A little help for a new tank and other questions

[LunaFaye]

Ive spent the past week constantly checking the character creation thread which displays what servers are allowing character creation.

Don't use that since it's getting updated only every 4 or 5 hours, I can't remember what the schedule is for that and it always been inaccurate.

Here's what you do, as others mentioned save your appearance data, after maintenance (keep an eye on the news section, or use this link since sometimes maintenance's finish earlier) hop on and create that character, don't waste a lot of time thinking about a name etc. Make sure you're prepared and fully ready.

Other then that, and having done it on Gilgamesh plenty of times, there's always a opening during non prime time. Meaning try between the hours of 1am pst - 3am pst, 6am pst - 8am pst (there's is always a 85% that right before the daily reset at 8am pst - example 7:45 or 7:33am etc), one more chance you'll be getting at around 10am pst - 11am pst. This applies only to weekdays and due to the fact that we are all waiting for the expansion, or what we call patch break. Sometimes you have to try on multiple days throughout the week.

After these hours or on weekends, as well as on patch & expansion days, there will be a extremely low chance, if not nearly impossible of creating new characters on that server, unless you want to pay for a transfer. Good Luck.

[LordLucavi]

As far as solo levelling, you have Palace of the Dead after lv 17. There are also tons of Main Story Quests and side quests that grant XP. At 15, I highly recommend Hall of the Novice, as completing those awards gil, xp, and good gear for the level. Levequests and Fates work well. The only issue is, if you are playing as a tank, you will /need/ to get used to operating in a party. You will need to learn when to use your enmity generators, when you can use a stronger damage combo, how to retrieve a mob that is peeling off towards your healer or dps, how to deal with certain mechanics.

Don't worry about not doing perfect at first, just explain to your party that this is your first time tanking this dungeon/first time in the dungeon. Most players will be cool with it, even more so if they are levelling and not roulette farming for tomes.

If it's just a preference and you don't want to tank in a party setting, I recommend levelling a dps or a healer for MSQ required dungeons.

[Quinthom]

Gilgamesh is still closed and its right after 2 days of down time. Yay me.

[Quinthom]

Im pretty convinced they want people to pay for character transfers at this point. This is quite discouraging.

[Hasrat]

From the sound of today's news, seems like they've close Gilgamesh completely to transfers and new characters for being among the overpopulated servers.

On the bright side, you won't have to pay a transfer fee. But, probably not getting in at all for a while now.

[Riceyz]

My best bet is just play the game and you will eventually understand everything. the MSQ like everyone else said, is your best bet. Although if you are going to main a tank, I recommend you looking more into the eminity system or aggro system. Trust me, it will help you tremendously and make tanking more sense in a way. Plus the combo system is very easy for gladiator, I doubt you will be trouble by anything since the class is designed for beginner players.

[Quinthom]

From the sound of today's news, seems like they've close Gilgamesh completely to transfers and new characters for being among the overpopulated servers.

On the bright side, you won't have to pay a transfer fee. But, probably not getting in at all for a while now.

What kind of business model is this though? They clearly have a refer a friend which was used in my scenario. Kind of bogus if you ask me. "here join your friends" "server is closed for character creation" So basically my friends need to pay money to transfer. To me it sounds like one big scheme to make more money. Either I transfer to server or in this case an entire guild transfer to a less populated server. This entire process is to much to play a game with friends. After this instance I wont be buying the game.

[Quinthom]

I wont be paying for a subscription. Some of my friends resubed because they thought some of us would be able to play with them. This isn't square, this is the company that is running everything at this point, which isn't square. Square is more concerned with copyright infringement than keeping this IP alive. Their concerns are money and not player satisfaction. That is what i've learned from this business model.
It's pretty sad because this community is the friendliest and most helpful i've experienced in an MMO in a very long time. Kudos to you guys who have been helpful and friendly. Shame on square for their false advertisement "play with friends" I will be reporting them to the BBB later today.

[Quinthom]

So i filed a complaint and square updated the info. Gilgamesh and Balmung are closed to transfers and character creation indefinitely. My friends will be transferring and relocating the guild to ultros.

[Niwashi]

What kind of business model is this though?

A pretty standard one. No MMO can survive having everyone gather to the same couple servers while others stand idle. They all have to find ways to get the player base to spread out between different servers. SE tried encouraging it with temporary character creation closures, and that worked well enough for a while, but too many people got around it by creating characters at low traffic periods or by transferring. Finally they had to block such creation/transfers completely until the numbers stabilize, along with offering free transfers (and some other perks) to lower population servers. It's a lot better than reaching the point where they'd need more drastic measures like splitting the servers.

Meanwhile, Duty Finder has always been cross-world, they've recently given us cross-world Party Finder, and there's talk of additional cross-world chat and Friends lists coming at some point. So while the open world is limited to your own server, it's not like those are the only people you'll be playing with.