First thing to do when in ARR...

[Coombah]

1. Watch the new opening cinematic cutscene.
2. Spend a decent amount of time changing my character from Lalafell to Male Miqo'te.
3. Link up with friends and explore (Making sure to have my gathering tools.)
4. Check on the prices for housing.
5. Start crafting new recipes ie furniture etc
6. Proceed to play around with the UI and the job abilities.
7. Work on relics, Housing, Chocobos, and new content.

[YuriSan]

#1 Get LSmates together.
#2 Explore.
#3 Level up Arcanaist.
#4 See what new recipes there are to make.

[razz]

1. Character recreation (around 1-2hours, he/she has to look awesome!)
2. Watching opening, checking starting position, a lil bit exploring (~1hour)
3. Creating 2nd char, level it a bit and checking new tutorials, explanations, story introduction etc (up to lvl ~20)
4. ???
5. Profit

[bobbygunz]

Go to X and kill Y amount of rats, repeat.

[Felis]

Go to X and kill Y amount of rats, repeat.

You kill rats, I kill Adamentoise ^^

[Digirotta]

Going to Golden Saucer, loose all my money, jump from a cliff!

Note to self: "Buy an umbrella."

[Maxwell]

Open up a bottle of wine.

[Shallowdeep]

First thing on my list is find the NPC that unlocks the teleports...can't explore much until you do that!

[Loony_BoB]

Exploration for sure.

[Elexia]

Go to X and kill Y amount of rats, repeat.

Pretty much, while leveling ARN.