new players screwed?

[gelectrode]

So my friend wants to play ffxiv, great. he gets the game and is now level 20 and is trying to do probably pirates. So he is in Q for 4 hours and cant get a group. Then it hits me, i cant run him though by my self and there is no reason for anyone pass this quest to ever run it again since fate spamming is so much better. No one is making more chars other then there 1 because there is almost no need.

So what now, my friend is ok because i can hook him up with 2 more people to help but how does a brand new player with no friends on a server do anything with this game at this point?

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

Be nice, unequip your soul crystal for half an hour and play with your mate
I've been wonderin around Thanalan and helping low level Thurm's do FATEs with my tank, granted I dont have my soul crystal yet but it helps level my Alt class

[Alhanelem]

Be nice, unequip your soul crystal for half an hour and play with your mate
I've been wonderin around Thanalan and helping low level Thurm's do FATEs with my tank, granted I dont have my soul crystal yet but it helps level my Alt class

Why would you unequip your soul crystal? You can use jobs below level 30, you just won't have access to any job specific actions (you will still have bonus stats however, and SMN/SCH pets will still be used instead of Arcanist pets)

Anyway, while I would agree wait times for story content are increasing, its still not hard to form a group within your server, and they're adding a party recruitment function to make that easier.

[Freakiie]

No problem at all! 2.1 will introduce a random dungeon system, so there'll be plenty of high lvl players who will get queued up for lower lvl dungeons!

Oh wait, 2.1 isn't until another 2 months. You'd almost think SE didn't think this through.

[ExponentialDecay]

No problem at all! 2.1 will introduce a random dungeon system, so there'll be plenty of high lvl players who will get queued up for lower lvl dungeons!

Oh wait, 2.1 isn't until another 2 months. You'd almost think SE didn't think this through.

2.1 is next month.

[Naberrie]

2.1 is next month.

That may not be accurate. They mentioned in the last live letter that they were planning on doing monthly Live Letters before 2.1. Monthly. Plural.

[gelectrode]

That may not be accurate. They mentioned in the last live letter that they were planning on doing monthly Live Letters before 2.1. Monthly. Plural.

If thats all true and its fixed in 2.1 and thats in a months time then none of this wont really matter that much. 6 months would be really hurtin though.

[ExponentialDecay]

That may not be accurate. They mentioned in the last live letter that they were planning on doing monthly Live Letters before 2.1. Monthly. Plural.

We already have a timeline of content patches occurring every 3 months. November is the third month after August.

[FabledMage]

That may not be accurate. They mentioned in the last live letter that they were planning on doing monthly Live Letters before 2.1. Monthly. Plural.

And they have been doing monthly letters for some time now, what yoshi was saying is the LAST letter will be in November.

[Sunarie]

As someone else mentioned, it's going to be pretty tough with someone brand new to the game, and with no friends. The only real hope is to find an FC/LS with friendly people willing to sync down.

2.1 is suppose to have a system that fixes that (though details about it are scarce atm), but that's a ways out.