When / at what level does group content actually become somewhat challenging ?


Background: I am a new player that returned to FFXIV over a month ago after being gone for years. The furthest I have every made it was a 50th level Paladin at launch.

I started fresh on Goblin and have pushed through the ARR MSQ storyline and am just a handful of quests away from the end of 2.0,still have 2.1-2.55 before Heavensward finally unlocks.

Problem : Group play up to this point is really light, there is little challenge since the Sync feature seems to leave folks over powered compared to the low level content

The Storyline is interesting but I am getting bored playing solo all the time and when the group stuff dopes happen it seems to be mostly faceroll, even with me being a level appropriate White Mage

I guess I am hoping to hear that the the group play gets better because I don't think I can handle slogging through 100+ hours of generally "meh" solo story for the privilege of playing group content that is actually scaled properly.