We ' ve come full circle . LSU was offsides , now we ' re offsides <| sep |> Had some guy do the same to me once . Not sure if top bloke or dick move ? <| sep |> With crafts you still have GC turn in ' s , plus at least one set of beast tribe quests , two if your over lvl 50 for both Ixal and Moogle . So I would advise using leve ' s for gathering since they ' re total soul suckers . I still grind gatherer a little while watching vids on my laptop or whatever . So I don ' t devour too many leves since I make myself grind out like 3 of 5 lvl ' s . You shouldn ' t need to start using leve ' s on your crafter until 15 . Sorry for the long reply . Gathering can make you want to kill yourself from boredom so distract yourself and grind some of it out , use leve ' s to push to next class quest . Go to town with leves on preferably CUL and LTW . The two abilities from them at 37 and 50 respectively will help you HQ many items for future crafting . Plus sending HQ in a leve is double exp . Your decision .