I don't have early access. I will have to start playing on Aug 27. I have a hyur Arcanist lv 20 on Gilgamesh during Phase 4 so I should be leveled up by official launch day. You could very well start a linkshell if you get to level +20 I think. 

What class are you thinking of leveling? I think Arcanist is both a Healer and DPS.  I'm also leveling Conjurer and Thaumaturge for cross abilities with Arcanist. Are you DPS, Healer or Tank?  I think Archer is the easiest to play because they just do ranged damage. Gladiator and Marauder usually have to lead a group in dungeons, while Conjurors support with healing magic. 

I'm also looking at a couple of guilds for end game and such. I'm not 100% certain I can login to Gilgamesh at all on lauch, so.

Have fun. You may want to level up complimentary classes for cross abilities too. 

Really? I preordered which included the option of early access but I was not sure when that began.

I didn't pre order the game. Just standard version for me. I played a lot of beta that's why. I can wait a few more days. 

dammit, I want to play this game, but I lost early access when I cancelled my preorder, and all the cool people are on Gilgamesh!  Arg. 

Some people preordered for early acces code, then cancelled and can still play early access. Servers are buggy as hell and players have been shut out for maintenance, so far today anyway. MMO early days always suck. 

I think your early access code still works if you were in the beta. ^.^

Oh noes, buggy eh? I was looking forward to trying to play tonight when I got out of work. ;_;

There's lots of problems with early access from what I'm reading on dev site and twitter. Launches are no fun. Next week will be better! 

By all means play! I think there was an issue with "Duty Finder". Basically, alot of those forced dungeon missions can only be entered through the Duty Finder, and this is used for grouping for everything in the game, which is a big no-no. The Duty Finder servers, or match making servers locked up or something, too much traffic, thus players couldn't progress their levels because they couldn't enter necessary dungeon to level further. This is the gist of what I've read from the dev blog. They need to fix this fast, otherwise players will revolt as they did with ver. 1.0. I'm keeping positive, as they've done a great job so far, and this is a new problem, however it could have been dealt with had devs given us "more" access to beta. Oops! 

Thats screwy, hope they get it smoothed out by Tuesday, I can wait.

I hope you have fun Dandi! Im not playing it since I am not getting it. I had some finicial woes come down so I had to cancel my preorder. Im also gonna try to just hold out for the PS4 verison. That might change but for now Im gonna work on some games I currently own and try to beat.

Sorry I'd love to but I'm out. Can't bring myself into gaming. I did my best to find you but I can't use that games player search function for the life of me. Plus the game servers for that specific gametype kept getting filled up. Better luck next time I guess. :(