I think DarkRaven is around your level. Maybe tomorrow I will run some low level guys through some hard missions to get you guys up there quicker. If you see me on tomorrow hot me up it is fixitquick79 on uplay.

If you play with high level players on hard missions you can sometimes get some shots in without dying but mostly get experience and rank up quicker by sitting back as well. i had some guys help me on my mission the other day get more base of operations sections complete and took my rank from 14 to 18. im working Sat/Sun and will be on next week. Usually im playing late evening from 10/11 pm to 1-3 am
The problem though Enfohip is that when agents join your game to help you out it sets the level of enemies to their level. So if your level 18 and they are level 30 the enemies will be around level 25-30 which is way above your skill level. Even while hanging in back you can take a flashbang and die or one shot and die from that high level of enemies. So when you play with the higher ranked players to rank up definitely stay in back and have medical packs ready. You can still fire but use cover a lot. What we wold do is set the mission to hard mode and let them run ahead and take the main fire of the enemies and you can fire and finish them off. You still get lots of XP and gear/weapons drops plus all the mission credits to open up your base of operations wings and in turn new skills and perks
Yeah I understand that, that's why I don't want to play with people way higher than me. (Hence the preferably around my level part)