Is it just me or am I leveling EXTREMELY slow?

Also be aware that Kanna's spawn buff at Aliens is completely disgusting. During today's 2x, I got from lvl 67-91 in literally 25 minutes (with HS). Double that time for normal conditions and it's still about an hour for 24 levels.

What does Kanna's spawn buff do? I don't play Kanna so I wouldn't know.

Damage is kind of important, too. Really, you should be one shotting everything until you get to jesters, and then you should be one shotting everything once you reach the same level as the monster until moving on to LHC. Of course by then damage becomes even more important in terms of how fast you level.

Beyond that, there's a certain amount of attention to be paying, too. Effectively clearing a map in a spawn cycle gives infinitely better experience than kind of wandering around killing monsters, but also requires a much more conscious effort. But you're going to get a way better return on your time invested if you're doing things correctly instead of aimlessly whacking monsters in a fog of boredom.

Honestly though, it's mostly time. I imagine even if you're doing things well and aren't wasting too much time wandering around or competing with other players for training spots, it'll still take about 8-12 hours of concentrated effort to go from level 1-120 without any experience boosts other than Mercedes's link buff. Even if it takes you 6 days to level to 120, if you're only playing 2 hours a day or less that isn't bad at all.

Well I see to play like 3 or more hours a day yet it still takes that long for me to get there. Dunno why it's been like this. Just feel sad.

Also, do you know any nice equips to use up to level 120? Preferably universal job ones.