Suggestions from a new player

[Mindx3]

Hi OP. Welcome aboard! You have a lot of valid concerns regarding interface and new player friendliness.

The User Interface forum may also appreciate your support for a quest tracker. There's the journal with the map button there that will show the quest-related NPC or location, but hide all other markers, but to me, couldn't that quest objective be incorporated into my regular map? Little touch ups like that here and there. It's not like a player knows where to go without checking the journal map, so ... why not?

And I think most of the folks here don't know what it's like starting from scratch with physical level 1 with 1.18. Unfortunately, the mages are some of the tougher classes to rank up. Chances are, your physical level is lower than your mage rank, so you don't have too many points to invest into Vitality and the like. Even if you did, as you said, groups of enemies unleashing their weapon skills or spells can take a mage down pretty fast which makes soloing a leve less sexy than advertised).

Better direction after the entry missions could be desired. And the cities aren't balanced in the sense that players have crammed their retainers in unsafe and unhealthy conditions that is the wards of Ul'dah with overpriced beginner and intermediary gear. Gridania and Limsa Lominsa across the servers appears to be less than populated.

I lost my train of thought, I post before I forget anymore, har har! But welcome aboard and thanks for the feedback!

What he said!

[MariyaShidou]

I was a crafter before leveling DoW/DoM so I had Physical Level 50 when my highest DoW was 30 so it's moot pre or patch 1.18, lol. I have zero problem killing a bunch of Fachan (deadliest leve mobs yet) with my CON, my Mage stat is only 40 INT 60 MND 40 PIE.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

I was a crafter before leveling DoW/DoM so I had Physical Level 50 when my highest DoW was 30 so it's moot pre or patch 1.18, lol. I have zero problem killing a bunch of Fachan (deadliest leve mobs yet) with my CON, my Mage stat is only 40 INT 60 MND 40 PIE.

This is where I refer back to the "And I think most of the folks here don't know what it's like starting from scratch with physical level 1 with 1.18." Remember as a higher physical level, you have more points to play around with. You and I can pump at least 80 Vitality for that HP buffer and still have some have decent mage stats. Outfitted ourselves due to our previous time investments in crafting, connections, and/or pre-gil inflation. Use Stygian Spikes to keep that MP up longer, maybe we even have a recovery ability like Second Wind or Aegis Boon so we're not seeing red HP after getting hit by a single weapon skill.

A new conjurer in Gridania is going to have a difficult time soloing.

[Mindx3]

Lol i have no skills but Con skills so far, im guessing you dont know what its like trying to take down a 23 opo at Con lvl 17 rank 13, i could describe the fight since its like rythem to me now lol starts of with it gaining tp with ranged attacks while i can get 2-3 moves in then it unloads and spams its kick move forcing me to cure after every tp move and trying to dps it down at the same time...1 mistake and im dead

[MariyaShidou]

This is where I refer back to the "And I think most of the folks here don't know what it's like starting from scratch with physical level 1 with 1.18." Remember as a higher physical level, you have more points to play around with. You and I can pump at least 80 Vitality for that HP buffer and still have some have decent mage stats. Outfitted ourselves due to our previous time investments in crafting, connections, and/or pre-gil inflation. Use Stygian Spikes to keep that MP up longer, maybe we even have a recovery ability like Second Wind or Aegis Boon so we're not seeing red HP after getting hit by a single weapon skill.

A new conjurer in Gridania is going to have a difficult time soloing.

Because I didn't start from scratch, correct? And FYI, crafting wasn't going to net you as much gil as you would have liked, in fact I was bleeding gil faster than any newbie currently playing. They made crafting a lot easier/less expensive now. Even with the nerf gil reward newbie crafters now don't have to go around begging for material like I had to. Yep, begging.

[Griss]

Did not know this thank you, are they low level gear at a affordable price to a new player? Because thats what i was mainly referring to.

Its been a while since i hit one up. But i remember the really low end stuff being pretty reasonable. there mid and "high end" items can be spendy if you are on a tight budget. But Really these npc's act as a convenience if a particular item is not being sold by any one, And they moonlight as a gill purge for the economy.

Most every thing else in your post has been pretty well covered by other posters. One thing that was not mentioned by others was about Global chat. A while back it came out that yoshida san wants to get something like this in the game. how ever they stated that there are some technical hurdles that must be jumped first before its put in.

Any who Welcome to the forums, the xiv community, And to mysidia! hope to see you around.