New player, a few questions!

[naaros]

Thanks soooo much for answering my questions! You were very helpful *liked*! =)

1) I think I'm going to keep messing around with Aegis Boon - I must admit, it was pretty awesome seeing it proc and not take any dmg AND get a heal!

2) Oh okay. I haven't done any Level 20 regional guildleves just yet (as I just got over 20 today). Can't wait to buy some of those abilities/traits from the Conjurer guild - especially Fastcast.

3) Gotcha. Right now, I am 21 CON, 16 THM, and the rest are crafting classes (less than 10 atm). And if I remember, I'm Physical Level 17. I think I might mess around with a melee class to try to get my physical level up if that will make leveling my CON easier. =) And yeah, I definitely need to find a linkshell still.

4) Ohhh, I understand. Hrm. Do you know of any good websites that show elemental weaknesses for enemy types? I looked around, and the FFXIV wiki only seemed to list weaknesses for SOME monsters, and not others. Although, I suppose I can just test that myself and write it down, lol.

5) This has been very helpful - I'll adjust my "rotation" now and drop the DoTs and just focus on using my cooldowns and spells properly. And yeah, right now, my fights typically last over 30 seconds, so Spiritbind has worked very well for me - especially if I'm having to heal myself. Those healing spells cost quite a bit of MP XD.

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New question now that I just thought of it...

Regarding my stat allocation when I gain new physical levels, what do you recommend doing while leveling? Right now, I'm pumping a lot into VIT, INT, and MND (generally on a ratio of 4:2:2). I think I need to put more points in PIE, though. When I'm fighting higher level enemies, my spells resist quite often. =( Oh and will my melee classes be super gimped as a result?

Thanks again! You've been so helpful. =)

[VydarrTyr]

3) Gotcha. Right now, I am 21 CON, 16 THM, and the rest are crafting classes (less than 10 atm). And if I remember, I'm Physical Level 17. I think I might mess around with a melee class to try to get my physical level up if that will make leveling my CON easier. =) And yeah, I definitely need to find a linkshell still.

Physical levels will be going away soon. But for now, having a physical level higher than your job level makes fights sooo much easier. If your physical level is below your job level, you're physically a little bit weaker than the mobs you're fighting at your level. So it's much, much easier to level jobs below your physical level.

4) Ohhh, I understand. Hrm. Do you know of any good websites that show elemental weaknesses for enemy types? I looked around, and the FFXIV wiki only seemed to list weaknesses for SOME monsters, and not others. Although, I suppose I can just test that myself and write it down, lol.

Eorzeapedia has some, but not all. There's another way to figure it out based on the crystals a mob drops. But the easiest way is probably just to try different elemental spells out and see what hits the hardest.

Regarding my stat allocation when I gain new physical levels, what do you recommend doing while leveling? Right now, I'm pumping a lot into VIT, INT, and MND (generally on a ratio of 4:2:2). I think I need to put more points in PIE, though. When I'm fighting higher level enemies, my spells resist quite often. =( Oh and will my melee classes be super gimped as a result?

I'll probably leave this one to Robert. For mages, the 4 most important are Vit (gives HP), Mind (gives MP and increases potency of heals), Piety (reduces chances of magic attacks being resisted, increases chances that you'll resist magic attacks, and increases damage from DoTs), and Intelligence (increases damage from magic attacks).

I generally try to keep everything relatively balanced because I try to play several classes. I'm a little slanted toward physical attributes because I'm leveling my melee classes. Regardless, you'll probably want to focus on Vit for HP and Mind for MP.

Some people think the attributes are kind of broken. For example, some people think Dex doesn't do much, if anything. And the attributes going to be adjusted pretty severely in the next patch. So we'll see how that turns out.