAM, Core, Eorzeapedia etc.

[Ratatapa]

Ok Great video but got 2 quick question

1) When you recruit, exemple you are 1/6 and want a pt of Conjurer THM Glad and Pug outside from shouting you cant make the limiting to only them joijing or recruting for only a conj then only a glad etc right?

2) When you recruit and choose a job to recruit I find it stupid that you can only choose jobs that you played, make it stupid to buy weapons just to seek a special job.

Thanls

[Vermilion Wake]

Thats the job that YOU would like to party with, not the ones you're recruiting.

[Carraway]

Ok Great video but got 2 quick question

1) When you recruit, exemple you are 1/6 and want a pt of Conjurer THM Glad and Pug outside from shouting you cant make the limiting to only them joijing or recruting for only a conj then only a glad etc right?

2) When you recruit and choose a job to recruit I find it stupid that you can only choose jobs that you played, make it stupid to buy weapons just to seek a special job.

Thanls

1. That's what the big + button is for when choosing the parameters for your party. You can say, "Okay, I want one PGL from rank 24-26," then add another parameter that says "I want one LNC from rank 23-25," and so on and so forth. When each parameter is fulfilled, it will be closed.

2. Your terminology is incorrect. When you search, as stated above, you are searching for parties that want you. So you search for openings based upon the class that you want to join a party as.

[Kurokikaze]

Oh wow that video was a big help. :O

Must spread the word and get more people using that.

[Drako]

what happens if you have 1 rank 20 and 4 rank 26 in party?
what happens if you have 3 rank 20 and 3 rank 26?
and what happens with 3 rank 20 , 1 rank 23 and 3 rank 26?

please dont say everyone gets solo sp because thats not really what i have been seeing.

[Meresgi]

Not sure if anyone has said, but Antling diggers in the mines east of Horizon are nice SP gain for a group of 4-5 at rank 25ish

[Carraway]

what happens if you have 1 rank 20 and 4 rank 26 in party?
what happens if you have 3 rank 20 and 3 rank 26?
and what happens with 3 rank 20 , 1 rank 23 and 3 rank 26?

please dont say everyone gets solo sp because thats not really what i have been seeing.

It depends on who the leader is. In your third example, if the 23 is the leader, skill gain should be kosher across the board. But if one of the 26s is the leader, the 20s get screwed.

[Kaiyoko]

Thx for the video, helped a lot w/ understanding the system.

Only it's too bad no one beside my group is in 42 range on my server.

[Drako]

It depends on who the leader is. In your third example, if the 23 is the leader, skill gain should be kosher across the board. But if one of the 26s is the leader, the 20s get screwed.

im not sure leader has something to do with it... we need more testing!!

[Fated E]

Doing a LS party with little to no group experience, need advice on a camp.

Likely going to be full 15 or at a minimum 10 people, rank range is 17-22, have 2 Conjurers.

[Angry Panda]

I would just like to add that a low 20's party of 5-7 people don't have to just use Cedarwood Island Crabs. If you go to Cassiopeia Hollow towards the lake to the North you will find it is surrounded by the jelly mobs (Cassiepeias) and island crabs. I ran a party tonight with ranks 19-24 and it went pretty smooth. I would highly recommend finding a GLA to tank that is more towards the 22/23 rank. The melees were fine at 19/20/21, but we tried to switch over to a 20 GLA and it just didn't work well for the two fights we tried it. Their stats were diversified for their mage class too rather than being GLA specific which might have caused the trouble, but it was really smooth with a 23 GLA tanking these crabs. He was high enough to hold the hate well and tank the hits effectively. The party was essentially one person healing the GLA, the GLA tanking, and some melee classes (2 mrd, archer, pug) mashing away on the crabs. The water elementals that pop were easily taken out. The jellies provided intermittent mobs to face between crabs for some 20 second TP building fights for the melee, and provided 0 SP upwards to almost 200 on them for my 21 MRD. The higher ranks (23/24) complained of no SP from them, but the fights literally took 15 seconds for melees to build TP to use their debuff WS on the crabs. The 19-21 rank members still pulled SP from them and got TP.

Pus Gnats also spawn in a little room near that north cave. We fought and killed 3 of them just to test them out. They have an insanely quick respawn. They were really "soft" and died quickly. However, they had shock spikes up which would cause everyone to take counter damage and it had some AOE move that stunned some of the time I believe. The SP was really good on the three we fought, but they were a nuisance with the spikes/aoe and the tp move where they would disappear and randomly reappear (like the moles that burrow).

Highly recommend trying this camp for a 19-24 rank type party camp.

[bruiser]

Might be a stupid question, but to get the skill bonus the level range has to be 5 right? Does that mean max - min <= 5, or max - min + 1 <= 5? e.g. I have a 17 and a 22 in my party. Obviously 22-17 is 5. but 17,18,19,20,21,22 is a range of 6 values. Do I still get the bonus?

[Franzer]

wow +1 on that video, thanks for that.

[VentusInvictus]

@ Angry Panda

Just wanted to add that another viable option for those in the lower 20s, I'd recommend 21-24, is a group of 6-8 at Copperbell Mines. The Ants there are basically in a line like pac-man pellets that go around the bottom zone. It is easy to get to and you've got plenty of mobs inbetween you and the time it takes for respawns to pop.

[Jackyl]

Might be a stupid question, but to get the skill bonus the level range has to be 5 right? Does that mean max - min <= 5, or max - min + 1 <= 5? e.g. I have a 17 and a 22 in my party. Obviously 22-17 is 5. but 17,18,19,20,21,22 is a range of 6 values. Do I still get the bonus?

To expand on this... (I don't think it was explained clearly yet by anyone, and SE's explanation could be interpreted in a couple ways)

Has anyone done extensive testing to see when/how the skill bonus applies? Couple people have said something about having the party leader set as the person who is in the 'middle' of the level (rank) range. Others seem to think the range of the entire party must be 5 levels. So:

Party 1: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 with party leader set at 10
Party 2: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18 with party leader set at 15
Party 3: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18 with party leader set at 19
Party 4: 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 20 with party leader set at 10

Would everyone in Party 2 get the skill bonus? And who (if any) would get the bonus in Party 1, 3, and 4? Is the skill bonus no longer in effect for everyone if the level range is not proper? Or does it only affect those who are out of range of the leader?

Or does it have nothing to do with who is the leader and the entire party must be in a level range of 5 like party 5 below?

Party 5: 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15, 16, 16, 17, 17


I haven't had the resources to test any of the scenarios above and would love it if someone could explain it clearly (hopefully someone who has tested it).

[Ezekial]

sorry wrong thread.