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I have been a little bored lately and noticed that alot of people seem to be restarting teh game from scratch. Many posts have acumulated with the question "How easy is it to start back again from scratch?"
Well as you lovable lowlevel guide person I thought why don't I find out. This is my beginers guide but mainly a record of my progress so please read the beginers guides for exactly how to do things, I will prompt a few things in here.
So begins an insight into starting from scratch.
DISCLAIMER:- THIS IS WRITTEN FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF GOING THROUGH THE GAME FROM START, IT WILL BE UPDATED WHEN I AM ABLE TO PLAY AND UPDATE, GEAR CHOICES ARE MY CHOICE BASED ON GUIDES FROM FFXI WIKI AND CASH SITUATION OF CHARACTER. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT BUT ALSO A GOOD REFERENCE FOR ANYONE STARTING. THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE ONLY WAY THIS IS JUST MY EXPERIENCES, HOWEVER IT WILL GIVE AN INSIGHT INTO PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS WITH STARTING FROM SCRATCH. ANY PURCHASES MADE, ITEMS SOLD ON THE AH AND DIFFICULTIES HAD WILL BE ADDED AS WELL AS MISSIONS UNDERTAKEN.
I created a character on Hades called Dovtestchar (Dreams of vanadiel test character) (so if you see me please wave and say hello) the reason for choosing a totally different server to my own 2 characters is so I cannot be tempted to send some gil or items to assist. This will be no help starting with what a new person to teh game starts with (Gulp)
Due to other guides I am not goign to go through character creating etc etc. Instead I will just cover the characters progression and difficulties etc.
With the advent of Fields of valour, Tutorial NPC quests it has made adventuring at low levels a luttle bit easier.
So Lets start.
Character I chose was a Galka (as my main) and I chose the Monk job. Reason for this was its a good job to use with hardly any gear.
I start in Bastok so I get my Bastoken ring (HP +1, Dex+ 1 VIT +1) its always best to start a character int ehir associated towns.
Galka and Hume - Bastok
Taru and Mithra - Windurst
Elvan - San Doria
As monk I also get given white belt so don;t forget to equip the belt for the Str+1 and the ring.
After the usual starting text from various charcters you get given an adventurers coupon and told to trade it with someone for some dosh. I started in Bastok Markets so it is Reet at G-8 you get 50gil to add to teh 10 gil you start with. 60gil wont buy you anything really but you can earn cash by trading items in the AH etc.
Have a little walk around just to familiarise yourself with the areas.
Go into your mog house and it tells you lots of crap which i tend to just select the finished bit at the bottom to shut the thing up
But if your new its an idea to rad through all the things it tells you.
Head for the gate at bastok markets to start the tutorial NPC quests (see my guide on them here for location and quests)
So in my case in Bastok its Gulldago so talk to him, get signet and the meat Jerkys, eat one and go outside the gate to start fighting.
Now I suggest you go out of the Bastok mines gate as their is a field manual their to start your South Gustaberg fields of valour quests The bees one is a good start as you will be killing Huge Hornets (of bees family) to start with.
Gulddago gives you the first assignment which is to get your weapon skill and use it, this is to fight enemies till you have a weapon ability at lvl 5.
Start fighting huge hornet, you get 80 exp for each one so it takes the 6 you need for fields of valour quest to gain your first level. Hornets drop wind crystals (with signet active), and occasionally insect wings and honey which when you get 12 you can sell on the AH to start earning gil.
After you killed all 6 huge hornets, jsut go around killing more hornets and tunnel worms while you wait for nightfall and a new vanadiel day to begin so you can do the first fields of valour quest again.
To help with continual levelling, you can read the field manual and select field support and get the regen for 20 tabs which will help you just continue levelling. Don't forget to eat another meat jerky when your food effect runs out.
At lvl 2/3 add dingbats and stone eaters to your list of things to attack.
Half way through lvl 3-4 I got lvl 5 hand to hand skill used combo once and now head back to bastok markets to Gulldago.
As I now have a weapon skill its good to Macro it. so in macros add to ALT+1 button /ws "Combo" <t> more info on macros is availiable here
If its gone midnight (in game) then before you spend a little bit of time in bastok markets get the same quest again (as its easy) then go to markets. You can only select one quest every 24 game hours (not rl hours) so get a quest while you can as you can sometimes chain them.
Back in Bastok markets after speaking to Gulldago, maek the food he has just given items for and find the AH.
Now as you have been fighting outside, Tunnel worms, Huge hornets and bats drop items and crystals. When you have a stack, sell them on teh AH as soon as possible to get gil to buy weapons and armour.
These days from teh items dropped by the mobs above you can get minimum...
(Based on Hades prices in Bastok AH 18 April 2009)
Wind crystal x12 = 500-800gil (crystals)
Earth Crystal x12 =500-800 gil (crystals)
Insect wing x12= 400-500 gil (materials / clothcraft)
Honey x12= 2000-3000girl (food / ingrediants)
Flint Stone x12= 600-900 (Materials / goldmsithing)
You can easily make 3k levelling up to lvl 6 if you sell all your crystals etc.
As I was levelling I came accross various chests and if you can crack teh code of teh brown ones you can get some items. I managed to get a pair of leather gloves which saves me buing them for when i lvl war and a bullet belt (rare/ex) for theif. I also obtained a goblin mask which is on sale in teh AH for the going rate of 1k.
Now I'm lvl 8 I will hopefully be able to afford some teko etc. kit. It might also bea good time to research on wiki some quests to get kit and do Mission 1 in the zehrn mines.
Well as you lovable lowlevel guide person I thought why don't I find out. This is my beginers guide but mainly a record of my progress so please read the beginers guides for exactly how to do things, I will prompt a few things in here.
So begins an insight into starting from scratch.
DISCLAIMER:- THIS IS WRITTEN FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF GOING THROUGH THE GAME FROM START, IT WILL BE UPDATED WHEN I AM ABLE TO PLAY AND UPDATE, GEAR CHOICES ARE MY CHOICE BASED ON GUIDES FROM FFXI WIKI AND CASH SITUATION OF CHARACTER. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT BUT ALSO A GOOD REFERENCE FOR ANYONE STARTING. THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE ONLY WAY THIS IS JUST MY EXPERIENCES, HOWEVER IT WILL GIVE AN INSIGHT INTO PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS WITH STARTING FROM SCRATCH. ANY PURCHASES MADE, ITEMS SOLD ON THE AH AND DIFFICULTIES HAD WILL BE ADDED AS WELL AS MISSIONS UNDERTAKEN.
I created a character on Hades called Dovtestchar (Dreams of vanadiel test character) (so if you see me please wave and say hello) the reason for choosing a totally different server to my own 2 characters is so I cannot be tempted to send some gil or items to assist. This will be no help starting with what a new person to teh game starts with (Gulp)
Due to other guides I am not goign to go through character creating etc etc. Instead I will just cover the characters progression and difficulties etc.
With the advent of Fields of valour, Tutorial NPC quests it has made adventuring at low levels a luttle bit easier.
So Lets start.
Character I chose was a Galka (as my main) and I chose the Monk job. Reason for this was its a good job to use with hardly any gear.
I start in Bastok so I get my Bastoken ring (HP +1, Dex+ 1 VIT +1) its always best to start a character int ehir associated towns.
Galka and Hume - Bastok
Taru and Mithra - Windurst
Elvan - San Doria
As monk I also get given white belt so don;t forget to equip the belt for the Str+1 and the ring.
After the usual starting text from various charcters you get given an adventurers coupon and told to trade it with someone for some dosh. I started in Bastok Markets so it is Reet at G-8 you get 50gil to add to teh 10 gil you start with. 60gil wont buy you anything really but you can earn cash by trading items in the AH etc.
Have a little walk around just to familiarise yourself with the areas.
Go into your mog house and it tells you lots of crap which i tend to just select the finished bit at the bottom to shut the thing up
But if your new its an idea to rad through all the things it tells you.Head for the gate at bastok markets to start the tutorial NPC quests (see my guide on them here for location and quests)
So in my case in Bastok its Gulldago so talk to him, get signet and the meat Jerkys, eat one and go outside the gate to start fighting.
Now I suggest you go out of the Bastok mines gate as their is a field manual their to start your South Gustaberg fields of valour quests The bees one is a good start as you will be killing Huge Hornets (of bees family) to start with.
Gulddago gives you the first assignment which is to get your weapon skill and use it, this is to fight enemies till you have a weapon ability at lvl 5.
Start fighting huge hornet, you get 80 exp for each one so it takes the 6 you need for fields of valour quest to gain your first level. Hornets drop wind crystals (with signet active), and occasionally insect wings and honey which when you get 12 you can sell on the AH to start earning gil.
After you killed all 6 huge hornets, jsut go around killing more hornets and tunnel worms while you wait for nightfall and a new vanadiel day to begin so you can do the first fields of valour quest again.
To help with continual levelling, you can read the field manual and select field support and get the regen for 20 tabs which will help you just continue levelling. Don't forget to eat another meat jerky when your food effect runs out.
At lvl 2/3 add dingbats and stone eaters to your list of things to attack.
Half way through lvl 3-4 I got lvl 5 hand to hand skill used combo once and now head back to bastok markets to Gulldago.
As I now have a weapon skill its good to Macro it. so in macros add to ALT+1 button /ws "Combo" <t> more info on macros is availiable here
If its gone midnight (in game) then before you spend a little bit of time in bastok markets get the same quest again (as its easy) then go to markets. You can only select one quest every 24 game hours (not rl hours) so get a quest while you can as you can sometimes chain them.
Back in Bastok markets after speaking to Gulldago, maek the food he has just given items for and find the AH.
Now as you have been fighting outside, Tunnel worms, Huge hornets and bats drop items and crystals. When you have a stack, sell them on teh AH as soon as possible to get gil to buy weapons and armour.
These days from teh items dropped by the mobs above you can get minimum...
(Based on Hades prices in Bastok AH 18 April 2009)
Wind crystal x12 = 500-800gil (crystals)
Earth Crystal x12 =500-800 gil (crystals)
Insect wing x12= 400-500 gil (materials / clothcraft)
Honey x12= 2000-3000girl (food / ingrediants)
Flint Stone x12= 600-900 (Materials / goldmsithing)
You can easily make 3k levelling up to lvl 6 if you sell all your crystals etc.
As I was levelling I came accross various chests and if you can crack teh code of teh brown ones you can get some items. I managed to get a pair of leather gloves which saves me buing them for when i lvl war and a bullet belt (rare/ex) for theif. I also obtained a goblin mask which is on sale in teh AH for the going rate of 1k.
Now I'm lvl 8 I will hopefully be able to afford some teko etc. kit. It might also bea good time to research on wiki some quests to get kit and do Mission 1 in the zehrn mines.
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