tips, hints, and stuff your willing to pass down

Have you found a gil trick or an exp cheat? Mabe an easier way to do things? This game can be really difficult if you don't know what to do. So come on what would you tell a 'new adventurer' If you had to walk him through the game.

I would say, Make sure you always have signet on before you go outside. This will let you pick up crystals and other items a lot easier. It also lets you earn conquest points. Go to any guild you see and find an item you can synth with ease. Make a stack of 12 and sell them in the AH. After you get 1000 conquest points (CP) get the empress band and use it when you go to level up.

Well thats just what I'd say, I hope others will give good tips, hints or cheats for exp, gil or any other thing you can say to help a newbie.

Oh yeah one more thing
1) you must be level 18 to do the sub job quest
2) you have to be level 20 to do the chocobo quest
3) you have to be level 30 to do the advance job quests.

Good luck!!

http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=77171

have up to date equips at all time.

If you a warrior have a great axe, or axe and shield.

They're are not cheats for this game, it's not like any others where you can pop in a gameshark and go to work.

Ask for help. If you don't know how to do your job and your new, ask, most people will help you to understand the game better.

Make macros.

I wouldn't start joining a guild until you've got a couple hundred thousand gil, it'll run out quickly as well.

And if you are thinking about having a lot of characters you won't get anywhere. Especially if you are new and have two characters on two different servers... you're dead.

These threads are always fun but after a play time of 170+ days you mind begins to get foggy on where to even begin. When I'm coaching someone on my server that is new to the game it's easy to remember things as they come up. This is much more difficult here as I would be able to write a dissertation on little things about the game.

Also considering my beginning would've been totally different due to the types of people, number of people and economy it's always hard for me to give sound advice to people just starting. But dagnabit... I'm gonna try ^^

1) If you are a packrat by nature (the people that kept everything in other games and never ever ever used a Megalixir because you thought you might need it later until you were done with the game) you should get a mule. Start another character on your server to hold your junk. More than just adding to your potential inventory space this will add to your income quite a bit as you will have added 7 Auction House spaces to youself essentially.

For people just starting out one mule is more than good enough. Use this mule to hold random crap you get from XP or anywhere else as you run out of room on your main. You can sell it for decent profit. Some people (especially endgame) don't hold on to this stuff. (i.e. "pffft it's just a crab shell they only go for like 1k... I can make that blowing my nose) Sure one goes for 1k but if you get 2 or 3 in a PT that's 3k. It all adds up quite substantially and if nothing else pays for your chocobos.

I'd suggest making the mule in a city other than your own home city to take advantage of different economies as well.

2) If you are gonna buy anything especially to craft with stay away from the Auction House. Go to http://ffxi.somepage.com/ and find out if the item is available from an NPC. Things often list on the Auction House at 500% or more markup. At early points in the game you can't afford that. If it's at an NPC cheaper get it there. If the NPC is in another nation only then if you happen to have a mule in that country you're in luck ^^

3) On the flip side of #2 if you find yourself actually not even using all of your AH slots which might happen rarely at lower levels you can do your research at http://ffxi.somepage.com/ and find things cheap in your home nation that you can sell on the AH at a huge markup. This is a nice money making method at the low end of importing/exporting. Later you can find scrolls in other cities... especially the outlands (like Selbina) and buy them to sell at huge profit on the Jeuno AH.

The reason this works is because people at the top have money and don't mind spending it to save themselves a few seconds in convenience. I'm among this and often buy things marked up 10x their NPC price because to me it's only a drop in the bucket compared to what my time is worth.

4) Get started on Missions and quests as early as possible. You can get some freebie armor from some quests even if it sucks sometimes. Sometimes quests totally aren't worth the reward but getting fame is a good idea so that you can get the better quests later on that are worth something. Also doing Missions for Rank (talk to a mission giver near the gate guards in your city) can help a lot. Sure being Rank 10 doesn't necessarily mean you are a great player (I played with the crappiest PT in the dunes recently... all Rank 10 people with 75 jobs that I've seen around... leveling like crap in the dunes even wearing their millions in gear). However, when it comes down to being between you and another person that higher rank they will probably get the PT spot.

Especially if you are a lowbie in the dunes and don't have a subjob people will tend to notice the effort you put forth. The fact that you are Rank 2 and not Rank 1 will tell people that have been through the dunes a few times that you actually care about more than just level grinding. Generally those that are too impatient to Rank up are the same types thare are too impatient to learn anything new about how to play their jobs well from people that know.


Alright.. I think that's enough for right now.

Yeah this game doesn't have any cheat codes which makes it more fun to play. The only thing I really don't like about it is gil buyers. Oh well. HEre it is, you can buy FF11 gil online!! If you do I would keep this to yourself cause it really isn't something people will like. and if you have a fat wallet I'd be looking for the item that gives you exp. I forgot what its called but its in the AH. After you reach level 10 you can go and level up at the dunes with a full party. Just make sure you know what your doing. If the party isn't all that good I usally disband.
Yeargdribble had a good thought about having a second character for item room in the AH, and MH. Thats the only real reason I'm thinking of getting one. I've also noticed that armor made by a nation is really good. Like bastokian or san 'dorian armor. Thats just me some would beg to differ.