50 Gathering with no combat?Follow

You can, but you need level 10 at minimum to switch jobs, as well as not ever be able to progress in the storyline since it involves fights and quests only acceptable/completable by being on a DoW or DoM class.

Without the story or the dungeons, there wouldnt be much else to do.

That said, if you just want to buy/sell on the boards and craft and gather, sure, you can, why not.
It begs the question of if it is not kinda pointless to exclude yourself from 90% of the game? perhaps. But if you want to, FFXIV does cater to such a playstyle as well.

Being a Limsan myself, you're unfortunately locked out till you unlock the airship (and ferry at the same time) for the level 15 quest of the trio of dungeons. Limsa, while an amazing city, doesnt really offer a lot job-wise. So it's kinda hanging in there till you get to the mainland :/

Probably gonna want to at least get the chocobo in the storyline or you will have a heck of a time getting from place to place. Bop things on the head for a few days and run the quests with the shiny sun effect around them and you will b ok.

Edited, Jan 9th 2015 10:02am by Valkayree

Not from Limsa, you can't. You can get there from Gridania (the South Shroud connects to Eastern Thanalan) but La Noscea is almost (if not entirely) an island.

Play Farmville or something. Combat will always be the main focus in any Final Fantasy game.

DoH/DoL jobs are essentially very fancy professions. Maybe in the past the plan was to make them more 'equal' to combat jobs in terms of how far they can progress and the amount of content they'll get, but that plan died a looong time ago. If you want to progress past a certain point in XIV you will have to kill things. No way around it.

Edited, Jan 11th 2015 5:00pm by BrokenFox

Don't you need to get to the waking sands to unlock retainers?

Apkallu would have loved Star Wars Galaxies in its heydey. Crafters were basically gods.

Edited, Jan 11th 2015 7:30pm by BrokenFox

The main point of the game is to FIGHT FIGHT KILL WIN FIGHT SOME MORE. A very small minority wanna play this game entirely as a pacifistic fisherman or whatever. You're attacking the game for not providing a game plan that most players simply do not want.

Edited, Jan 11th 2015 9:01pm by BrokenFox

Unfortunately, the way they built the game, they want you to focus on at least one combat class to 50. After that, you can do whatever the heck you want. The gathering and crafting classes have their own special levequests and gear and such, but you have to unlock them all using a combat class first. Even the Ixali beastman tribe quests, which are all 100% crafting, require that you have a combat class leveled up enough to advance through the story to the point where you can unlock the beastman tribes.

A few parts of the world remain under lock and key until you reach a certain point in the story. This includes areas you'll want to access as a fisherman, such as the Isle of Umbra.

Trust me, I feel your pain. Many times I got my fisher up and then had to pause and do some more of the story on my conjurer / white mage in order to advance my fiserhman more. Fisher was my first class to 50; WHM was at 46 at the time. Then I got into crafting, and I have far more crafting achievements than I do battle ones. (My in-game title is "Lady Creator" which was awarded after I got all the crafting classes to 50.) I really do consider myself more of a career merchant than I do an endgame player. But in order to fully play the game, I had to have at least one battle classes properly geared, and I discovered along the way that I like black mage and bard and scholar, and even tanking with warrior.

That said, your first class to 50 levels fast, mostly via quests. Just work on it at a reasonable pace. I've found a level a day is fair.

If you simply want these instances out of the way, I would suggest using the Duty Finder function. The x-hours you spent shouting for a party would be more than sufficient to clear Sastasha, Tam Tara Deepcroft and Copperbell Mines (each take about 30 mins tops). It's in the main menu under Duty Finder, just click the dungeons you want to do, click the button at the bottom of the menu to queue, and away you go! The only instances that require a pre formed party at the moment are the top tier end game raids (and possibly Shiva EX, can't remember if that changed yet).

You can look as plain or fancy as you want to on any job at 50. The Glamour system lets you overlay the appearance of one piece with the status of another. So you can be wearing a set of top tier armor but have made yourself look like a level 1, if you really want to. And of course, you can re-apply your AF appearance to your upgraded armor.

We nicknamed ninjas the "glass buzz saws" when they first came out. They do great damage, but they are a bit squishier than the other DPS classes. It just means at endgame you have to be on top of dodging. No class is really useless at endgame, but bard is the bandwagon job because it's the easiest to play (unlike all the other classes, you can attack at range while running.) Bard, summoner, and black mage are the big "AOE all the things!" jobs used for large groups of trash mobs, whereas MNK, DRG, and NIN all put out better damage on single targets.

As mentioned above, Duty Finder eliminates all the annoyance and shouting for parties that plagued XI. XIV is a "theme park" game - you stand in line to ride certain rides. Higher level players roll into something called "duty roulette" and get matched up with lower level players to fill in needed spots, in exchange for a daily bonus. So you won't necessarily be with other newbies - there are good odds you will have someone more experienced there. Just explain it's your first time, and someone will probably explain what to attack and what to watch out for.

Basic party rules in XIV that are different from XI:
1. The tank is the puller with very few exceptions, and also leads the party
2. Attack weaker mobs first OR attack them in the order of most annoying abilities
3. Tanks will usually mark kill order with 1, 2, 3 if they want something killed first
4. Dungeons are a series of trash mobs + mini bosses, with a final boss at the end. Bosses always have a gimmick, and usually adds
5. As a DPS, watch your hate. There are enmity meters in two places. One is a bar by each player's name, and one is a color code by the mob's name. If it goes to red and you're not the tank, stop attacking it.
6. If something is attacking the healer, get it off them by any means necessary. Sleep, bind, stun, whatever.

Like XI, eat food while leveling. Food gives you a straight up 3% exp bonus.



Edited, Jan 12th 2015 9:05am by Catwho

The exception that proves the rule here is Kirimu Coat on BRD. Only iLvl 110 but you can stuff as much accuracy on it as you're willing to risk breaking materia to get.