Can you please provide some sort of challenge while questing? Leveling is horrible!

[SpiritMuse]

Pull 2, drop Bishop Turret and let it tank the add.
My chocobo is out in healer mode permanently while i'm questing. I even get EXP chains when quest mobs are close together.

As a MCH, takes me 20 - 30 seconds to kill a mob my level (Choco doesnt attack at all) so i really do think its a case of PEBKAC

Ah, I didn't think a turret could take that, but if it can that might work. Thanks for telling me (though the insult at the end was really rather unnecessary).

[Sylve]

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The turrets actually have almost the same HP that you do, so as long as you're keeping up with your gear, it can easily tank 2 mobs at once, hell, as it gets low, just throw down a new one and don't touch the adds, Bishop will pick up right back up.

It wasn't necessary to insult you, apologies.

Make sure you're getting HQ gear from the MBs or Side Quests rather than buying the NQ vendor stuff. For catching up after you hit 50, theyre fine for a time, but you really do need the HQ stuff.
Also, Do not be conservative with your cooldowns (RS, BfB, Reload, QReload, HE, Wildfire, Reassemble -EVERYTHING-) Short cooldowns let you have a buff up for every mob you face, significantly boosting your kill times.

I'm sure some(most) of the MCH community thus far would disagree with me, but Gauss Barrel is best for soloing. Auto Attacks add up in the course of a long fight, but in short sharp mob kills, the 20% bonus damage from the Barrel trumps it by far.
Anecdotally, I can kill any like-level mob in less than 30 seconds. If your gear is up to date and HQ, you should be fine.

[SpiritMuse]

The turrets actually have almost the same HP that you do, so as long as you're keeping up with your gear, it can easily tank 2 mobs at once, hell, as it gets low, just throw down a new one and don't touch the adds, Bishop will pick up right back up.

Also, Do not be conservative with your cooldowns (RS, BfB, Reload, QReload, HE, Wildfire, Reassemble -EVERYTHING-) Short cooldowns let you have a buff up for every mob you face, significantly boosting your kill times.

I'm sure some(most) of the MCH community thus far would disagree with me, but Gauss Barrel is best for soloing. Auto Attacks add up in the course of a long fight, but in short sharp mob kills, the 20% bonus damage from the Barrel trumps it by far.
Anecdotally, I can kill any like-level mob in less than 30 seconds. If your gear is up to date and HQ, you should be fine.

I had noticed the turrets' HP, but I had assumed they had less defense and would die too quickly to really tank anything so I was actually trying to keep enemies away from them as much as possible. It's useful to know that they don't and can actually take a fair few hits. I'll definitely be making use of that if I have to contend with multiple enemies!

And I see your point about the gauss barrel, it helps increase the burst damage and with how much HP the solo enemies have the fights should be short enough to only really need that burst.