I would be one of those new players no doubt, and I would agree as well, can't say from experience in FFXIV but I know what a pain in the ass this is from playing wow.

Is there cross realm capability in this game? I haven't really watched for what realm people are from in Duty Finder or anything else. This seemed to help a lot in wow, in terms of pre-mades that is. even if you are from a low pop realm you still can get pre-mades put together rather quickly.