Carbuncle.Maletaru said:
»Just grab 1 friend and do ***together. Or send a message in your linkshell(s) and ask if anyone wants to work on Kamavacas. Or whatever. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. I see lots of comments on here and reddit of people saying they can't do endgame because they can't commit to a static of 6 players going for 3 hours 7 days a week and I think that completely misses the point.
Other people think they need to get up to like 5 REMAs, ranked ody gear, and 5/5 of all their JSE+3 before they can start grouping up. *** that, group up from day 1. There are plenty of players in your situation who would love to group up with you, and you can also loop in a veteran player (or 2 or 3) too, if they're available and want to go with you. It really doesn't need to be such a SRS BSNS thing.
Yeah there's still PLENTY to do. In addition to all of the good suggestions Maletaru mentioned, there's also a large chunk of the most current content that doesn't require a perfectly tuned party operating at maximum endgame efficiency.
I don't do the Sortie static grind myself, in large part due to unwillingness to schedule a daily. I've accepted I don't care to make a St4+ Prime, I'm mainly using Sortie just for Empy armor upgrades and NQ/+1 earrings. But I'll still go in sometimes with friends not at a set schedule for some points, I'll dualbox some objectives and NMs sometimes, etc. You don't have to have a group that starts up with 8 bosses as a baseline expectation: do a ONE BOSS run, get used to the event and improve a bit and bump that up to a TWO BOSS run.
You can still make a bunch of money doing Vol.1 Ambu on N or D if you don't have a group able to take out VD (got 3 people and a couple trusts? you can still clear ambu).
Go do Odysssey A/B/C for some segments/gil/exp, even if you aren't doing "optimal" full clears.
Group up with whoever is around for a low stress Limbus climb.
Make a JP/Exemplar party. Contrary to popular belief here, there are tons of players who don't bot. You could even be one of them and BS with a couple friends while you beat on Apex mobs.
I personally still like cranking out more REMAs, where basically everything but the harder Aeonic NMs = soloable content. Gonna finish a goal of at least 1 RME weapon for every job in the game between my two characters, once I wrap up a Murgleis in 2026.