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

[Hagito]

Hey there,

I'm new to the Final Fantasy series, I played once FF VII but I didn't really understand it and left it alone.

I always wanted to play Final Fantasy online, I got a gift on xmas once and it was a FF XI for XBOX >_> and I didn't even have an xbox so browsed a bit after playing a lot of other MMO games and decided, now that I can afford a P2P MMO I'd give FF XIV a try.
After a lot of time downloading and updating the game... and a lot of headaches with the website (it has been the most complicated registration process I have faced in MMOs to be honest, not to mention the forum...) I finally was able to create a toon ingame and today atleast the forum recognized I did log in.

Right now I am on my 30 day free tryal, but I really enjoyed the game yesterday (stopped playing at 5 am today, I really liked the game), but some questions came to me when I was playing, hope you guys can solve these.

1. I saw somewhere that you can get your very own chocobo, I think it was in a SE website when I was signing up, but I have not been able to find any further information about this, I really want one (not rent one every time). Can anyone point me in the right direction about this?

2. I have done some research and found that quests are not the main thing in the game, due to this, questing is quite confusing for me (since I come from other games where its quest after quest). Once a quest is available for my level, is there a quest log I can access or some sort of thing that tells me who to speak with? Only time I have quested is when messing around the city and suddenly I find out an exclamation mark on my minimap.

3. Is there a way to switch gear faster? Like when I want to equip, lets say a fishing rod, everything from my... cleric? or caster or whatever the name it is is unnequiped, but I have some other gear that "class?" can equip and I have to do it manually, is there a shortcut to this?

4. Is there any macro to open the gear window and items? I know "U" stands for the Usable Items window, so I'm guessing theres something like it for those.

5. I have heard they were working on Auction House, is it implemmented yet?

6. What is the quicker way to make coin or guil or w/e?, questing just seems not enough - still have to learn up the terms...

7. I saw some people with emblems/shields on the left side of their nickname, what is this? Is this the guild thing?

8. I have tried to use my blacksmith hammer thing, but it asks for recipes... where do I buy the books or whatever for these? xD

- Sorry yes many questions >,> - and since I think I have selected a VERY empty server, I just find people once in a while, feels like a solo RPG game ._. so I can't really ask people... not to mention I'm afraid of the stupid people calling you names and stuff like noob for simply starting the game and trying to progress in it... so yeah better rant here

9. I have tried my fishing skill (just level 2), but most of the time "nothing bites" ... whats wrong with this? I can't really afford purchasing bite and stuff, I have only used rat tails and mob things for it xD but takes looong and I havent found anything out of fishing, everything just goes away u.u

10. I heard somewhere that you can level everything with Levequests, I picked up some of these for fishing and stuff, but wasnt able to complete them for some reason, lets say I want to level up my blacksmith, how can the NPC give me the materials (heard it gives everything so you don't need to look for those only for levequests) and how can I get the recipes for those levequests? O_o soo confusing xD

11. What the hell is Anima? and how can I increase it once its used up? - I mean the teleporting thing ._.

Anddd thats it for now I think xD

Nice to meet you btw, I'm from Mexico so, please bare with my typos if any