FFXIV Alt Job Leveling Guide to 90 - Tips For Beginners

bruh, just spam the latest dungeon you can do, as a healer/tank its instant que pop 😂....sucks to level dps...

I really suggest not worrying about preferred world or not. On Crystal, we don't even have a preferred world right now. Not only that, but even if you get boosted xp, you likely started on another server. So you'd have to transfer and then transfer back and hope your old server doesn't get congested. And if you start a new character it doesn't matter. Because you will still have to run through the entire MSQ to even get to anything meaningful. Honestly with how they made it and if you have money, you are better off just buying everything to 80 and get a ton of gil in the process. In the long run you are saving time and honestly money.

I level 80-90 with the Askadora and pixie daily quests. 4 million per day.

As an omnicrafter I can offer 1 tip and 1 bit of my personal experience.
The tip is if you just want the exp buff from food and don't care about the stats if you have any decent botanist levels, I think starting at level 15 or so, you can harvest crops that you can just eat on their own. They offer no bonuses but always provide some botanist exp, and if you want the exp but not to grind botanist the culinarians guild sells aldagoat milk for 4 gil each which gives the same bonus.
The piece of experience is if you are a crafter a lot of mats that you'll want a lot of that are mop drops, especially starting in Heavensward where you need 3 skins per leather instead of just 1. I have made it a habit to always grind classes that need it on these since while it is slower than steamrolling them with your main class it saves you grinding in the long run. Just my experience though since I do partial solo where I don't buy mats from vendors or the market board whenever possible, if you do buy those then still consider it and save yourself some gil at the same time. My main fieldcraft 3 farm uses a lot of fleece for wool which is only helped by the fact the bulk of my levelling classes are in the range for Ornery Karuls anyways

me having my one and only favorite class at 90 lmao

The truth is, in all these years, I neglected most of the zone yellow side quests. So I should go back and do them on new side jobs from level 1.
And I got to enjoy the Bozjan front while leveling rdm for the first time before EW came out.

Many thanks for roundup, I am returning from lengthy hiatus and learning entirely new systems apart from tweaks and revamps. Also SQs feed my lore/immersion heart :>

Is there a way to power level through crafting?

I guess I'm old-school as I just enjoy dungeon queues while fate grinding

No mention of Leves? From what I remember they were quite good in early levels!

When you level culinary keep all the food you make to eat while leveling alts :) I also recomend completing hunt logs, you get some gil as well as xp. There are sites that will give you makes to make them easier to find. I did those and side quests while waiting for daily rouletes on longer dps queues. Another tip is level your chocobo. It being able to heal or tank for you can be huge on some roles. If you can afford it but the items or grow them in your fc's estate to level them up to 20. You can also do battle Leave quests up to level 60 which give decent xp as well as getting some cool items / things that sell well, and Amber for the 50-60 ones some times which you'll need for HW relics. But you can do so many per day as well, if you aren't using them for crafting, please use them leveling low level.

Having leveled every job to 90, here are my takeaways:
- 70+ : You can usually participate in EW fates and get full rewards, even from level 70. You'll want someone else do them for you, but the XP reward is solid (and you need to farm the shared fates / bicolor gems for rewards). Easier as a healer and help others or as a tank since you will not die as easily. Do this when you have flying in the area with high level friends or join a farming group in any EW zone.
- 80+ : The tribal quests from Thavnair will give you 3.3m XP per day with max reputation (a bit less at first). It's half a level at first per day, a quarter at the end. It is huge and you basically don't have to know how to play the class well, some days, you won't even fight anything. Save this for any job you enjoy less, some might say it's easier as a healer to solo those than do the hunting bills, or fighting jobs you don't quite get well (some might do this on BLM).
- 80+ : The daily hunt bills total 3m XP per day. It is a huge bonus too and should be done if you're playing a job you're comfortable with. You should be able to solo all the monsters for the daily hunts even from level 80 with the right rotations / stuns / tome gear. Worst case, get a friend to help you in the early levels.
Combining the 2 above, you can get about 6m XP per day, which is a level every day for a while, and then every other day, doing light activities (which you could do while queuing for roulettes on other jobs).

If your goal is to level up many (or all) the jobs to 90, I would recommend to not do roulettes or turn the Khloe book on jobs that are 80+ (unless all jobs are there, obviously) since the tribal quest and hunt bills give you so much XP per day and use those on lower level jobs, I personally find the 60 to 80 range to be the worst since you will have to be very active (HoH, Bozja, roulettes) to level up. The hunt bills and tribal quests will not give you a great amount of XP and should have probably a lower priority in your daily task list (but you may as well do them as you get rewards out of them).

sittin on 8 90s (and all hand/land done) when i watched this, def some solid AF tips in here :)

Wait, we're not mentioning the +30% EXP boost ring you can get from The Smith? Seriously, It's absolutely great starting out at the process of leveling everything, to get you out of the basics as quickly as possible.

It really doesn't matter how fast you level because MSQ will slow you down . But If you want to speed level just buy a skip but you will be missing out on an awesome storyline xp one of the best storylines I have never played

A tip for higher level fate fsrming. always kill the forlorn maiden if it appears as it boosts the xp from the next fate.

Wait why is a man playing a female Au Ra

Still dont understand why there is no deep dungeon from 70-80

One question what about visiting preferred worlds?
I hear you can visit other worlds in the game

I just don’t think the alt job grind is good at all in this mmo

Silly little tip, in Aussie servers you get the preferred world exp bonus on everything before level 80 on any character and you’ll get a 300% bonus on any secondary classes on a character (basically any class that’s not your highest one)

Great video, thank you very much! I like your approach to not burning yourself out. If you get time, I had trouble finding the FATE hotspot list-- could you link it please, maybe in the description? Thanks either way!

"gain xp"

I just spam ranks :D

I find the road to 80 way too overpowered.

Are people still making these stupid level up videos?

Just play the game... jeeze

i'm pretty sure you don't get any XP from hunts.

You forgot gear, like Menphina's earrings fx that gives an exp bonus as well :)

This video is very informative, ty for taking time out of your life to provide us with better choices for leveling in this game.

I'm a defender of doing 3 days worth of Guildhests a week. They go by incredibly fast (Bockman, which comes up the most often, takes under a minute), and there's a Challenge Log entry at 3 complete that gives EXP comparable to a dungeon boss kill. I usually do the first two days on a non-max level job in whatever role's adventurer in need just to get through the queue faster (and get like 20 extra exp, thanks, game) and then the third day on whatever job I'm focusing on leveling.

If you get food thrown at you, it might be fun to throw it back. Try to aim at their face.

hunt log is somewhat tedious, but as you proceed along the game you'll run into some hunt log monsters through the route on MSQ. Otherwise, if you've already finished ARR and have flying enabled, you can fly to where a monster is, change to the job and grab the EXP. I was able to level NIN, WAR, SMN, and PLD to 50 really quickly with roulettes and hunt log.

My only question during that was if the bonuses stacked or were cumulative. Say I get a 30% bonus from the menphina earrings, and then I get a 3% food bonus, maybe a 5% rested EXP bonus, and a 10% FC combat bonus. Will that all combine into a 148% bonus when getting EXP from combat, or is it a rolling amount that doesn't lump together.
I've had some debates with friends on this and it's always been pretty ambiguous to me.

I never ever understand peoples hotbars.
I look at peoples hotbars and I be like "Why so complicated" or "what a mess and an eyesore"

Well, I already have everything at level 90, so I don't have to worry about it.
That being said, I don't mind the mundane tasks, since I usually have a video up at the same time as I level.

After everything from daily/weekly list is exhausted the biggest exp gains per time are from completing dungeons closest to your level. Everything else is subpar to that.

I can't do healer cause I'm on console and controller, I just can't do it. I just level my healers doing daily Frontline.

It's kind of crazy how much of this I disagree with, but also can't call straight out wrong. Remember folks. If your miserable and dragging butt between fates your actively hurting your exp curve, when you could have done a roulette or some beast tribes or something for rewards while waiting in q.

Also. Hunting logs are definitely worth the exp. But only in the first 4 ish levels of each group. The issue there being. It doesn't scale and you have to be caught up to do current level ones. So it's a pain. But every three levels or so I highly recommend throwing yourself at the strong ones like a rabid dog. Worst case you get a free teleport home.

Best case you get a half a level for 5 minutes worth of work.

Or just play a better MMO that respects your time more.

Chad fates?

1st thing to do, get flying done on 1 job. Will make Lvling so much faster.

I have my level 1-10 goggles exp boost, Also do the Hunting For the super exp boost to level 15, Go for the ring Exp boost quest and get the ring that gives you exp boost to level 30, The earring exp boost from level 1-80 and within a few hours you can go from level 1 to 60 along with the food that gives you that 3% exp boost…

Do you use any overhaul? Your colors looks so powerfull and the lightning looks better

I more interested in your glam with edenmete coat :) I need it

I've been sleeping on a few of this, especially hunting log, since it takes time to search for them, and it's funny just yesterday was thinking of spending more time with the GC comand missions to work on getting Storm Captain ( in my case), and also Wonderous Tails.

Me who has every job at 90 : hmm, interesting

Which class did you start as?

It's now a pretty long time since I did the crystal tower alliance raids. Probably I'm lucky, but I feel I've those less often now. The last 2 weeks I mostly did Alliance raids of level 70-80-90, and once a level 60, but no 50 at all. Or maybe there just are less new players now in my world.

When you mentioned side quests, I have an extra tip, I save side quests for queueing for a dungeon as a dps, not only the difficulty of that content is better as a dps because you will melt mobs, dps queues compared to tanks and healers are way higher specially if you are playing outside of peak hours, while the xp isn't great some NORMAL side quests unlock extra content(like some side quests are required to unlock certain Special Deliveries), and there are two normal side quests in Western La Noscea(Like Cats and Dogs which then leads to Curiosity Killed the Coeurl
and Man's Best Fiend) that give you minions, so despite not being great xp some of them are worth doing.