For me personally, I love grind groups. I don't mean grind zergs. 8 people parties.. Ugh. I loved grouping in XI and in my 7years of playing such, it is the only game I have ever grown attached too. Sadly, I was hoping to get attached to XIV the same, but it just didn't turn out that way. Although, I prefer to have alot of content in the middle compared to grinding to the end.

I cannot understand why anyone would want to do Leve's. Those are the most annoying excuses for content ever. They are worse then grind one single mob for 8 hours a day. Sadly enough the other day I got together with a random group of people and we skipped on down to one of our local beast camps. I was nervous because outside of my girl friend and another real life friend, I had never really tanked for anyone. Specially after 1.18 made tanking a actual challenge. I found I did great and had a wonderful time. The party knew I was nervous, as I told them all ahead of time and got several tells afterwards saying that was one of the best groups ever. Everything went so smoothly. Even had the Con send me a whisper saying she would heal for me anyday.

In the end what I'm saying is: I had the most fun I've had in game since Alpha in that 3 hour party. I love meeting the new people and I love see a good group work well together. Group grinding, plus low/middle/upper end content is how I prefer to level.

PS: I'm only 30 in a couple Jobs because exploiting broken mechanics is NOT fun for me. Lets fail our Leves! So we can do it again! Yay... Leves.. yay.... /drifts off