• If you have 250 Allied Seals, or have the Masked Carnivale unlocked and can easily get them, I'd highly recommend picking up Outer La Noscea's Riding Map. It'll give you nearly the same speed on the ground as flying, and driving through the U'Ghamaro Mines is way less awkward than flying.
  
• Pay attention to the enemy spawns in the tribes' areas for your first book or two. The prefix names of the enemies will really help you narrow down where to look and save a bunch of time. (Stuff like Shelfclaw vs. Trenchclaw vs. Sapsa, U'Ghamaro vs. Elite, Sylphic vs. Violet or Amalj'aa vs. Zanr'ak vs. Zahar'ak.)
  
• Leves refresh after doing a single one, so if you don't see the one you need you can either go check on another needed leve or complete one where you're at to refresh the list. Additionally, you aren't limited to your chosen Grand Company leves, so be sure you're checking all six available leves and not just the two for one GC.
  
• If you're doing BRD, being out of combat as much as possible for Peloton can save you a few seconds in dungeons. On the other hand, if you're doing WHM, being in combat will tick up your Lily gauge for Afflatus Misery which will one-shot bosses while Glare won't. Other Jobs have their own unique tricks (like NIN refreshing their teleport on some of their Ninjutsu), so don't just blindly run through dungeons only killing what's strictly necessary.
  
• Not book related, but a couple steps after books is Light farming. You could just grind Aurum Vale, but I'd recommend cycling through AV, Stone Vigil, Brayflox's, Toto-Rak, Halatali, Tam-Tara Deepcroft and Sastasha once to check if any of them have the bonus Light event. Those all took from nearly as long to less than twice as long as AV when I ran them, and getting double Light for less than twice the time (and that's not even counting the delay caused by loading screens, UI navigation and queue pop) is worth the minimal wasted time. If none have the bonus, however, AV will be the fastest. The bonus window changes every two hours, so keep that in mind and consider doing another cycle when the window changes. (Currently, for MDT, the window changes on even hours.) This also applies for the final Mahatma step, meaning you only have to do one dungeon run instead of two for each of the twelve Mahatma.
  

Dragongem fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Oct 25, 2023