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Revision as of 01:00, 23 December 2007

This Article is a Community Guide
Guides exist as a community effort to help fellow players navigate the game. Opinions and strategies in their content may vary from editor to editor, but feel free to add new or correct out of date information. Guides are subject to the same editing standards of other FFXIclopedia articles.

Starters Guide

~~Under Construction~~

Please check the talk page before editing, thank you.

What is the Starters Guide?

Description of what the guide hopes to achieve?

Welcome to FFXI

Brief Outline of the game?

The Basics

Welcome to the world of Vana'Diel!

Race

One of the first questions a new player will be prompted involves the race a player has to choose from. There are eight options available: male and female Hume, male and female Elvaan, male and female Tarutaru, Galka and Mithra. There are no gender options for Galka or Mithra, as Galka are primarily perceived as an all male race, and Mithra as all female.

Below are basic descriptions of the game play stats each race possesses. All other features, such as face, hair and size are strictly cosmetic.

Galka The Galka are a hardy race, well known for their physical abilities. They possess intense Vitality and HP.

Tarutaru The short Tarutaru (sometimes simply called Taru) are capable of wielding the highest degree of magic. Their high Intelligence and MP are their keys to success.

Mithra The quick Mithra are an all female race whose abilities include the highest Dexterity and Agility.

Elvaan The Elvaan are a race primarily of warriors. Their peak attributes are Strength and Mind.

Hume The versatile Humes are the most common race found in Vana'Diel. They have no notable weaknesses.

Job

(As a quick note, you don't need to go into great detail about the pros and cons of a job, I mean we are talking to a person who at this point wouldn't even know what a party is, so use a simplistic description, along with what role they play, and please be objective)

Black Mage(BLM)


Warrior(WAR)


Monk(MNK)


Thief(THF)


Red Mage(RDM)


White Mage (WHM)


Nation

Controls

Well, everyone needs to start somewhere, we might aswell start with what you can do to control your character and its actions in the game, We'll start with a basic description of each control and then show you how to perform them.


Move Character

Plain and simple, this is how your character will move around, this is a 3D game, but your character cannot jump (your character can however, fall down holes.) In this game there are two modes of view which will be defined later, each move of view adjusts the movement actions of your character. 3rd person view (looking down on the character) makes any movement of the control move your character in that perticular direction, whereas the 1st person view (looking from the eyes of your character) will make you move forward and backwards with the respective keys, and pivot left and right.

Action/Select closest target

In this game everything that can be interacted with will usually fall under the catagory of 'target', which selects that object/character for further actions, some targets such as doors will only have one function, when the action key is hit, the door will open. However when a character is targeted and the action key is pressed, a whole host of other options are available.

Cancel

Plain and simple, Use cancel to un-target, close menu's and other windows, even exit chat dialog (when interacting with NPC's.)

Open Chat Input Window

This simple little button activates the text input box on things that require text input, such as macro boxes, chat, and so on. It prepares the game to recieve the next text input, and after that is ready, the action key will input that text into the field.

Move Camera

This is what lets you see the wonderful world of vana'diel, the controls differ in each camera mode, in 3rd perosn view, the camera will turn in that direction, in 3rd person view the camera will pivot from the axis which is the position of your characters head.

Autorun

This is a very useful funciton, especially if you need to get somewhere in a hurry and someone starts talking to you. Autorun, when activated, forces your character to continue moving in the direction you were moving in when it was pressed, and that movement could be either running or walking. While in autorun you can move left, right, and ofcourse stop. to stop while in autorun, either hit the autorun button again, or press backwards to whatever direction you are moving in.

Toggle Walk/Run

This isa simple function which toggle's walk on/off, your characters default movement on foot and chocobo is running, hitting this key will make you or your chocobo, walk!

Lock on / Heal

Healing is most important in this game, especially for characters with MP, and early leveling. Healing is an action which regenerates your HP and MP over a time period, however healing without signet active will reduce your TP by 10% with every regeneration of your HP/MP. Lock on is a feature which moves the camera over the shoulder when focused on a target, ofcourse you need to be targeted on something first to use Lock On. When lock on is active, you will constantly face the target, any movement in any direction will only move you to the point where you are still facing the target (forward and backward will move slowly to and from the target, left and right will strafe around the target.) Lock on has limited range, and will deactivate when the target is no longer in view.

Select Active Window / Options Settings

This is handy for keeping up with conversations, with this you can keep track of everything thats entered in the chat box, you can also use the same key to filter the chat box for spacific chat channels, for even less confusion! isn't that handy? The same button is used to access the little options box on the right upper of the menu screen, its used to sort items and macro's, basically whenever you see that little box in the top right corner, you can use this button to access it!

Menu

This is how you access the games finer functions, the menu will be described in detail further down, for now I'll simply state, this button access' the Menu, and when tapped again, the secondary menu. To exit the menu, press cancel.

Switch Target

This is a handly little function, especially in a party situation, it basically lets you scroll through all available targets on screen from left to right, this is perfect when hunting for chests or mining points.

Zoom In

Zooms the camera in, only available in the 3rd person camera mode

Zoom Out

Zooms the camera out, only available in the 3rd person camera mode

Hide All Windows

This simply function removes all visible function boxes from the screen, so that your left with a complete view of the game world from whatever perspective you're using.

Strafe

This key combined with left or right in 1st person camera mode will strafe the character left or right, instead of pivoting it on the spot, strafe is common to other 1st person view games, but simply adds to the functionality of this camera mode.

Fixed Third Person View

This function simply centers your character in the middle of the screen and is alot more rigid and set-in than the dynamic 3rd person view, this function is helpful indoors.

Snapshot

Say Cheese! this button takes a picture of the game screen and saves it to your photo album, which is accessed through the PlayOnline Viewer. You can only take a snapshot when 'hide all windows' is active.

PC
Xbox 360
Playstation 2
Compact Keyboard (PC)
Move Character
8, 2, 4, 6 (Num Pad)
W, S, A, D
Action/Select closest target
Return Key (Enter)
Y
Cancel
Esc
N
Open Chat Input Window
Space Bar
Space Bar
Move Camera
Arrow Keys
I, J, K, L
Autorun
7 (Num Pad)
Toggle Walk/Run
/ (Num Pad)
R
Lock on / Heal
* (Num Pad)
H
Toggle Camera
5 (Num Pad)
V
Select Active Window / Options Settings
+ (Not Spacific)
F
Menu
- (Num Pad)
-
Switch Target
Tab or
0 (Num Pad)
Zoom In
Page Up or
9 (Num Pad)
, (Comma)
Zoom Out
Page Down or
6 (Num Pad)
. (Period)
Hide All Windows
Scroll Lock
Scroll Lock
Strafe
Shift
Shift
Fixed Third Person View
Home
Home
Snapshot
Print Screen
Print Screen


In addition to those basic controls there are a number of quick 'shortcut controls' to save time with menu navigation, these are only available to those using a keyboard, and are displayed in the Purple Box. In the yellow box are a number of useful target shortcuts and what not, perticularly handy in battle situations.


Action
Command
Start/Stop Auto Attack
CTRL / ALT + A
Check target
CTRL / ALT + C
Open Equipment Window
CTRL / ALT + E
Call for Help
CTRL / ALT + G
Open Item Window
CTRL / ALT + I
Open Job Abilities Window
CTRL / ALT + J
Hide/Show All Windows
CTRL / ALT + ]
Confirm / Auto-target
CTRL / ALT + Y
Toggle Walk/Run
CTRL / ALT + Z
Open Linkshell Input Window
CTRL / ALT + L
Open Party Input Window
CTRL / ALT + P
Open Tell Input Window
CTRL / ALT + T
Reply To Last Tell Recieved
CTRL / ALT + R
Open Say Input Window
CTRL / ALT + S
Toggle Camera Modes
CTRL / ALT + V
Open Weapon Skills Window
CTRL / ALT + W
Perform Ranged Attack
CTRL / ALT + D
Cancel
CTRL / ALT + N
Select Active Window
CTRL / ALT + F
Take A Screenshot
CTRL / ALT + [
Action
Command
F1 ~ F6
Target party members in the order that they appear at the bottom right corner of the screen, F1 being your character.
F7
Target yourself (Same as F1)
F8
Target the closest NPC or Monster
F9
Target the Closest Player
F10
Target the first character in your parties member list.
F11 ~ 12
When part of an alliance, target the first member of the corresponding alliance's party.
CTRL and ALT
Press and hold to open a menu with your defined macro pallete.

Chat Functions

Explain different chat modes?

/Commands? Macros?