Ancara the warrior's journey to.....something.Follow

Basically, I just started playing this game a few days ago, chose the Warrior class to work with, and so far it's actually a pretty fun class to work with, well at least from what I can tell.

I'm gonna use this thread to tell tales of what I have seen, done and encountered so far, as well as ask for what you guys think would be good ideas on what to do next.


First off, a little more info on my dude currently: he's a male hume, who is using a great axe (since I was told for some reason that those are expected from every Warrior...or somethin' like that), and some decent brass armour. Oh, and I started in San D'Orian (I think that's how it's spelt.... )

But anyways, on with the tales. Basically, I started out like anybody: a sword, weak armour and not a gil to my name. After the obligitory beginning cutscene ended, I went and looked at the shops to see exactly what they had. Of course, being the naive dude I was, I saw that the "Bronze Scythe" looked promising: 14 damage, and could be equipped from the start by my class. "Niiiiiice" I though as I decided to work on getting this weapon of semi-nice power. (as far as I could tell, at least :V )

I then go to the west gest to the gaurd as the NPC I gave the coupon to beforehand told me to do so as to get myself to some decent stats. I end up starting what looks like a tutorial to learn the basics. The first few things were actually easy (get signet cast on you, eat some food, that kind of stuff). I then got to finally fight my first monster, a Wild Rabbit. It was quite an enjoyable experiance to finish it off, and even gain some hare meat. But I have quite a ways to go, since I had to get my skill level for my weapon(at the time a dinky Onion sword) to level 5. It took me a bit of time, but I managed to get the job done. I talked to the gaurd and gain a decent reward for my efforts (forgot what it was). I then went to finally sell my loot to the shop, in which I then finally had enough to get the scythe. So buy it I did, and felt glad (at the time) for getting it. So now was the time to put it to good use.

After getting past another easy gaurd task (finding the Auction House), I had to get myself to level 4. Going out, I learned the hard way that with great power, comes slow speed. The Wild Rabbits I dealt with before were now getting 2-3 hits on me before I could land a blow. Clearly I needed to train myself some more so I could be useful with my new weapon. It took me about a half an hour to get the last exp needed to get to the requested level, and I was ready for the next challenge....

....if only I had known then that i'd spend the majority of my time from that point trying to complete it. The task was simple: Get to the La Thiene Plateau (is that how it's spelled? ) and defeat one foe there. Should have been an easy task, but as I learned the hard way, getting there is half the journey.....and boy, what a journey it was. It was crazy getting from point A to point B, not only trying to survive a single Orcish enemy, but also trying to stay away from (and running away from) groups of up to 5-6 Orcish enemies at a time. Oh, and Goblins constantly got in my way. Whether it is attacking me while I tried to recover from a tough fight, or joining the fight while I was at low HP. God, I think I saw defeat during that time more than any other so far.

I was getting ready to rage quit when I met another Hume named Keegan. He was very suprised that I was using a Scythe to fight with (was at level 7 and was still using the Bronze Scythe). He then told me that although it was ok, I should be using a Great Axe mainly. He even helped me get an Inferno Axe (in which I equipped as soon as I reached level 8). With my new Great Axe equipped, I was ready to finally get some progress on that gaurd mission done....but not before get my new weapon's skill level up to where it could do some decent damage.

About 4-5 hours later and probably 300 Forest Hare corpses gone though, I was at about lvl 9 and ready to tackle the Plateau area. But before I did, I wanted to get some new gear. On my way to the Armour Shop in the south town area, I met this Eelvan dude named Cheval, who hooked me up with a thing called a "Linkshell", which had quite a few people chatting on it. They then, after introducing themselves to me, got to helping me out with finally completing the Gaurd's tasks. So onwards both me and Cheval went, set as a party, to the Plateau area to get the job done. In we went, and our first encounter was against a "Steppe Rabbit" (I think it was called). He used his "Provoke" skill to keep it off of me while I whittled down its health to nothing. We then went onward to heading south-east while also taking down various beasties we saw for some decent exp.

After a while, we reached this huge white....thing right in about the right-ish part of the map. It was called a crag, which Cheval told me were scattered across the world and had crystals for....some purpose (he never told me what purpose it was for). With the crystal from the crag obtained, and myself at level 10, we went back to the west gate, where I proceeded to complete the rest of the tasks given to me, gaining a nice gil and exp reward for actually doing all that stuff requested. I then went onwards to my next goal: reaching level 12, so as to gain a new axe. Now that's where things got interesting.

Getting to level 11 was pretty uneventful, but level 12? Wow, that was a challenge. I started by trying to fight enemies in the Plateau, but I soon learned that that took too long to get decent exp at the current level I was at. So, I decided to go back to the area near the outpost and train there. The enemies were more numerous there, and they still gave out decent exp (at least as far as I could tell). About an hour before I last got off, I finally gain the level I needed, and Cheval helped me get a nice Great Axe (that's seriously what it was called) to be equipped. My last few minutes were spent training some more before finally logging off for the day.


So yeah, this is generally how my journey is going so far. I've managed a decent level currently, my weapon and armour are at decent stats (I think), and i'm clear on my way to hopefully and eventually tackle some bigger foes in the Plateau area....that is, whenever the maintenance for the servers finally is done.

Here's my current basic info (i'd show stats, but can't look due to lolmaintenance), including character info and equipment:

Name: Ancara
Race: Male Hume
Job: Warrior
level: 12

Equipment:

weapon - Great Axe
current armour - I think it's a full Brass armour set (upper body, legs, hat, gloves, feet, ya get the idea)
accessories - Chariot Ring, Reraise Earing

Current goals: Get to a higher level, be able to survive (and win) a fight with one of those bird enemies in the Plateau area, find when the next weapon/armour is availible.


Of course, since i'm still relatively new to this game, i'd love to hear some advice on what to do, where I should go, and any other info that could help me out in my journey. It would definitely at least give me a good idea on what to do and where to go, so I don't get lost and/or die horribly to god-knows-what later on.

So yeah, i'm just a Warrior trying to explore the world and not die horribly before doing so. Hopefully maybe some day we'll meet somewhere in the game. :V

(Oh, and I kinda have a habbit of typing long posts sometimes. It's a habbit of mine. )

You are correct about your long posts. ^^

I agree with ShamanTaru. It is refreshing to hear the excitement out of a new player. It sounds like your having a great time getting started on your "journey". At least from my own experience you'll find most ppl are willing to guide you along as you play. Shamantaru was correct when he said there's plenty of smart guys here. Years of experience all rolled up nicely into a package for you. Just be sure to absorb as much as your taught. ^^

I'm not sure if someone in your LS(linkshell) has explained further into why Gaxe(Great Axe) is *best* for War. Simply put, there are efficiency caps on specific weapons your able to use. http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Warrior that should help.(I used that website only because its updated and Alla isn't)

Although at levels 1-12 there really isn't much of a difference between most of the weapons your able to use.. As you level that 1-2 difference becomes 5-10, 10-20, and so forth. The lower your skill, the lower your overall attack and accuracy will be. This is not to detour you from using different weapons, because by no means should you restrict yourself based solely on highest ranked weapon type. You'll find as you level that different weapons may suit your style and or situation. The thing to remember is to know the difference between efficient and "lol"... "lol" meaning don't randomly decide that using h2h(hand 2 hand)all the time is the route your going to take. There's Mnk for that. ^^

Other than that I hope to see you write some more about how your doing in game. GL!

MONK

Just because people are @#%^heads doesn't mean that MNK is a bad DD.

Yeah, that is true.

MONK IS TEH FUKKEN AUSUM.

SO IS WARRIOR.

NINJA NOT SO MUCH BUT I LEVELED THAT TOO FOR SOME REASON AND NOW I FEEL I HAVE TO FINISH IT.

I'M ONLY LEVELING WHITE MAGE BECAUSE IT'S LULZ WHEN PEOPLE DIE AND YELL AT ME.

Come to that, which server are you on? If you're on Cerberus, then allow me to introduce you to myself, and my giant wooden shaft.

PSSST. IT'S A POLEARM.

Wow, yesterday was quite eventful for me.

I first started by getting myself up to level 15, no problem there. After that though, that's when I decided to figure out where to go next (since I wanted to have a plan for once the exp at the Plateau area would run out). I asked the guys in the Linkshell, and they told me to head to these Dunes, to the south of the Plateau, and find a party there. I figured "Hey, why not?" and proceeded to head there. I swear that getting there was quite a walk from the start to the end of the Plateau, but I eventually made it.

Now then, my first priority was to see who was availible to party with. It didn't go so well, since the only dudes on the "searching for party" list at that time were high-leveled guys who wanted a "full party" or something like that. That was quite a dissapointment, but as they say, the show (or should I say the training) must go on! and train I did, up to level 16, where I learned that I could get new gear to wear, the Bone Gear, as well as equip a new weapon, the Moth Axe. One of the guys could make it for me, but he needed the right materials for it.

He needed some bone chips, giant femurs, some squares of grass cloth, a pugil scale, and I think one or two other things. Being the type of guy who was smart enough to not want to have to spend countless hours searching for the materials, I went to the Auction House to get what was needed. I spent all my gil (and even sold most my gear) to get what was needed, so I was ready to finally have some new gear to wear. I gave him the stuff he needed, and he then proceeded to making me a full bone set, which after trading it to me I put on immediately. I have to say it looks very good on me (since i'm still wearing it).

As for the Axe though.....neither I nor the entirety of the Linkshell could find one. Turns out it's only in either the Auction House or treasure chests, and since we couldn't find it in the Auction House, well.....yeah, it didn't go well.

So with my new level and better gear on, I set out to try the whole party thing out again. I managed to actually join up with somebody named Caloriezero, who was using two characters at once (I dunno what's up with that, so I just rolled along with it). I also learned first-hand at about the time I actually went into the Dunes that the beaties are tough. VERY tough. I was amazed that I made it all the way to Caloriezero's location without dying.

Once I made it to Her (at least I hope she was a her), we proceeded to fight crabs, Damselflies and who knows what else. She was a summoner and brought out some nice beasties of her own to fight for us, while the other dude she controlled kept casting Cure II on me to keep me from dying. It went pretty well.....until about when I got to level 17, where at that precise moment she pretty much ditched me. Yep, all alone, with monsters that could rip me apart easily in seconds, without any healing items or healers even close to my location, and even being stupid enough to set my home point at the outpost here......yeah, I needed out of there, and fast.

So thusly one of the guys from the Linkshell, a Mithra Thief (forgot the name, sorry) came to not over help me get out, but also tell me about this whole "subjob quest" thing i'll be doing at about level 18, one level away from my current level. She went and proceeded to help me find what seemed to be items needed to complete it: A Damselfly Worm, a Crab Apron (why crabs have aprons, I will never know), and a Magicked Skull (took the longest time to find and get). After about that point, she dropped me off at these Highlands to do some training to reach level 18, and that I should ask from to get to this town called "Selima" (I think that's how it's spelt) once I get to that level so as to do the quest.


So yeah, currently in the Highlands, about to go train some more so I can reach level 18 and finally do this Sub Job quest thing. I dunno what to expect, but i'm certain i'll be able to handle it.....I hope.

Oh, and I still have yet to find a Moth Axe. I swear, is nobody selling these anymore?


Current Goals: Get to level 18, do Sub Job quest, figure out Sub Job to have, finally find a Moth Axe (I will find you one day, I swear it).


Oh, and to let ya know, I currently play on the Carbuncle serve, so if ya ever wanna stop and chat or whatever for a few, i'm up for it. :V

im also on carbuncle, and its good to see that you landed in a very helpful linkshell. i think i still have my trusty "chopper" on one of my mules that if i find it, i can send it your way. Yes i never sold the thing since i got it way way back as a lowly 20 war.

found it. hope you will enjoy this badboy of kickassery like i did back in the days.

Edited, Jul 9th 2010 8:47pm by chinaman

You'll find it much more expedient if you take your potential subjob and level it to 18 first, then take Warrior to 37. Then unlock the Ninja, Samurai, and Dancer subjobs and level those to 37. That way, its a direct shot from 37 to 75 for your Warrior with (less) time spent leveling other jobs just to keep up, as it were.



Edited, Jul 10th 2010 2:23pm by lolgaxe

Damn it. I blame the 130f weather.

Quite a lot has happened since my last post. I'll just sumerize it so as to save myself from having to type a really long post again:

- Got to lvl 20, equipped Neckchopper and when to start on lower Dunes enemies.
- Proceeded to begin training to level 24 to get Iron Gear.
- Got blindsided by groups of 2-4 goblins several times (god, this feels like a recurring theme to me).
- Ended up getting help finding keys to get an airship pass to Kazham to train with some LS dudes to level 23.
- Some more training was done to reach level 24, and then proceeded to get Iron Gear.
- Ancara's journey to Jueno, which was an epic adventure complete with quite a long run to Point B, and trying to not die to things near the goal point. Also, I need to stop getting lost horribly.
- Shenanigans with using the Red Mage job and leveling it up, didn't last that long and went back to Warrior/Monk.
- Ended up doing a stupid and asking for help a few times too many about trying to find a Plantbane (since I could equip it at level 25), got kicked out of it. (so now i'm about on my own here, minus a friend who's helping me out)
- Went on a boat from Selbina to go train in the Peninsula area to level 25.
- Went on the boat back to Selbina to head back to San D'oria, where I learned that a Notorious Monster (or NM as they called them there) had it. Set my goal to finding said NM to get the Plantbane.
- *insert Yakkity Sax music over my long trip of getting lost and goblin encounters*

So yeah, currently in South Gustaberg, where I learned that I have to head to a different area to get to the NM itself....derp indeed for me.

Once I finally get there and get the Plantbane, well.....what do I do then? I know that I can soon attempt to gain new jobs at level 30-ish, and getting the Jueno the first time (even having to go through West San....something all the way there) will need to be easier with some leveling up, but what else should I work on? Any help would be nice.


Current Goals: Get to level 30, find and attempt to get new jobs, find a way to not die horribly near Jueno, find new training spots, ......?


Will continue my trek to....something after I get back home. Until then, see ya later. :P

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you guys about another little tale of before I got kicked out of the LS : Of Ancara's first encounter with an NM.

Basically, I was heading through East Ronfaure to the Tomb area (since the LS members were going there-ish to train), and I was getting some good distance, when suddendly, right in front of me, it stood: A huge ram-like thing that could likely destroy me easily if it wanted to. I tell the LS reasonably that I may die due to this thing, and they reply with "Go on and fight it, it should give good exp!" So, wanting to not let this opportunity to gain exp go away like that, engaged it.

It was quite a fight, with it doing quite some damage to me, and me doing the same to it. I spent several minutes fighting this giant beast, fighting tooth and nail to defeat this foe. I was almost dead, with about 10 HP left, but I prevailed, and the beast vanquished....only to gain no exp from it.

The only reaction I could have given at that moment was "wut."

I then proceeded after a quick heal to the Tomb area, got to the ??? area, got inside and went to begin training....only to be destroyed by the entry beasties. It was quite funny now that I look back at it, and also showed me that I needed MUCH more training to be able to train there.

So yeah, hope ya like this little tale from my travels so far.

Well, so far today it has been quite an interesting day.

Been doing more training with the Monk job, so it would give me a bigger benefit once I switched back (so as to make training with Warrior a little easier). My goal is to get it up to level 15 so that way once I reach level 30, and thus am then able to get access to the advanced classes, i'll be hopefully capable enough to do so.

During my training so far, I met two new players, a Thief and a White Mage, both Humes. The Thief I believe was at level 9, and the White Mage at level 8. They were working together to be able to get through the game. Being the nice dude I was, I helped them train a bit while I trained as a Monk (so we would all win in the end) as well as explained a few things to them during the training.

We even managed to take down one of the bird enemies in the Plateau area with all our effort and all the white mage's MP. They left right as I hit level 11, and said they would plan to be back soon enough for more training. Have I possibly found my first two students/training buddies? Only time will tell.

Current Goals: Train Monk to level 15, see if those two Humes come back and train with them if they do, Find a way to not die horribly in Beadeaux, finally get Plantbane, see what else I can get done afterwards.


So yeah, i'll be back in the game in a minute, look for "ancara" in the Carbuncle server if ya wanna chat/train/whatever. Until my next post, see ya then.

I really like the way you use "training". Keep that gaxe a swingin! =)

Re: "level 27 gear"

A couple of points:

First, there's very rarely (in the grand scheme), a reason to wear full sets of anything in FFXI. When there's a set bonus, it'll be noted. Some are per additional piece, and some require the full set for the bonus.

As an example for the former, and something possibly relevant to you in the somewhat-near future, the Iron Ram Chainmail Set, which gives 1 ACC and 1 ATT per piece after the second. As an example of the latter, the new just-add-water endgame set, the Perle Hauberk Set.


The second point is that you want to focus on gear that offers you meaningful DD stats. DEF is all well and good, but it's something of a broken stat in FFXI. Basically, mobs cheat, and unless they're Even Match or lower, have a cap as to how much DEF will really help. On top of that, mobs actually have a relatively modest amount of ATT...compared to players, they have a relatively large base damage, which is why the big ones can hit so hard.

Some of the best DD gear you can be using for a decent bit is stuff you can already equip. For example, the level 25 Republic Subligar (or Bastokan, if your budget is tight), remains an appealing option for quite some time. Likewise, the level 15 hands are decent, due to the ATT.

If you're simply gearing for DEF, the level 24 Chainmail set is slightly more DEF (for the full set) than Brass Scale, if that's the level 27 set you mean.

Another thing to look at is that 27 is the first piece of RSE (Race-Specific Equipment), which you can quest (though you'll need help at that level). http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Custom_Armor_Set_(Hume_Male)



Advanced jobs all have a unique quest, which later tie into the Artifact Armor quests for those jobs. http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Category:Jobs tend to have the quest(s) needed in the description for the job.

Some you will need help for at 30. Some you won't, though you may need meds such as Silent Oils or Prism Powders.


Edited, Jul 19th 2010 4:56pm by Isiolia

Yet another short update from me:

- Trained up to level 29.
- started to save up gil to get level 30 gear/Great Axe(trying to figure out which one would be better to get).
- Finally was able to start soloing some enemies in the Qufim Island area.
- Some shmuck pulled a Giant Hunter over to my location. I think it's safe to say that I didn't stand a chance, especially since I had just finished a battle right beforehand.

Current Goals: Get to level 30, see if any good gear can be gotten by then, find a new Great Axe if I can afford one, figure out which advanced job to go after and get it, start training said job, ect., ect.


Level 30 is going to be a very busy an exciting level to get to. Hopefully once I get to it, i'll be able to at least get a good start on the things I wish to do. I just hope I don't die too much on my way to that level.

Should be able to get back in the game in a few hours, so see ya in there by then. :P

And versatile too.

SE Nerfs 2 handers? Switch to axe/axe. SE nerfs axes? Swordchucks. SE Nerfs two handers, Axes and swords? Dagger/dagger.

i never thought of that, but it's true; WAR is virtually un-nerfable. SE could step in and drop the nerf bat directly on the job, but it can't be nerfed into the ground as a side effect from a larger update/nerf. pretty cool. i've always considered SpoilerMNK to be the most powerful job possible, but it's definitely nerfable.

note: spoilered for "if you've read even 3 of my posts in the past, you should know what's behind the curtain." [edit: left off a quotation mark ;_;]

also, i can't believe i've posted in this thread twice now.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2010 4:10am by milich

Time for another update:

- Finally got to level 30.
- Decided to get the Beastmaster job first, both to get it out of the way as well as to see what it was like.
- Started doing the quest to get said job, to get a root of this flower thingy.
-Got close to where the thing was at and die'd to a Wight. Had to wait a while to get revived.
- ANCARA VS. THE KRACKEN....IN SPAAAAAAAAACE!!! (I won)
- Completed the quest and got the Beastmaster job.

Right now I am gonna try out the Beastmaster job, and then shoot for a job i'll really use in the long run. Oh, and I hope that the job I try to get isn't too hard to get.

Cuurent Goals: Try out Beastmaster job, figure out job to get that will be used in the long run, get said job, begin training it to a decent level.

I hope this ends well. Well, i'll probably go on tomorrow-ish and begin my trek to getting a job i'll actually use, and hopefully don't end up failing by then. Until then, see ya later. :P

It was something I said a while ago about Warrior's versatility. Batman is known to be able to do pretty much anything, given enough time to prepare for it. He's pretty much just a guy in a funny costume, yet he's beaten super powers that should logically (okay, its a comic book, but still) be beyond his capabilities. Taken out Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, and those are his "friends." Anyway, knowing that, you just apply it to Vana'diel. Need only a high volume of damage? One handed weapons or two, Warrior is more than capable. Need a specific type of damage? Piercing, perhaps? Between Bergressor and a decent Polearm rank, you've got that as well. A little more preparing and you can sub Ranger and be decent just out of range. Need a tank for low man stuff? Just enough enmity tools (Warcry and Provoke, to be exact) to keep it's attention on you. Bigger things? Maybe its one of the lost truths of the game, but a Warrior has tanked everything in the game. Kiting? Again, enough +enmity gear and tools to run things around in circles.

The meme is the part where the parents are dead. For a while Batman was really whiny about his parents being dead, so someone(s) took a picture of Batman bitchslapping Robin and use it to, well, joke. Like this.

This part is kind of irrelevant to Warrior, but its pretty funny.

Edited, Jul 27th 2010 3:28pm by lolgaxe