Transmigration wrote:
I'm 52 Machinist at the moment. Been playing pretty consistently, but maybe not as efficiently as others. I dunno, expansion is pretty fun so far. Machinist gets a lot of procs/cds so it's a busy dps job. Good stuff.
I'm only level 35 MCH and I find it's already over the top it terms of abilities and what not. You're CONSTANTLY doing something, I don't even want to see what happens as I progress to 60. I imagine most of them will become useless as things go, but it's still pretty crazy in terms of things you proc and buff/debuff. MNK has a few off GCD abilities you can spam here and there, but MCH seems to always have something ready to go.
As for leveling, I think dungeon spamming seems to be the best way to level. I did Sohm Al twice yesterday back to back (good old 9002 at the last boss the first time through) and it got me from half way 53 into 54. I can imagine later dungeons give just as much if not more EXP.
SInce last Friday (I had to work all weekend), so really only managed to play about 1-2 hours a day from Fri-Tuesday, couldn't even log in Sunday night. Then last night I put in a solid 4 hours. From that I'm 54 MNK and 35 MCH, I don't feel it's moved along slowly at all. So realistically, if someone had a full weekend off and dedicated 3 days to it, ya I could easily see 60 and far into the story with a ton of side quests done.