General Question(s) on Group content and midgame

[Estellios]

When you joined a Grand Company there was a new hunting log added that you can access by clicking the GC symbol in the Hunting log menu. You can get a lot of seals towards your mount very quickly that way.

I just checked and if you are using a gamepad you will need to switch to the GC hunting log using L1/R1 until the GC symbol is selected, so maybe that is why you are missing it.