How do people level up so fast?

Because you decided to do quests till level 30, everyone who decided to kill at golems/zombies at NLC/whatever else outleveled you and thus they got scarecrows and jester maps earlier than you. Quests are slow compared to training, so you meet more ksers. Also, if there are ksers, I'd rather go somewhere else. There are tons of training maps that are not that bad.


2nd job, I 1hitkoed jesters when i was 20 levels lower than them. Only had a 10att wg, a pac, and my characters cards at the time, nothing cubed. I 2hitkoed them with the 2nd job skill...the hit + explosion damage because that skill is just bad...
Getting to lvl 100 in less than 10hours sounds pretty easy with 1.5x.

My mech got to over 116 or so in less than a day. There was no 2x or 1.5x (I think?) or aliens back then. I also didn't do jesters for many levels (I think only 4 levels or so) though I probably should have if I wanted to do it faster. I just trained on the not so popular places. I also had no equips other nub att wgs and pacs, those kind of things, but nothing cubed.
My mercedes got to 200 in 2 days 6-12hours I think without stronghold using 2x and 1.5x (half what kaiser and AB got), had empress set, but nothing cubed I think.
My AB got to 200 in less than 36hours with every exp buff I had, but it's not that funded. Less than 80%dex, the ABs who made it to 200 in a day should've around 300% dex or so.

I can't seem to find any quests past level 37 so I decided to train at CDs or something. I noticed that the damage is like 1k-2k on the hit (not range).

How are you supposed to 1 hit KO Jesters when yet I can't even hit 2k? Even with those stuff they don't really make a difference according to my calculations.

How are you supposed to level up so fast anyways? Like seriously do people have so many secret methods that I can't do?

Also, what EXP buffs are the best combo anyways?

If it helps, I train from 45 to 60 by just farming xerxes over and over

How long did that take? Also, do you need ppl in your party to fight that in Floating Island?

I think the important thing is to have realistic expectations considering your resources. Even doing things mostly optimally (Zombies until 30, CDs until 40 or 50, Jesters until 70 or 80, door to aliens at 70 or 80 if you can get it and MP3 if you can't until 90, and then aliens until 110) on an average class without extra kinds of bonus EXP it'll take me anywhere from 8-12 hours of playing to get to 120 from level 10, mostly depending on how actively I'm playing, how little competition I have on maps, and how good an LHC party I find when I reach 110. Even so, that's with a lot of luxuries that a long-time player would have that a newer player might not have (full set of link buffs, evolving rings, level 30 empress blessing, 6 S rank cards, attack work glove, etc).

If you don't have conveniences that make killing higher HP monsters like Jesters and Aliens a quick thing and you're not playing at times where you don't have to compete with other players, you're probably putting in similar levels of effort with much less reward.

I do have link skills + character card stuff. I even use Cygnus Blessing level 24 but still fails to level up fast. Like seriously, are there any alternate training spots apart from popular ones and can still train fast?