Completely new player looking for some help

[ChameleonMS]

Welcome to Eorzea fellow old fart.
As you are CNJ (Healer class), levelling will be easy because your dungeon queue times are fast.
Tank and Healer classes have fast queue times, melee DPS is slow, range DPS is abysmally slow.
Dungeon XP is faster than open world XP. Save those side Quest for aiding in levelling of DPS classes.
While on your Healer, just concentrate on Main Story Quest (MSQ) line, those quest with sun burst design.

Pretty much all servers have a good number of decent Free Companies (FC) which are willing help out new players.
The smaller servers have more new players like yourself, a lot more RMT spammers and weaker pool of end game raiders.
The large servers are hard to create new characters on as they are frequently closed, your best times to add characters on the large servers are between 4-6am US Eastern time.
If you like end game raiding, then you really should move to a larger server.
Another option, which does cost money, is continue to play on Levi, decided if you like the game, then you can world transfer from the small server the big servers.
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