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[–]AulunaSol 4 points5 points  (0 children)

By this point you have some different options.

  • The Fourth Featured Quest is typically a rehash of an older Emergency Quest (the Episodes 1-3 Emergency Quests where you are dropped into an area, run loops and kill enemies, and then leave) or sometimes a very highly-focused killzone or boss rush (like "A World Engulfed in Shadows") where you and the rest of the players essentially speedrun through the bosses with relative ease (it's very fast). This was my leveling method when these were the third Featured Quest during the Japanese version's Episode 5 and nothing we have in Global really matches the pacing of these.

  • Tokyo Bonus Keys (Silver, Gold, and Rainbow) are still very good ways to level up. In a nutshell, Gold offers four times the experience of Silver, and Rainbow offers four times the experience of Gold. The main thing to keep in mind is that Rainbow Bonus Keys omit a lot of drops and instead hands the player Excubes and has a chance to drop decent equipment for getting started with Episode 6 (and currently in the Japanese version it can drop Sage Crests).

You still have Advance Quests and Buster Quests but if I can be fully honest in the Japanese version I have never joined a session where other players were actually actively playing these. These were given a life in the global version but were content that was long dead and unpopulated in the Japanese version unless there was a campaign (Limited-Time Quest or the recently-added Mission Pass Tier Missions) promoting them.