Thinking about starting over from scratch.Follow

Lots have changed.



Its not so much the leveling and low level jobs you'll be dealing with, but the fame building, inventory establishment and lack of transportation at teh start that will be the bigger problem. if your willing to build your fame up again then i guess thats more power too you.



Ive been on Odin since i started playing and there is a still a good amount of people there. As for other servers idk if some have a higher pop for certain things.



You can try finding a linkshell via the forums at =10 but i would also recommend on your 1st trip to jeuno just shouting that your a new player looking for a linkshell. If you dont already have one you'll find one that way.



Leveling has been destroyed from what you used to know. 2 New innovations have changed the leveling dept.
1st. Fields of Valor / Grounds of Valor - these are training regimes that you can undergo in mostly any zone. Kill X of monster A and Y of monster B and get a EXP/Gil/Tabs(FoV currency) reward. Repeat... for a monster to qualify it simply needs to yeild some EXP. even 1 EXP is enough so people Alliance this **** over and over again.
Note: with Grounds of Valor everytime you complete a Regime the EXP Reward Bonus will increase to a point where eventually it will double the initial reward.

2nd. Abyssea - With one of the "newer" addons, exp rewards increase per kill if the same monster is killed successively. And the EXP is rewarded directly to the player without getting cut from additional party members. meaning when the EXP gets capped (around 600 per kill) with 18 people killing monsters you can get up to 300-350k exp an hour in a traditional abyssea group. There is also a position of Key Person. While in abyssea (similar to old dynamis) your time ticks down the longer you remain (can start with a max of 120 minutes). Opening Blue chests can yeild 10 more minutes of time. This can be done as much as you want as long as the chests you get have TE's in them. so a few level 30 people will be running around attempting to open all the blue chests. Minimum level to enter abyssea is 30.

BLU is a great job, though one of the slowest to start - it is in fairly high demand across content. It is probably the hardest job to burn up in the game and still be effective though. But if you're starting new there is a lot to recommend it. Spells are time consuming, but free, it is an effective abyssea farmer, it is useful as a proccer so you can be useful in some events even if you don't already have higher tier gear...

I'm a big blu fan. That said, I'd start with WHM then take up blu so you can farm and stuff (BLU can set TH1 now)

That's some good news on BLU at least, thanks for the info Olorinu. I enjoyed the BLU class back when I played, mainly due to the large amount of fun spells and customisation with them. Took some time to gather them all but hey, it was worth it =)

Thanks for the offer Breadn, I'll think about it :) got lots going on at uni the next coming weeks/month so wont do it yet thou. I'll think about it for a little while longer ^^

Thanks for the replies!

Ah that sucks DjinnRB :/ Could've figured that they would still be there thou >< Can't get anyone to help you from your LS? Or shout out in jeuno and see if anyone have time?

I suppose that the challenge here would be to get into a decent LS and make some new friends that might be able to help out with such things. But I'm always up for a challenge as stated =)

I'm guessing that getting through the brass door in Castle O., right before the High Priest's room, could cause trouble for some people, especially if they're trying to do the quest solo. Unless someone has recently swept one of the torch rooms clean, lighting a torch without attracting the attention of multiple angry Yags is a delicate operation, not to mention the mad dash to get through the door before it closes. I'm not saying it can't be done... but there are a lot of things that can go wrong.

Edited, Apr 29th 2013 2:01pm by Seratera

Is that really the spot? The yags aggro sight. Stand around until they face different directions then drop invis. Click the torch then put invis back up and run for the door. SE made the door stay open long enough to do solo years ago.

Hit torch, pop hermes quencher / have thief subbed, run through open door, die, reraise?

I think about going back all the time... Seems better for me to wait for XIV. I quit with a few jobs at 75, not sure I want to go through more LB quests for the 99 cap. If you do decide to start over, good luck.

Started up the free 14 day trial thingie (due to new account, e-mail etc) just to look around the game a bit now. I must say I like the FoV/GoV addition (from a casual Point of view that is), and also trying out a mithra RDM to start up. Ended up on Asura server after all (I think....) :P

Just a few small questions more if someone has time/wants to answer :)

1. Gear wise, is the AH the way to go like it was back when I played? (thinking like wax sword+1 for starter weap etc etc) Don't have access to it on the trial, but if this keeps going I'll probably purshase the whole game hehe.

2. Related to the other question; money making was a little bit more tedious on the trial verision due to the lack of AH. Is it still the major income to gather and sell stuff there or have SE added some "magic way" to grind gil? :P Gotten a bit of Money from the FoV, but hardly only covers the cost for spells (at lvl 10 atm, ran around in lvl 1 gear all the way here xD )

3. Just hit lvl 10 last night. Any idea if there's still exp partys in valkurm running around? I'll probably grind a bit more FoV to at least 15 if that's the case, but would be nice to get a party thou, since that's what I loved with the game before (good exp parties that is hehe).

Thanks for all the replies so far peps, been a great help!

That was a very informative post MisterRandy, hats off to you :)
Currently leveled in sarutabaruta so that makes sense to follow the path to horutoto ruins (sp?) and continue there.

Kinda figured that the gil things would be bound to AH as before thou, saved up silk threads, crafting mats that I've found on the way so hopefully can make some money from there :)

I'll try to follow that gear thing as well, thou pretty annoying since I was one of those "Oh a lvl 15 tunic+1, must have it!" peps hehe xD But if it's not needed to the same extent as before there should be less need for it then :)