Lets see..my first days in FFXI..who-boy! lol i was just starting out as a tarutaru whm. i picked up fairly quickly on the controls,battle system, and navigation fairly quickly enough having played many FF games before. however i was still lost on what to actually do in this game for all i knew at the time was how to play whm. it was then i ran into a player..i can't recall his name off the top of my head but i know he was a elven male. he asked me if i was new and i told him i was. he handed me 10,000 gil which at the time i thought was A TON of gil at the time and was so happy to get that much...boy was i a noob....lmao anyways he handed me a linkpearl which had to walk me through on how to equip. the Linkshell was called WarriorsnWizards. it was there i met the LS leader who's name was Talna whom was a mithra. she helped me through my first few missions with bastok and many others to come till i could finally stand on my own two feet so-to-speak. i was a hopeless cause though at that time..lol i asked for help regularly having no idea what to do in a certain area of asking for people to raise me. i soon became able to handle my own though once i unlocked a few new jobs. one of which was smn. however it wasn't until i had unlocked blue mage i could truly stand on my own and not need to ask for help every time i turned around..lol nearly 4 years later i'm a freaking pro and know how to play this game in and out.