Hey guys, I've owned the game for a long time but for various reasons had not activated my free month until last night.

In your opinion is leveling more grinding based or levequest based? Because yesterday I had 8 leve allowances and I'd say that took me about 30 minutes of gameplay and then I wandered around Limsa Lominsa and only found 2 other quests that gave me like 200 exp

Second Question: I rolled a Lancer on Gysahl because I cant remember the last time I played anything that had a spear (Diablo 2??) and Chocobos mirite!? The question is, is there a large population of English speaking players on here? I'd like to be able to talk to the people I play with! (I read on the world forums that theres mostly Japanese players here)

Third Question: Is crafting important? I'd like to be able to craft things that are useful to me when I hit "max level" (I know you can level up everything to 50). Most other MMOs you cant really craft anything useful!

Thanks for your time!