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It's sort of a combination of a few friends wanted to play and how I love FF. I don't usually play MMOs, actually.
I'm not crazy enough though to say "I wish I could do everything by myself in this MMO" because that'd be silly; it is a multiplayer game after all.
Hard = Better Gold Chest Rate (a lot of silvers at worst) but stronger mobs. Mostly something you want to do if you're hunting specifically i210 and Spoils isn't much of a concern
Normal = So-So Gold Chest Rate, a lot more squishier mobs then Hard. This is good for farming spoils and getting a i210 here and there for your troubles. This is where you go for Pegasus Points and Materia.
Easy = Not likely to see Gold Chests, very easy mobs. This can be a zone for "Pegasus Points" and Materia as well, but it is more commonly populated with gatherers, so it's become more so dubbed "The Gatherer's Diadem." Being that mobs aren't as much of a concern as the other zones.
That's the way to think of it when you're doing Diadem.
... As for playing a social game and not being social, this game hardly requires you to be social, being in an FC or LS is fluff. I'm a PUG-Thug myself, and sure while I may not do Alex Savage, most of the content I want to do I can do by myself. I also happen to run with LBR people and the LBRmy on Sargatanas so that's nice, but for the most part I keep to myself. This game isn't like 11 where friends were a necessity or you got nothing done. Which frankly I think is a shame that FC's and friends are not more necessary.