Yes, this game is now extremely solo friendly. You can probably hit 50 by yourself in less than a week. If you do book burns, you can hit 50 in a day. Level once was a badge of honor. Now it's just a number. After doing all of your limit breaks, you can, and I shit you not, take a job from 1-99 in about a day and a half if you are a casual player. And because you can hit 50 so fast, you can actually solo your first four ranks. Most of CoP has been dumbed down. Level restrictions are mostly gone all across the board and the days of waiting in the dunes to have your face eaten by a Goblin are over. I don't think there is a mob left in this world that yields anything lower than 90exp, and with FoV, you're looking at a few hundred additional exp plus gil after killing certain amounts and types.