Personally I'm having a blast with it, but then, I liked NM camping too.

People aren't nearly as attentive as they were in FFXI either, I've just been running around the world stealing spriggans out from under spawn campers. If you keep moving you will eventually see some up! And if you find the FATE one it's cool, like a spriggan whack-a-mole. You can get dozens of eggs from one

Also yeah, you can wear the low level cap to do the main quests, just holler for a person with other cap to help.