Continuing on, I do the typical gather up the quests in a specific town/zone/area and then systematically work my way through them (god there seems to be a lot of quests!), for the most part the quests are the typical fetch/gather/talk which I’m used to from previous MMO’s. After completing a few more quests I finally get one that points me outside of the starting town.

I head out of town with a few quests requiring me to kill this-or-that, start combat… and wait…. And attack….. and wait….. and attack…. And wait…. Is it just me or does FFXIV have possibly the slowest combat in a MMO? For a moment I wasn’t sure if it was turn based like the old FF games… but no, it’s not, it’s just really slow…