I need to be taught the basics

[bungiefan]

I only know how to change jobs, buy spells, and fight monsters. I haven't been able to read the manual and understand anything in it so I need to know a lot of things. FFXI is my first experience with a MMORPG. If you can help me, assume that I don't know anything other than what I mentioned, and probably not even everything about what I said I know.

Things I want to know first:

How to create items via cooking/blacksmithing/alchemy/etc.
How to switch the talk mode (My messages seem to default to Party mode every time I log in and I want it to default to Say. I don't know how the default chat mode was changed but I remember it being Say when I first played.)

Anything else would be helpful, but those two issues are what I think are highest priority for me.

I'm currently a level 7 Mithra black mage on Ragnarok near Windurst.

EDIT: I'm playing on a Japanese PlayStation2 but I have a keyboard and mouse for it. My keyboard is an Enterbrain Japanese Compact USB keyboard.

[technic]

ALT-S will get you into say, check out the key commands list on this very website. :biggrin:

- Triton

[Phantom]

In order to create guild items, you need to select the appropriate crystal, then select the first option it gives you, this will open up a container looking thing, you then place the appropriate items for the recipe in the container thing, and then hit the first button with the green thing in it.

Another way to default the channel is to select yourself, it will bring up a menu, on the first option hit the right arrow key, this will allow you to change the default chat type.

hope this makes sense and helps, btw, this is for the PC version, don't know if the PS works the same

[bungiefan]

Is there anything else anyone thinks would be useful for me to know?

[dbeeo]

try to go to in-game talk only and go for a look. maybe you will find something more useful

[bungiefan]

Ok, mixing items is just giving me an error. Do I need special tools to do it, or is there a way to specify the job I want to use? Is there a general rule to itme combination/creation and do I need to add more than 1 item to the mix?

The Guild links on the FAQ page aren't working. I click on them and nothing happens. That's why I'm asking here.

[bungiefan]

What's the command to take a screenshot so that I can show what my error is?

[Angler]

On the PS2 version, the only way to take a screenshot with dialogue on the screen is to hook your PS2 up to a TV-Tuner card.

However, I know what kind of error you're talking about. You first need to join the guild that you want to make products for - and after you do that, THEN you can do the recipies for that guild. It simply won't work any other way. You'll have to go to the specific guild's "base of operations" - for example, the cooking guild is in Windurst.

Angler

[bungiefan]

I have a TV card in one of my computers, but the quality of the picture doesn't help when kanji are involved. You'll see what I mean if you look at the screenshots I took and use in my PSBBN guide.

I was told that you have to develop a certain level of skill with a job to be able to join a guild. How do I build up that skill if I can't do the job?

[bungiefan]

Ockman told me that everything seemed pretty selfexplanatory and easy to him, but I really have little to no idea of what I'm doing in this game. I'm also almost finished with the first semester of college-level Japanese so I don't have a lot of skill with the language yet. Anything that might be completely obvious to you probably isn't to me unless I said I know how to do it. This is my first time playing a MMORPG and I really need help. I've had the game since August and I've never seen another importer on my screen and known they were an importer and I'm only at level 7. (I wasn't able to play from September to late January because my HDD unit broke down and I had to buy a new PS2 and convert it to an internal HDD.) That's how little I know how to do. I've also only ever run into one Japanese player that could speak any English.