Looking for ideas for leveling a long forgotten SMN

[voodood]

It's been quite a while since I've played FFXIV, and with the new expansion coming up I decided to get back into it. Being a long-time BuddyBot user for World of Warcraft I wanted to give RebornBuddy a try.

So I bought a key, downloaded some plugins, the bot, got everything up and working, but honestly leveling is really slow. Am I doing it wrong? Currently I'm running FateBot with the Auto-teleport plugin for some full automation. I'm sitting at level 34 and leveling is going just...so...slow...

Any thoughts? Is this what to expect? I kind of wanted to get to 50 on SMN ASAP and get into doing some higher-leveled stuff. I currently have a Thaumaturge/Black Mage at level 50 and kind of miss the big group events.

Thanks in advance!

 

[ZeeZee]

How do you have the plug-in configured?
There's an option to set a level limit. I usually set that at +3 to allow some higher FATEs to be done, without me dying.

For me I found that Coerthas usually has more people (so FATE's are completed quicker), hence around level 32/33 I move to there and let the bot grind.

 

[voodood]

I'm sitting at level 34.75 right now. I didn't have a level limit set, but I do now based on what you said, so thank you very much for that!

While sitting here watching the bot for the last half-hour or so it is heading off to FATEs and it is doing what it's supposed to. Nothing wrong with the bot, I guess I just expected leveling to go quicker. It's been a while since I played FFXIV so this might be the speed it's supposed to level at. I'm coming from Warlords of Draenor WoW, where leveling is really fast...

 

[ZeeZee]

Sometimes it just depends on the server / times. If there's a lot of people then FATES are completed quicker, especially the Svara string of FATES in Coerthas. Lvl 30-40 is usually the slowest, but the rest is fine.