Thanks for this, this'll help me out a great deal. I was wandering around the Shroud last night and with the new and more numerous mobs they placed I managed to find a spot with a TON of level 8-9 funguars that gave me about 100 XP each and since no one bothered to touch them I managed to make it to 13 in about an hour, finally managed to complete the "Beckon of the Elementals" quest, so now I'm going to work my way to Ul'Dah to progress with the story.

Truth be told, I don't care much for loot or leaderboard standing or whatever. I just want to complete the story, but with the way that they changed things with this new patch...I just don't know if going solo will be as easy as it was before. I barely have enough time to play the game as it is, but if this is going to become another MMO like WoW or what XI was I have my doubts that I'll be sticking around. That was the appeal for me in the first place: To be able to progress on my own. Especially because a majority of players I met in the past were melodramatic and all the LS's I joined before were chock full of arrogant, conceited players. Never doing anything constructive to help me learn to play my class, etc.

I wanted to avoid elitists at all costs, especially.