Just a brain dump... maybe a little burnt out?

[Enkidoh]

Indeed, joining a FC and just having people to talk to can make all the difference, even if you're like me and not usually the social butterfly, instead prefering to do their own thing usually.

Also, adding to Kirdria's comments about levelling PLD still, FFXIV has a trait where if you level any class or Job that is lower in level than your first one, it will gain bonus EXP until it reaches that same level, so even if you are wanting to switch to DRK eventually, keep taking PLD through the story to that point at the very least as you'll find when you do get to Ishgard and gain DRK, it will make switching to DRK and levelling it much easier.

Either way, don't get discouraged!

[Frizze]

Just did the quest "In Pursuit of the Past" that unlocks/requires completion of The Stone Vigil duty.

The lead up to the garuda fight. Ok. Theres a lot of interesting things happening, and ive gotta spend the next 4? levels doing inane fetching to get the door to the next important fight to finally open. Not a highlight. The stretch from garuda herself through the end of 2.0 is fairly well done. The patch series(2.1-2.55) gets a bad wrap. Sure, its too long and its not obvious how important a lot of it is until later in the game. But from basically the ramuh fight until you find yourself standing at the gates of ishgard it gets better and better(this ends up being almost half the patchline). Then youre training DRK and into a highly praised story arch.