4 Summoners

[Lyonheart]

I personally will be running Paladin/Warrior, Black Mage, Bard, and White Mage/Scholar..

you are maxed on all these classes? ie you say you are doing hard modes and listing their 'jobs", or are you just in the jobs now ( 30+)? I was on vacation last 3 days.. but im surprised anyone could box 4 separate classes/jobs so fast! Thats amazing! do tell!

[Meeo]

Original was listing what i'm seeing as the most favorable classes i see in Hard modes right now. The classes list above, was in the context of what i will be running. I will probably level all ranged classes on my 4 box team to 30-35 area, before i focus them in on the Tank+2DD+1Healer setup.

My 4 box is at level 35 right now, my main is 50 in 3 Classes/Jobs, 50 White Mage , 50 Scholar/50 Summoner, 15 Thaum. Well technically its really only really its only 2 technically 50 CNJ and 50 ACN, what so good about this setup is i really only had to level 2 classes 2 50, and 1 to 15 to get access to 3 50 jobs, but the real problem with this is the stat points are setup for healing so my summoner's damage is lower a bit lower then what it could if spec for damage. I Primarily targeted healing classes on my main, because WHM and Scholar play different roles in the end-game portion of the game. Scholar is very fun to heal with and buff with, while the WHM is my "Paladin(WoW)" (Big Heals) healer.

If i wasn't raiding and primarily running single mode with my FC, you could easily be 50 with a 4 box team by now. I was level 10 with my 5 box arcanist without even starting any of the basic quests in Limosa, i was just grinding outside of the city for an hour or so. The XP Bonus is really nice especially with 3% food, 20% Helm (Only last til 10), + 5% Free Company bonus. Also with the news that they will be nerfing Fates (re: Yoshi interview at Pax), as they were not ment to be farmed like they are now, and more experience parties will start to pop back up like from the XI and v1.0 FFXIV days (which is not bad thing for multiboxers). Currently as it sits Fates are the fastest way to xp, if your PC can handle the lag of all the people at fates, then it should go fairly quickly. Fates took me from 40 to 50 in a matter of 8 hours or so, with 49-50 taking 30 minutes in Northern Thanalan. Fate Parts from about 35 on to 50 right now would be Costa Del Sol, to Central Coerthas, to Mor Dhona, then to Northern Thanalan.