Thank you for the reply. You're right - I meant unsynced. We queued for Thok ast Thok, but did Sohm AL, The Aery and The Dusk Vigil with just the two of us, so when we hit Unrest In Ishgard and weren't high enough to turn it in, we both assumed it was because we hadn't queued for the dungeons. After hitting 56 and doing all the MSQ to 57 and coming up more than half a level short despite not missing out on any dungeons or trials, we began to wonder if something might have been broken in the squish.
Thank you for the heads-up about the buffs, too.