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Yea I get it there's tons of "returning" threads on here but I have 1 question. Is leveling the same as it used to be 1-30? The returning players guide says you cannot go to Abyssea until level 30 so is it still. Kill in your starting zone till level 8-10. Then solo in the next zone until you can get a party for Valkurm Dunes? Then Qufim at level 19-21 or so then over to the jungles till 30?

After 30 is pretty much all leveling done in the Abyssea areas?

I plan on playing a warrior to start so I'm starting with monk and taking that till 18 then warrior to 30 then monk, ninja, and samurai as needed to level my warrior to max level. This a decent plan?

What is a book burn? I'm sorry I quit about '06? I think and I don't remember those.

Edited, Mar 21st 2012 1:34pm by Zokudu

So in these book burns you enter an area start a "page" and as you said kill 6 skeletons and then get bonus experience? Then if you keep doing these pages the bonus experience increases?

So when you go to do one of these do you go with a preformed party or do you go in and do it solo and hope other people are there? A little confused on that.

Go to the zone and hope other people have the same goal in mind. You can form an alliance of up to 18 players for a book burn. Preformed parties for exp are a relic of the past, unless you have a group of friends that want to do the same.

Yes. There is a cap to the experience but at those levels basically 4-5 pages burned is a level. You can level very quickly. Once you reach the low to mid 30's you can move on to Crawler's Nest. You could go at any point as you only have to be in EXP range to get credit for the kill, you don't have to generate any hate. This leads to leaching at times.

If you have a group, great, otherwise I typically search the area to see if there are any people there in the correct level range before I head out there. Once you are in the party, you can sync your levels to a party member which basically restricts everyone to a certain party member. For instance, your party looks like this:

You SAM/WAR level 19
Player2 WHM/BLM level 25
Player3 NIN/WAR level 18
Player4 COR/RNG level 22
Player5 BRD/WHM level 21
Player6 DNC/THF level 27

If the party were to sync to you, it would look like this:


You SAM/WAR level 19
Player2 WHM/BLM level 19
Player3 NIN/WAR level 18
Player4 COR/RNG level 19
Player5 BRD/WHM level 19
Player6 DNC/THF level 19

Note Player3's level isn't raised, but everyone is lowered to your level. As you level, it will move their level up as well. If you are in an alliance, then each party will have to sync to a party member as level sync doesn't carry over to the whole alliance. And again, don't worry that you aren't getting good exp if there are 18 people killing skeletons in Gusgen in an alliance and you are only getting 10-20 exp per kill, the quick leveling comes from the book experience. If you get to level 21-22 (I think) you can do the page by yourself because you will be able to kill the Skeleton Warriors near the zone entrance pretty quickly, but early on (15 or so when you first arrive) you won't be able to hit them.

Also, be sure you get reraise from the book if you don't have any other type of reraise, the WHM (if you even have one) can't raise yet so you'll have to HP if you die.

And honestly, it has taken me longer to explain all this that it will be for you to fully understand it once you show up to Gusgen, put up your party flag and /sh GoV {Party} {Can I have it?}.

Happy hunting!

I have to say that I wish the Level Sync system had been implemented a about two years earlier. I'm sure that the game would have had much higher staisfaction and retention levels if you could team up with five random LS mates at any given time.

Back up for a minute. They auto-repeat? Is this both fields and grounds? I would complete a field page, truck back to the book, repeat, too as long to go back and forth than to kill the mobs typically.

Keep in mind not to run in and talk about how bad experiance points are when in an alliance. You are not killing for MOB exp but for book exp. The faster you turn books the more exp you get. So you will yield less exp trying to get 150exp a kill than getting 5 exp a kill with a 1300 bonus every 6th kill.


Also I dont think anyone mentioned it, but once you get some tab (points you can turn in for buffs or services) be sure to get regen, refresh or both, and get reraise. They come in really handy at low levels.

Don't leave the zone when doing GOV. You will loose the Prowess bonus' you get. You can log out, Just dont leave. until you get the level you want (30 for gusgan) or there is another zone you want to go to.

I leveled my BLU recently and in an hour I went from 1-10 with a friend. Then I ran to Gusgan, (had a whm pl at gusgan and I wasnt much help other than curing) and joined an alliance there in 3 hours I got to 30. Then I paid for a leech party and went from 30-80 in 10.5 hours in abyssea. I have some skilling up to do now though and still have to top off my lvls, but that kind of shows you how fast things go now a days.

Keep in mind certain jobs are greatly hindered by this process like PLD, but there are ways to get around that.

Also genkais really hinder your advancment.




Edited, Mar 21st 2012 5:14pm by Fumikuu

Sorry just reading while this is still updating. Where do you go after crawlers nest at 50? I would have to stop and do my Limit Breaks but is it all still GoV?

Sweet just finished installing. Thanks again for the info guys.

Sweet. So I'm in I'm a level 9 monk and I'm enjoying it. I setup my ps3 controller with it but I can't find a way to bind R2 and L2 to open my macro palettes so I set them to R1 and L1 but I keep hitting L1 to autorun. Doh. Any idea if R2 and L2 can be bound on a ps3 controller using MotionJoy?

Edited, Mar 21st 2012 7:53pm by Zokudu

Yeah the norm for 90 to 99 is still abyssea. Dolls and buffalo get used with burgards in the coast being a fine camp and worm and frog parties are common to in la thaine..