So I am a returning player from the official ffxi. Love that you host this for us and am loving it, but for my first job I rolled a black mage and all I got was a stone scroll.

I dont expect a bunch of loot, but the official gave you an ash weapon as well, and for good reason. So I go out and think, bah I have stone ill take an even like its 2005! NOPE I only have enough mp for 2 stones and that takes down 1/2 its hp and my doomsday punches seem to do 0-1dmg, so I die, 5x now....

In the official the ash weapon evened out the only 2 spell cast per fight thing and allowed you to kill evens from the gate. I have run around for about 10 mins and am not able to see anything less than even for my lvl 1 guy and cannot seem to kill any of them.

Many years have past since I played, let alone was a noob at lvl 1 so a little help on what I should be doing would be great. I will run out into the zone and try and find mobs that are not worms or rabbits and evens to see if they are weak to earth or something.

My suggestion, 200g starting money will allow you to buy an ash weapon and keep the low tier AH selling stuff, or just give a lvl 1 weapon upon character spawn like the officials did.

I am sure I am just being dumb and thats why its diff, but 200g or a lvl 1 weapon on launch would negate even dumb peoples confusion at a critical stage of player retention and not impact the economy or progression imo.

IGN: Xenophon
Realm: San'Doria

You should have gotten an ash staff, but it's not equipped from the start. You have to go to equip it manually. All jobs are that way as far as I know, except monk, who doesn't get a starting weapon, but a belt instead. WHM gets an ash club, war gets an onion sword, etc.

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Rarabs outside Windy might say even match but they are significantly tougher than the bees and mandragoras which are actually your level.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were similar mobs in sandy.

I thought BLM did start with a staff.

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I recommend sticking to the bees and mandragora as long as possible. I.e. level 10. Especially if it is your first job with no combat skills built up.

You should not be fighting Even Matches solo, best to stick to easy prey. Later on, there are exceptions, of course.

Once you hit lvl 3+ try and prioritize EP-DC mobs. In many cases, DC mobs actually give more exp then EM's (100 for EM, I've seen DCs give 108)

You're going for speed and sustainability so you're not stuck resting after every fight. Good luck!

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