Unfortunately I find most regular contributors to the forums don't recognise how toxic an environment the duty finder is for a lot of people. I have levelled all my jobs via squadrons and trusts, quests, fates, challenge logs etc. The only time I set foot in the duty finder is with a ready-made group; since I'm lucky enough to have a great FC full of good friends, that's more often than it would otherwise be. And - of course this will be described as anecdotal - all of these people loathe the duty finder and consider it toxic. Some of them are casual players, some are raiders, so they range across the spectrum.

We have lost lovely people from the FC who have quit the game after runs where they were abused and vilified by other members of their random group. One was a noobie tank running Ghimlyt Dark for the first time; he acknowledged he had stuff to learn still about both role and dungeon, but there was no excuse for the discourtesy he was shown. He has returned briefly since but never stays long because he finds roulette too stressful now; we aren't always available to go with him as we have varying play times. It makes me both sad and uncomfortable that people in this community could be so unpleasant. It also makes me sad that all of the people I know who play the game refuse to use the duty finder because they've all witnessed toxic behaviour in there.

All of the responses I've read so far, OP, haven't surprised me. Let's hope that you make it past level 70 with everything, and then you can just run with Trusts and/or your friends. I've only replied here since you're unlikely to get many others who offer you a kind word, and I'm going to duck my head back down below the parapet now and head over to the Lore section (that's where the nice, chilled folks hang out)