Alright, I've just recently started playing(A week or so) and I've got a few questions!

Are Duties/Dungeons a requirement to advance the main story quest in this game? Seems kind of awful as a DPS if so. Waited over 20 minutes earlier and never got into the one in Skull Valley.

When do I get my first mount? Probably a little slow getting to it since I went Puglist to 16 then switched to Rogue and pretty much started over since that's the class that drew me back after seeing it in action.