The people we met

[PaulH]

I remember 2.x patches on Odin and the building of Mor Dohna and still remember the chatty little lala that was Hannah Montana who always seemed to have quite the audience and this continued throughout all the patches when it was the first hub.

[SweetestLily]

You said good and bad, so.. this one is pretty bad. Met someone on Leviathan who turned out to be a grown man pretending to be a woman who's mother was dying to cancer. He was catfishing as a cute blonde e-girl on Instagram as well. He even took a picture of an elderly woman's body in a grave from Google and posted it on Instagram with the caption. "Miss You Mom". And the donations started rolling. He recieved about 1000 dollars in game from simps and would use it to buy mogstation glamours ,then he would enter discord group calls and take off the fake girl voice he was doing and use his actual voice and laugh about how stupid and easy people are. The disgusting part is he had a group of friends doing the same thing on different games and they basically made a business out of it. He has since transfered to Diabolos. But ever since that experience I will never trust a soul online ever and I encourage others to do the same.

[Bukachu]

You said good and bad, so.. this one is pretty bad. Met someone on Leviathan who turned out to be a grown man pretending to be a woman who's mother was dying to cancer. He was catfishing as a cute blonde e-girl on Instagram as well. He even took a picture of an elderly woman's body in a grave from Google and posted it on Instagram with the caption. "Miss You Mom". And the donations started rolling. He recieved about 1000 dollars in game from simps and would use it to buy mogstation glamours ,then he would enter discord group calls and take off the fake girl voice he was doing and use his actual voice and laugh about how stupid and easy people are. The disgusting part is he had a group of friends doing the same thing on different games and they basically made a business out of it. He has since transfered to Diabolos. But ever since that experience I will never trust a soul online ever and I encourage others to do the same.

lowkey funny tbh.

morale of the story - dont simp

[Crimen]

In 1.0 when Camp Zahar'ak was a relevant and un-soloable open dungeon I really wanted the Zipahi Turban. No one in my Linkshell was ever available/interested in helping so I would just try to go in sneakily but was unsuccessful every time. It wasn't until a random group of Japanese players noticed me and through limited English and the Auto-Translate they offered to help me and insisted to continue until I got it. It took a while but we finally did it and I got the turban. I was so incredibly happy and moved anyone would bother helping a total stranger, barely even being able to speak the same language. It is def my most treasured possession I still hold on to in-game. I don't remember any of their names but I will always be grateful to them.

[AlyaNimfa]

When I first started I was on faerie, didn’t know anyone apart from my friend who came over from another game with me. We joined a fc and this one guy in there was so awesome toward us, me in particular just with being really welcoming and friendly. He’d come along on our lowbie runs and include us, which in itself was great, but because I’m under 18 it was extra cool. I really respected him and loved how he treated everyone.
Drama happened in the fc, and we ended up leaving due to all our friends being at odds. Just didn’t want to be stuck in the middle.

I saw him once in a raid and I said hi, he welcomed me as he always did and told me he missed us. Never seen him since, hope he’s doing well.

That was about 8 months ago, since then I haven’t actually met anyone like him. The fact he was ok with not just hanging out with a newbie, but went the extra mile and treated me like a human even though I am younger was extra special. Sounds weird, but honestly FFXIV isn’t at all welcoming usually to young players.

[Krokov]

good or bad eh, Well for me it has mostly been good I Got back into the game I'm at this one player who yes dude just invited me to his free company that has a just formed a few days before before I saw his invite invite and I was there through a lot of stuff we Did parties together sir I was there when we bought our 1st fc house there's things lots of stuff and it's sadly though it just fell apart and I haven't seen him online in months.

I met other people through the following months and developed good repertoire with them. The most recent friend I made I believe it was through a party finder that we met we met or something else I can't remember but through him he we've done a lot of things together chatting on discord discord doing maps dungeons dungeons and many other things and he helped me a lot with gearing up and gearing up in many times as well.

We still playing chat and stuff but RL circumstance hes not on a whole lot though I believe he would like to be more. It can be tough playing through the game you've had all these friends and you remember how active they were are in the past and now it's dropped off a lot. But you keep at it and keep playing and you just keep on keep on going and do what you need to do. So it's good making the friends in the game where I make them I don't even touch and just say Hi and and I'll keep making them I guess till my friends list is full lol.

[hagare]

Treasure hunting

[VelKallor]

I came into FF 14 in April 2019, as I had a friend in NA, logged into Zalera, and Vel was born.

Logged into NN...met four or five mentors who:

Taught me how to farm collectibles..as in they came with me out into the field and coached me as I did a few. Showed me how to mine, what to look for, what timed nodes were and how to harvest them.

Took me to Idyllshire and walked me through the separate gear, showed me how to augment it ( this was back when it had to be done manually )

Answered a hundred questions on crafting, battle classes, rotations, how to level my professions, helped me unsync one or two dungeons..basically took me under their wing and showed me how to get started on all of it.

Crafted me an entire set of HQ caster gear...that gear saw me through SMN and BLM..I hung onto it for ages, even when i didnt need it anymore, I refused to throw it away as it had been a gift.

Walked me through how to craft, what the stats meant..and shared my moments of exultation..the day I stepped foot into Ishgard was memorable, I remember saying. "Oh my god, this place is..."

None of them were cynical at all, I think they loved seeing a totally new player react to the MSQ, we were all new once, we all remember our first time in Heavensward..then Ala Migho....later I moved to Kujata , then to Zurvan when OCE opened.

Though it may sound corny or trite to the more jaded amongst you, I have never forgotten their kindness and patience with a ( at times VERY annoying ) newbie, and I will always feel forever grateful.

[Myrany]

When I first tried the game I really didn't meet anyone and my one encounter was not good. This was right after ARR release. So I didn't even make it through my free trial. I was just boggled and no one would talk to me to help me sort things out.

Fast forward several years and I hit the end of my rope with WoW during BFA and remembered my old FFXIV account. I decided to try it again when I discovered that I still qualified for the free trial. Something just clicked and I fell in love with the game and subbed 2 days later.

When I was level 35ish I was really struggling on my summoner. I couldn't get past the level 25 class quest. So I invested what gil I had into as much vendor gear as I could manage (it was just a couple pieces I didn't have much gil). Still failed the quest. Kept plugging on the MSQ hoping for upgrades. One day I landed at the Gridania aetherite and a lady asked me why I didn't have a job stone at my level. Being Tired I told her the truth. I couldn't get past the 25 quest. She said stay right there and don't move. She went off and made me a full set of gear appropriate for my level and simply gave it to me. I got past the quest on the first try.

Fast forward some levels and I was poking in my different menus and discovered I had tomestones and if I read it tight they were about to cap. I saw someone with a crown and asked him if he had a moment to answer a question (first mentor I had ever seen in the game actually). I do not remember his characters last name but his first name was Zane (this was on Zalera). I asked what tomestones were for. He showed me where to use them and suggested what to get. There I was suddenly decked out in good gear for level 50.

Most recently I was on my Bard (V'aren) and was trying to get the sightseeing on top of the tower in Kugane. One fellow in the middle of the night my time would show me the way. When I fell (I did a LOT) he would encourage and cheer me on. For hours! So patient! When I gave up for the night he pointed me to some videos that helped him get it. Then next morning I watched the videos and got it on my second try.

No recounting of gaming friends is complete without me mentioning one of my best friends in the world Vel. He and I have been gaming together for YEARS through several games. I was THRILLED when he followed me to FFXIV. We are at this point more like Real Life adopted brother and sister and really good at finding shenanigans to get into together. Even my Real life hubby loves the man dearly to the point when we got to attend a Bob Seger concert (on his last tour) we got a Tshirt for Vel and mailed it all the way to Australia! Although Vel can be abrasive on these forums he really is a smart, witty and infinitely kind soul once you get under the harsh exterior.

[Carin-Eri]

I'm 50/50 on this.