My problem with leveling up in FFXIV.

[linay]

I’m a pretty new player so take this from my point of view but I have had some issues with leveling in the game.

Until you get to the final expansion there seems to be no reason at all to do any questing other than the msq. And yeah FFXIV seems to do a great job for story but the problem for me has been that you do very little gameplay or experiencing the world and spend most your time traveling and reading all the story text. So when I get home at night and have an hour or two to play, the last thing I want to do is read and travel around a map so I end up just playing a low lvl job and doing levees so that I can relax and get some game action.

Am I alone here?

The MSQ is a requirement to unlock many dungeons and trials and raids as well as zones where you can do hunts and fates. So I'd suggest do a little reading and traveling each day to progress the MSQ and then do other things for the rest of your time.