If you go to easy/story mode 'raid' just say ''this is my first time here'' and everyone will go (yeah bonus!) to themselves. If you die, no big deal.
Just try to remember lessons the game has taught you previously, like what the ''gather up'' symbol looks like.

Also to lvl your gatherers, at least do the daily GC hand in, its cheap, fast and worth a lot of EXP. Double if you can be bothered to gather 10 HQ instead of NQ.