I'm a little confusedFollow

Levequest.

You get an 'allowance' every few hours that allows you to participate in a levequest. You accept them from an NPC. Once accepted you need to head to a specific area and initiate it. You'll get a choice on how difficult you want it to be when you start it. Once you complete it, you return to the NPC and collect your reward.

It's not much different from a regular quest.

So when I turn it in, does that re-open the allowance? Or is the only way to get more allowances to just wait for time to pass?

I highly recommend Using these for crafting instead of leveling your battle classes.
You are better off doing FATEs or dungeons for your battle classes to level them up...

Right, but this whole thing about allowances makes it seem like there's some limit to how many of this type of quest I can do. Does turning one of them in open up another slot, or do I just have to wait for more time to pass to be able to do more?

I'll probably be averaging about 2 hours a day. Some days it will be more (a lot more) and some days it will be none.

I plan to level everything. I'm an ADD MMOer, which is why this game appeals to me so much. I don't have to have 15 different characters to level 15 different classes.

I think it's every 3 real hours. You'll get an allowance and you can hold up to 99 of them so if you aren't using them, they'll start to stack up. You do not have to be logged in for the allowances to accrue.

What I like to do is build them up over a week and then binge on them getting something up to 50.

In addition to crafting, they're fabulous for fishing. They're kind of "meh" for the other two gathering jobs, however.

Levequests are one of the few things that came directly from the 1.0 version of the game. They even had a classic one from 1.0 out by Little Ala Mihgo, which made me ridiculously nostalgic for the old game (for a few seconds, anyway.)

There are also Grand Company levequests you can do later on, as well as mini training parties called guildhests that pair you up in the Duty Finder and give you tutorials on how to play in a group in preparation for the dungeons later on.

That all said,

You can also naturally (and you probably should) use them on Crafting jobs for Tradeskill Leves, which means you need to make item X or Y for a client, who will reward you with gil, an item which usually are free crystals and lets not forget, a BOATLOAD chunk of EXP. More than you'd make crafting for a while. Definitely more than the measly amount you'd get from a combat-leve, you have FATES for your Deciples of War and Magic Classes, dont waste your points on it.

Same goes for the Field Leves, which are used by Gathering classes. Yield more EXP than you'd get just gathering normally. Big chunks at a time, which will make leveling trivial.

You should look at what best suits you for time versus reward. Asuming a relatively low (up to level 30 level)

Combat classes: 2000 to 7000 EXP per leve, but they can also do FATES which give the same or more EXP for trivial work and time invested. Please dont spend your Leve allowances on something that has alternatives that are easier, quicker, give more EXP and can be found all over the world in a matter of seconds. The one exception to this rule is ofcourse if your Leve quest reward is an item you could really need for your job.

Crafting classes: 4000 to 16000 EXP per leve, when you turn in HQ items instead, the reward gets an extra 200% on top of that.
Meaning 12.000 to 48.000 EXP per leve turn in. Not counting the leves which let you turn in items 3 times for 3 times the reward.
Which, depending on your level, is about 2-3 Leves needed per level.

Gathering classes: 4000 to 10000 EXP per leve, you do get higher rewards if you are quick and do them at a higher level, but rarely anything over a 25% increase.

Yep class quest every 5 levels. The story line will take you to 50 for the most part on your first character. I would wait until 30 personally before doing cnj.

On a side note, for the Gathering leves like stated above you collect Y and turn into NPC for experience. You also get a ton more experience from gathering Y then just going out and grinding it out. Sucked when I had grinded out Botany to 50 then a patch came along boosting the exp from leve grinding and everyone just used leve's to get to 50 and killed the market.

Yes, and you should also unlock crafting through the main storyline at level 10. Levequests are best used there from craft level 15 on. You should obviously use some levequests for anything you can once they hit the cap of 99 so you dont waste any allowances, but generally stick your leves to crafts. Your first job. if you follow the storyline, will sail you through levels (tons of exp and gil and items)

Once you hit 30 you will want that paladin. In fact, level conjurer to the point where you get protect and cure and equip them as cross class skills to your gladiator. Helps immensely. You dont really get extra stats from your subclass like you did in FF11, so you will be leveling subclass simply for the cross class skills.

Your class quests will end at 25 and become job quests at level 30. Those will be offered from a different location.

Thats all the advice I think I can give

Edited, Dec 6th 2013 9:08am by Valkayree

I need to spend some of the leve allowances on GC quests to get my first mount right? And that happens at level 20? Man, there is so much information to learn for this game.

Do you need to advance the story past the Chocobo section before you can get to the GC levequests? I can't remember, but they're really close to each other progress-wise.