New to Final Fantasy 14 and need some advice!

[Jinrya-Geki]

Get out while you can!

Mostly, it amounts to people telling you to watch videos on youtube on how to do things for fights.

If you need help knowing jobs, I can help on Black Mage.

Duty Finder, you might want to avoid unless you have some friends to do it with, because most duty finder groups are full of horrible players that will yell at you for the smallest mistake.

Fates are going to be hard for you to complete because of ATMA farming people are doing so it will be very hard to get experience.

I am not sugar coating this game for you at all. There are nice people, but the aggression that a lot of the players have is very noticeable . The first thing you want to do is try to find some nice players to join a FC with them and avoid everyone else.

[Evrir]

Get out while you can!

Mostly, it amounts to people telling you to watch videos on youtube on how to do things for fights.

If you need help knowing jobs, I can help on Black Mage.

I'll be sure to ask you if I ever decide to play a Black Mage :]! I'm still deciding on what I wanna play to be honest, I know I don't have to reroll but I find it fun making characters haha.

Though the problem with people telling others to watch Videos is there is so much a Video Guide can teach us, especially if there is hardly any new ones covering recent changes.. that and they tend to only give you a basic idea while peer to peer can get you much farther.. I personally learn more from playing and tid bits from other players then I have watching any video and heck I've watched plenty already.

[KingOfAbyss]

There are nice people, but the aggression that a lot of the players have is very noticeable . The first thing you want to do is try to find some nice players to join a FC with them and avoid everyone else.

^ This. Welcome to FFXIV. enjoy the ride, learn to master the controller, the first 20 lvls are there to give you a glimpse of it so you learn the basic stuff.

Be with nice and fun people. all the rest.. brush it aside.