Fairly New, Some Questions~

[Zakalwe]

Indeed I made this thread to ask for new player/beginning help xD
Based on what you have all said, I should only bother doing crafting for free gears through my own effort and time spent gathering materials. Accept the monetary rewards from quests and ignore the quest armor. In fact I do as Peptaru said, which is gather all the materials for yourself. It is Arduous but it works. [Snip] I'll do that when I am 50 and ready to upgrade my gears, maybe not even then if the lvl 50 stuff is boring. I do not know what Darklight/CT is, but if it matters, I am following a guides advice to get my grand company lvl 50 gears. Till then it seems I will worry about crafting and using crafted gears so that I can select monetary rewards over crafted gears. Also I think this is my last post I can make today thanks to heavy forum restrictions~

Dungeon drop gear is quite good, and augmented with gear you purchase from your Grand Company, you should be in good shape.

Also, you will likely find that once you get your Dragoon job you'll pretty much just be staying in that, not dropping back to lancer. You give up some cross skills but get to use some powerful job skills and also get other enhancements.

Welcome to this great game and remember to have fun!