The beginning of ff14 is just bad vibes for new players without friends. You're thrown into the existing of nowhere, where nobody really writes, you don't really understand anything, the quests are 90% reading and 10% doing some stupidly easy task while your rotation is 1,2 with 3 gcds that are all worthless while leveling. There is 20 npcs that have 20 different currencies for 20 different rewards, you open the map, the whole map blinks, try to navigate the map but you don't even know where you are anymore or where your main quest is. Finally get accustom to the first city, it's send you to two others so you get more lost. Try to find a guild it refers you like 1999 to a website.