Hey. I haven't really played since after the first free month (regrettably) as life took me to other things aside from gaming, but now I have the time to invest and this is the game I want to do it in! I am bringing a few friends with me, and I'll probably be rerolling with them on a different server. I have a few questions!

1. With the game having a little bit of age on it now (relative to being new), how is the leveling experience? Is it hard to find groups at lower levels now due to everyone being capped or being in the new expansion or is it still a bustling number of people all the way up?

2. In the move to Heavensward, did all of the lvl 50 content I remember doing at level cap in my first month (like the primals, ifrit, garuda, titan and such) get left behind or were they scaled up? Are they used for anything? I thought these fights were pretty fun and it would be sad if I can't show my friends these encounters at least once (in their threatening form as opposed to like, creaming them due to out-leveling them).

3. Are Au Ra's as amazing as they look?! I plan to roll this race with my new character!