The Leveling Problem explained.

[Mostly_Raxus]

There's nothing to stop them from raiding together even if the friend is starting from scratch on MSQ. It doesn't take that long to get through 2.0 and unlock Coils and/or CT.

If friends are trying to rush a new player through the leveling content, they don't sound like very good friends. NG+ and level sync exist so they can still play together.

I think you misconstrue my entire point because i assume you believe the only way to play this mmorpg is as a single player story crawl.
some players just want to get to CURRENT content and play with friends, some players even, dare i say, dont care about the story..

Some people would very much like to get to current content asap and actually PROG with their friends and then do the story at their own pace on their own time..
if thats not you then dont, but stop gatekeeping everyone to your assumed right way of playing, this community is very toxic when it comes to the ideal of not caring about the story.

telling someone to go threw 40-60 hours of arr quest lines rushing just to run coils is enough to destroy all the enjoyment of this game, especially when you buy a game to play with friends and instead you are led threw content they all know and can clear without you even playing while already knowing all the strats and just waiting on you to catch up is not playing with friends, its babysitting..

also NG+ doesn't allow you to play together, in fact most quests requite you to not even be in a party together so you can be sucked in to a solo instance.. following a new player around and doting on the fact that you know all the spoilers and have all the mounts they cant even attempt to get is not playing together, its just feeding your ego.