I got this game a couple weeks ago at GameStop, realized that it was #2, and went back and got #1 from the PSN Store, which I then played through and beat a couple days ago. Started playing this game, and noticed that not only do MQ have much higher requirements to level them up (6k+ for lvl 1 -> 2 vs 1300, 15k+ for 2 -> 3 vs 6500, etc) but the level 50+ mobs that I am fighting give almost no xp to level up. For instance, I am on 12/4 and Toval's MQ still has 15220 to lvl 3, and has been level 2 pretty much the entire Celdic trip, which bugged the hell out of me cause I'm fighting mobs in the high 40s and low 50s which would have gotten me around 100-150 MQ XP per fight in CS1 but they are taking lvl 50 difficulty mobs and treating them like level 5 trash mobs. I may have all my crafts from that time and s-crafts, but I also had a lot of quartz helping me in CS1 through those levels that I now do not have.
So what I would like to know is, approximately when I can start to see a marked increase in MQ xp? In-game date approximations are fine, that will minimize spoilers. Or if it is lvl based mobs, the lvl would do as well. I know it will happen eventually, it has to or this game won't work.. haha.. but I was hoping to get some idea of how far I will have to slog before I start getting even 30-50 xp / battle toward MQs. Thanks for the help in advance.