I understand there are more efficient ways to get gear and what not than mob hunts. It's not about that for me. I like it because it's something to do with people. Also I spent a LOT of time figuring out pop conditions (people say it's solved, but honestly I've seen really conflicting theories that it was just better to test myself) so it's fun to use that knowledge.

As far as coils, ids, and primals go I'm sort of looking for an FC to do that with anyways. At worst I guess I skip coil and wait till the next expansion where no one has done the content yet.

I get that I'm going to need to join an FC for most of this stuff, but if the FC is great and the rest of the server is horribly elitist I'm somewhat stuck in the same situation now.