

I greatly prefer Praetorium even though it is significantly longer because you can semi-AFK during the cutscenes and be doing something else on the other monitor. If you are on an alt, you are going to get roughly 75% of a level for a Praetorium run and 50% of a level for a Castrum run. I’ve said before that Square is extremely adept at bribing players to do the right thing, and it starts right here. Main Story Roulette is a way of Square guaranteeing that every player can always get a group for Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium. This friends is the single largest chunk of experience you are going to get from any activity. You get a bonus to experience for the alternate jobs if you have a single job to whatever the current level cap is. If you don’t have a character to the level cap, you really should be focusing on that first. On another note, this is largely targetting folks who have leveled a single job all of the ways through the main story quest. Generally speaking, I will hop in a queue for activity, and while in that queue I will be working on either Beast Tribe quests or Clan Hunt logs specifically, allowing that time spent in the queue, especially as a DPS to be productive. Alliance Raid Roulette (once it opens up).Here is a quick bullet point list, and I will explain each of these further down in the post. There are a number of activities that are rather rewarding, and I thought I would start by prefacing what I do on an alt that I am trying to level every day.

Once I have adopted this methodology, I have found that leveling becomes pretty straightforward and just an application of days of repeated effort rather than a focused grinding session.

However, over the years I have realized that the game prefers a “variety is the spice of life” approach and rewards you for doing a little bit of a lot of different activities. There are of course a number of ways to grind up new jobs if you really want to “no-life” your way to the level cap. Unfortunately, you won’t have access to the MSQ on your alternate jobs and will quickly find that the ocean of side quests available in the game, just is not a great way to level because they reward a pittance of progression. This however is a bit of a double-edged sword, because the Main Story Quest of Final Fantasy XIV is designed to rapidly progress a single job in level ensuring that you are always caught up to be able to do the next quest in sequence.
