EXP farming in Final Fantasy 15

Although there are variations depending on how far along in the game you are, these methods are simple.
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All you need is:

A bunch of debased / rare coins to craft Expericast spells
A moogle charm
A meal that boosts EXP gain
A hotel or resting place with an EXP multiplier

You should use as many coins as you can (up to 25 debased, or up to 9 rare). This way you’ll get the highest number of casts as well as the strongest effect. Each cast will give you a fixed amount of EXP, so you don’t have to worry about finding a worthy opponent to cast it on. There are a lot of items that can be used as catalysts for Expericast spells, but these coins are the best. Debased coins are the most common Expericast catalys, while rare coins give the most EXP.

Low level XP farming in FFXV

If you still in the early game and want to level up fast, here’s what you should do:

Use debased coins to craft Expericast. Mix it with 1 fire energy, so it does as little damage as possible.
Get the Moogle Charm from Daurel Caverns dungeon. Equip it for +20% EXP gain (for the character wearing it only).
Eat the Stacked Ham Sandwich for +50% EXP gain. You’ll get the recipe after finishing 3 quests at the Wiz Chocobo post and buying the Fat Chocobo Triple-Decker from Wiz (1100 gil)
Go fight the Bandersnatch near Hammerhead. He’s resistant to fire, so you should be able to cast all your spells and not kill him.
Go to the Quayside Cradle rest spot at Galdin Quay, and pay 10,000 gil for double X

High level EXP farming in FF 15

If you’ve already been to Altissia, here are the steps you need to take:

Use all your rare coins and other expericast catalysts to craft the spells. Use fire energy.
Equip the Moogle Charm.
Eat the Maagho Lasagna at the Maagho restauran in Altissia for double XP gain.
Start the King of the Great Escape hunt (at the same spot where you ate).
Go and fight the monster. Fire heals it, so you’ll definitely be able to use every spell you’ve got.
Go to the hotel in Altissia and pay 30,000 gil for triple experience.

Accumulating EXP in Final Fantasy 15

Accumulating EXP in Final Fantasy 15 is one of the most important things to help you in battle. Though AP is significant in giving you vital new abilities and boosts, it's through EXP (or experience points) and levelling up where your party will increase their better stats, allowing them to take on more powerful enemies, deal out more damage and survive longer.

While the game is reasonably good at dishing EXP in line with the difficulty of the situations you're facing in the story, there's many ways to increase your EXP gains easily, making the roadtrip a little smoother and late game dungeons and tombs easier to tackle.

Once you're done reading, you might also be interesting ways to get fast Gil and fast AP, too.

Final Fantasy 15 EXP - how to get fast EXP and level up easily

Rest in hotels for a hefty multiplier - Sleep can impact your experience point gains in two basic ways; sleeping in a campsite can allow Ignio to cook up a delicious meal that increases the rate at which you gain experience points - more on that shortly - and sleeping in a hotel increases their value when tallied and applied to your character.

Different locations provide more of a boost than others, but as with most things in life quality comes with a price; caravans give you a 1.2x boost for just 30 Gil, whereas luxury hotels will give you twice or three times the experience you've banked - though you need to caught up an eyewatering amount of Gil for the privilege.

Here is a quick breakdown of the types of areas you can sleep:

[[b]u]Caravan [/u][/b]

(most rest areas) - 30 Gil, 1.2x EXP increase
Motel

(Longwythe Rest Area, Taelpar Rest Area, Old Lestallum, Lestallum's hotel) - 300 Gil, 1.5x EXP increase
Luxury hotels;

Galdin Guay's The Quayside Cradle (10,000 Gil, 2.0x EXP increase) or Altissia's The Leville Royal Suite - (30,000 Gil, 3.0x EXP increase)

The best value for the first half of the story is a Motel for 300 Gil (and are easy to find throughout the adventure), and when you hit the late game, it's best to save up some cash (our fast Gil page provides the fastest sources of money), go on a spree of quests and missions for masses of EXP, then visit luxury hotel for the best returns. Since you can't visit Altissia until the second half of the game, it's perhaps worth waiting to play the most lucrative side-quests and dungeons until then.

Preparing EXP boosting foods

Though you can buy meals that boost EXP at a small handful of vendors, between their cost and having to go out of your way to purchase them, we'd recommend having Ignis prepare them at camps instead. By using the aforementioned Nixperience Band to stop you tallying EXP while camping and preparing these special meals, you can seriously boost the amount of EXP you receive.

Though the food you prepare boosts EXP for only a certain amount of time (though several Ascension nodes can lengthen their duration) these boosts increase both combat and mission complete EXP gains, and should be applied as much as possible.

The two recipes we'd recommend require a few steps to unlock and some small expense to prepare, but the payoff is worth it:

Cup Noodles

(20% experience increase): When you complete Chapter 8's Power Plant story mission, head to the Cup Noodles vendor on the main road and Gladio will flag up a new quest, 'The Perfect Cup'. The choice of food you respond with changes the next part of the quest, but the easiest by far is the egg, which has you go to the fairly straightforward Rock of Ravatogh dungeon and pick up an egg on the critical path that's on the way to the end Tomb (the other food choices involve more challenging enemy encounters). Once done, camp and you'll learn the Cup Noodle recipe after a cutscene, giving the party a 20% experience boost. If you want to cook more in future, the sole Cup Noodle ingredient can be purchased for a scant 220 Gil at the Cup Noodle vendor.

Fat Chocobo Triple-Decker

(50% experience increase): This is unlocked by completing the 'A Feathery Feast' quest as part of Wiz's quest line (started by the Friends of a Feather Chocobo quest). Completing it will add the Fat Chocobo Triple-Decker meal to his restaurant inventory (at 1,200 Gil a pop), but it also unlocks the Stacked Ham Sandwich recipe for Ignis to make on the road. To prepare it, purchase the Garula Sirlion and Fine Gighee Ham ingredients from the Wiz Chocobo Post vendor (at 120 Gil and 400 Gil respectively) and pick Aegir Roots that grow just north of Galdin Quay; see below for its exact location, or chat to the local Galdin Quay vendors for it to appear on the map..

Equip the Moogle Charm

Using this accessory gives you a 20% experience increase to a single character while they wear it, but can only be found in late game dungeons and tombs. The above methods are better in the long term, but look out of this when you can to give your desired party member a boost.

Play the story and complete side-quests: The game does a reasonably good job at scaling the story so you can go from one story beat to the next without having to worry too much about external grinding, but if you equip the Nixperience Band and stock up on EXP before cashing it at certain resting points, these rewards can go a little further.

Ultimately, however, you need to dig into side-quests and explore dungeons for the most gains, and while the general principle of 'the tougher they are to earn, the more you'll get' applies, there are some quests that give our easier EXP than others:

Dino's quests (you meet him during the story) are low in value but can give you an easy and valuable in the early game, starting at 500 EXP and end at 3,000 EXP
Vyv's photo quests (first started at Lestallum) offer EXP at around 1,000 EXP and increase to 4,000 EXP per mission
The Professor's Protege quests from Sania (first started when you enter Duscae at Coernix Station - Alstor) start at 3,000 EXP and go all the way to 15,000 EXP for some straightforward missions (mostly frog hunting and some monster slaying)
Photo Ops (all over the world) offer low EXP gains (between 200 and 350 EXP each) but are very easy to tick off when you stumble into them
Taking down Adamantoise nets you a cool 50,000 EXP and 50,000 Gil as a reward for the marathon battle.
Very late game, but the 'Legend' quests from Randolph offer 10,000 EXP or thereabouts for each tough monster defeated

Killing things

Combat is a reliable and repeatable way of earning experience points. Quests come and go, but no matter how many you kill there will always be monsters, especially in dungeons. The quicker, more aggressively, or more efficiently you kill a foe the more you'll earn at the end Battle Report, so make the most of teamwork, select weapons and spells appropriate to a monster's weaknesses, and dish out as much damage as you can. Seek out higher level foes for greater rewards, but also bear in mind that earning a few hundred EXP from a group of monsters you can kill in a few seconds may be more profitable than spending 20 minutes wearing down a huge beast for a few thousand, particularly if you're using EXP bonuses.

Ascension nodes that boost EXP

While these are few and far between compared to the AP bonuses, you can get a minor top up to EXP from using your Chocobo and the Regalia:

Choco-racer
(99 AP) - Gain 50 EXP every time you win a Chocobo race
Choco-bonus
(99 AP) - Gain 10 EXP regularly when riding a Chocobo
Roadlife
(99 AP) Gain 10 EXP regularly when riding in the Regalia

Catalyst in Magic

There are catalyst items that give an EXP boost when the created magic is used. While there are many in the game to offer bonuses, the 'Debased items' - Debased Banknote, Debased Coin and Debased Silverpiece - are common drops that you won't miss if you're using them regularly, while the 'Rare Coin' comes in handy too. As with anything else to do with catalysts, the stronger the effect / number of items used, the better the EXP pay off will be.

[CharlatanCad]

This was supper helpful. Thanks ❥

[Gublin]

imo killing lvl 45 geruda with the altissia lasagna food gives the most exp the fastest (for me i started killing her at lvl 39 and each run of her i get about 138k exp) and in about 2 hours of killing her im now lvl 102

[FLYING MAN PIG THING]

Another way I have been finding useful in post game is buying the 8,000 Gil dish in altissia which gives you an 100% exp bonus and then going into the secret door dungeons. I just did the level 72 dungeon and I gained 370k just by killing everything rop to bottom. Although the rare coin method may net you more exp getting the resources may take hours (unless you saved every single one during your main adventure) while this is killing two birds with one stone: Completeling these secret dungeons and gaining lots of exp while doing them.

[Gekke Willie]

I'll definitely do this once I finish the main story line. I read there being a lvl 99 monsterhunt! I'm going to enjoy grinding to the cap. Thanks for the guide!

[joxertm22]

@Reverse Seraph - What endgame sidequests man? Plently of us play the game by not proceeding the main story until we complete all sidequests.

Superb guide, you get thumb up from me.

[사이움]

I only reccomend this during the end game thou, kinda ruins the main game, but post game is just side quests so, feel free

[Huntr]

Thanks for the guide!

[牛肉先生-beeflot]

really useful , thanks