Your first 10 days!

Shaidalyn

Shaidalyn

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For those of you who can remember, tell what your first week was like? I know mine is still fresh in my mind, but I am still new to a lot of the people here... Just wondering how everyone did their first 10 days. :3
I'll post mine later <.<
 
spent my first month on pheonix waiting for a lazy friend to get my bloody WP. -.-
 
I got to lvl 9 my first day, then spent a few days dying. I made 500k in my first 10 days (<3 silk threads)
 
I spent my first ten days on my poriganal server getting level 15 and basically going to all the major cities alone by foot. It was quite an experiance and I found that traveling was fun back then, I think all the running around taught me how to pull better on THF(that was my first job at the time) becaus eof the aggro dodging sand such.
 
1st 10 days I got to level 15 monk solo (was the trend back then), got my first party in Valkrum with Prophecy and Gotanks and we ended pooling some money and made our first linkshell (Masamune). I got to level 20, unlocked the subjob, and proceeded to run all over the world. I was on mission 2-3 and needed to get to Windurst and I didn't know there was a ship in Selbina. So I ran from Bastok, up to Jeuno, and then back down to Windurst. It was dangerous but a blast. Ended up killing the dragon and I guess that would be about it.
 
Was leveling warrior with the help of my cousin, smiting orcs and rabbits in ronfaure/ghelsba outpost. Recieved my first linkshell, CowboysFromHell, and had a first party in valkurm. Ah the good old days...
 
Come on people.. details! D: I wanna reeeeead.. Mines gonna be long enough to cover like 15 peoples :/ come on lazikins!
 
I walked all the way from bastok to Tahrongi Canyon to get my Mea crystal, and then died immediately after. I didnt come back on for 3 days.
 
Well my first day was spent as a thf named Shadi on odin or some unimportant server. I was a bastokan but the first thing i saw was a galka contemplating way to inflict eccessive bodily harm upon me throught blugeoning smashing punching ect... I also found bastok hard to naivgate. Did I mention it was ugly and the galka kept on trying to kill me?
It took me 20 minutes to get outside to gusta. I got to about level 3 that night before logging off since I didnt wanna become attached to that server when I was gonna be playing with all my rl freinds on quetz.

Eventually Khajit was born on quetzey. I loved the opening cutscene with the two ministry taru. I also found it alot easier to find my way around or at least everything wasnt so ugly(like bastok) I didnt care where I was going and loved every second.
I saw my fist yag and thought to myself "Damn that is one ugly character model. Who would have something that ugly as thier face" then I walked up to it to get a closer look and the yagudo intiate kicked my ass. Until it had attacked me i thought it was some type of deformed galka.

I kept on leveling and eventually learned how to use the ah somewhat. It took me a while to realize everything displayed in ah isnt neccisarily there at the time. I almost completely soloed all the way to about 12 or 13 with an onion knife before my inability to find a better weapon in ah finally got to me. I died soo many times after leveling that week or was it month?>.> My freind minima was on vacation for a bit and when he came back i was the same level so that tells you how hard a time I had finding a better knife. I had on party with a brd named lyrai during that time and learned that dhamel ae really really tall.
Eventually I got sent to dunes and did a great job avioding agggro on the way to mhaura. Upon getting to dunes I spent a minimum of 8 hours without a party each day and realized I was better off soloing but windy was soo far away I couldnt go back. Upon hearing of a lv 13 weapon known and the "knife" i embarked on a quest to get myself to the town that looked like the aftermath of chernoble and bought a brand new knife from npc.
Please note that i got the upgraded weapon before I went seeking in Hell...er I mean valkurm(I mean Hell). Eventually I got a party that was actually decent and got all the way to 18 in that one party with subjob items and everything.

Once i got 19 I decided to meet one of my freind who was getting a chocobo. liscense. As usual i managed to aviod all aggro on the way until i got to the last stretch of jugner. A tiger attacked me but {Perfect Dodge} FTW! Upon getting to battilia i immediately had the crap scared outta me as i saw a gauntlet of all things that wanted to kill/main/killagain me. (It s good thing I didnt try those tunnels as a way to go under all the aggro) Upon making it to jueno i learned of lag and its great evilness when i went down one level. I activated my subjob option and made a joke sub of thf/blm. It was kinda obvious it would suck as a sub to me but since i didnt have anything else leveled i figured have something funny. Everyone else wasnt amused. I accidentally spent all my money on grass for my choco liscence and an amythest ring which was the first peice of dex equip I had seen before. After *finally* geting out of jeuno I went to work getting my mnk to 15 and learned how to skill chain for the first time. After that i never missed the sc timing more than 5 times in my leveling career so this leads me to believe anyone who cant/wont learn to sc is retarded.(that means anyone from level 10-34 nowadays sadly*cry*)
well i guess thats it for now and it was a bit higher than 10 days but then again i spent waay too long at level 12/13.
 
first 5 minutes: this game sucks
next 5 minutes: game still sucks
level 9: why am i still playing?
level 12: come on, this pt sucks.
18: oo sub job
level 1 blm: ...

the game got fun somewhere in qufim lol.
 
learning how to get from1 -10 as a taru blm. i almost gave up and i eventually did after a few weeks. i did come back though.
 
stabbing things in Ronfaure as an elf. Yes, my first character was an elf. Shut up, i'm not proud of it ; ;
 
well first day on this server i leveled blm to 18, second day was subjob and whm to 15, then thrid i leveled blm up some more and did choco... got mission 2-3 done sometime in the next day or two... was level 30 by the end of a week...

on my first server... the first day i ran out and tried to kill and orc, got pissed cause i kept dying, and quit for the day... second day i ran out and killed rabbits got my war to about 7 or 8 and then started wondering how i get equipment (no clue what AH was)... ended up changing jobs about 20 times cause i didn't know where to buy equipment
 
I remember my first few hours consisted of learning the controls. It took me like 45 minutes to figure out how to open doors. XD Then I spent a few hours running around talking to every single NPC in Windurst (old habit from RPGs, first thing I do in a town is talk to all the NPCs XD). I didn't wander out of town until like my second or third day of playing, and when I did, I died right after zoning out, cuz someone had zoned a goblin. XD Luckily some level 70 SMN (level 70 being the cap at the time; this was a few months before they introduced the Maat fight) raised me after a minute. ^^ I started fighting stuff, and tried to practice running around the mob during fights cuz I thought when I hit 15 and got Sneak Attack, I'd be able to use it mid-fight if I timed it right. XD When I got to level 3, I went and finished the first mission, since Allakhazam recommended that as the minimum level. I got lucky, though; someone had just run through and killed all the goblins, or else I would've died doing that mission. It was some nice JP guy, and he gave me a Bronze Cap one of the goblins dropped. ^^ I remember thinking how everyone in this game was so friendly, because everywhere I'd go, random people would just cast Protect or Cure on me for no apparent reason. XD And I remember trying so hard to make gil... I remember thinking Silk Thread was a goldmine because it sold to NPCs for 200 gil. >.<;; I had no idea what the Auction House was; I'd didn't even know such a thing existed. XD
 
Well... I got a gold worldpass from a friend, and got into his ls, Stonecutters, by day 4 or so... Had to visit the Outpost in Wsaru to get it, and I'd never been that far away from safety at that point. >.> And I didn't range away that far for awhile after that, since I aggro'd the Gob Digger *and* an Enchanted Bones on the way back. :wacko: Oh, and I made the transition from 4 to 5 at least 5 times, learning that THF's really couldn't take em's, high dc's anymore at that point.

By day 9, I'd visited the dunes and the 2 cities on the other side of the world. Already picked up the 3 main tele crystals, even. I *also* got accused by my ls of not *really* being a newb, by answering an ls member's question on what the goldsmithing rank 30 or 40 item was... and how to make it. :bb: They were demanding to know what the name of my higher lvl character was... So I looked into crafting before I even started playing, so sue me. :ph34r:

That's pretty much my first 10 days.
 
I basically spent my first couple of days running around Bastok, doing rank quests and things. MAN, was Bastok ever scary back then (still is, depending on subligar frequency~). I always got lost in the Galka slums and had to check my map every two seconds.

Eventually I started leveling my WAR, and got to 15 after many much-needed lessons about not just runnin' up to any old mob without checking it out first. :p

Somewhere around the end of my first week I was in my first party. I've since learned how very rare and special getting into a functional, intelligent party is in Valkurm. I'm glad my first one was brilliant. It gave me the future motivation to stick with it, through those less than stellar ones. <3

Around the 10 day mark, I was working on...Asking someone else to help me get my Sub-job quest items~ Luckily, someone did help and I was off to build up my MNK sub, shortly thereafter!

Man, those were golden times. Such an innocence and freshness about the game~

*is still a newb, really.*

`Eiffel`
 
Couldn't get out of the city for the first few hours - hung out with Dirgesong and Vhaelraun....by the end of the week we had hit level 10 and walked from Windy to jeuno to sandy to bastork and then back to windurst....it took us over 5 hours :o

Vhaelraun learnt that you can fish up monsters on that trip...it didn't go so well :p

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About the time of the NA release...
My first character was on another server. Basically had a friend there who sent me tells how to play. Then we went to dangruf wadi and wiped a few times. Did a few parties in the highlands a lol whm dead. Went to valkrum and the use of provoke was unheard of which meant... lol whm dead again. Then some random monk invited me to parties with her/his (we still wonder what gender they were) warrior friend who knew how to provoke. We partied together for quite a while that week. I still talk to the warrior even though he does not play anymore.

First days on Quetz. Armi invited me to go on a party with some of her friends (Reaper, Boyhanno, Acts, and Shumai?) and we all went to Ghels Outpost. The level range 3-7. Armi and I got lost and aggroed lots of Orcs on our party. We wiped a few times but it was fun. Kinda how the Crimson Pirates started out. I think by the end of the week, we all planned on a boat ride and the distribution of the Linkshell. Some people became Sea Horror food that night.
 
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