If I may offer an honest piece of advise...
Turn to you hunting log, In the South Black Shroud you notice there is an area called Urth's Gift. At the entrance cave you will find some Lesser Kalong that will leach your HP, spend a few SP points to get your chocobo the "Defender Stance". You will be able to do solo expirence chains up 3-5. This can become a technically challenging task but you will learn to target between yourself and party members with confidence and manage your MP. If your feeling up for it try to make the journey up though to Urth's Fount and test yourself on the Lv. 50 Water elementals from now until you hit lv. 50 yourself and can begin to chain them. the rest is pretty much up to you on filtering your UI so you can keep track of other game elements.
-CD
