At this point in the game, "rushing" is not a valid argument.

[Quesse]

I also don't wanna "rush" the storyline. So I do other things to pass the time.

This is all on a brand new Character ( Moonlight Star). I do have all 50's on a Legacy Character, but I decided it's a new game, so in turn I made a brand new character.

We are past the 1 month mark and I haven't hit 50 yet.

I'm with you. I could have easily powered through the storyline with my Legacy 50s but decided to casually go through it while leveling ACN. So now about 1.5 months later I'm sitting at level 48 and @ westwind. Not too shabby, but people who jumped in new with one 50 are now doing coil. I don't really get it. What is the point of rushing with ONE 50 through coil -you're totally missing the point of this game. Is it that other games which tie you to one occupation have put blinders on these people? Meanwhile I've gotten 2 additional crafts to 50, done all my class quests, making gil, gathering, back to ACN sometimes and grind boring fates, back to making gil. Its been enjoyable. I spent all of last night rearranging my FC's company chest which was totally out of hand XD.