If you're interested I'll add you to my friends list in game (I'm Evelyn Strider). I have a small group of FC members that are working on coil 1 and 2 (coil 2 is so easy) and if you haven't run it by the weekend you're welcome to join us, maybe Friday nights.
Though I've had decent enough groups by using the party finder, but it can be hit or miss. It gets harder to do coil on the weekends as most people run T1 and T2 on Monday. My group can't tend to do that as most of us work or are in school. So time is limited on weekdays.
As to gear. The more the better. It makes things easier, but if the group is able to work well together coordination can make up for some lower gear. Myth gear takes a while to earn, so capping myth every week is important. If you do one CT a day or your random 50 DR that should be done easily enough. CT gear can supplement in the meantime, as this gear is better than Darklight. Now I'm not familiar with the whole min-max thing for classes as that's way more work than I want to put into things, but you can probably find the "best gear" for BLM just by googling it.
Hope all this helps.
Though I've had decent enough groups by using the party finder, but it can be hit or miss. It gets harder to do coil on the weekends as most people run T1 and T2 on Monday. My group can't tend to do that as most of us work or are in school. So time is limited on weekdays.
As to gear. The more the better. It makes things easier, but if the group is able to work well together coordination can make up for some lower gear. Myth gear takes a while to earn, so capping myth every week is important. If you do one CT a day or your random 50 DR that should be done easily enough. CT gear can supplement in the meantime, as this gear is better than Darklight. Now I'm not familiar with the whole min-max thing for classes as that's way more work than I want to put into things, but you can probably find the "best gear" for BLM just by googling it.
Hope all this helps.