If you are under level 60 and you don’t seem to be levelling much and the bosses are taking forever - check you aren’t in Chromie Time. This made ALL the difference for me.
It puts you back into busy shards, it sorts the levelling out and it puts your abilities back to a proper power level.
If I could run around the various shards in Chromie Time alerting everyone, I would do because the event feels dire if you’re stuck there.
Really hope this helps someone (and tysm to BleakWitness on Reddit)
The only thing I noticed whilst levelling an alt below level 60 was the item level of the recruit gear you get is way lower than what I had equipped.
I was levelling my level 18 Mage the other day and when I was at level 28, I currently had item level 66 gear equipped but the recruit gear I was getting was of item level 26.
Any idea why the recruit gear I was getting was not at par with my item level I had?