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[WorkMatt]

I've been a fan of FF for years, well after playing FF10 and FF13 I realized I wanted to play every FF game, even the online one. So I subscribed to FF11, and its a great game. But I don't know anyone who plays it, and all my friends hate games, most don't even know what an MMO is, so I'm looking for some cool players to be friends with, do quests, go leveling etc, if anyone else is around lvl 11-13 and needs a white mage let me know. This is a very good game and part of the reason I subed, I just don't know the community that well.

By the way any advice or help for a new player would also be welcomed.

[Sparhawk11]

Hiya Wm welcome to FFxi, Hmmm advice well in my opinion I would be to head to Gusgen mines in konschtat highlands when you hit about lvl 15 & get into a book burn pty, as for meeting ppl in game try & get into a Link shell ppl in there will be able to help with in game advice or come over to sylph & join my ls we have a few new ppl to the game & we`re helping them with game play :) either way i hope you really enjoy FFxi :)

[Mirage]

Good news: If you enjoy playing a healer class, you'll probably feel useful and wanted in the endgame.

Bad news: The game is top-heavy and the low-midgame doesn't really matter a lot. You probably won't see any particularly exciting fights until you're level 75+.

Good news: If you can tolerate the monotone leveling process, you can get to 75+ pretty quickly. Like in a week. You'll spend more time questing some of the stuff new players generally need to quest than you'll spend gaining exp, probably.

Good advice: Try to vary your leveling spots as much as you can, or you might go insane from repetition.

Good advice: If you're a whm in a large alliance smacking easy prey or decent challenge mobs, don't be afraid of engaging the mobs and smacking them a bit yourself instead of sitting down to heal mp. Because the alliance probably will be roaming around and it takes 30 seconds before the first "healing" tick starts when you start healing, there won't be time for you to sit down to regain mp anyway. The alliance wouldn't bother waiting for you and just carry on killing. This mostly applies between levels 10-60. As a whm, you could probably start healing an abyssea exp party/alliance the second you got access to cure 5.

Bad news: You're not a mithra :(

[WorkMatt]

Thanks for the welcome guys, and yea I admit the game was a bit tricky at first, but I'm getting more and more use to it. Made quite a few friends already. As for lvl 75 in a week, I've played some mmos, and none with leveling that quick. Course I'm already level 15 and I've only played about 2 days now. Finished the first story quest in Windfall were you replace the magic bulbs, I admit it started a little slow but I'm getting into it now. I wouldn't worry about me getting disinterested tho, its already a pretty impressive game to me. Course I'm still so new, and yea my WM isn't afraid of a little combat, besides one 2 man party I was in I've soloed all my levels. Never seen WM's that kick so much ass in FF before lol.

[Mirage]

Yeah, it's kinda strange. This game went from being probably the slowest leveling to the fastest practically overnight. I'm not even sure if it was intentional by SE, or if the damage was already done by the time they noticed that people leveled 8 times faster than before.

Either way, the cat's out of the bag now, and there's no way to undo it without massively screwing over new players like you. Imagine how fun this game would be if you have to level the slow way now that everyone else has gotten everything to 99 the fast way. You'd feel pretty lonely :p.

For some more tips:
Regen is the best hp cured per mp spent until you get cure 5 and a bit of cure potency gear. Always carry echo drops in case you get silenced. You're the dude who's gonna cure everyone else's silence, so you can't rely on others un-silencing you.

And lastly, talk to Joachim the moment you hit lv30, and make sure you get the starting cutscene for abyssea. This is what makes you start accumulating traverser stones, which are required to keep yourself inside abyssea.

[WorkMatt]

Yea I've always been a big fan of regen in all the FF's. And the party I was in before, i ran into that same silence problem, it sucked pretty bad. You guys know of any good walkthroughs? Cuz I've searched and didn't come up with much besides Gamefaqs, which for an MMO reading all that text SUCKS! I guess I've always liked White Mages and the idea of helping people, course I can always go secondary, like the black mage, I'm also interested in the summoner class. Anyway, I just picked Leviathan cuz it was the first one on the list, did I make the right choice cuz I know in some mmos certain servers are the best.

[Sparhawk11]

hiya Wm have you found http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page its one the best sites for FFxi or another great one is http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Main_Page have alook at those they will help :)

[Karbuncle]

hiya Wm have you found http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page its one the best sites for FFxi or another great one is http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Main_Page have alook at those they will help :)

I'd like to add this site as well:

http://wiki.bluegartr.com/

Same as the Normal Wiki, Except updates quicker, and usually more accurate for new content. (Its lacking old Content updates though, So I'd use Old wiki for low level crap, and new wiki for anything released mid-Abyssea Era and beyond (80+).

That said, I'm hoping their change from Slowest Exp grind ever, to a nice breeze-through was intentional. While some like the slow grind exp, I've never been a fan of slowly grinding to be able to grind more grinds. I like that I can get to endgame and start the grind that matters quicker.

Truthfully, Its the 8,000,000 Exp TNL At level 20 That's got me turned off from 99% of the MMO's on the Market today... I can only exp so much before i want to stab someone in the eyeball o_o, and I'm a fan of RPG's! odd right?

[WorkMatt]

Thanks for the websites guys, they look pretty helpful. And yea slow grinding does get old, but if anyones played the older FF's, they know that some are either hard as hell to level (FF4, FF5, FF1) or way to fast (FF7, FF8, FF6) so its kinda hard to get that in between balance. But I've always thought that a good system, or fun items or character tweaks, will add a lot more replay. Like FF7, sure you maxed level way to easy, but you still had tons of materia to max and level, and they recycled themselves so the leveling never stopped. FF11 seems like that, I mean you can switch classes anytime, and all the weapons and other stuff levels up, so it does add countless replay to me anyway. By the way, how do you get carbuncle? I love that lil guy, and what other pets can you get?

[Karbuncle]

By the way, how do you get carbuncle? I love that lil guy, and what other pets can you get?

http://wiki.bluegartr.com/bg/I_Can_Hear_a_Rainbow

One of my favorite memories as a newbie Summoner was unlocking Summoner, and doing all the Solo level 20 fights... Its something i Highly recommend doing, If only for the fun.

Basics of the quest: Kill Certain leeches until you get a Carbuncle's Ruby > Something in La'Theine i think > Collect a Light from each Weather Effect... Thunder, Rain, Wind, Fire, Sunny, Etc... > Turn it in > Get Carby.

Ifrit
Shiva
Leviathan
Ramuh
Garuda
Titan
Fenrir
Carbuncle
Diabolos
Alexander
Odin

Edit: You also have the 8 Elemental Spirits (Unique to FFXI, So you wont know them from past games)

are the current available Avatars, With Cait Sith/Atomos planned sometime soon. Sad to tell you, Summoner is a rather broken job right now though, and ultimately pretty useless, since SE doesn't know how to treat the Pet job, and in that light, its kinda ruined it.

Its still fun as hell to play.

[WorkMatt]

What no Bahamut :(

[Karbuncle]

He's in the game, but in the finest tradition of old FF Games, He's not a summon, only a boss.