Thanks for the replies. I'm going to reply to a little bit of everything I read without quoting due to space.

The way I leveled in the past was hunting log and class quests to 10. Might possibly need a leve or 2 to reach 10, though not always. 10-15 is the slowest. I use hunting log and leves. Level 15 to 50 was quick due to low level roulette and then regular dungeon queues after. Queu times as dps ranged from 5 minutes to 15 minutes. I didn't bother with fates at the time since queues were quick and leveling with only dungeons, hunting log, and class quests was fast. And I always use food for the exp bonus. I never bothered with guildhests because I tried them and the experience was horrible. But they must of increased guildhest experience since then since people are saying it is good. But then why when I check experience given in duty finder, the guildhest roulette still shows an experience amount given equal to less than 5% of the total needed to level?

As for FATEs, I thought there was experience bonus for doing them in a party the more there are in the party? Did SE remove that? Guess I'll try it and see how it goes.

As for friends helping, most are too busy doing other things to help, or always bad timing.

Someone sent me a tell last night saying they saw this thread and that they'd help. They added me as a friend. They already have everything at 50, but said they don't mind helping me out as it would give them a reason to login. They're just waiting for the Gold Saucer as well.