Hitting 50 as a new player

[Velisra]

One other note in case you don't know: You must complete all the story quests up to the end quest of the 2.55 patch before you can enter Ishgard anyway. It's these quests that send you into the group content that requires certain levels of gear and of course that gear will be fine for Ishgard. There's a thread in the new player forum about this here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-now-you-re-50...

That might help a bit. :-)