Need a lil help here!

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• Menchi_ko Member Posts: 24

  August 2006

  A. There is A LOT to do in the game. Many people have the misconception that if you are a beginner there's not much to do, but they just didn't bother to look. You can start fishing as soon as you have like 3k gil (which you might get even before lv10), there are literally hundreds of quests (and at least a dozen that are doable for complete beginners and require no fighting whatsoever, and some are repeatable!) There's just plain exploring which can be fun as long as you are careful >_>~ As soon as you get to the mid-high levels and have a seizable fund, then the other crafts become viable options, H.E.L.M. (Harvesting, Excavating, Logging, and Mining) can also bring in income and not require you to fight (although competition with gil-sellers/RMT's can be fierce)
  
  With friends even more things are available - duo/trio boss monsters, missions, and of course tons of quests.
  
  B. No, 8 hours is really exaggerated. It CAN happen for some jobs but never before the 50's. Before lv50 most jobs can easily find a party in under and hour. Below the low 30's don't be surprised if you find a party within 10minutes of logging in. However, you must learn to use the Search comment function so party leaders will know important informations about you when they're searching. (e.g. your subjob availability, home point, how much exp til next level, all those can be important factors)
  
  C. There are at least 2k+ on every server at any given time. You see, just *getting* a team of 6 people is very, very, easy. There are almost always at least that many people looking for party in your level range. However, the problem is that you need a fairly balanced party with at least a healer, a tank, and a good damage dealer/nuker. So when you only have like 5 WAR's, 3 THF's, and a lone SMN looking for parties it's usually difficult to get a working party out of those choices. So people like to wait until there's some other jobs available instead of making a gimp/unworkable party.
  
  An easy character to start would be red mage or warrior or monk. Out of all those I would probably recommend monk first since it's arguably the best job to solo in the low levels. Warrior can get you the hang of the basic melee concepts such as maintaining hate very early, and can solo quite well. Red mage is another good soloer, and you get to learn about magic as well as melee.
  
  For soloing, the ones you do NOT want to pick are ... well the other 3 starting jobs. Thieves, White mages, and Black mages are all horrible at soloing at low levels. Well BLM might do slightly better with Bind/nuke but mages are made of porcelain and can die easily, which can be very discouraging when you first start out. However, if you can ignore the relatively boring first 10 levels during which you will have to solo regardless of your job, then WHM and BLM will be excellent characters for learning the other fundamental aspects of the game (healing and dealing high damage)
  
  Thieves tend to have trouble finding jobs throughout their pre-end game career, especially in the low levels due to their relatively low damage output and inability to tank, but they are quite useful in high level parties.
  
  
• Mastermartz Member Posts: 255

  August 2006

  Thanks a ton for actually replying to this one man i reall appreciate it, one more question though. I want to pick a Race/Class that isnt very common BUT teams need it also is there anything that the game is currently low on?

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• Telaki Member Posts: 361

  August 2006

  
  

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  Originally posted by Mastermartz
  Thanks a ton for actually replying to this one man i reall appreciate it, one more question though. I want to pick a Race/Class that isnt very common BUT teams need it also is there anything that the game is currently low on?
  

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  Race doesn't matter. But for a job, Bard. Most people find it mindnumbly boring, you do about 10 songs a battle (At later lvls, early... like 2-3 diffrent ones) If they wear during the batlte you sing them again. You'll be in constant movment in the party, Running over here so Sing Minuet & Madrial on your melees, then back to mages to sing Ballad, then put a Foe's and Elegy on mob, Put a learned Etude on yoru blm, then by that time your melee's songs are about wearing so you repeat the whole process.
  
  Its boring, but a lot of parties have Orgasams over a brd, since bard songs are extremely powerful. Its a support job, So it has little to no melee ability. Mostly a party job.
  
• Jodando Member Posts: 280

  August 2006

  Or try some of the three new jobs.
  
  Also, white mages are always in need.
  
  
  
• Demonology06 Member Posts: 3

  August 2006

  
  
  Originally posted by Mastermartz
  Thanks a ton for actually replying to this one man i reall appreciate it, one more question though. I want to pick a Race/Class that isnt very common BUT teams need it also is there anything that the game is currently low on?
  

  
  Well it all depends on what you want to do.

  In the beginning when you start off, you have a choice of 6 jobs, Warrior, Monk, Thief, Black Mage, White Mage and Red Mage. Pretty much all of those jobs are useful and will always get party invites most of the time.

  No race outdoes each other, they are all equal in their own ways.

  Tarutaru are the best race for White Mage and Black Mage and maybe Red Mage because Tarutaru's get the most MP, Mind and Intelligence out of all the races on these 3 jobs.

  Hume, Galka and Elvaan are the best race for melee jobs, as they have the most HP, Strength and Vitality, but Galka has the most HP and Defense.

  Mithra are all around really, and Hume are all around a bit too. They are capable of doing any job well and there isnt a job they wont do well it.

  But in the end, its your choice. Your have freedom, freedom of choice. You can choose what race you want and what job you want, you will still get party invites and you will still level up.

  Choose what you want really.