1. Unlock all the aetheryte crystals around the city, makes traveling faster.
2. Quests may be mundane at the start but they give good chunk of XP.
3. Items and gears have their own separate inventory spaces, the latter is called armoury chest.
4. Make sure you do your class quests every 5 levels, at 5 it unlocks hunting log (more easy XP), at 10 allows you to change to other classes after you speak to their respective receptionists.
5. Do Hunting Log! Mobs that are in your log have a symbol above their names, look like an ear or 3 parenthesis.
6. Experience chain (for those not familiar with FF MMO): Kill mobs that are at same level or higher within certain time, you can get bonus XP. After killing the 2nd one within a couple of minutes of the first, a counter will show up next to the XP bar, that indicates your window for the next kill, it becomes less and less as you go up in chain.
7. Do story quests, at close to 10 you should unlock inn housing and leves.
8. If you're going to idle for a while, do it in your inn housing or at a sanctuary outpost for rested XP!
Feel free to add more.
Unfortunately, that's how MMO has evolved and how players have come to expect it since WoW. Questing and accessible combat. The antiquated model of EQ and FFXI can no longer sustained. If you want a challenge, play a caster class, they are still very much underpowered when soloing compared to Disciples of War.
