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EXP
The amount of exp needed to gain levels is way too high. First off there is really a lack of direction or anything on how your suppose to get exp besides doing guild leves which you are limited to 8 every 2 days or so. Even then if you do 8 guild levels the amount of exp is pretty abysmal once you hit skill level 20+. I got a gladiator to level 28 I occasionally logged in and did a few leves but after getting like 2-5k exp average of 3k when you need so much to get to the next level it just felt very frustrating and made me not want to log on the game much because the progress was way to slow
Solo is supposed to be slower than party leveling.

First off guildleves should give like 10-15% exp you need at your current level upon completion.
This is your personal opinion that is not shared with everyone. I do not want to get to max level solo in a month. Especially considering there is not really any endgame at the moment. FFXI was all about the journey, and I would like to see FFXIV stay that way.

Besides grinding mobs over and over for levels there isn't any other ways to get exp. Whats worse is the game gives you no direction on where to go.
Have you ever played an MMO before? This is how it works. Even if you play a "quest grinder" like WoW, Aion, or Rift, it's still grinding by killing mobs over and over... the only difference is you have a NPC tell you what to kill instead of choosing it yourself.

The game needs to give you direction on where you might want to go to exp on mobs, in interviews FFXIV like at E3 didn't SE say they wanted to get away from the pull kill mentality of FFXI? The exp grind seems far worse in 14 then it is in 11.
This I will partially agree with. Though really, if you just search around the camps of the guildleves you are capable of doing, you can easily find things to kill.

UI and Battle
UI, although it has been improved some it is still fairly unresponsive and commands take a fairly long time to execute. Still feels someone clunky and really designed with a gamepad in mind and not really keyboard and mouse. Simple functionality like being able to drag and drop my action commands on my hotbar, having a separate set of bars for each class so I don't have to redo them every time I want to switch classes. If your going to support switching classes at least give each one its on set of bars.
I can agree with this I think. The UI could always use improvement.

The pace of battle is very slow. There is a delay from when you hit the button on your hot bar to when it actual occurs in game. I want to see commands go off right when I hit the button not a few seconds later. Auto attack should also be added because spamming my 1 or 2 key a bunch isn't fun and really shouldn't take my resource bar for a basic attack.
I disagree with this. Battles are actually pretty fast, unless you're taking on things way higher than you. And I don't know where you get the idea that there is a "few second delay". That's a gross overstatement. You can stack commands, but you need to wait for the animation of the last attack to finish before the next command will happen. I would rather have that than clipping every animation and making it look stupid. But when you press a button, the skill does go off... there's at most a half second delay for some abilities.

As for your complaint about spamming 1 and 2... that just shows you either never got to a decent level or you just didn't know what you were doing. I will agree that you press your basic attacks a lot, but I pressed 1 and 2 just as much if not more in Rift building up "combo dots" and then hitting my "finisher".

Ease of Exploration Features
The game has been out over 6 months and there are no mounts. Having your own chocobos would be nice or at very least being able to rent them to get around faster. FFXIV limits how fast you can get around with anima the currency you need for teleports. This should probably be abolished because if you play a lot no doubt you will run out fast. Stuff like making a party is somewhat cumbersome because they have to be in front of you to invite them and there is no search or seek functions.
So you want to abolish the feature designed to help Casuals because you feel it's "unfair" for Hardcores that they always run out? Perhaps you should learn to manage your resources and try not being selfish about it.

I will agree that I would like to see Chocobos and Airships sooner rather than later though.

As for Quests and Content, I agree with you there as well. I think everyone would agree on that point.