Bought the game yesterday

[Signy]

Just a sugestion i always do to new ppl. Before leveling your main job level up all others jobs to get this skills:

Arc 2 > Decoy
Lnc 14 > Invigorate
Mrd 6 > Bloodbath
Pgl 6 > Fatherfoot and Second Wind
Con 18 > Cure, Protect and Raise
Gla 22 > Sentinel

This skills are must have to play. Also leveling all classes at the begging is nice to see which one you like as your main.

[Phe]

Why is Ul'dah so popular? I didn't think the desert looked nice which is why I chose Gridania.

I like you.

[Molly_Millions]

Talk to Momodi or check your NPC linkpearl.

[Molly_Millions]

There is airships in the game that's news to me and I been playing since launch.

lol, are you also unaware that there are chocobos on this game?

[Mychael]

This skills are must have to play. Also leveling all classes at the begging is nice to see which one you like as your main.

I agree totally with everything Signy said! However, I do want to add that they're not so much "required" as they are extremely useful skills that will be expected at higher levels/endgame. Please don't feel restricted, like in XI (In XI, leveling another job was literally required (by the community) before you could join in anything). In particular, many people reach level 50 without Raise or Protect (or in many cases Sentinel, but I think since you're playing MRD it would be in your best interests to get it sooner rather than later. )

[KairiSgheart]

If you love exploring, instead of taking airship, try find your way to uldah and other city by following the roads in gridania all the way south. =p. touching all those camp nodes along the way to facilitate your travel later. I am from grid too, glad u love the forest scenery like me . Try make new friends and a nice shell, leveling with a party is always more fun and you get to learn more things with a shell and friends =p. Good luck

[Signy]

This thread made me remember that i never use the boat to go from grid to limsa. I hope they don't disable it on the patch.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Something to keep in mind. FFXIV has a lot of horizontal development, this concept will be new to you compared to playing WoW. It means to be successful, it's not just about "getting to 50," and getting good "loot." As suggested in an earlier post, look at leveling a few classes to 15-20. This will go a long way at making you much stronger in battle, and help give you much needed survivability.

The game is also very open, and will not direct you along like WoW does. The result of this is a very rewarding experience in my opinion. You discover your own goals as you explore the game. The main story will prompt you for the most part (through NPC linkpearls) as you progress, and sidequests will start to show up as you gain levels. Also being a Marauder, you'll want to wander over to Limsa Lominsa when you hit level 20 for your first Marauder Guild quest.

[Orsnoire]

Ok first thing I'll do after writing this is check the "lodestone's play guide." I enjoy reading and learning more about the game so thank you for that link Estellios.

I came to this game from World of Warcraft so I would have never guessed you were supposed to grind monsters to level fast. World of Warcrafts leveling is all just following quest hub to quest hub, and you get such little exp for randomly killing monsters your level that it's never worth it. Now that I know it's a good idea to seek out mobs my level and kill them, I'll do that while saving up some Level quests.

Ok so story quests just come available to me as I level... Lol I was looking all over for where to travel to in order to progress through the story.

Why is Ul'dah so popular? I didn't think the desert looked nice which is why I chose Gridania. I'm happy to know I can travel to any of the 3 cities at any time without consequence. Is there an easy way to find a Linkshell other than sit in the city and ask everyone 1 by 1 if I can join? I don't want to be annoying haha

Alright, I'm going to head back in the game and figure some stuff out. I've been talking to every single NPC hoping the game will make more and more sense. So happy my thread got so many replies and in a short amount of time.

The reason Ul'dah is so popular is because the story quests lead there, and so most people end up there for the majority of their leveling experience. As a result, people have naturally migrated their bazaar retainers to Ul'dah, and so after the game has been up as long as it has, pretty much it's to the point where virtually everyone uses Ul'dah as the primary hub of the game (think Orgrimmar or Stormwind; those are really good comparisons).

Basically, if you're coming from WoW, the best thing you could do is to find some good in-game friends who can teach you the ettiquette of FF XIV. It's dramatically different from WoW, and around here you can set people off in ways you don't want simply by doing things that you may be accustomed to doing.

Welcome, and hope you enjoy your journey!

[Kailika]

I picked up a whole bunch of Leves yesterday for fishing, logging ect. but then went to bed before doing them. When I woke up and started playing FFXIV, I was in a party and did about 6 Leves that belonged to someone else. After he went to bed I wanted to do the Leves picked up last night but they are all greyed out except for one. What causes them to be greyed out? I didn't do a single one of them. And I read that doing other peoples Leves has zero effect on your own

Besides that I got my Botany and Marauder up a little bit so I'm happy. Need to work on crafting next so I can replace all my level 1 gear

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