What was the first thing you did in-game?

[raseol]

I played 1.0 from sept 2010.

Since this was my first mmo, i started to kill all in my way, like in a regular FF title. I stood outside of gridania in that little brook between the bridge and the small field just before the camp for at least 1 hour doing battle with repawning rats(?) because i thought they were going to attack me (no icon back then), untill i finally realised all those people passing me by and thinking "maybe i can run by too". So i did and i tested it out with the purple mushrooms (in that small field before camp) to see if they would attack me when close by. They didnt ... and so i got my first "ooooooooohhhhh" moment.

[Aegis]

First day was wave 1 of 1.0 alpha, I spent 3hrs 15 mins making a character. First testing window was only 4 hours so I got to wander around Limsa/La Noscea a bit.

[Elim]

I started 2.0... I don't remember the phase or whatever.

Took over a week to get on a server because they were always locked/full. First thing I did was set up my HUD and put keybinds on my quick bars. Didn't have any skills, but I was just copying my setup from SWTOR. Lol. I was on the verge of quitting SWTOR. There was a huge hardcore raider exodus at the time (which included world first guilds) because SWTOR had really gone downhill.

[Selli]

I started playing in 2.1. My boyfriend had already been playing when I started, so he was there when I made my first character. He switched up my settings for me (character-based camera was awful) and explained to me, about 8 times, what all of my skills did.

He left me alone for five minutes while I was supposed to go kill things by the gates to Gridania. The first thing I did? Took off exploring and promptly got killed by something aggressive and 10 levels higher than me.

[EDIT] I also think I gave that trial character a really awful name. I think I named her Fabulouz Kitteh? I just remember thinking it was hilarious at the time. XD

[KaijinRhada]

I got into beta, can't remember what phase (other than the fact I got the email on April 1st of all dates). The very first thing I did after selecting control layout is redo the UI and all of the keybindings (EWRD instead of WSAD). Aside from that, I explored the emotes of male Miqo'te and quickly fell in love with them.

Although I quit shortly after release for whatever reason and didn't come back until January of this year.

[Ksenia]

Back in 1.00 I started as a Conjurer. Ran around for a while, beat up some bugs and squirrels, did some Google stuff to find out I had to be in Uldah to launch Weaver and gear up Conjurer so that's where I headed. Took Mining as well, when I got there and started obsessing with my physical bar because it would impact my character over all classes. The first month of 1.00 was a total blast.

2.00 I spent the first hour making sure I had as close a look to 1.00 as was possible. The rest of the time was spent figuring out what I had and how much of it was junk.

[coldheart21]

Started in 2.0 and the first thing I did was block a gold seller whisper. They were really really bad in capital cities at that time. You couldn't read chat cause you were getting spammed constantly.

[Ksenia]

Started in 2.0 and the first thing I did was block a gold seller whisper. They were really really bad in capital cities at that time. You couldn't read chat cause you were getting spammed constantly.

Kind of like it is now? Crafting progress by default shows up in your chat and they spam accordingly. Chat is a spam wall, every 15 seconds or so.

[Reinha]

I started playing just before World of Darkness got its loot restrictions lifted and everyone started farming it. So... patch 2.5 I think. It was quite confusing to hear all the talk about WoD after having played a game called WoD. Lol

The first things I did after gaining control of my character were rearranging my UI to resemble the one I had in WoW, and fixing the keybinds. It went pretty smoothly from there until I had to save up gil for a quest that required me to equip level 5 gear. >_<

[FridgePanic]

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