Leon
Resident Saint Seiya fanboy

Yeah, having a lot of options will help you out in the long run. It helps with learning the roles everyone has in the party. And understanding what others are doing.

I'm glad you had fun. I wanted to try to find people that I knew to go with you on the first dungeon, makes it easier learning. Plus makes things more enjoyable. I try to keep things pretty light and entertaining. Should have fun playing with others. You're more often likely to find people being pretty quiet using the Duty Finder. Though with the commendations, people are a little more talkative. But it is just a shot in the dark when you find the people that are there to have fun.

I'm glad we were able to take your mind off things. It's good to have a more cheerful Christmas time.

Definitely, there's a lot to do in the game and once you hit lv 10, which you've already done, you can go try out any class you want. There's a lot of see and experience.

I'll be on at some point Christmas Eve, I don't have plans that will consume the whole day. So I should be available. But I'll be on a little more often throughout the week since I'm on vacation. So you might have better odds of seeing me.

Part of the nice thing about the Duty Finder is that you doing other stuff while you're waiting. You don't have to stand in one place and do nothing. You can even change classes. When you get the pop it'll ask you to change back to the class you registered as to start the dungeon, but it is really friendly to you.

You don't need 3 of us to run the dungeon. If you want to run with people you know that's fine, but they have a system set up that you use the "Duty Finder" and it'll find players for you that are also doing that the same thing and match you together to run it. If you don't want to do that, it's fine, but you don't have to feel like you need to wait on us. I'll be on during the weekend so you can play with me.

Yes, I'm pretty sure you can active your account again whenever you can pay.

It is what the LS page is for, seeing who is on. Nothing wrong with that.

It's ok if you're busy. You find me eventually again. There are 8 crafting classes and 3 gathering classes on top of the 8 combat classes and 9 jobs. So there's a lot to play with. There are more Summoning Bells, but I believe unless they added more to the town, these were added to the housing districts.

Yup, there are plenty of dungeons in the game most you'll hit for story reasons, but you can return to them as many times as you want. The first one is lv 15 I'm pretty sure Sastasha, which you unlock when you go to your first destination during the airship ambassador trip. I've actually got my tank leveled to start running it. So I can help you out with it whenever.

And yeah, the story is a big focus for the game. Each patch will be more story so even after you finish everything more will keep coming with each major patch. It gets really good once you start getting into the latter part of the campaign. The first really cool moments and interesting surprises/twists will happen when you face the first primal.

Glad you were able to join. It took a little while, but eventually our times crossed. I had meant to ask where you were in the story. That means you'll be running the dungeons very soon.

Many of the Final Fantasy games do not expressly state jobs. Steiner from FFIX would be a Paladin, though he lacks the heal. But it was also a standard of FFXI. But there are classes and jobs, Paladin is a job, Gladiator is the class. When you get to level 30 of the class you unlock the job quest to switch to the job for that class. You still earn experience for the class even if you're the job. The jobs are the types that are more Final Fantasy in nature like Warrior, Monk, White Mage and Black Mage.

I'll keep an eye out for you trying, but it seems like Sunday might be the easiest.

Black Mage is my favorite, which is my current main job. I have several other jobs leveled, so I'll get to them in time. They all generally feel like a lot of fun.

It's ok. You don't have to worry about it. It is the one of the few things that I think Square could do better, allow you to invite people not signed in. Anyway, unless there is maintenance schedule I'm on every weekday between 11:30pm and 12:30am CST and then Friday most of the evening/night, Saturday is night and Sunday is a random, sometimes all day sometimes part of it.

I can still invite you even if you don't have access to the Free Company stuff I'm pretty sure.

I did check repeatedly at night for you. I'm guessing I missed you. I wasn't sure if when you post is the time you planned to be on or if it was a different time. But you're actually coming in at a good time. If you've been following the FFXIV news here, you'll have seen there is a patch coming out next week that is going to add a lot of new content.

Unfortunately for now, you have to be in the game for me to send a friend request. After that I can invite you into the LS and FC. But they do provide a lot of tutorials help explain things in the game. So you should be fine.

Fair enough. Whenever you feel comfortable just let me know.

It's a start at least. Saint Seiya never really blew up in the US, so it's probably more difficult for them to try to bring them out over here.