Bought the game yesterday

[Ilethius]

http://cojenova.enjin.com/

You can apply to our ls there, we are pretty busy at the moment and have several new starting players such as yourself, apply to the website and then look for Ilethius Tarraban in game and I will accept you in.

Have fun!

[Felis]

When I started playing, I started in Gridania and followed the main quest chain which had a few cutscenes, a lot of talking that I read, and it eventually ended with the adventurers guild lady telling me to go to the first camp and do some leve quests. I took some battle leves, did them, and repeated that like 3 times. I've done like 8+ of these level 1 quests and now I'm given no direction where to go. I talked to so many NPCs in the city but none of them had a quest marker over their head, and I can't figure out how to advance in the story line. I've played for about 10 hours now yet all I have done is walked all around the pretty city, and walked down to that first nooby camp to do some leves and botany.

I have no idea where to go now...Please help >.<

You need to talk with the lady in the adventure guild again

If you lost direction in a quest best is to look in your journal menu. There you can read the text to the quest and there you find a map button for directions.

Or read here: http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Souls_Gone_Wild

[AnaviAnael]

Welcome to the game! You just joined up right before the most exciting patch patch; the job system patch. Hope you enjoy your stay, and don't be afraid to ask questions. Only the bad players don't ask questions. =^_^=

[Signy]

Just a sugestion i always do to new ppl. Before leveling your main job level up all others jobs to get this skills:

Arc 2 > Decoy
Lnc 14 > Invigorate
Mrd 6 > Bloodbath
Pgl 6 > Fatherfoot and Second Wind
Con 18 > Cure, Protect and Raise
Gla 22 > Sentinel

This skills are must have to play. Also leveling all classes at the begging is nice to see which one you like as your main.

[Mychael]

This skills are must have to play. Also leveling all classes at the begging is nice to see which one you like as your main.

I agree totally with everything Signy said! However, I do want to add that they're not so much "required" as they are extremely useful skills that will be expected at higher levels/endgame. Please don't feel restricted, like in XI (In XI, leveling another job was literally required (by the community) before you could join in anything). In particular, many people reach level 50 without Raise or Protect (or in many cases Sentinel, but I think since you're playing MRD it would be in your best interests to get it sooner rather than later. )

[Molly_Millions]

Talk to Momodi or check your NPC linkpearl.

[KairiSgheart]

If you love exploring, instead of taking airship, try find your way to uldah and other city by following the roads in gridania all the way south. =p. touching all those camp nodes along the way to facilitate your travel later. I am from grid too, glad u love the forest scenery like me . Try make new friends and a nice shell, leveling with a party is always more fun and you get to learn more things with a shell and friends =p. Good luck

[Signy]

This thread made me remember that i never use the boat to go from grid to limsa. I hope they don't disable it on the patch.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Something to keep in mind. FFXIV has a lot of horizontal development, this concept will be new to you compared to playing WoW. It means to be successful, it's not just about "getting to 50," and getting good "loot." As suggested in an earlier post, look at leveling a few classes to 15-20. This will go a long way at making you much stronger in battle, and help give you much needed survivability.

The game is also very open, and will not direct you along like WoW does. The result of this is a very rewarding experience in my opinion. You discover your own goals as you explore the game. The main story will prompt you for the most part (through NPC linkpearls) as you progress, and sidequests will start to show up as you gain levels. Also being a Marauder, you'll want to wander over to Limsa Lominsa when you hit level 20 for your first Marauder Guild quest.

[Kailika]

I picked up a whole bunch of Leves yesterday for fishing, logging ect. but then went to bed before doing them. When I woke up and started playing FFXIV, I was in a party and did about 6 Leves that belonged to someone else. After he went to bed I wanted to do the Leves picked up last night but they are all greyed out except for one. What causes them to be greyed out? I didn't do a single one of them. And I read that doing other peoples Leves has zero effect on your own

Besides that I got my Botany and Marauder up a little bit so I'm happy. Need to work on crafting next so I can replace all my level 1 gear

Last question: If a shirt says "Gathering+5" on it, what does that actually improve?