As a new player... so far, I'm hating this game.

[Sagittarian]

Under the Duty section of the menu is an option for Recommendations. That will show you any recommended quests in your zone. It can be very helpful early on to find things and remind you of where to go.

Otherwise, as mentioned, you will need to do your level 10 marauder quest to unlock the ability to get other classes. Once you have done that quest you can pick up the other classes by visiting the appropriate guild and equipping the weapon they give you.

And the autotranslator quest is annoying.

[silverwell]

Sorry to see youre having a bad experience trying to figure things out. I was in the same boat before.

Pretty much what the others say about the class changing. You need to do the level 10 class quest. Your guildmaster will say something on the lines of pursueing other interests/guilds. Its also a good idea to keep up with the class quests. They provide free gear and essential spells.
Also keep up with the main scenario quests (flaming quest giver icon). You will get an airship pass that allows access to the other cities and their respective classes and jobs.
For the autotranslater, just hit tab if youre on a computer. Not sure how it works with a console. You can type a word then hit tab, then choose your word/phrase.

[Nyalia]

One thing people often miss with the auto-translator quest is that you must have the NPC selected when you say the thing for it to work. If you don't, they won't acknowledge it. In fact, for any quest where you have to do an emote to someone or say a phrase to someone, you must have them selected for it to count. That's a thing they should have mentioned somewhere in the game, but they never did =\

[Ilitsa]

You need to complete your level 10 class quest before you get access to the armory. For auto translate if using keyboard and mouse, tab while entering text will bring up the menu. if using a controller, it's R1 while the text cursor is on.

[Artiste]

The leveling in FF14 is horrible, it's a good thing that there is nice end-game donjons, trials and raids, I hated so much the leveling... Maps are wierd, I got lost many times, some quests like the story quest made me run 200 times at one place where there is no teleporter near, just to talk to an NPC... (The waking sand)

[tocsin]

some quests like the story quest made me run 200 times at one place where there is no teleporter near, just to talk to an NPC... (The waking sand)

Okay, this, a million times, until I figured out the trick. Go to limsa limosa, aerthernet to arcanist guild, look to your left, and take the ferry there for 80 gil. it takes you to almost right in front of the waking sands, in less than 3 minutes of walking.

Fastest route possible!

[OlyverW]

Another thing about those quest where you have to say something to a npc along with having them selected the game is very pedantic when it comes to it, for instance one of the quests have you say With the Wind. However if you do not capitalize the w in with and the w in wind and you type with the wind it will not acknoweldge the prompt

[Sagittarian]

Another thing about those quest where you have to say something to a npc along with having them selected the game is very pedantic when it comes to it, for instance one of the quests have you say With the Wind. However if you do not capitalize the w in with and the w in wind and you type with the wind it will not acknoweldge the prompt

Blame localization for that. Japanese does not have capitalization so the recognition code would not have taken that into account. You could argue that this is poor planning from the developers.
It would be looking for an exact text match with a key value. The localization teams then had to decide on a single text string to use as the match. The capitalization was probably decided to match with German, which is going to capitalize all nouns anyway.

Edit: I thought about how they are probably doing the text recognition. They probably have to change all the text into unicode before they compare it with the key value. Capital and lowercase letters have different unicode values. So to check something like "wItH tHe WiNd" while ignoring all capitalization would mean all combinations of lowercase and uppercase have to be considered. That would require up to 2^11=2048 comparisons. And you know *someone* would try to break it by entering as long a string as they could. Rather than poor planning it was probably deemed too resource intensive.

[ruskie]

Edit: I thought about how they are probably doing the text recognition. They probably have to change all the text into unicode before they compare it with the key value. Capital and lowercase letters have different unicode values. So to check something like "wItH tHe WiNd" while ignoring all capitalization would mean all combinations of lowercase and uppercase have to be considered. That would require up to 2^11=2048 comparisons. And you know *someone* would try to break it by entering as long a string as they could. Rather than poor planning it was probably deemed too resource intensive.

I would assume the game is in unicode already. As for string comparison. Most often one takes the string and does to lower or to upper and then compares that against the string looking for. That way you don't care about case at all.

[Ziro]

The leveling in FF14 is horrible, it's a good thing that there is nice end-game donjons, trials and raids, I hated so much the leveling... Maps are wierd, I got lost many times, some quests like the story quest made me run 200 times at one place where there is no teleporter near, just to talk to an NPC... (The waking sand)

The fastest way there actually, you just go to Horizon then take the chocobo porter for a few gil. Take a few bites of your sandwich and you will be in Vesper Bay. The maps are actually pretty accurate you just may have to zoom in or out. Best advice I can give you. Find a friendly FC. The one I run on Adamantoise , we will answer any question and go help someone if they are lost, it makes a huge difference in your gaming experience. You don't feel stuck on an island with your questions or when you hit a wall.