Welcome, not to steal your thread but I'm new too and I'm basically in the same boat.

Loving it so far, started the game as a Arcanist but (relatively) quickly switched to a melee DPS since that's suits me better. I play everything at a pretty casual pace so I just hit level 30 with my Lancer the other day after a few weeks and it's awesome how I'm always learning something new, finding new places, unlocking new modes/features. My favorite thing has to be the ability to level different jobs all with the same character since I'm not very creative and I really just want to design/name one character and go with it. Now I'm leveling Marauder and working through quests to go Dragoon one day.

People I've played with were also super cool. I've messed up on a few occasions or people kinda asked me to do things and I didn't recognize the acronyms... I play PS4 so typing with the controller is impossible (I've since hooked up one of my wireless keyboards for chatting purposes) so it got awkward at times trying to coordinate with people. But they were cool and I've learned a lot.