Freshellent
Mechanized Combat Engineer

Dude that death count wasn't even my character. LOL

Surprised no one ratted me out.

Two freaking days? Well, I guess it is pretty easy to level in that game. I leveled up some crafts, and two extra classes, my first time through, so it took me a while.
I meant to take a picture of a capped Galka in warrior gear for you, but I was distracted by our endless wiping. I'm sure you've seen a few around. If you're anything like me, you'll love your endgame gear. In warrior's case, and especially in Galka warrior's case, I think the "valor" gear looks better than the "justice" gear.

By the way, I still don't know the names of the races in this game, and call them by their FFXI names. Mainly because I can spell those.

How's your FFXIVing going? I think you'll find the community to be much better than WoW's, at least at first. Is the gameplay better than you remembered? And how's your character looking?

I believe the googles are telling me that you cannot friend someone on another server.

Why is this still a thing? I understand the need to separate servers, but why are players still so limited with who they can play with?

And while you're on, Levia Waterborne's the character name. Maybe we can get this friend thing working.

/changepose is amazing. I think that's new. Still nothing that fits me on my character, though.
Are you talking about the tiger fists?

Balmung it is, then. Call me up when you need a dungeon done. Though I wonder how cross-server communication is going to work.

I won't be able to craft for you, I don't think.

What's the problem with Sargatanas, again? Is it full?

So far that I've seen, you only need eight people to raid. I haven't seen any content that required more than that (except FATEs). You can use the dungeon finder on any dungeon, to allow you into any raid, or you can use a party finder to allow people to join your party, and then queue in.
Again, all I've done is Leviathan Extreme, so I don't know about real raids. But I think anyone can get into it. And as a tank, you should be able to fill a party relatively quickly.

And yes, it's bad that you miss PSU more than PSO2.
You might miss it because we had more of a community there. We held events, we hung out in lobbies, we customized our characters whenever we wanted. Though PSO2 is overall a better game, the community just hasn't gotten together.

Everyone's a dick.

I haven't done any raiding yet. The dungeons are fun, and the summon fights are pretty great. Unfortunately, grinding for weapons in the summon fight takes forever and forces you to deal with some nasty people. Overall, I don't feel like being 50 is any different than 49, and have been enjoying it so far.
I don't know much about raiding guilds, so maybe it would be more fun with a group of those. But I think everything's puggable, since most players are actually fairly skilled on account of content actually being difficult, and each playing being accountable for his mistakes.

Uhg... I've already transferred just for these three!

Myself, Cornelia, Enforcer, and dnd. Cornelia is the most active, but only plays during the afternoon (due to the whole living on another continent thing). Enforcer is sometimes on, and I've only seen dnd once. We do have a linkshell and a free company, but I haven't bothered bonding with anyone from either place yet.
As for the lock, I don't know what that could be about. If you want to test out different models and animations, you may want to try making different characters on different servers. Of the two service types, one should let you create a character on several different servers, while the other lets you create a large number of characters. You may have the first one (it's cheaper), but if it's a free weekend, then maybe they have something else happening.

Another problem you may come across is, it takes a long ass time to finally play as a new character. The starting cutscene, for some reason, is unskippable. And it's long. I wanted to see everyone's animations, but it took so long to go through that I only bothered with both cat genders.

Oh, I suppose I should mention. I'm not a fan of the male cat run animation. Its movements are wasteful. If you like a strong, energetic young man, then it's fine. But I was looking for something graceful and efficient, so I looked elsewhere.

I don't keep track of drama. And anyone who gives me advice on the current affairs of drama, I tend not to trust. That being said, I haven't spent to much time with them, but they seem like pleasant enough people. I even wrote a song for one of them.

Both cat and mountain man (assuming male) make great looking warriors. Cat is better if you want a more feral fighter, mountain if you want a more imposing one. I think mountain man looks better in heavy armor, but they're both good choices.
Oh, did you mean stats? I dunno. Whichever. I don't like mountainmen as much as spell casters, if that affects your decision.

In our little trio, I have leveled a melee, am working on a tank (should be raidworthy in a week?), and have a healer up there. Cornelia only has a melee, and Enforcer is working on a healer and a tank on the side. He's pretty low level though, so who knows if we'll be doing anything major with him.
So yes, a tank would fit right in. You might actually want to consider leveling a damage dealer first, though. You need to do quests to unlock dungeons, and damage dealers quest fastest. Dungeons, in the mean time, are the fastest ways to level, and tanks queue easily into them. You'll find that you can keep a tank leveled with a damage dealer if you do this, but because you can run out of quests, this isn't quite true the other way around.
It's not too much of a big deal, but it's a way to get more bang for your buck.

I'm still enjoying it. The story telling is great, the visuals are fantastic, the gameplay is fun, the classes are diverse... The only flaw is that SE seems to be having trouble with their servers, gold sellers are kinda out of control (but much better now than when I started), and endgame grinding is pretty tedious (if you go beyond a certain point).
Cornelia, Enforcer and I are on Sargatanas, if you want some company and someone to carry you through a few instances.

I'm not sure I understand. It's an okay tune, I suppose.

Goddamn it, where's all your contact information? You can't honestly tell me that all you had was MSN.

It used to take me 30 minutes to take out bosses. That's how you get your best practice, so I wouldn't worry about it. But once you feel like getting some power, I highly suggest buying some gear off the player markets and +10ing it. It doesn't matter if you keep your gear up to date until you get up to super hard. Once you get a +10 weapon and a set of +10 armor, you'll feel invincible. Affixing some +30 attack on your armor will also make a huge improvement, but damn is that expensive. Not really worth it unless you think you'll have that piece for a few months.

I honestly haven't gotten close to anyone outside the forums. Going through random parties got me partying with a bunch of people I liked, but I never really met up with them again. People become much less chatty in higher levels, so it's kind of a now or never situation. Unfortunately, people will get burnt out and stop playing, so maybe you won't even see the guys you meet in game. I tend to like partying with people I know from the forums if I have to build a team, but sometimes a group of randoms is nice too.

Got a 3DS, love the 3DS, I'll put your game on my list.

If you want to get really good at the game, try soloing bosses at your level or above. It's the most challenging thing I've done. I would say solo some mobs too, but there's no reason to. Any time you face mobs in a party, they die before their spawn animation is finished.

I really don't think anyone's playing anymore. It seems like most people on the forums are just sticking around because they like the company. I've stopped playing because there's nothing engaging to do (plus, all my arts are keeping me busy). I feel bad not being able to contribute in the main forums, but I don't think there's anything I can do about it. I'm glad you're meeting people as you level, that's a skill I was never able to master.

I'd like to see one of your things in the fanfics area. From what I read of your stuff, you're pretty good.