Took a break, whats changed? (in a nutshell)Follow

With the addition of Duty Roulette, it's faster to level up by running dungeons. For example, you get a 100K+ bonus for helping lowbie dungeons - and if your job is at 50, you get other bonuses as well (tomes and such.)

Since I'm a newly minted 50 I'll let someone else talk about endgame.

Players are always level-synched when entering dungeons that are below their levels.

If you enter a lowbie dungeon through the duty roulette, and you're already level 50, then you get philosophy stones (tokens for endgame gear) instead of exp.

I like this change. Puts low players in with higher players they can network with and probably cuts down the DF queue time in the process. Win/Win

The lowbie dungeon option does. As long as you're at least level 16, it'll put you in any dungeon you're at the storyline for. So yep. As a level 40-50 WHM I ran Tamtara at least three times this week.

"Storyline Dungeons" puts you in the two level 50 8-man dungeons.

Edited, Jan 13th 2014 8:10am by Catwho

FYI Guildhests are required for later on in the 2.1 story or so I have heard. They go really fast and they're great for farming for recommendations if you're an experienced player *cough*

I think the very best thing about the system is that it puts you in any dungeon you're eligible for, even ones you haven't yet cleared. I was in a guildhest and I went "Uhhh this is new" and it turned out to be one of the level 25 ones I'd unlocked without even realizing it.



Edited, Jan 13th 2014 9:17am by Catwho

It is most profitable to do one duty roulette low level and one duty roulette guildhest per day (when leveling). The bonus exp is excellent, but only comes around on the first go each day.

Now, one battle leve gives nearly as much experience as a similarly leveled FATE. And completing the hunting log is always a good idea.

And now, if you are level 42 you can do sylph beat quests (3 per day) for ~8.5k a piece, and the lizard guys in thanaland give similar quests (3 per day) to level 43 and higher.

So at level 44, I can enter a low level duty roulette, pray I get Ifrit normal, if not then I roll with the punches, get about 25-30k in the dungeon, then get a whopping 150k bonus exp on completion. I do the guildhest roulette and get 9 times out of 10 the Gil turtle one that takes 3 minutes and gives 2-5k plus 30k bonus exp. Then I do a hunt log or two for 20-40k, so 6 beastman quests for 50k approximately, and round out the experience with a series of 3-9 battle leves and FATES for 12-15k each.

So in a day, two to three hours nets me nearly 400k exp. That would be the equivalent of 35-40 FATEs prior to this, and popping one every 10 minutes would have taken me at least 4 hours to gain the same xp.

Granted, the duty roulette bonuses are one per day so my method is not sustainable throughout a single day. You will eventually have to do FATES if you are marathon leveling.

Edited, Jan 13th 2014 11:59am by Valkayree

They're quick, though. I like to do the guildhest as a warm up - test my personal lag levels, reaquaint myself with controls, etc. Then I fire up the real dungeon.

Fortunately the devs are adjusting the parameters so that this doesn't happen as often anymore post-2.15.