Hello - New here :) mind helping me up with some questions?

[Estellios]

I just wanted to let you know, for fishing you will need to use the appropriate bait based on where exactly you are fishing. If you look on the bait description it will tell you what you can use it for. If it says "saltwater fishing" it only works for ocean/coast fishing, "Freshwater fishing" means it only works in rivers/streams/lakes/ponds, and "all-purpose" means it will work anywhere, although there's very few all-purpose bait.

Also, if you are having money troubles, make sure to do main story quests and levequests, as were suggested. Make sure to pick "Leve Evaluations" after doing at most 8 levequests, you will get a special leve with boosted money rewards.

Also, be sure to pick up your gear from the vendors in the adventurer's guild to the left and right of the guild owner. In Limsa, it's the guys next to Baderon, in Ul'dah, its the guys next to Momodi. Don't remember the name of the guild owner in Gridania... Anyways they sell starting level gear for all classes for really cheap, it will help you get some mileage out of your earnings.

[Aerthalas]

I'd figure I'd post in here instead of a new thread. I bought the game when it was released and didn't really like it. After SWTOR being rather disappointing I figured I'd might as well give FFXIV a try. So far I'm really enjoying it. It's a lot different than the usual MMO though

Anyway, on topic, I've got a couple of questions that I hope someone can answer for me:

1. When out of combat and standing still my HP and MP seems to regen to full in about a minute, I've used some food items but they only seem to give a buff which says you're full (or something along those lines), but it doesn't seem to affect my regen. Are there also consumables in game that increase your regen out of combat (or even in combat besides the one spell I can use for it)?

2. I've seen that you can spend points on attributes, is it possible to reset your points after spending them? I've only spend one point so far but because I couldn't get it back I'd figure I'd hold off on spending anymore until I knew how to get them back

3. There seems to be a levequest allowance system which won't let me pick up more than 8 battle leves per day. I know those regen after 12 hours per 4 leves. Is there any other way to get leves or missions besides crafting leves, behests and normal quests? Or is this the part where you are supposed to grind a lot?

4. I seem to get random exp chains after killing monsters. Sometimes I get one immediately and sometimes I don't get one at all, how does this work exactly?

5. Items, I've got about 100 items now but I don't know what to sell or what to keep. For example in WoW you are supposed to sell grey items and everything else is useful somehow. How do I know what I'm supposed to keep in FFXIV and what I'm supposed to sell to a vendor?

6. I seem to get TP while battling, I've seen gladiators use TP for some skills, do Conjurers also get TP spells or is that a melee exclusive resource?

7. I've bought some new gear from the bar at Limsa Lominsa (not sure if I spelled that right), but it doesn't seem to increase my stats that much, is gear not such a big factor in this game or did I just buy the wrong items?

8. Lastly, I'm looking for an EU Linkshell to join, it gets kind of lonely out there sometimes

Thanks in advance,

Aerthalas Depthless

[ThugHunter]

8. Lastly, I'm looking for an EU Linkshell to join, it gets kind of lonely out there sometimes

Thanks in advance,

Aerthalas Depthless

I won't bother to answer the questions as they have been answered, but i can point you to www.kotr.eu, were an EU linkshell on Cornelia, recruitments open and will consider any application submitted, feel free to drop by and apply, come join us in a party, if we like you, your in, we're a very laid back social LS, we do end game stuff but theres no pressure to join in if you don't want to, we have an alliance of sorts with Kweh, another EU LS and do events together, we usually have a core of 15 - 20 players online at most EU prime times, more on weekends.

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3. There seems to be a levequest allowance system which won't let me pick up more than 8 battle leves per day. I know those regen after 12 hours per 4 leves. Is there any other way to get leves or missions besides crafting leves, behests and normal quests? Or is this the part where you are supposed to grind a lot?

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5. Items, I've got about 100 items now but I don't know what to sell or what to keep. For example in WoW you are supposed to sell grey items and everything else is useful somehow. How do I know what I'm supposed to keep in FFXIV and what I'm supposed to sell to a vendor?

6. I seem to get TP while battling, I've seen gladiators use TP for some skills, do Conjurers also get TP spells or is that a melee exclusive resource?

7. I've bought some new gear from the bar at Limsa Lominsa (not sure if I spelled that right), but it doesn't seem to increase my stats that much, is gear not such a big factor in this game or did I just buy the wrong items?

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I just wanted to add in a couple of notes that I don't see mentioned by the others.

For Q3, remember that leve allowances now max at 99 so you can skip leves for a few days and then do much more than 8. You can only HOLD 8 leves at once though so be prepared for multiple trips back to the adventurers guild if you do stockpile them. You also have to rely on the same leve allowance if you do any other sort of leve so consider what you want to do before spending them all on one thing. For example, there are crafting and gathering leves, and GC leves for higher levels. If you can get a party together for this, I highly recommend leve linking. It takes the time of a single leve but in the end gives the same amount of experience as doing the leve as many times as there are people who've linked it within the party at that time. To link leves, you just have to be in the same party as others who have the same leve and everyone with the leve has to touch the aetherite crystal (one person starts the leve and the others all have to choose to link it in the crystal's menu just afterwards).

As far as grinding goes, it isn't too bad if you can get a good, fast paced party. This is where your exp chains really shine. If you can get kills close enough in time to each other and if the levels of the mobs are appropriate to continue the chain, you can get 100% bonus exp on some kills. That really speeds things up. As a CNJ (especially if you're the only CNJ in the group), make sure you do all you can to manage your MP effectively though, and make sure your party mates wait for you if you need to rest for MP. Try not to move around when getting your MP back either, it slows it down a lot.

Q5. Plan ahead. If you see yourself wanting to go into any trade skills like ARM or LTW or CUL in the near future, plan ahead for that. There's nothing quite like realising you just sold all the mats you needed for the next week. Farming your own materials helps you level up and it is significantly cheaper, leaving you money to buy better equipment and mats from classes you don't want to level up right then (lots of items contain ingredients from multiple classes, like ARM and LTW or GSM). That doesn't mean hoard for a month something that you MIGHT use down the line (we have limited space after all), it just means think about how you want to play the game before you NPC something you'll need tomorrow.

Q6. Get Glad to level 6 for Second Wind. I know you already have cure, but sometimes you'll be out of MP and need to heal yourself, and you can get to level 6 in no time flat ;P

Q7. The stuff you can buy in the bar is low level stuff only. Check the stats and then go compare with something in the market wards for a level 50. Gear is important, the stats they give are important, and they can be further improved with materia (not really important for you any time soon but very important later on).

As someone else said though, you must be an appropriate level for the gear in question. Once you put on a piece of gear that has an Optimal Level (instead of a Required Level) that is a higher level than you, you'll see some odd things: an orange - number beside stats and any stats mentioned lower will be greyed out. That means that you aren't getting the full benefit of the gear. Say you're a level 10 and wear something optimal to a level 15. It might say something like "Defence 15 - 12", which means you're getting about 3 defence from that item. Whereas a level 10 item might give 10 defence, so would be the better choice. Once you get up to level 14 it might change to "Defence 15 - 3" (giving 12 defence, making it a better option than level 10 gear) but it's generally a bad idea to go for something too high above your own level. Keep in mind that I just made up all of those numbers, I wasn't referring to any particular item, was just trying to demonstrate the point.


Lastly, welcome back and good luck!


PS. Just a side point for Q5: check prices in the Uldahn wards for anything you're thinking of NPC'ing or selling to other players. You can see the 20 most recent sell prices and the 20 cheapest current prices for the item in the item search menu. Sometimes you'll come across a drop or harvest that is unexpectedly profitable ^_^