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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.