#marcimallow

ah it’s cool

also sorry this is still me! I had changed my username as a joke to a friend and forgot to change it back

pay attention to the active help tips that pop up as you play and do new things, they’ll help you out a LOT

find a good free company and/or linkshell, they’re this game’s player guild system (FCs are proper guilds while an LS is more like a shared chat channel). you can only be in one FC but you can have up to eight linkshells i think, people start linkshells for all kinds of reasons (social, helping new players out, crafting and gathering, etc) so finding a decent one shouldn’t be too difficult. don’t be afraid to shout for one in your starting city, people always seem to be looking to recruit

attune to every aetheryte crystal you see (just click on it and it’ll do it), it’ll make getting around a lot easier. get the little ones in the starting cities and you can teleport around the city by using the crystals; get the big ones in the overworld and you can teleport to them whenever you want for a small gil fee

do your quests, especially early on! quests will give you XP, a bit of gil, and most importantly, especially for a new player: FREE GEAR. you won’t get any high-quality crafted gear from low-level quests but the stuff you get will be good enough to keep you in respectable gear, especially before you start unlocking dungeons. make sure you do story AND side quests; story quests will unlock dungeons and other means of progression while side quests are nice gear, XP and gil rewards for a new player

every five levels, go back to your class guild. they’ll have a new quest for you, and these either unlock abilities or are prerequisites to the ones that do. at level 30 you can do the quest to unlock your job (well, once the subclass they specify is level 15 too), DO THIS IMMEDIATELY. you’ll immediately unlock a new ability to use and you’ll get another new one every five levels from job quests. at level 45 you’ll be able to quest for most of your artifact armor and at level 50 (the cap until the Heavensward expansion drops) you’ll get the last piece. artifact isn’t the best armor in the game by a long shot, but it’s more than enough to get your foot in the door for endgame dungeons and raiding

the game lets you play every class on one character, and in fact encourages you to do so because certain abilities learned as one class can be set for use on another, kind of like FFTactics. investigate what cross-class skills you can use on whatever you’re playing and get them when you can. all the cross-class skills in the game are learned via level up so you don’t have to worry about missing a quest to get one. you can unlock classes by going to their respective guilds in the starting cities so it’s not hard

especially early on, guildleves and FATEs (full active time events) are going to be your main source of XP, they also give you gil and sometimes items (sometimes gear, too!). guildleves are quick repeatable quests that usually involve killing X amount of enemies or making sure an NPC doesn’t die on the way from point A to point B. the NPCs that give these out are marked with and a special icon, there’s one in every starting city and near most giant aetheryte crystals. FATEs are special events that pop up in the overworld, you can see where they’re happening in the blue circles on the map. they typically involve fending off waves of enemies, killing a boss, defending a point, escorting an NPC, or collecting X amount of items from enemies and gathering points. you’re graded on your performance for these and you’ll get more XP and gil for doing better. FATEs do have a maximum level after which you can’t participate but you can still do them by level syncing down temporarily

at level 10 you can unlock guildhests, which are instanced boss fights that group you up with three other players. the first time you do any particular guildhest on any given job you get an XP bonus, and you can do a random one every day for another bonus.

at level 15, if you’ve progressed in the story quests enough, you can unlock your first dungeon, with the second coming at 16. dungeons are instanced, you’ll be grouped with three other people (one tank, one healer, two DPS classes). most dungeons up to level 50 are unlocked via story quests, there are a couple mid/higher level ones that are side quests though so look those up. dungeons will likely be your main source of XP up to the level cap, and you can get good gear from doing them, too. every day you can do a random dungeon you’ve unlocked for an XP bonus

thank you

I made a stupid mistake at exactly the wrong time

it's my own damn fault and now i'm going to have a hell of a lot of fun explaining this during job interviews from now on

"oh yeah i got fired from here and here because i sucked and i got fired here because i accidentally took stuff"

and they're going to be like "ahahaha yeah sure 'accidentally' whatever you say man get the fuck out of my office"