New player questions/concerns

[mercurial]

Oh, hmm. If I get a code from Balmung, would it let me go to that server or does it not work like that?

I can keep playing the trial version, I just hit a wall with the main story and got a little annoyed since I couldn't ask for help hehe. I just did Step Nine, and I couldn't find the next main quest. The wiki said it was in Central Shroud, but the map wasn't particularly helpful in getting me there. I wasn't doing very many side quests because one of the new player FAQs recommended saving them for leveling other classes.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Oh, hmm. If I get a code from Balmung, would it let me go to that server or does it not work like that?

I can keep playing the trial version, I just hit a wall with the main story and got a little annoyed since I couldn't ask for help hehe. I just did Step Nine, and I couldn't find the next main quest. The wiki said it was in Central Shroud, but the map wasn't particularly helpful in getting me there. I wasn't doing very many side quests because one of the new player FAQs recommended saving them for leveling other classes.

The code just lets you can perks. You can read up on those here. You'd still have to pay for a transfer though.

As for your next quest. It's Central Thanalan, and should be at the Coffer and Coffin. http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Disorderly_Conduct

[Niwashi]

Oh, hmm. If I get a code from Balmung, would it let me go to that server or does it not work like that?

Codes aren't associated with particular servers. They're for your account as a whole, and just give you some bonus items. If you decide to make multiple characters, each of them will get a copy of all the reward/bonus items. (That goes for various items gotten from outside the game itself: Recruit a Friend rewards, Veterans Rewards, Collector's Edition or Pre-order bonuses... They're account wide and given to all your characters.)

I just did Step Nine, and I couldn't find the next main quest. The wiki said it was in Central Shroud, but the map wasn't particularly helpful in getting me there.

For the first 15 levels, there are three different main scenarios, and you only get one of them on any given character. Having started as Pugilist means you began the game in Ul'dah and will be following the Ul'dahn main scenario up through level 15. (That Central Shroud quest is for players who began in Gridania.)

At level 15 you'll reach a quest that sends you as an emissary from Ul'dah to the other city-states and that quest unlocks airship and ferry travel so you can get around easier from then on. That's also the end of the section that's specific to where you started. From there on, all three main scenarios merge into one and you'll be following the same main scenario as everyone else.

I'm not sure which wiki you looked at. Some make that distinction and some just give lists of all main scenario quests as though you'll be doing all of them (which is true after level 15, but not before). Gamerescape's wiki lists them in separate tabs. Try their MSQ 1-15 page and click the "Ul'dah" tab at the top of the list.