If you want to go even slower so that your skills are not lacking but don't want to level bst or a job that can solo easily take some time to unlock your adventuring fellow. You just need to be rank 4 and have a level 30 job. You might want to do the 1st fight in the quest line at a higher level or to bring along some one else as there are undead and magic aggressive monsters near the fight area.

Some gear that one might want to try and get for when you are leveling other jobs or just sub jobs are battle gloves and bounding boots. Bounding boots are dropped off the NM leaping lizzy. You can try for an empress hairpin from Valkurm Emperor, but he tends to be a jerk and not dropping this.

Another thing of advice is fame drops prices for things bought in shops. Higher rank in starter cities makes for a longer lasting signet. Also some cities only sell some things depending on what rank your nation is in the conquest tally. These same shops also have some items that they will only sell to people of that nation. If you are a mage and your spells can be also be bought at Selabina buy from there as they tend to be cheaper than buying from other places.

Remember that this is a game and go at your own pace. Don't toss any crystals or the seals that drop from monsters outside of Abyssea's as they get used in BCNM's and for limit break quests. Crystals are used to fill up your rank bar and to give more points that are used for warping by the waypoints. Unlock all of the different ways you can get from point A to point B. be it by chocobo, airship, teleport cystals, outpost warps, aby maw warps, or void watch. You never want to be the person a whole alliance is waiting on to get to them the slowest way because you haven't taken time to do so.