Starting City

[Sontawila]

Hello,

I'll get to the point: I'm a legacy a player that waited for today to try the game. I jumped right in skipping everything only to find out I was placed in Gridania which is not the city I used to belong to in 1.0 nor the city that I want to be stuck with in ARR.

My question, can I change the starting city by any means (maybe with the vetran reward "phial of Fantasia")?

Thanks,

[KikInperi]

Unfortunately no =/

[TitaniaZero]

Starting City is tied with Class. Archer, Conj, Lancer are all for Gridania.

With that information in hand. No there is no other way. The Phial is only for appearance changes. Hope this helps.

[Sontawila]

This seems like a big oversight on SE's part and an unjust situation for players in the my situation. Something this huge should have been treated differently than just a pop up on the character customization screen (maybe with a check mark or something).

It's not like rolling a new character where I can simply delete/recreate it. I'm stuck with a city and a story line I don't really care for in an RPG game .

I really hope SE would consider adding as an option when releasing "phial of Fantasia" item where players can choose to continue with their current city and story progress or choose a different city and start the story afresh.

[KikInperi]

There was another thread on this, and I think the problem was that they'd have to reset quest progress for each individual player who had this issue, or something...

I agree that you should be able to change city allegiance after the fact, but I wouldn't expect the option if I were you >.< Sorry man

[CrashingWaves]

Don't fret too hard, you're no longer tied to that city upon level 15 and the Airship access storyline unlock. This takes less than a day to get to. You're able to change your class upon completing the level 10 guildmaster quest as well, so you can quickly get back to where you were. You keep all your old experience earned and all your loot... Perhaps you should have paid more attention though when you selected your starting point.

[Sontawila]

Don't fret too hard, you're no longer tied to that city upon level 15 and the Airship access storyline unlock. This takes less than a day to get to. You're able to change your class upon completing the level 10 guildmaster quest as well, so you can quickly get back to where you were. You keep all your old experience earned and all your loot... Perhaps you should have paid more attention though when you selected your starting point.

I'm only concerned about content restricted to a certain city. And yes I might have made a mistake during character creation, but not the kind of a mistake that punishes me the whole game (especially that there wasn't enough emphasis on the subject of starting city in the process)

[DoubleT]

as others have already said, you do NOT choose your starting city, it is determined by what class you chose, because all of the various guilds are unique to each town. It was like this in 1.0 never changed so I don't understand how it is stumping you now. And also as others have already said, you leave your starting town an work for all towns between lv15-20 & @ 20 you start working for a grand company (same as 1.0) and at this time you actually choose your allegiance to which city you want

[Rissien]

Actually in 1.0 you could start in whichever city you wanted regardless of the class you started as.

[Tsukino]

After level 15 the stories merge anyway. If you want to see the others you can just make a new character and play through them in a few hours.

The only thing that annoys me is your starting city seems to be a part of your Lodestone profile forever. They should fix that.