A NooBs Life (Day 2)Follow

So yesterday was day 2. I managed to gain two levels and two friends. I'd say it was a successful day! I finally figured out the coordinate system (as far as what G2 means). Some people have been extremely patient with. Twice I gave this guy directions on where to find me and both times I died and then gave him new directions which happened to point back to town without telling him I was back in town... Oops! That <pos> command should really mention zone name as well. That'd be helpful.

I got some experience working how a Black Mage should work, though I really need to work on my hate management. Things really enjoy hating me. One thing I had difficulty doing was following my log during combat. Is there a way to mute certain information... Like combat from non-party members? If so is there a standard that most people use? I really don't know how many tells and says I missed in combat. It's impossible to follow, especially when there are people near by doing stuff.

Something really useful I found out. On this site if you go up to search and type in the name of an item it tells you if there are any quests that need it! Thats my new best friend! Why get a quest and try to find the items when you can get items and try to find the quest! :)

I was told to start selling items on the AH for what I bought them for (as far as gear and so on...), so I've decided to keep a spread sheet of all the reusable items I've purchased. I'm also going to have a spread sheet of important NPCs and their locations. That should be useful as well. Instead of saying dang it... where did I find that... I can look it up!

For getting in a party, what range of levels can be together? Can a level 6 get decent experience when partying with a level 8 or 9?

Thats it for now,

Twadd (Altis on Carbuncle)

i usualy wait till lv 12 to start in party's.

Valkrum Dunes is the spot you will prolly be leveling with a party.

You want to stay at a max of 1-3 level diffrence, exp is based on the mobs level and the highest lv in your pt, then adjusted(lower) for anyone lower.

I usually pt at 10 in the dunes though its a little hecktic, 11 or 12 would be much safer.

you might wanna check out ffxiah.com instead of making a spreadsheet of all the AH transactions you make seeing as how that keeps track of them. Though come to think of it, ffxiah only keeps track of jeuno transactions, so until then if you really want to spreadsheets would work.

The chat problems can be fixed. If you go into your config option there are several chat filters you can turn on. Also you can change your background in the text boxes and edit the colors things appear.

Some things I like to change color wise are my resists. I like to make those a very noticeable color like red. Also I tend to make my tell chat dark purple and keep party chat blue and ls chat a dark green.

Once you have gotten those filters on it becomes a lot easier to read your log. Also you can change damage to appear on the mob instead of in your log if you dont really care what your doing damage wise.

Some filters to change would be.

Anything dealing with other pcs and npcs outside the party or alliance, damage from party members or alliances, damage from mobs outside your party, actions started by anything not in your alliance or party.

I'm begging to question if your honestly a noob now Twadd. You seem way too rational and i'm sure most of us when we started never used spreadsheets or half as much logic. I know i sold pretty much everything to NPC's and used a polearm on Warrior till i hit lvl 30 and unlocked Dragoon.


I will also recommend this to you http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/jobs.html?fjob=3

Thats the Black Mage forum. General forum will be better for general gameplay advice but if you want more detailed knowledge of your job then that forum will have it. Start by checking the 3 "sticky" topics at the top and read through some of the guides which will explain how to get certain spells, what is the best gear you can buy and how to solo exp effectivly.

Edited, Dec 6th 2007 9:22am by MrVashy

On high damage/defense jobs I solo until 20, because its easy and faster than partying (Well maybe not faster, but hassle free)

Jobs like Black Mage, Corsair, White Mage, Red Mage, Bard, Thief and Ranger, I threw my party flag up at level 10 on the ding.

Some jobs can just solo better at lower levels while others take days to get to level 10.

Don't Question his Honesty of being a Noob, in his other thread he had no idea how to find NPC's or who to use the Coordinates. He is just an Adult, and actually has some common sense.

When i started i was a Noob, but i knew some general Stuff. Not all noobs are like Tele-jeuno Plz, how i mine for fish, how can i get moogle to join my party. Some actually have some Decent logic, and Spreadsheets are a Great way to organize. Maybe he's Left handed or Quasi-OCD/Perfectionist. Trust me, its possible.

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Stupid left hand.





Ps. I am left handed, so this is hwo i was and am.

Poll didn't work... oh well.

Thanks a lot for that.

I am left handed by the way and 24. But I have 3 kids and when you factor that in it's more like being 30 (Especially since I have twins).

It's encouraging to know that I now know how to use coordinates and find NPC's! (for the most part)

I noticed that you were Sage a while ago, but after replying just now, you went back to Scholar, so I tried desperately to help you remain Sage, as a bit of fun. :x But I guess it wasn't enough. :[

Question about storage, last night I filled up my inventory. When you guys who have multiple classes leveled up how do you store stuff? It seems to me like 30 slots (I hear this number goes up) would not be enough to hold your gear for different classes. Question is this, how do you get more slots... Is that just a level thing or is it quest/mission thing? I understand that you can get furniture for your mog house (and have that book marked so you don't need to take the time time to explain how to get it) but when I was looking, it looked like you can only store 1 item per piece of furniture. Is that correct? So max you can only have what... 80ish stacks total?

A piece of furniture takes up a slot in your mog, but it has a storage value. ;o I have several armoires in mine (I think it's those), and they give, I think it's 5, storage slots. So my Storage has about 64 slots for rare/ex sort of stuff. ;o You can raise your inventory through gobbie bag quests by 5 at a time. Mine's 60, and every time it goes up I still seem to have trouble managing. Most of the time I am running around at 58 or 59/60.

It's been so long but if I remember correctly I think there are moogle quests that can get triggered which increase mogsafe space. ;o

But of course it's all relative. :) By the time you have several jobs, you'll probably have several of these done, and therefore the space to accomodate the multiple sets of equipment. ;x It's easier when you have jobs that share a lot of equipment too.

Following on from ThePwnisher's post, don't fall into trap of trying to do everything at once. :p