Does it get better or lively after lvl 10?

[Shinokaze]

no. i am a quest-er first and a grinder second

[Grefia]

Npc (mobs) with blue icons only attack if you attack. The ones that will attack you by getting too close are orange icons. at 5 you have not really started the game, since you can do 1-15 in less than 3 hours. Grouping starts around level 10 with guildhests, then at 15, assuming you are caught up on story, you will do you first dungeons. As for fates, it depends on the time of day. Higher level players will do low level fates because of ATMA farming. You need to follow your story and class quests. You are basically in a tutorial right now, and learning to play your class. Read the quests, follow instructions, get to 15. Then you will find the world opens up for you and you will meet more people.

[ColorOfSakura]

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1. Enemy mobs will not auto-aggro until you get to around Level 15 or so. This is to give new players a chance to get used to exploring without having to worry about stopping to battle mobs every ten steps or so. Auto-aggro will stop on those mobs when you outlevel them by 10 levels however. So if you're Level 30 and a monster is Level 19, it will ignore you. If it's level 21, it will attack you. It doesn't work in reverse though: If you're level 10 and a monster is Level 50, you might want to run because it will murder you.

2. You're coming into an MMO on a server where the vast majority of the playerbase has at least a three month headstart over you, if not a year. Low level Fates are generally ignored because most players got super burnt out on hunting items called Atma for their high level weapons (it involves you doing Fates in certain zones and can be a grind.) Grouping doesn't really happen for overworld content until Level 50 when Hunts are unlocked and you can tackle Elite Marks (Notorious Monsters). You can party up and share certain content, but if someone is too high level over you, you'll stop gaining EXP while partied with them (this is to keep Level 50s from carrying new players through stuff.)

3. Chats are silent because chat commands are relegated to distance or specific groups. /say, /yell, and /shout are all based on distance - with /shout being the entire zone, but not the entire server. /tell is relegated to a specific person (like whisper), and then /fc and /l1 - /l6 are relegated to Free Companies and Linkshells, respectively. Best thing to do is to find some Linkshells to join.

4. I don't consider this desperate so much as just attempting to help new players mesh with the game and the community on the server. You can just ignore the invites if you want. Keep a look out for recruitments in Party Find and in /shout. Free Companies can really have a positive impact on your experience of the game as whole.

Overall the playerbase is just fine. It just looks like you personally game into the game with expectations of it being like some other MMO you have played, and it is not that.

[Spot]

It never gets better. The end game is like the Sims, with less options.

[Kiro_Moth]

It never gets better. The end game is like the Sims, with less options.

I think I've been playing the sims wrong

[Shinokaze]

maybe, I have to learn how to be laid back in the starting areas. or fight more than one starting area npc at same time to form an aggroed, grouped mob to make more fun, challenging and exciting until i get to lvls 10-15 and after.

[Shinokaze]

thank you all for giving me sound advise to solve my starting area issues. now, i have something to look forward to.

[Terrini]

I was randomly invited to my first free company and I did not stick with it, but I found a group of friends that I'm still close with. Sometimes random invites are helpful like that if you don't know anyone as FCs and LSes are where people are most social.

[Causality]

Level 5 isn't enough to get a feel of the game. You could say the Tutorial phase is through Main Scenario quest level 15 When they let you out into the world. The mobs start becoming aggressive around level 7-9. As for the guild spam, as I tend to not join Guilds, or Free Companies as they are called in this game) if they do that. I was getting spam up until level 44 when I joined a free company because I had grouped with them before hand.

People do do low level fates. Fates are level Synched and the relic weapons demand they be done. They are also used for getting Grand company Seals which you will learn more of around level 20. I usually hit most fates I come across.

As for grouping at that level. Most of the content is solo content. Fates can be done in groups, but you are going to find times in your Main and Class Quests that there are things that you can ONLY do alone and some things in your main scenario that require you run a dungeon (Around level 15).

[Kastraan]

I would give the game a shot at least until you can unlock your actual job. I think thats when things actually get interesting. It was boring for me before then, but I got interested in my job quests and now I love the game! it has its lulls in entertainment, but when it does pick up again there is often a lot to do!