The whole leveling experience of a new player... is this?

[Llus]

I am mostly doing fates to grind out the exp. Duty and dungeons are out of the question since my que time is over 1 hour and most of the times I don't find anything at my level.

To be honest, I kind of feel that something is wrong as grinding for hours at lvl 30ish is pretty ridicculus.

Grinding fates is going to take you forever. 3-4 mobs in a level relevant dungeon gives about the same exp as one fate.