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In the 863rd year of the Crystal Era, Vana'diel was in the midst of a great war.  Faced with invasion by the Shadow Lord and his hordes of beastmen, the leaders of the enlightened people's united their forces in desperate alliance.
They were The Kingdom of San D'oria,  The Republic of Bastok, The Federation of
Windurst, and the Grand Duchy of Jeuno.  Together, they struggled for survival in battle after battle, as chaos engulfed the land...


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-= IV. The Basics =-

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Walking/Running
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To run, point the cursor in the direction you would like to run and hold down the left button on your mouse.  You can then move the cursor around while the left button on your mouse is being held down to change the direction that you are running.

You walk using the same method as running, but before you begin to move press the / button above your number pad on the right side of your keyboard.  This button toggles between run and walk.  You must be standing still to switch between run mode and walk mode.


Resting/Healing
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Well, we all know that after being hurt in combat you're going to have to heal your wounds somehow.  Well, to get your hit points back up to their max you'll have to kneel down and rest.  There are two ways to do this.  You can either press the * key above your numeric keypad or you can type /rest.  When you do this you will kneel down like I said and begin regaining HP and MP.


Sitting
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You may think that sitting is the same thing as kneeling down and resting, but they are two different things.  Actually, you weren't able to sit down until a patch in October 2003 made it possible.  Sitting really isn't of any use, but it does look pretty cool.  To sit all you have to do is type /sit.  You do not regenerate HP or MP while doing this.


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Stats determine how effective you are in battle.  The following is a list of all the stats and their abbreviations that are used often.

HP - This is your character's Health Points.  It's pretty simple really.  If your HP is reduced to 0, you're dead.  Learn more about death in the section, "Terms to Know".

MP - This would be your character's Mana Points or Magic Points.  MP is needed to cast spelled a whole lot of Magic points is required of Mages since they are built around their magic.

STR - This stands for Strength.  Strength is just the brute power your character has.  Most melee classes will have quite a large amount of strength because the higher your strength, the more physical damage you will do.

DEX - This is your character's dexterity.  Dexterity is how accurate your attacks are.  With a high DEX most of your physical attacks will hit.

VIT - Vitality.  VIT determines how much damage you can take, kind of like HP.
If you have a rather large amount of VIT you will most likely live longer.  This is pretty nice if you are a tank because you will be taking most of the damage.

AGI - This stands for agility.  This means how agile and quick you are.  A higher amount of agility means that you will dodge more of the attacks upon you and will be hit less.

INT - High intelligence is pretty much a requirement for a Black Mage, if you want to be a good one at least.  Intelligence determines the damage your black magics do.

MND - Mind is similar to intelligence, but it effects the healing power of your white magic.  White mages need a high Mind rating if they want to be good at what they do.

CHR - Charisma only effects Bards.  A high charisma makes a Bard's songs more effective.  After all, a Bard needs charisma if he's going to be singing in front of his whole party!

TP - This stands for Tactical Points and is used mostly be melee fighters since melee fighters depend more on their weapons in combat.  During battle as you receive physical damage and give physical damage to your enemy, your
TP meter will go up.  Once it reaches 100% you can use a Weapon Skill of your choice.  You can also let the meter reach its 300% max for a much greater effect.  You may relate this to Limit Breaks from Final Fantasy 7.


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The PlayOnline Servers are what you will be playing the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI on.  All 30 servers are exactly the same, except for their name and the number of people in them.  When you first install your game and create a character, one of these servers will be randomly selected for you to play on.  You can however choose the server you would like to be on, by the means of a World
Pass which I will talk about next.  Here is a full list of all of the Final
Fantasy XI Servers:

00: Bahamut                     15: Quetzalcoatl
01: Shiva                       16: Siren
02: Titan                       17: Unicorn
03: Ramuh                       18: Gilgamesh
04: Phoenix                     19: Ragnarok
05: Carbuncle                   20: Pandemonium
06: Fenrir                      21: Garuda
07: Sylph                       22: Cerberus
08: Valefor                     23: Kujata
09: Alexander                   24: Bismarck
10: Leviathan                   25: Seraph
11: Odin                        26: Lakshmi
12: Ifrit                       27: Midgardsormr
13: Diablos
14: Caitsith

NA Playstation 2 Beta: Cactuar
NA Windows Beta: Glasyalabolas


A World Pass is something that will allow you to choose the server you wish to play on.  A World Pass can be bought from any of the multiple World Pass
Vendors throughout Vana'diel.  When you purchase one of these World Passes, the buyer will receive a 10 digit number.  Be sure to write down this number because that's what you'll have to type in at the character creation screen to get into the server. Whichever server the World Pass is purchased in is the server that the user of the World Pass will be granted access to.  For example, if a friend of yours is playing in the server Ragnarok and buys a World Pass for you and gives you the password.  When you use the pass, you can only choose to play on Ragnarok.


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----- Basic Commands --------------------
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In Final Fantasy XI you can use commands with your keyboard to do simple things.  As you play the game you will find yourself using these commdands more and more because they are very helpful.  I suggest you learn some of them now.


/emote - This allows you to create your own emote!  By typing  /emote jumps off the cliff it will show up as (your name) jumps off the cliff.  It's as simple as that. /sea all - By typing this a list of all the characters on your server that are logged on will pop up. /tell - Type /tell and then the name of who you want to talk to and you will send a private message to only that person. /shout - this command will display your message to anyone in the area you are in.  If you're in La Theine and type /shout Hello!!  Everyone in
La Theine will hear you! /join - If someone has requested that you join their party you can simply type /join and you will automatically join that party. /blacklist add - Let's say that you really really hate this one guy on Final
Fantasy XI.  Well, instead of putting up with his crap just type /blacklist add his name and you won't hear or see any /tells, /emotes, /shouts, or anything from him!  Problem solved! /blacklist - This will show all of the people that have been blacklisted by you! /blacklist remove - Alright, so you want to take someone off of your blacklist.
Type /blacklist remove then their name to remove them from your blacklist.  You can now see anything that they type. /pcmd add - If you are the leader of your party and you want to send an invitation to your friend, you would type /pcmd add then the name of the person you are inviting. /pcmd kick - This will kick someone from your PT.  Type /pcmd kick the name of the person you would like to kick from your party.  You can only do this if you are the leader of the PT.


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----- Terms To Know --------------------
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Throughout your Final Fantasy XI experience you may not recognize or understand what your fellow players are saying.  These basic Final Fantasy XI terms will help you out greatly during your playing of FFXI as well as other MMORPG's.


RPG
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A very basic term.  RPG stands for "Role Playing Game".


MMORPG
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Yes, some people who aren't very familiar with the gaming world do not know what this term means.  MMORPG is an acronym for Massive Multiplayer Online Role
Playing Game.


Party
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A party is a group you will form to go out and hunt together or do a quest or mission together.  A party can have a minimum of 2 people and a maximum of 6.


Alliance
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So what is an alliance you ask?  An alliance is similar to a party because it is just two or more parties that have been combined.  The maximum number of people in an alliance is eighteen.  That is because you can only have three parties in an alliance and a party can only have six people in it.  You do the math.

To create an alliance you must be the leader of a party.  You then type /sea all (the name of another party leader).  Then click his/her name and type form!  This will combine the two parties together and bam!  You have yourself an alliance!


PT
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The two letters "PT" are used very often in Final Fantasy XI.  They stand for
Party.  Someone may ask, "Are you in a PT?".