Hello - New here :) mind helping me up with some questions?

Hey there,

I'm new to the Final Fantasy series, I played once FF VII but I didn't really understand it and left it alone.

I always wanted to play Final Fantasy online, I got a gift on xmas once and it was a FF XI for XBOX >_> and I didn't even have an xbox so browsed a bit after playing a lot of other MMO games and decided, now that I can afford a P2P MMO I'd give FF XIV a try.
After a lot of time downloading and updating the game... and a lot of headaches with the website (it has been the most complicated registration process I have faced in MMOs to be honest, not to mention the forum...) I finally was able to create a toon ingame and today atleast the forum recognized I did log in.

Right now I am on my 30 day free tryal, but I really enjoyed the game yesterday (stopped playing at 5 am today, I really liked the game), but some questions came to me when I was playing, hope you guys can solve these.

1. I saw somewhere that you can get your very own chocobo, I think it was in a SE website when I was signing up, but I have not been able to find any further information about this, I really want one (not rent one every time). Can anyone point me in the right direction about this?

2. I have done some research and found that quests are not the main thing in the game, due to this, questing is quite confusing for me (since I come from other games where its quest after quest). Once a quest is available for my level, is there a quest log I can access or some sort of thing that tells me who to speak with? Only time I have quested is when messing around the city and suddenly I find out an exclamation mark on my minimap.

3. Is there a way to switch gear faster? Like when I want to equip, lets say a fishing rod, everything from my... cleric? or caster or whatever the name it is is unnequiped, but I have some other gear that "class?" can equip and I have to do it manually, is there a shortcut to this?

4. Is there any macro to open the gear window and items? I know "U" stands for the Usable Items window, so I'm guessing theres something like it for those.

5. I have heard they were working on Auction House, is it implemmented yet?

6. What is the quicker way to make coin or guil or w/e?, questing just seems not enough - still have to learn up the terms...

7. I saw some people with emblems/shields on the left side of their nickname, what is this? Is this the guild thing?

8. I have tried to use my blacksmith hammer thing, but it asks for recipes... where do I buy the books or whatever for these? xD

- Sorry yes many questions >,> - and since I think I have selected a VERY empty server, I just find people once in a while, feels like a solo RPG game ._. so I can't really ask people... not to mention I'm afraid of the stupid people calling you names and stuff like noob for simply starting the game and trying to progress in it... so yeah better rant here :o

9. I have tried my fishing skill (just level 2), but most of the time "nothing bites" ... whats wrong with this? I can't really afford purchasing bite and stuff, I have only used rat tails and mob things for it xD but takes looong and I havent found anything out of fishing, everything just goes away u.u

10. I heard somewhere that you can level everything with Levequests, I picked up some of these for fishing and stuff, but wasnt able to complete them for some reason, lets say I want to level up my blacksmith, how can the NPC give me the materials (heard it gives everything so you don't need to look for those only for levequests) and how can I get the recipes for those levequests? O_o soo confusing xD

11. What the hell is Anima? and how can I increase it once its used up? - I mean the teleporting thing ._.

Anddd thats it for now I think xD

Nice to meet you :D btw, I'm from Mexico so, please bare with my typos if any :)

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Originally Posted by Hagito

1. I saw somewhere that you can get your very own chocobo, I think it was in a SE website when I was signing up, but I have not been able to find any further information about this, I really want one (not rent one every time). Can anyone point me in the right direction about this?

Join Grand Company and buy with company seals - you can get grand company quest I believe starting at lv22, need lv25 to obtain the chocobo if I remember correctly.

2. I have done some research and found that quests are not the main thing in the game, due to this, questing is quite confusing for me (since I come from other games where its quest after quest). Once a quest is available for my level, is there a quest log I can access or some sort of thing that tells me who to speak with? Only time I have quested is when messing around the city and suddenly I find out an exclamation mark on my minimap.

Look up websites or when you're in town look for NPC with a "!" icon which shows up on mini-map or map when you're close enough in range.

3. Is there a way to switch gear faster? Like when I want to equip, lets say a fishing rod, everything from my... cleric? or caster or whatever the name it is is unnequiped, but I have some other gear that "class?" can equip and I have to do it manually, is there a shortcut to this?

Menu > Config > User Macro and make macro for each class with set equipment using
/equip command info - http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...e/macro01.html

4. Is there any macro to open the gear window and items? I know "U" stands for the Usable Items window, so I'm guessing theres something like it for those.

Menu > Config > Key bind and setup key for equipment window.

5. I have heard they were working on Auction House, is it implemmented yet?

Nope, only got market wards but you can try and buy from the search function directly by paying small fee if you walk up to the actual retainer in specific market you wont have to pay this fee.

6. What is the quicker way to make coin or guil or w/e?, questing just seems not enough - still have to learn up the terms...

You don't need too much in the beginning so don't worry too much - doing leve's over and over in time will be enough in most cases to get you started.

7. I saw some people with emblems/shields on the left side of their nickname, what is this? Is this the guild thing?

Linkshell - basically a guild you can ask people around if they are inviting new members.

8. I have tried to use my blacksmith hammer thing, but it asks for recipes... where do I buy the books or whatever for these? xD

You can check recipe's here http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/recipe

- Sorry yes many questions >,> - and since I think I have selected a VERY empty server, I just find people once in a while, feels like a solo RPG game ._. so I can't really ask people... not to mention I'm afraid of the stupid people calling you names and stuff like noob for simply starting the game and trying to progress in it... so yeah better rant here :o

9. I have tried my fishing skill (just level 2), but most of the time "nothing bites" ... whats wrong with this? I can't really afford purchasing bite and stuff, I have only used rat tails and mob things for it xD but takes looong and I havent found anything out of fishing, everything just goes away u.u

For starter buy worms/lug worms and just use those they are the cheapest fishing baits available at shop selling gathering items. If you don't have enough money for that dunno what to say... should go kill few mobs outside sell the materials and buy bait, with bait get some fish and once you got enough fish sell those and repeat. If you start alchemy you can craft those fishes into shards/crystals and try to sell those in market to make some cash also.

10. I heard somewhere that you can level everything with Levequests, I picked up some of these for fishing and stuff, but wasnt able to complete them for some reason, lets say I want to level up my blacksmith, how can the NPC give me the materials (heard it gives everything so you don't need to look for those only for levequests) and how can I get the recipes for those levequests? O_o soo confusing xD

For local leve after you take quest for the ones you have to deliver to a camp just open the crafting window and choose the first option on very top and choose the leve you just took and the materials are already supplied to you so you can start crafting (you have to have the crafting equipment equipped to craft like the smithing hammer) for the other type where you have to talk to NPC in town look at the journal > Map and they will show where the NPC is located talk to the NPC to receive the materials and once you have the materials just open up the crafting window and do the same process as the delivery one to start crafting.


Anddd thats it for now I think xD

Nice to meet you :D btw, I'm from Mexico so, please bare with my typos if any :)

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Good luck :)

Thank you so much :)!
I will have this one in my bookmarks xD

1. Personal Chocobo can be obtained through the Grand Companies. Once you choose one and join, i believe you can purchase a Chocobo whistle for 3000 seals. You can rent chocobo's from the stables in the meantime.

2.There is a Journal that has your current quests in it. There is a button on the bottom of the menu in the journal when you select the quest, that will show you a map of the location of your next step in the quest.

3.Switching gear faster would require you to setup a macro. On lodestone there is a huge page of all the macro/text commands available to use. Macros can be written in the configuration menu.

4.There are keybinds available and/or you can set keybinds for journal, inventory, loot, etc. This is in the configuration aswell under keyboard.

5.Market Wards is close to an Auction House. You can buy directly from the item search window (for a 4k fee) or go into the ward and search for the item on the respective retainer. Example~ "The Dunes" is zone line into the market wards in Ul'dah i believe.

6. I find basically playing the game can net you money. Leves + quests net some gils. You can do the class quests and the story quest, they give a decent some of gils. You can gather materials/crystals/shards, to sell in the market wards, or you can level up crafting class and supply gears, and or items to other adventurers for gils.

7. Emblem you see is the Linkshell they belong to. Other mmo's have guilds or whatever, Linkshell is FF's version of this.

8. No books are bought, you just need to be the proper rank to successfully craft the item. Lodestone has all the recepies in the synthesis section. You just put in the items and craft away.

9. You might be trying to fish in a grade too high level. Otherwise different baits will yield different results. So try other baits and spend a lil more time. They will start biting. Its like real life, gotta wait a lil bit ^.^

10. When you pick up a 'local' leve for say blacksmithing. When you go into the crafting menu (down on one knee) there will be a button in the top of the menu for "Requested Items" This opens a menu with all the current local leves and/or class quests in it. You click the leve you want to start, and it will put the items in the window for you. All you need to do is spam enter for a bit afterwerds.

11. Anima recharges over time. If you type /clock ingame you will get a clock that shows current time, and timers on leves, anima, and behests.

Hope this kinda explains it. Game isnt very straight forward heh. Lodestone will help though if you get lost spend a lil time searching through the site, there are mostly tutorials on all aspects, with pictures to help ^.^;;


FFS spent like 10mins and got beaten by the Sublingar Lord <@.@>

Thanks both :D

I already setted up my keyboard shortcuts aaah so much better <3!!
The only thing I'm having a problem with is the macro for equipping :P

is this right?
/equip main Maple Wand

if it is, then its not working o.o I also tried how the site has it, /equip [main] [Maple Wand]

hmm~

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Originally Posted by Hagito

Thanks both :D

I already setted up my keyboard shortcuts aaah so much better <3!!
The only thing I'm having a problem with is the macro for equipping :P

is this right?
/equip main Maple Wand

if it is, then its not working o.o I also tried how the site has it, /equip [main] [Maple Wand]

hmm~

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Sorry, can't confirm it right now. But if Eorzeapedia is right it should be:
Ok, just did it with another piece of equipment and yes, that should work.

/equip mh "Maple Wand"

Also, welcome to the game. The first levels/hours will be weird but you'll get the hang of out eventually.
Glad to see more people from Mexico in the game (I'm from MX too)

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Originally Posted by Kaizlu

Sorry, can't confirm it right now. But if Eorzeapedia is right it should be:

/equip mh "Maple Wand"

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Now, THAT does work xD on the site it says "main" not "mh" u.u thanks :) *browses for this Eorzeapedia* xD

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/recipe use that for fishing gathering spots.

other recipe/info sites.
http://ffxiv.yg.com/
http://ffxiv.zam.com/en/recipelist.h...ent=&order_by=

This one is in JP but shows all the gathering areas items and position to choose to obtain those items in those areas.
http://ff14ez.com/gathering/

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Originally Posted by Hagito

Now, THAT does work xD on the site it says "main" not "mh" u.u thanks :) *browses for this Eorzeapedia* xD

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That's because it used to be "main". They changed it. Equipping a shield or secondary tool also got changed; it's now "oh".

I just wanted to let you know, for fishing you will need to use the appropriate bait based on where exactly you are fishing. If you look on the bait description it will tell you what you can use it for. If it says "saltwater fishing" it only works for ocean/coast fishing, "Freshwater fishing" means it only works in rivers/streams/lakes/ponds, and "all-purpose" means it will work anywhere, although there's very few all-purpose bait.

Also, if you are having money troubles, make sure to do main story quests and levequests, as were suggested. Make sure to pick "Leve Evaluations" after doing at most 8 levequests, you will get a special leve with boosted money rewards.

Also, be sure to pick up your gear from the vendors in the adventurer's guild to the left and right of the guild owner. In Limsa, it's the guys next to Baderon, in Ul'dah, its the guys next to Momodi. Don't remember the name of the guild owner in Gridania... Anyways they sell starting level gear for all classes for really cheap, it will help you get some mileage out of your earnings.