How to level up new class

[Blade12775]

I'm almost at lvl 60 and was thinking of switching to Gunbreaker. How do you go about leveling a new class? Are there new quest that opens to level up since you start at level 1 or does your new class start at level 60?

[Danielsonpl]

Gunbreaker is a job from newest expansion, so it stays from level 60. The same goes for dancer. Red mage and samurai are Stormblood classes so they start from level 50. Dark Knight, astrologist and machinist are Heavensward ones and they start from lvl 30. All other are base game classes starting from lvl 1 and upgrading to job at lvl 30.

[Danielsonpl]

Also you get bonus 100% (50% after level 70) exp for all classes/jobs below your highest leveled job.

[Blade12775]

Originally posted by Danielsonpl:

Gunbreaker is a job from newest expansion, so it stays from level 60. The same goes for dancer. Red mage and samurai are Stormblood classes so they start from level 50. Dark Knight, astrologist and machinist are Heavensward ones and they start from lvl 30. All other are base game classes starting from lvl 1 and upgrading to job at lvl 30.

Originally posted by Seraphina:

As to how to actually level them, you start a kind of "new game" with them but not entirely. All stuff you've done are done but might limit you with level requirement. Leve quests, hunting log for some class, dungeons, trials, etc. All are good to level your new class up. Also new class story.

Thanks for the fast responses. I'll keep these in mind as I play.

[Blade12775]

Originally posted by Danielsonpl:

Also you get bonus 100% (50% after level 70) exp for all classes/jobs below your highest leveled job.

Thank you. That's awesome to know. Great incentive to try new classes out.

[Nico Yazawa]

Do your roulettes and/or spam highest level dungeon.

[Nineball H1]

Gunbreaker starts at level 60, so if you switch when you get to level 60 then you can just pick up where you left off.

[Caz]

"Easiest" way to level alt jobs is to use MSQ Roulette each day. And hope that you get Praetorium since that gives the biggest (and best return on time investment) rewards of the MSQ roulette dungeons.
After you've run your daily MSQ roulette, run the other daily roulettes (trials isn't a huge amount of XP, but it's usually a short queue and a fast clear).
Finally, general guideline for what to queue for...
1-49 Leveling Dungeon Roulette
50+ Highest level dungeon (not trial or raid) available to you. Yes, the queues are a little longer like this, but there's two reasons for doing this. One, you will get upgrades for your jobs. Two, the XP/time invested is slightly higher than just using Leveling Roulette, even for DPS.

Make sure you ALWAYS have food/drink on you for the 3% XP Boost. Doesn't even need to be stats for the job you're playing. As long as you have the buff you'll get 3% more XP per kill. Doesn't sound like a lot, but it quickly adds up.
If you have any XP Boost items (Aehteryte Earring, for example), make sure to keep that equipped.
If you're not already in a Free Company (FFXIV's name for guilds), try finding one. They can provide a buff called Heat of Battle which provides 10% Battle Exp (exp from kills). This stacks with the food buff and most other XP buffs.

Lastly, always always ALWAYS log out in a town or near an Aetheryte to get rested XP. While you have rested XP, you're earning 100% bonus XP, or, simply put, double XP. You can check if you'll get rested XP by looking at your EXP bar. If there's a moon on the right end of it, you'll get rested XP there.

Before you know it, you'll have all jobs to 80. And you can get your very own derpbird!

[Smug Kot]

Healers and tanks can lvl spamming roulettes, DPS life its hard life, go around doing levemeter and fates.

[Blade12775]

Originally posted by Caz:

"Easiest" way to level alt jobs is to use MSQ Roulette each day. And hope that you get Praetorium since that gives the biggest (and best return on time investment) rewards of the MSQ roulette dungeons.
After you've run your daily MSQ roulette, run the other daily roulettes (trials isn't a huge amount of XP, but it's usually a short queue and a fast clear).
Finally, general guideline for what to queue for...
1-49 Leveling Dungeon Roulette
50+ Highest level dungeon (not trial or raid) available to you. Yes, the queues are a little longer like this, but there's two reasons for doing this. One, you will get upgrades for your jobs. Two, the XP/time invested is slightly higher than just using Leveling Roulette, even for DPS.

Make sure you ALWAYS have food/drink on you for the 3% XP Boost. Doesn't even need to be stats for the job you're playing. As long as you have the buff you'll get 3% more XP per kill. Doesn't sound like a lot, but it quickly adds up.
If you have any XP Boost items (Aehteryte Earring, for example), make sure to keep that equipped.
If you're not already in a Free Company (FFXIV's name for guilds), try finding one. They can provide a buff called Heat of Battle which provides 10% Battle Exp (exp from kills). This stacks with the food buff and most other XP buffs.

Lastly, always always ALWAYS log out in a town or near an Aetheryte to get rested XP. While you have rested XP, you're earning 100% bonus XP, or, simply put, double XP. You can check if you'll get rested XP by looking at your EXP bar. If there's a moon on the right end of it, you'll get rested XP there.

Before you know it, you'll have all jobs to 80. And you can get your very own derpbird!

What's MSQ? Haven't heard of it.
Thanks for explaining and helping me.

[Blade12775]

Originally posted by Smug Kot:

Healers and tanks can lvl spamming roulettes, DPS life its hard life, go around doing levemeter and fates.

Thanks
All of you guys are great help. Thank you.

[Mhblis]

actually the best way to level a dps from 20 onwards is to use your grand company squardon to run dungeons with.

They are op and smash theough those places.

So basically run the dialy roulette ones doing leve quests and such while waiting in the que.

Then spam Palace of the dead level 51-60 or squadron dungeons.

But yeah queing with a dos is rough.

[Caz]

Originally posted by Blade12775:

Originally posted by Caz:

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What's MSQ? Haven't heard of it.
Thanks for explaining and helping me.

MSQ stands for Main Story Quest. Those are the quests with the flaming/comet-looking icon above the quest giver. The longer you play, the more often you'll hear/see shorthand "MSQ".

The MSQ roulette, however, is only two dungeons: Praetorium (often shortened to "Prae") and Castrum Meridianum (often shortened to "Castrum"). They're the only two MSQ dungeons that require eight people, so I assume that's why they got their own separate roulette (might be more to that, but i never looked it up to see why).

As of January 2018, you can no longer skip the cutscenes in Prae or Castrum. The reason given was so that new players can see the cutscenes. There is still disagreement and contention over this choice even now, but that's a whole different warehouse of worms.

[Gearhart]

The best way to lvl jobs outside of the msq is as follows so listen up children. On even levels you do your roulettes on odd levels you que for the dungeon of the matching level. Once you get into ShB and you unlock one of the beast tribes do their dailies as they give really good xp as well.

Also in ShB it is worthwhile to do fates/side quests as they are leveled to you and will give at least 250k xp so its someting to do if your a dps sitting in the que for a dungeon.

Also don't skip the pvp roulette as it gives a ton of xp as a reward for the first completion for the day.

[Nico Yazawa]

Originally posted by Gearhart:

The best way to lvl jobs outside of the msq is as follows so listen up children. On even levels you do your roulettes on odd levels you que for the dungeon of the matching level. Once you get into ShB and you unlock one of the beast tribes do their dailies as they give really good xp as well.

Also in ShB it is worthwhile to do fates/side quests as they are leveled to you and will give at least 250k xp so its someting to do if your a dps sitting in the que for a dungeon.

Also don't skip the pvp roulette as it gives a ton of xp as a reward for the first completion for the day.

I am glad you mentioned the fates/side quests as "something" to do in a DPS queue, because one should never actively do this, nobody really does FATEs anymore leading to them being ineffecient exp (They were fairly good when a train happened) but the side quests are still pretty beans for exp.

But yeah, if you're sitting in a DPS queue it is "something to do"

Although, once you hit ShB there's an argument to be made that Trusts are better since yeah, sure, they are slow and it's a more or less guarenteed 26-30 minute dungeon but the queue is instant.