Nadia West @ Adamantoise (NA datacenter), white mage for hire (other duties as assigned).

There's several of us who play who also check in here. We're all end-game equipped and one of us raids on the regular, though the rest are a bit more casual about it. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I did check with the group and anyone who wants a guided tour at any level range, we'd be more than happy to hitch you to the XP train and take you along.

As for grindy... I mean, I can see it, but I used to play World of Warcraft so by comparison FFXIV is lightyears better (IMO YMMV etc). The more recent patches have, I think, really made the early and mid game experience much *less* grindy and better overall -- for example, it's entirely possible now to progress at a satisfactory rate doing only the main story quests, whereas before you pretty much *had* to step aside and grind a bit to keep your levels up to the entry requirements for the MSQs.

And now that cross-world parties are easy-peasy... :D

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