The Ask a Stupid Question Thread

[Tavrobel]

Only problem is, most of the shouting I see is people asking for people who are already geared up or people who are getting angry at ungeared players for having crap armour. What's the best way to get geared up when you need to run these dungeons ungeared to start with?

You can try to round up a group of like-minded people (the non-geared) or people who are in your Free Company to help you do it. The elitism will not be going away. Double-check to see if the DL gear does have the better stats distribution; might save you some time (probably won't).

Also, you can get some "starter" 50s gear by purchasing them from your Grand Company. This is how you use up the GC seals you get from FATEs and from selling pinks/greens to the GC Supplier and Provisions. The stats may or may not be terrible based on which one you chose. Don't neglect your GC hunting log. You will have to go back and do some lower-level content in order to fulfill the requirements for rank promotion.

Do yall do the low level missions when you go to a new town?

If you don't do the extra missions, your first leveling experience without FATE grinding with be slow. Very slow. That is to say, extremely slow. I would suggest that you do as many of the quests that you can; if you want, you can supplement it with the extra levequests, though you only get a few a day, and it's better spent on using those for levels in any of the crafting classes. If you're into FATE grinding, you can get away with not doing any of the quests other than the story quest starting from the low thirties (Costa Del Sol/Wineport, then Coerthas, then Bluefog/Ceruleum). Other parts of the world will have people doing FATEs too, but only these zones have dedicated player trains. Make sure you turn off spell effects for non partied players.