MOD EDIT: Smartened up the first post with names of adventurers and links to profiles.

WORLD SERVER: Cerberus

Free Company: UUDDLRLRBA

UUDD members
Blokeymon: Blokeymon Kenobi
Ax: Axelle Icethorn
inertSpark: Sparky McDob
Fanboy19: Fan Boy
Jlikew00t/James/Jim/G: Kumo Sasuyona

Guys I worked with at Aviva
Nick: Phantom Hawk
Phil/Spearmint: Tankle Berry
Luke/Bradders: Vaire Weaver
Rebecca: Au Ratatosk

Random people we picked up online but who are still cool
Alistair Crowley

Tips for non-story stuff
* Buy your equipment off of the market boards and NOT the vendors. Always. Also, as soon as you can get one, get a Retainer.

* Libra Eorzea is the official FFXIV:ARR app for iPhone, and it has pretty much everything ever in there. Curse my Android devices...

* We have access to a Teamspeak 3 voice chat server thanks to the lovely Nick. Not gonna go posting the IP and the password where everyone can see it, but if anyone wants access so we can get some chat on, either myself or inertSpark should be able to nab the info and PM it you.

* A guide to grinding FATEs

* When you get the chance to choose a second class, you will get an Armoury Bonus. This is a % bonus on all EXP earned from kills, collecting, crafting, etc (but not missions) and is based on the difference between your highest class and your current one. EG: You have Gladiator at level 30, you will get, say 25% bonus EXP when you start a new class. If your Gladiator was level 40, your bonus would be, say, 35%. This helps grinding later easier, but also makes sticking with one class worthwhile in the long run.

* Be in a party as often as possible. Provided your class levels aren't too far apart, you will get EXP from your own kills AND theirs, and vice versa. In mob-related FATEs, this is often the best way to maximise your EXP gain.

* Playing on console and targetting pissing you off? Peep these settings right here. Clicking L3 changes the text above the HP bar between "Friends" and "Enemies". Selecting a specific one and then hitting left or right on the D-pad will ONLY tab through each available target of that type. Up and down are still only reserved for people in your party.

* Stay away from this man.

I might get this at a later date.

Now that I can get on, really fucking good.

I was worried it would be like WoW, like every other MMO out there is. It's not as much like FFXI as I'd like but it's still fresh and fairly different from the other MMOs.

Plus I can play with my Xbox controller.

Will upload stuff tomorrow.

I am REALLY enjoying it now I have the Levequests opened.

These are basically set events for set levels, with bonus rewards for finishing fast, and for increasing the difficulty. They can be repeated a few times, but to balance them out, you can only do a certain amount per day before you run out of "permissions" or whatever, and you get new "permissions" every so often, so while you can use all your permissions right off the bat, you'll have to wait ages before you can get what is essentially free EXP and Gil.

Also found a place that did level 15 armour, and as I was level 15 I stocked up on EVERYTHING. I went from 59 DEF to something like 154 DEF or some shit. INVINCIBLE!

Been roaming all over the place, and looking forward to doing some dungeons later on, get some more coin and EXP.

SO MUCH FUN RIGHT HURR.

Doing it wrong. I guarantee youll get those very same items as quest rewards!

>implying that I'm not collecting those gold things that sell for shitloads, and have approximately 40k worth of the fuckers all stashed up

Also, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WEARING, DOBSON?

You kinda look like Cell in that pic.

My screenshots album so far.

I kinda like this one the best...

Just a work in progress.

You did look a bit Freddie Mercury earlier though...

Also, confirmed for picture auto-update. Check out first post.

Is there a screenshot manager that doesn't require me to to press print screen and then copy that bastard into fucking ms paint like back in the day of Unreal Toruney and Deus Ex?

Using a pad? LB and start. PRT SCRN sends them automatically to a folder in My Documents.

Also, airships and Metal Gear in my FFXIV. True story.

LOL get some fukken work done you skiving cnut.

Day off, at home, looking after Elena, playing FFXIV.

You jelly?

Also, check it out, I look like some kind of medieval Stormtrooper.

Extremely.

Now I have to go to work till 10PM.

fml.

Well at least I gained 6 levels this morning. Don't seem to be getting any closer to your level though :s