Maybe the first question you need to answer is what do you want to get out of the game? You seem to very much not be here for story. If you're only really interested in running instanced content with other players, you may just be better off biting the bullet and buying a story and job boost. You'll find higher concentrations of players in the open world. You'll be able to run dungeons and trials and raids that might be more engaging, more current and therefore active content. Probably also buy yourself a transfer to a more appropriate data center. Gonna be hard to get much meaningful player interaction with a language barrier, to say nothing of time differences.

Basically, if you're rushing yourself through MSQ, have you stopped to ask why?