Lessons I think I've learned from my mistakes

[miraidensetsu]

Level 70 is a participation trophy, not an accomplishment. Levels don't tell you anything about a person's ability to play the game. I failed all the way up to level 70 SCH.

Totally right. Even if that level is on multiple jobs.

Based on my experience thus far, players talking about who's carrying who are the ones who drag down newbies the most. Patience, leadership, education, and communication are skills, and often more important than the technical skills. Scapegoating a newbie is usually a convenient way to avoid the hard work of developing those skills.

I'd say also "players talking about who's carrying who are the ones who's being carried the most".

Look for the "kiddie pool" stuff, especially if you're new to MMOs in general. The first few tests might come across as insultingly easy or obvious, but it's still worth doing. There's a LOT of features out there, and it can be easy to miss some of these things when everything's so new.

Right again. o/

• Maybe other stuff?: Experienced players: Please let me know if there's another 'kiddie pool' I've missed.

Novice Network, where the leaves can find some help. You can go there while you have that leaf above you.

Things I'm going to experiment with, that other newbies might want to try:

Make a lot of chat macros for Duties. At the very least, I suggest having one something like this:

Never tought on doing that an can be incredibly useful. Specially considering I play using joystick.