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Hello! If you’re reading this, you’re probably leveling up a Conjurer. While not the easiest class to solo with, hopefully this CNJ leveling guide can help you level up faster!
First of all, this Conjurer Leveling Guide is meant to be used in conjunction with FFXIV General Leveling Guide. Just a reminder, if this is your first character – follow your story quest! If you need to know more about the: basics of a conjurer, you can check that out. If you don’t know where the CNJ guild is – it’s in Gridania. If you have any Accuracy Food, good. Is your battle chocobo ready? Good.
Conjurer: the early levels
If you’re fresh Conjurer – go start up with your hunting log. A level one character doing hunting logs + participating in level appropriate FATES is the absolute best way to level up during these starting levels. In the case of Conjurers, you’re gonna be walking around Central and North Shroud a lot. The early levels suck, if you really wanted to, you can get more EXP here by doing levequests in The Bannock (Level 1 & Level 5), which is a bit north of the Bentbranch Meadows Aetheryte (Central Shroud).
protip: If you have them, you can get Invigorate as a cross-class (better sprints), or Raging Strikes to help you out on tougher enemies. It’s not really a big deal though.
Level 6 skill reminder – Cleric Stance: Conjurers gain the skill “Cleric Stance” upon hitting level 6. This skill is arguably the most important tool for CNJ’s leveling up – and beyond. What does it do? Cleric Stance makes your DAMAGE SPELLS higher, and HEALING SPELLS lower. As long as you’re doing offensive spells, have it on. Toggling this skill is integral to your speed in leveling up, all the way up to end-game raids. Be comfy with it as early as now!
DPSing as Conjurer: It’s a good practice to start every fight with Aero. Only spam Stone if the enemies are really weak.
Level 8 Skill reminder – Protect: Always have protect on! It’s a good habit you’ll want to foster as early as now. And it makes leveling easier! Protect makes you take less damage from all sources!
You can attain level 10 Conjurer doing the above. Once you hit level 10 – make sure to finish off any unfinished hunting logs before proceeding! Also, check your unspent attribute points – allocate them all in MIND. Also, please Go back to the Conjurer guildmaster every 5 levels – in your case, level 1 5 and 10 – make sure these class quests are done before proceeding. Do this as soon as possible for each 5 level interval in the future!
Conjurer Level 10 to 16
Once you hit level 10, you can now do Guildhests. If you haven’t unlocked them already, go to the nearest town (likely Bentbranch Meadows) and unlock it. Guildhests give a chunky EXP boost the first time you finish it with any class. ASIDE from this, you can queue up for Daily Roulette: Guildhests, to get bonus exp once a day! For now, queue up the guildhests Under the Armor and Basic Training: Enemy Parties. as reminder: you get the bonus for EACH CLASS on your first completion!
Feel free to head on over to Aleport in Western La Noscea. Aleport is the best way to grind FATEs – it’s highly populated and the FATEs spawn quickly, and in close proximity. Again, if FATEs aren’t popping – take the levequests in Aleport. Too hard? Take levequests in Swiftperch! Go on and grind until you reach level 16.
Reminder Level 15: Queue up for the two new Guildhests – Basic Training: Enemy Strongholds, and Hero on the Halfshell.
Reminder Level 15: Fluid Aura, a skill obtained by completing the L15 CNJ class quest, is super useful. Make sure to get this ASAP. It’s an off GCD DPS ability, and pushes most enemies away. Combined with cures, you can solo most enemies in a realistic level gap.
Level 16 – the turning point: Once your Conjurer hits 16, you can unlock Duty Roulette: Low level dungeon. This gives a MASSIVE EXP BONUS ONCE A DAY. And If you haven’t unlocked Challenge Log, do so. (It initially unlocks at level 16) You can check out how to unlock Challenge Log in the General Leveling Guide. Once you reach Level 16, the rest of the way is much easier. Queue up for it ASAP!
Cross-class skills: At this point, if you have them, you might as well take Swiftcast (THM 26) and Virus (ACN 12) as cross-class skills. They’re arguably the most useful cross-class skills you can get, and they’re very useful in dungeons.
Conjurer: finishing up to level 20: From here, wrap up your tier 2 hunting log. You can also do the higher level fates on the left side of Aleport. Before you proceed, I will remind you again to allocate all stat points to mind, and complete all CNJ class quests.
Conjurer Level 20 – 30
Keep doing what you’ve been doing to get up to this point: Daily Guildhest, Daily Low Level Roulette. Head over to Quarrymill (South Shroud) and do Fates/Leves/Hunting logs in this area. Around this point the lack of gear might be hurting you – thankfully you’ve been doing the Dungeon Roulette – right? Again, Accuracy Food is a larger help than you might imagine.
Reminder Level 20: Queue up for the two new Guildhests – Pulling Poison Posies & Stinging Back.
Reminder Level 22 Stone II: Conjurers learn Stone II at this level. It is strictly stronger than Stone I and should be replaced in the hotbar ASAP. What purpose does Stone I have, then? It’s still used in very corner case raiding as it provides a 20% Heavy (Movement speed debuff)
Alternate FATE spot mid 20’s: If you’re semi-AFK camping the fates around the Highbridge area (Like this), there’s an ultra high density of FATE’s here, but they’re chained up. This is great when waiting for your queue to pop (Not likely a problem for conjurers).
Reminder Level 25: Queue up for the two new Guildhests – All’s Well that Ends in the Well & Flicking Sticks and Taking Names.
At Level 28: You can head on over to Costa Del Sol, Eastern La Noscea. FATEgrind here, Levequest grind here until you reach 30. Hit 30? Again, before proceeding, allocate all unused stat points to mind, complete all hunting log entries, and CNJ class quests.
Conjurer 30 onwards: What to do?
After completing your L30 CNJ class quest, that’s the last one. From here you have two main choices:
- White Mage (requires Arcanist 15 and CNJ 30)
- Alternate job path not yet released
If you’re planning to level a WHM – you can go right ahead to our White Mage Leveling Guide. You might also need the Arcanist Leveling Guide, too.
Sadly, there is no second job path for Conjurers yet – but i’m looking forward to updating this filler sentence in the near future :)
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Good guide, after two days I’m Lvl 23 and defeated Ifrit :)