Hey Everyone,
I just started playing last night so I figured I'd post about my first evening and the issues I had. First and for most it is not very straight forward how to do a lot of things, if I hadn't studied up online (on this forum and other places) before playing I would have spent my entire night trying to figure out how to talk to people...
My biggest problem last night was dying! lol, the Check mechanism worked well for levels 1-3 but when I hit level 4 I couldn't fight anything that was ranked at a decent match. I wonder if Check doesn't assume you are equiped to your level or something like that. I haven't been able to find much for equipment before level 7. You have level 1 gear, then you have level 7 gear. I'm pretty stuborn and kept on thinking if I just had those extra 5 HP and MP that I had lost in the previous battle I'd be able to win... Or if I make sure to blind first... Nope. I got spanked multiple times by a Decent Match without even making it look decent. The second problem I had was the inability of getting any of the other low level guys running around to group with me, it might have been that no one wanted to group with a black mage or they didn't like my cologne but I tried to be polite when asking and the only responce I ever got back was "Dont speak English". (That was only once). Now I understand that at low levels you really don't need a group and can solo pretty easily up to like 20 or something... But I really wanted to kill that dumb guy! I did have a couple of higher level guys stop by say hi and buff me up with some spells which was appreciated.
The other thing that I couldn't figure out is how do I get my pretty little berret (the thing that lets you group with higher level person) or whatever it is that you get when you use a Gold Pass? I went to the Gold Pass guy and he gave me 12 chocobo tickets but that certainly doesn't help me much yet.
So that was my first night. Couldn't get a group but did enjoy soloing. Couldn't find any equipment that would help me all that much (Despite someone giving me 20000 gil). Check isn't all that accurate so I lost a good couple hundred experience.. lol... I'm sure this will feel like nothing in a couple levels. All in All I had a good time and was sad to log off and go to bed. Look forward to getting back on tonight. Only 12 more hours! It did leave me looking forward to leveling up which is always good. I was dissapointed by the lack of groupaging (talking like a Taru.. not a Tatu, I'll never make that mistake again... Look at my post on Easy to swallow for more details). Hopefully I'll find a couple of guys who will be willing to level with me a bit in the coming nights. I look forward to being at my full potential and just nuking things like a good black mage, instead of dying in 3 hits. 5 deaths in my first 4 hours of play. Must be a new record or something! (this time includes running around lost in side of Windy :) )
Thanks for reading!
Twadd