As I live on the west coast by the time I get online the servers are all almost empty which makes finding a team of 8 nearly impossible most times. And as the game gives more XP for a larger team I get squat when soloing so it takes forever to level a toon. I think the devs really need to re-think that unless they come up with a new way to find a team(team LFM in the search window maybe?)
I have to say that as much as I dis-like to farm my toons to 50 there are occassions that it is nice to be able to take a lvl36 toon that was leveled normally and then farm it to 50 in order to be able to play certain content. For instance, I had a level 36 Rad/Rad def that I have been working on for a year or more, but realized that I really wanted the rad/rad to be ready for i19 content, and with my normal playing hours not allowing me to level fast enough and to be ready for i19 I took that toon to AE, I leveled to 49 in about 3 hours. I have done the same to a couple of other toons but I do not make it a habit.
Just saying that farming is not all bad unless that is all you do!!!