Alternate Job Level in FFXIV - Tales of the Aggronaut (2023)

Good morning friends! This is a rare Saturday post that I'm making today partly in honor of Blaugust and partly because I feel like sharing information. If you follow me on Twitter, you've probably noticed that I post a bunch of informational threads about FFXIV, mostly aimed at new players or WoW transplants. One of the things I always mention is how bad it is to cast new characters to do a new job. One of the best things FFXIV has going for it is the ability to play as a single character and have that character usable for all game jobs. Starting a brand new character means you're starting the game from scratch and there's little to no transfer between these characters, meaning you'll lose all mounts, titles, minions, and most importantly cosmetics.

However, this is a double-edged sword, as Final Fantasy XIV's main story quest is designed to quickly progress a single job in the level and ensure you're always ready to complete the next quest in a row. Unfortunately, you don't have access to the MSQ in your side jobs, and you'll quickly find that the sea of ​​side quests available in the game just aren't a great way to level up, as they reward pitifully. . to progress Of course, there are plenty of ways to get new jobs if you really don't want to "live your way" to reach the level cap. However, over the years I've found that the game favors a "variety is the spice of life" approach, rewarding you for doing a little or a lot of different activities. Once I embraced this methodology I found that leveling becomes quite easy and is just a daily application of repeated effort rather than a focused grinding session.

There are several activities that are quite rewarding and I thought I'd start with what I do instead of trying to level up every day. Here's a quick list of bullets and I'll explain each one later in the post.

• Main story roulette
• Battlecraft Beast Tribe Journals
• Jagd Clan Protocol
• PVP-Roleta
• Alliance Raid Roulette (Once Opened)
• try roulette
• Leveling/50+ Roulette

I usually queue up for activities, and while I'm in that queue, I'll be working on Beast Tribe quests or Clan Hunt logs specifically so that the time I spend in queue, especially as a DPS, is productive. On a different note, this is mostly for people who leveled up in a single job through the main story quest. If you don't have a character for the level cap, that's what you should really focus on first. You gain bonus experience for alternate jobs if you only have one job, regardless of the current level cap.

Main story roulette

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These friends are the most experience you can get in any activity. Main story roulette is a square option that ensures all players can always get a bet for Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium. I've already said that Square is extremely good at bribing players to do the right thing, and it all starts here. If you're on an alternate you'll get around 75% of a tier for a Praetorian run and 50% of a tier for a Castrum run. I prefer Praetorium even though it's significantly longer because you can semi-AFK during cutscenes and do something else on the other monitor. Don't sleep on that XP boost. Sure it gets boring and there's sure to be a certain pattern to the way these mega dungeons run, but the unique boost you can get each day is well worth the time investment.

PVP-Roleta

This is another great experience, and I think the key to why I don't mind playing PvP this way is that the player is effectively rewarded with the same win or loss. You will see about half the experience values ​​if you run PVP roulette every day. I suggest queuing up for this during prime time as after-hours queues can be a little longer and your time might be better spent elsewhere. An added benefit is that you get wolf tokens, which you can exchange for pets, unique weapons and armor skins, and even a Magitek mount.

Battlecraft Beast Tribe Journals

To be perfectly honest, I ignored them for a long time, much to my detriment. In A Realm Reborn, Beast Tribe quests weren't worth that much experience. They were something I did to gain reputation and eventually unlock unique dyes and mounts, but not very positive for gaining experience. However, starting with Heavensward, quests started to scale with your level, and this increased significantly with Stormblood and without Shadowbringers. For example, completing all three daily Pixie Beast Tribes could mean more than half the experience level for characters level 70+.

• a kingdom reborn
  • Amalj'aa- Ash Ring in South Thanalan
    • start missions
  • whistle– Kleiner Trost on the Oriental Shroud
    • start missions
  • kobold– 789. Excavation order outside La Noscea
    • start missions
  • Sahagin– Creche Novv west of La Noscea
    • start missions
• to the sky
  • I am arriving– Nakki Island in the Sea of ​​Clouds
    • start missions
  • Mosquito– Loth ast Vath e Dravanian Forelands
    • start missions
• stormy blood
  • kojin– Tamizu e Lago Rubin
    • look search
  • Ananta– Velodyna Palace
    • start missions
• Schattenbringer
  • Element-Lydha Lran em Il Meg
    • start missions

Each expansion seems to reward more experience than the previous expansion. If you're below level 50, the A Realm Reborn quests are still worth your time, mostly because later quests in the series reward experience gained better than earlier ones.

Jagd Clan Protocol

Clan hunting boards are scattered across Eorzea. From them you can get Hunting Bills that can be completed every day and reward a considerable part of experience, Gil, as well as a certain clan hunting currency for each expansion that can be spent on equipment. You can also participate in "hunt squads," where groups of players travel the world taking out high-priority hunting targets, but I won't get into that today. I'm mostly focusing on hunting accounts, which you can work on at your own pace, and between this and the beast tribe journals, they serve as a thing to do while you're waiting in queues at the roulette wheel. Each bill asks you to find a specific target mob in a specific zone and kill a specific number of them. Every time you complete an account stage, you will be rewarded with experience, gil, and hunting currency. You can find the hunting boards for each expansion in the following locations.

• a kingdom reborn
  • Headquarters of your great company – Limsa Lominsa / Gridania / Ul'dah
• to the sky
  • Ishgard: Outside the Forgotten Knight's Tavern
• stormy blood
  • Rhalgr's Reach - don't tunnel hairs tomestone vendors
• Schattenbringer
  • The Crystarium: Just off the main aetheryte on the same level

Allianz-Roleta

I had avoided this one like the plague, but no, I started to get my bearings, I tried. I was surprised how much experience they are worth. You can't start doing this until you hit character level 50, but in my experience it's worth about 50% of a level each day. The best time to run these is during the 50-60 grind, as that means you'll get Labyrinth of the Ancients, Syrcus Tower, or World of Darkness... all of which are extremely safe these days and tend to be fast. and numbers slow to go. Once you get past that 60 cap, you can qualify for monsters like Dun Scaithe, which can turn into a terrible scavenging fest. I'm still hitting the wall, but your mileage may vary.

Trials/Leveling/50+ Roulettes

I'm throwing the dungeon and trial spinners in the same bucket because they're somewhat rewarding, but the reward depends a lot on how much activity you end up getting. The spinner itself is worth 15-20% of a level, and this can add up a lot if the activity you engage in is close to your level range, giving you decent experience from single monster kills. Definitely worth doing, but not at the expense of any of the other options available to you.

No Lifer's grinding methods

Are you one of those gamers who prefer to find the most efficient way to do something and then repeat the same process over and over again until you get the result you want? There are certainly leveling methods that follow this line of thinking. The truth is, I do some of these along with the above methods to keep everything running smoothly and to avoid getting stuck somewhere along the way. While I adopt the "variety is the spice of life" method of leveling, there are certainly points where I will overcome certain bumps.

loops alvo

This is pretty simple... essentially camp in an area and cast FATE to try it out. The best course of action is to check Party Finder to see if anyone has a FATE Grinding group. There are a number of steps in Artifact Weapon quests that involve targeting a resource of some sort. In many cases, you can travel alongside one of these groups, and they benefit from a faster kill time, and you benefit from getting all that experience. If you can't find a group quest, it's best to pick a zone in your level range and just start the FATE. It is very rare that you are in a zone and no group is already walking and catching up. Hover over each of the FATEs and go to the one that seems to be progressing. Chances are you'll find a young group willing to take them down and follow them.

Max level dungeon queues

This one is also very easy and works best when leveling up a healer or tank for the shortest cooldowns. Essentially, you go to the required locator, mark the highest level dungeon to queue for, and then do this over and over again until you unlock a new dungeon. Repeat this until you reach the desired level and prepare yourself very well while doing so. Doing this as a DPS can suck because you end up with a much longer queue time than healers/tanks and their near instantaneous queues.

chase trains

Admittedly, this is one of the methods I'm least familiar with. Each server has several high-level hunting objectives that pop up, and there are groups committed to progressing through them to gain experience and earn money. These groups are now generally organized out of Discord communities, so I'd suggest taking a look at your data center and seeing what hunting communities might be available to you. I know this is a thing, and it's a great way to outfit subs...but I also didn't have the time or breadth of mind to delve into this system. I tell you it exists if you want to go down that rabbit hole, but unfortunately I don't have the knowledge to pass it on to you directly.

deep dungeon

One of my favorite methods of leveling alternate jobs, especially the 1-50 job, is the "Deep Dungeon" system. These consist of the Palace of the Dead on the South Shroud and Heaven Above on the Ruby Sea. Essentially, it's an alternate leveling scheme that lets you go in without gear and play your class to perfection, queue up with strangers, and complete a dungeon crawling course that lasts 10-15 minutes. Palace of the Dead can be started by a character at level 1, slows down after level 40, then slows down again after level 50. Heaven on High ramps up at level 61 and can easily take a character to level 70, but slows down again. at level 70-80. As you progress through dungeons, you have a chance to drop certain loot boxes that can be broken into a selection of minions and cosmetic armor pieces.

I must honestly say that one of thebest guides to understand how this system worksit was produced by Square itself. To gain access to each of these there is a small quest chain, and then there are links to the specific quests each one starts.

• Palace of the Dead -New Gridania quest starter
• Heaven above -Quest-Starter em Ruby Sea

south front of Bozjan

I'm pretty new to this system, but essentially it's an alternate leveling system about fighting the Empire's forces to save the people of Bozjan. It opens to characters above level 71, and from my brief experience, the gain is comparable to a deep dungeon system. To unlock the system, you must have completed the level 80 main story quest and also completed thethe entire Ivalice Alliance Raid questline. As I am yet to familiarize myself with the subject, I will.Consult another source of informationabout this system. Overall, I've found this fun so far, and plan to push my dancer even further once I reach level 71.

Summary

One of the other important things you probably need to consider is when the daily reset is done on your server. Each reset gives you a new batch of all previous bonuses available so you can keep improving those levels. Like I said before, these days I do a little bit of all those things because it keeps things fresh. However, at several other points in my FFXIV history, I've been a FATE or a Deep Dungeon grinder. The problem, for me at least, is that I quickly got bored with this method of play. I managed to keep my head down to the point where I achieved my first goal, but then found it extremely difficult to start again in the next class. For example, I set all Battlecraft Jobs to 50 with a mix of FATE and Deep Dungeoneering.

I think ultimately you have to find your own pace and find what works best for you. When I come across a party doing a FATE, I tend to show up and join in on the fun because, ultimately, I'll gain a little experience along the way. By using various leveling methods, you'll also find that destroying these alternate jobs doesn't seem as tedious. As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them below. I hope this guide is useful to someone, as it certainly took me a long time to write this morning.

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