I would've never wasted money on college. I would've never called her back. I would have never... oh wait, wrong book.

I have done it all over again -- many, many times. I wouldn't do anything different. I just enjoy playing in the sandbox, making castles, taking a picture and tearing it all down to make something new.

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The universe is so large that, if life is not rare, a world much like Vanadiel probably exists out there somewhere.

I’ve just about perfected the answer to this question.

Practice makes perfect.

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yikes

This. Those couple of breaks to test out ffxiv a few different times. I had a couple returns where I felt like I missed on a million things.

Although patch 1.23a/b for ffxiv were awesome, then the world ended and the new game was fun as a single player for a while, then got boring real quick.

Agreed

In all seriousness, what I *did* do was level an alt at the same time, and make a pair of mostly-useful jobs (BRD and BLM) as my first run to 75. This makes things sooooo much easier to do what you want later. BRD is silly cheap, BLM not as much but still doable. I had a bunch of help from friends to help with Limit Breaks and junk, so if I was going it alone I might instead do something like RDM + SAM or WAR first or something since they're both also relatively fast to 75 and that duo can take on all kinds of junk in the game (maybe not as much as RDM + THF, but you can level RDM and SAM to 75 two or three times in the time it would take to level THF to 75 once unless you have a lot of people to party with), though SAM is probably one of the pricier jobs in the game to be really well-geared all the way to 75.

I'd probably also resist the urge to start in Windurst yet again... I'll always love the city, mission lines, associated jobs, atmosphere, etc., but the fact of the matter is that it's just not as populous and you have a near-zero chance of joining a pick-up group for missions/quests/etc. from shouts in town as you would in either of the other nations.

If I had the spare time, I'd level fishing to 96 on whichever character I wasn't also leveling THF on. I currently tend to earn most of my money via currency sales from lowman dyna runs, but only really because I have a bunch of friends to go with. If I were starting fresh, being able to both fish and farm/camp/etc. at the same time is a potent way to earn easy money quickly.

Lastly, try and make more friends along the way. I admittedly have tended to stick with the same small group of people for most of the stuff I've done, but everyone eventually gets burned out, stops playing for a while/takes breaks, etc. and it can get a bit lonely at times, even when you're staying active in an endgame LS. Stay active in a social LS, help out your fellow noobs along the way, choose not to go out of your way to be a jerk, etc.

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I'd put cool pics of my achievements/items here, if they were anything interesting. How about "I pooped today! \o/"

Put HQ contract in place with Stevesy.

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Always draw up a prenup.

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-Not waste time getting kazham keys when you can tidal from jeuno (though I don’t think tidal was a thing when I started)

-Level any craft but cooking

-Dbox CoP and ZM (would not recommend if yer a shoddy dboxer)

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so you're saying you wouldn't dbox cop and zm?

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yikes

Girrrrrl
Don’t even play with me

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Probably not play? Lol oops

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