Bard level 1-75 in a week?Follow

I have some vacation time coming up and was thinking of using some of it to level bard to 75. I mostly want to have BRD at 75 for merits and endgame (note, I am going to take the job seriously!) I already have WHM and NIN at 37 so I won't need to level any subs. I also have DRK and PUP at 75 so I won't need to do any limit break quests and could solo some of my AF quests. I also could gather around a 800k (or more) gil for gear if I sold a couple things from my DRK so I wouldn't have to farm.

Anyhoo, I thought it might be a fun challenge to try and level Bard from 1-75 in a week. Do you think it could be done? Thanks!

This was before level-sync but I once looked for party on bard for 7 days straight around level 43.

You would need to average 121k xp a day. Thats an average ~5k/hr per 24.
As it's impossible to party for 24 hours straight you could realistically break that down to say ~14 hours a day at an average of ~@8.6k/hr.

At lower levels this is probably going to be quite difficult without outside support but TBH, post 45 any less than this is pretty much sub-par for a Bard party. 55+ You should easily be topping 12~15k/hr and moving to imps should provide closer to 18k/hr if your lucky.

By the early 70s you should prolly be looking at meripos at which point 20k/hr+ is pretty much standard. (or should be)

The problem now is that no party will last 14 hours. There will be downtime between parties and you would have to skip your AF, of which legs and hands are really pretty sweet. Also your skills will likely not be capped.

A day by day break down based on the 121k a day average would be as follows:
Day 1: ~1-34
Day 2: ~34-50
Day 3: ~50-59
Day 4: ~59-65
Day 5: ~65-69
Day 6: ~69-72
Day 7: ~72-75

Realistically you could spread 1-50 over 3 days and 50-75 in 4 due to the increased xp rate at those lvls.


Of all the jobs to do 1~75 in a week Bard is without doubt the most likely capable of pulling it off, but would you really want to? You would prolly despise the job by the time you'd finished it.

Thanks for all of the feedback everyone! I knew that it wouldn't be easy but after bimrog broke it all down for me and Asmoranomar's xp binge story, I'm starting to have some second thoughts lol :S Anyhoo, I think I'm going to at least see how far I can get in a week. When it is all over I will write another reply and post my progress for each day (just for fun :P)

I once partied for 16 hours straight.... I was at the party at the start. Someone left. We got a replace. Someone else left. Got a replace. Continued on for hours and hours. At the end of the party for me when I personally left I was actually being replaced myself. I was the last remiaining original member of the party after 16 hours and then the party still continued.

I uno how much longer the PT went on for.. but may have gone to the 24 hour mark :P

Made a lot of exp that day in bibiki :o

I once replaced the replacement for my replacement... The leader was the same person, and he said they'd been going the same time... Since it was a sync party and I was well above the level, it worked out for me. Was weird, though.

don't forget to add the empress band, you could realistically use that at least 10x so that's a free 10k exp to knock off the average. not much, but it all helps.

Its very possible with level sync + PL.

And actually, its very easy with the new SMN PTs (you can average 30k/h or more from level 20 and up).

If you use expwatch it will burst to 30k/hr because you just killed a crapton of mobs with about half a sec between them. So if you can continue killing mobs every .5 sec you will keep the exp it reads/Attain higher exp. But... good luck doing that.

It is very possible. Level sync to level 20, for example, with 3 SMN, a COR, and 2 of whatever else you want.

Corsair's Roll.

Have a high level person gather up a horde of mobs from the zone and bring them to the party.

The Summoners all Astral Flow -> Instant win.

A friend of mine does this quite often and I believe the most he got at once was 35k. It's a ridiculously long instant chain.

Also, on Bismarck, Minidragon (who has like... six relics now...?) is notorious for doing this for his linkshell. They're always shouting for a wild card 2 hour reset in white gate with a 30k gil reward if you reset the abilities.

Implies what 100+ mobs at once? surely thats a rule breach. Somebody must have a screenshot of such an epic murder fest ^^


Logic behind this is sound no doubt. Isn't far from Thundaga fests on roaches BLM perform at 75.
However, it would be expensive and need outside support/planning. The pulling of all the mobs would prolly take 20mins on its own, then theres the 2-hour wait. (or indefinite wait from a reset shout/travel time) Basically even if you did hit 35k in one hit, realistically it wouldn't average this high per hour, nor is it "very easy".

If it was "very easy" and not a rule breach, every gilseller would do 1-75 in under 24 hours.

So... I just took bard from 1 to 23 in about a week (just hit 23 this morning). IMO, to really do the job right and enjoy what you do, you can NOT go to 75 in a week. I mean, you'll have to buy lots of expensive things from AH which could be quested, like ballad scrolls, etc. And what if they weren't available on AH when you need it? Keep PTing while not having all your important songs?

I would say being 25+ and not having mage's ballad 1 is a very bad bard and not doing justice to the job. Take your time and enjoy the job. As other have mentioned, it can burn you out. Plus, do the research and learn how to do the job well. Brd is not just about running between DDs and the mages and singing their songs.

Honestly, I've played a BUNCH of other jobs and nothing is quite like Brd. I'm still trying to figure out what good my monster signa is, lol.

Edited, Jan 16th 2009 12:06pm by PoopDeckPappy

i tried this, started jan 19 @ lvl 1 .. jan 26 i am 66.. biggest hurdle.. crappy pts... that was the only real problem.

when you try it you should keep a journal of it on here to let us know your progress each day... Would be an interesting read.


Edit: "Title: Life and Times of the Traveling Bard"

Edited, Jan 26th 2009 11:03pm by DjinnRB