I'm a *really* slow player of MMOs... Extremely casual... Long story short, I've been playing since Closed Beta and launch and I don't even have a rank 50 lmao.

My Gladiator is rank 42. I really want to participate in the new raid with my LS, but I realize that I'm not eligible to help out since most everyone has a rank 50.

It seemed really easy to get to rank 50 on the old levequest leve-linking system. Now, it just seems impossible. I've already done all the side quests in the game from before 1.18, so that is not a viable way to get SP.

While I can use levequests to solo, I don't know if this is going to be reasonable for getting SP. It seems like the best way to get SP is like the good old FFXI days: get a party together and grind mobs, especially in the new dungeons.

I am VERY happy with this change for the bigger picture. However, the small population of the game right now makes this a major problem:

Everyone is going to be wanting to run the dungeons, not grind for SP. This is going to persist for a while. Few players are going to put together SP parties and go out and explore for prime SP camps.

So for someone stuck at rank 42 and feeling somewhat directionless for getting DoW SP, what's your take? What should I do?

Thank you for reading.