Which server do I choose?

[Matteus]

Hello' new player here. Which would be the best server and location for me to choose? I live in Melbourne Australia and only speak English. I thought maybe japan is the closest so I think I chose that but idk if they speak english or not though I can see them speaking english.

[Bearded]

From my understanding there is a a fair number of people from the Australasia area on the Japanese data centres - not sure exactly which one or which world is the bast though. Some are on the NA or EU data centres also if they can manage with the latency. I'd suggest rolling characters on several DC's to see if the latency is an issue for you and then seeing which of them has people around with whom you can communicate and join up with at the times you are on. Check out the sub forum for the worlds also as they may help.

[Iscah]

Welcome!

There are a fair amount of English speakers on the Japanese data centres, though we're still a minority.

Tonberry and Kujata servers, both on the Elemental data centre, are the "unofficially recommended" high English population worlds - or joining any world on Elemental will allow you to play with people from those worlds since dungeons are shared across the DC.

Also, a tip that will save you some queuing time if you do join a Japanese server: make sure you turn on all languages in the Duty Finder options, once you unlock that. Otherwise the game will try to only pair you with English speakers for dungeons, which on the one hand is good for communication, but not so good for wait times.

[Matteus]

Also OOT but how do I upload an avatar here or yet select an avatar on the forums?

[Iscah]

Also OOT but how do I upload an avatar here or yet select an avatar on the forums?

Avatars are automatically uploaded from your in-game character and current(ish) equipment. I think it gets updated daily sometime during the night? Maybe at daily reset time or a bit later.

Anyway, keep it in mind when you log out that what you're wearing will be your avatar for the next day or so.

If you have more than one character, you can select which one is displayed in the forum settings.