Hey. I'm finding it a struggle to level too - 19 LNC, 13 CNJ, 11 THM and craft jobs like Culinarian and Botany 13. It's not so much the actual solo-ing, but the time it takes to just grind out a level by yourself. I have a friend from FFXI who also plays, but he's on far less than I am and most of the time I'm just wandering around by myself.

I joined a linkshell today, but initial impressions are that they're much higher level and aren't interested in lower-level stuff. Also haven't ever seen any shouts for anything under 20 since I joined a week ago. Mostly lvs 40-50 shouting and there's no real low-level community going on, it feels like.

If you want to team up and level, do random quests and leves etc. let me know. Always glad to meet new people who also like to explore and kill things! I'm a Gridanian and can't join a Grand Company yet (can you join any nation's GC?), but I'm aiming to do it when my Lancer gets up there.