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This is an awesome guide but u forgot one important thing, where is the glamour guide cuz that is the most important u can't deal damage if u don't look good and other people seeing u doing it

Side note.. there is one debuff in the game that cannot be removed with esuna, but an emote will. That is the Misery debuff inflicted by the Badmouth ability of Gremlins/Spandules in Gubal and Lost City of Amdapor. It increases damage taken and can be removed with the /comfort emote while standing in melee range of the afflicted player. It's a secret mechanic almost nobody knows

Definitely DON'T RUSH THE GAME... I did that trying to catch up with my FC mates and missed so much great content. I am now redoing the whole game over again and enjoying it FAR, FAR more.

One quick clarifying point: Recommended gear only works with gear in your armory chest. Gear in your inventory has to either be manually equipped or moved over to the armory chest first. This can be an issue if you let your armory chest fill up, as anything that won't fit goes into your inventory instead. Also, any gear you craft goes straight into the inventory, not the armory chest.

As someone just getting into this game, it's extremely overwhelming but you have a way of extracting just the right amount of info to make it understandable. Kudos on the guide and thank you :)

One tip I would add is when doing the msq, you might want to have two jobs that you do that with. You get so much xp from the msq quests that you'll eventually will become way higher level than the level requirement for your quests. That means that you'll reach full level with your job way before you reach the end of the msq. From then on doing the msq with a full level job is a waste of a lot of xp. Have two classes that you trade doing the msq with. Start them at close to the same level. Then make sure to switch between jobs before you reach an msq quest with a higher level requirement than the lowest level of those jobs. It's also a good opportunity to learn two different roles early in the game.

One bit of advice I will add, for everyone under level 50 who's yet to finish the base game of ARR, is to do with what happens between the end of the base game (after you finish the quest "The Ultimate Weapon") , and the start of the first Heavenward expansion (when you start the "Coming to Ishgard" quest) Every time one storyline ends, there is a series of quests before the new story/expansion starts, that sets up the foundation for that story. They can be kind of dull, but they end up being worth it when we're more immersed in the new story (instead of just being dropped in a new land, and having strangers demand we save them, we know where we are, how we got here, who we need to save, why we need to save them, and we're attached enough to want to save them) HOWEVER. The post-ARR quests, are the most boring part of the entire MSQ to date. You go from an epic storyline involving gods and devils and conspircies between nations.... To escorting caravans and fighting bandits, like a newbie nobody. However, this is actually on purpose, and while you feel like your talents are being wasted, and miss the epic combat, your character is supposed to feel the exact same way. Once I realised my feelings of boredom were on purpose, I enjoyed that stage of the game's storyline a lot more. And I promise you, it is all worth it in the end, and it never becomes that boring ever again. Every expansions Post-story quests are kinda dull, but they're always important to the upcoming story, and usually still fun and engaging. So push through those BS Post-ARR quests, embrace the feeling of boredom, and reach the Heavenward expansion. It's honestly leagues above the storyline of the base game, and when the game truly opens up.

I would suggest _not_ using the recommended gear option if you're a tank. It will slot in the highest ilevel item, which may not even be a piece of tank gear, and you may end up losing a lot of defense, because you're suddenly wearing a leg piece that a tank has no business wearing in a dungeon. Once you get further along in the game this won't matter, as tanks will only be able to equip tank gear. But when you're starting there's a lot of gear tanks can technically equip that they really should not be equipping, certainly not in dungeons.

9:20 you only have to recast your tank stance if you are level synced. This happens because your skills and abilities change, very similar to when you're changing classes.

I'm glad to hear as DPS you're supposed to use the limit break in dungeons. Considering I started recently as a Dragoon and have been spamming it as soon as it was up on bosses, and I had NO idea I was taking it for my entire group lol.

I would really like it if you did a video for beginners on each expansion. I am new and after completing a MSQ of an expansion i just move onto the next expansion. I feel like i'm missing out by not doing other things. It would be very helpful if there where videos that went through each expansion, showing and talking about the individual things that you can do in that expansion.

There are two words that finally sold me on this game. I've had friends who have been playing this game since 2.0 and I kept putting it off after bad experiences in WoW. But the thing that sold me.... "Slow Burn" I love me a deep slow progression in story, that takes it's time to build up a world and the characters within it before slowly ramping up into an unbelievable EPIC! The funny thing is, I've been playing the game for almost a year now, and have had so much fun in just that beginning slow burn section I've barely played the main story and have constantly been changing classes so I can do all the low level side quests without worrying about wasting potential XP. I explored pretty much ALL of ARRs overworld while my main combat class was still in the early 20's due to getting both Mining and Botanist to level 50 BEFORE EVEN UNLOCKING THE ABILITY TO GET A MOUNT. Thus allowing me to just walk right past high level mobs without them attacking me. 😂 It's been a blast!

I will say, "focus on MSQ," yeah I did that through Heavensward and now the side quests don't make as much sense, so maybe do some of the yellow side quests along the way because they play along with the story. I'm not making this mistake again when I go forward with the story. I was already over leveled and I'm leveling up another job to continue the MSQ, and if you get over leveled you can always start a class that starts at level 50, 60, now 70 in later expansions. Some advice I've seen is that this game is 10 years worth of content that's had gaps in between expansions, it's ok to take your time to work through it.

A quick tidbit about Limit Breaks; Magical DPS is a round AOE, Ranged Phys DPS is a line AOE, and Melee is a Single Target. If you decide to use LBs during packs it is recommended the Magic DPS or Phys Ranged DPS do it, for Bosses MELEE GETS PRIORITY!!! Since more often than not Bosses are single mobs.

The most important thing I learned early on was to customize my HUD. I play on a laptop so I needed to maximize my screen real estate. You can move, resize, and change the opacity of every feature from the mini map to buff/debuff bars to the target bar. And you can turn off that inventory grid from the Character menu ;)

I just want to add a point to the poetics gear from lvl 60 on, the vendor does not appear until you have cleared certain story points.

You have to keep activating your tank stance when you enter a dungeon when you get level synced. For some reason getting level synced turns the tank stance off.

I'm sure someone else has mentioned this, but one mistake I made as a newbie was getting gear from everything!! You do not need to get gear from quest rewards that aren't for your job or class. If you intend to pick up another job, then yes. Get that. But not everything! It overflows your armory chest and starts to overflow your inventory! That makes it more difficult to equip the gear you actually need. Spare yourself. You can always get the gear you need when you go back on another job, I promise!

That first part is particularly applicable to me. I'm suuuper guilty of "save my cooldowns!" even though I've been playing a million years and should know better. I'm ESPECIALLY guilty of it on my healers, which is probably the worst case to not be blowing my CDs.

My first time playing I skipped all the scenarios and sped through the quests. Got to level 43 before I finally realized that I should've paid attention. I decided to make a whole new char and go through it again. It's slow, but definitely important! Finally got through ARR yesterday and then found the gold saucer so I've been spending most of my time their. lol

for Healer mistakes, Regen no longer affects aggro as of 6.2 so spam those regens without any worry \o/

You can also add your gear sets to your hotbars. It is how I quickly change through my jobs. I also use glamour plates, so that my character always looks the way that I want even if I change the gears.

Biggest Mistake is adding people on FF ...Make sure you know once you add someone they always have access to so if you were to have falling out or harassed or stalked there nothing you can do in this game....

Despite my 5k-ish hours of playtime I genuinely really enjoy watching vids like this still, it feels nostalgic to see people talking about silly mistakes we all used to make haha

Great video! I just started playing FF14 this week and being so late to the party can be overwhelming, but videos like yours really help getting some clarity! Also it's so much fun getting into a new MMO again!

Ahh for the 2nd one yeah just go for what class you feel you'll enjoy, I remember picking summoner pre sbh and my friend said that it was complicated but for me I love pet classes so I ignored that and I enjoyed my class from start to finish

Extremely helpful, especially the info about the Level 50+ gear and selling old gear. Thank You!

This is the first sprout guide I've seen that told me *why* I would even want to extract materia. Thank you! Everyone else just says that it's something you want to remember to do, but never says why

your enmity generator is on by default if you're entering dungeons of your own level if you already have it on before going in, it turns off when you get synced down because the code is not good at decreasing the power of an active buff so it gets rid of all active buffs and Enmity generators are considered a buff.

I just started playing and am barely level 25, but would be so much worse off without your help. Your guides are EXTREMELY helpful and I had to thank you for all the tips, not just from this vid but from several. You're an awesome individual!

As a veteran of FFXIV this is a very informed guide to common mistakes or over looks. Nice work!

I'm glad you're doing this too. The idea that you can only praise or play one mmo was so weird. Some people still think that way lol

I'm a new player and I've seen coutless videos about mistakes/tips and yours was the most helpful I've seen so far! Thank you so much :))

Hide Gear set items was good tip! Sometimes when you have fisher or some another job, it happens so easily that you sell items or gear that belong to another job!

1. As a tank I pull every mob possible before the dungeon stops me because you can maximize DPS from AOEs in those moments. If the healer can keep up you might as well allow the most amount of damage to the most amount of enemies as the dungeon will allow. Nearly all AOE has no limit-max to output due to enemies hit count. 2. Every job is fun. Every job is useful. Every job is rewarding. Choose what looks fun and don't be scared to change later. 3. The story can be a big sloggy but it is great try to avoid skipping AT LEAST cut scenes. 4. Don't forget your side-unlocks, lol I did. 5. Don't fall behind on job quests. Huge, and very class/job important functions, can be locked behind job quests. 6. The "equip best loadout" almost exclusively uses the iLVL to grade gear and below max level this is almost ALWAYS 100% the best choice to wear at any point. You shouldn't be worrying about min/max of stats until end game content anyway. 7. Always AOE at 3+ mob groups. Few exceptions to this rule. Use single target rotations on 1-2 pulls and try to focus on whichever mob has lowest health. 8. I'm going to skip the tank/healer/DPS mistakes and just say this: every class has at least 1 type of damage over time attack. This attack is VERY important to consistent DPS. Don't let this fall off and DON'T overwrite it with a new instance until as low as possible in the run-time on the skill. This also applies to anything that increases other player's damage to the enemy, or damage FROM the enemy/boss prior to a tank buster or room AOE. In short: DoT uptime YES, and damage DOWN before big hits. Great video for sure, cheers mate.

So…. I just came over to ff14 from ESO. So there’s a lot to take in! This helped me a bunch! Appreciate it bud, I’ll be checking more of your channel soon as I get my head round everything so far. So, maybe like in 3 months….. 😂 This game is soooooo big!

Just picked up FF14 yesterday. I had played very briefly on PS3 way back and forgot everything I had learned then. Just found your videos and it has been a real help! Thanks for all these!

i totally get the "dont rush the game part" except that, because i kept my hand and land jobs close in level to my main war class, i am now pretty much unable to partake in company provisions. they all want stuff i can only get after i get into ishgard, and even after two full days of grinding the main quest, im not in there yet. it gets frustrating when i dont feel im even allowed to take a break from the main quest (aka raids) to do some crafting.

I have been playing this game super casually for well over 3 or 4 years (maybe 5 whos keeping count) and I had no idea about the healer dispel with the health bar over the icon as a white mage/dragoon main. I just learned by trial and error. I am halfway through Shadowbringers. Thanks for this video and your help. Awesome video some great tips even for people like me who have been playing for a couple years! subscribed and looking forward to new uploads.

Great summary, everything that i need as a new player ❤️

Super helpful vid. I just started today and was doing every quest, not just the main quests. I was getting over-leveled and feeling bored. I’ll try sticking to just the main quests for a while and see if that goes better for me.

Fantastic guide! I just started playing over the weekend and I knew some of these tips, but others either cleared up things that weren’t explained well in-game or just provided new knowledge. Thank you!

Great guide! The most useful part of this guide for me was the material extraction! I had no idea!

Use the "Hide Armory Items" instead. Then set your new items to go into inventory instead of the armory chest. That way the trash items in your inventory is all that shows up. The difference is that as you are leveling other jobs you may hang onto a piece of gear that you don't want to sell but is not attached to a particular set yet..

I’m proud I found out about all these by myself, however it took me a lot of time and mistakes to do so. Very helpful

Thanks! Just started with Elezen Lancer and gotten up to lvl 30, my main quest is around lvl 20 so been doing just that now xD Having fun at trial for sure!

Hey you can set the gear gets to your hot bar so its even quicker Edit you can compare gear when shopping with the tomestones also!

Thank you lucky For your detailed videos. They have been helping me out a lot in this adventure!

Side note regarding the tomestone vendors... any sprouts reading keep in mind that the tomestone vendors for each expansion pack only unlock once you've completed that expansion's main scenario quest. So if you're like me and tend to overlevel a lot (screw you, Khloe) you might have to stick to dungeon gear until you're done with that expansion.

Picked this up in addition to ESO bc a friend loves it and have been having a blast just playing it really chill :) its such a fun change of pace

Regarding the raising item level is EZ section, there are job quests each time you hit the previous expansion's cap and it gives you the item level gear that is enough to do all of the content at that time. So there isn't much reason to spend poetics on gear for the purpose of item level, just do it for the glamours.

I never knew the difference between extracting and retrieving and felt not sure what to do. Thanks for letting me know ☺️ much appreciated

This is the single most useful video I have ever watched on ffxiv. Why haven't I seen this before! This would have saved me so much time, and reduced my confusion as a beginning player! Well done, and thank you so much!

Okay. So in regards to the enmity skill for tanks. The reason that it sometimes stays on and other times it gets turned off; has to do with level sync. If you are a tank going into a piece of content that you do not have to sync down to it will stay on. If you go into a piece of content that you need to be synced down to, then it will be turned off upon entering. My best guess is this has to do with what happens to your skills when you get synced down. It is probably easier to just turn off all of those skills to make sure that the right version is loaded on the hotbar

one reason tank stance isn't on automatically is because in anything with more than one tank it can be a pain if enmity is constantly switching between tanks, and it can be useful for tank swaps in harder content to turn it on in the middle of a fight, however they could have it turn on automatically in any instance that has only one tank. However the problem with that could be people get too reliant on the game turning it on for you and in the aforementioned content they might not be prepared to use it consciously.

Extremely helpful. Liked and subscribed. I had a lvl 70brd 6 years ago but just jumped back on and couldn't remember a damn thing about how to play this game. Started a new character just to relearn it. I'll be checking out more of your vids. Thank you brotha!

This was an amazing guide to Watch! As a sprout, this makes everything make more sense, because the game is very overwhelming when you start!

I would actually recommend using “hide armory chest items” instead bc that includes headset items and items you don’t have in a gear set that are in your armory chest. For example if you have multiple weapons for a class and you put hide gear set items, that second weapon may appear and you might sell it by accident!

Very helpful, thank you very much. Downloading right now and was looking for some tips like yours.

Thank you alot for this video habibi! just started was little confused!

Hold on a minute... I've been playing this game since 2014 and I just learned about the spiritbond materia extraction from your video today!

I've started to play on Linux because I swapped all of my computers over to Ubuntu and I started a new account so I could play on Steam through Proton. Experiencing everything again as a new player is so fun and interesting, I love it.

Very informative & helpful guide. I play casually mostly as healer, but I do have other characters I created for fun as well.

Doing the tribe quests as you level enough to unlock them helps too, especially for crafters.

Just started playing on xbox and this has helped me so much! Excellent video Thank you!

Great video. Helped me alot to aquire some of the basics.

wow thanks for the materia extraction stuff. I did the quest but I guess I missed the tutorial about extracting. I was even wondering why some of the gear dots were white vs green. I had so many items to extract!

Bro, they shold assign you as one of the starter guide people. Every time when I start a MMO the first thing come to my mind is what to do. You did a great job bro!

Friendly voice, good advice, great video. I'm downloading this game tomorrow and appreciate your pointers.

Saw your beginning guide and started the game 2 days ago your video are fire for new player starting keep making content

As a person that is going through the story as a healer as soon as I got the battle chocobo I bought 200 greens to summon him, and I keep him with me as much as possible for that extra damage

New player here. With my friends (also new) we just recently finished arr. At the last boss fight the tank (random) wrote in chat "LB" and we three were very confused and didn't know what he meant. We then got wiped. After that he told us what it means and was very friendly. I should've watched this video earlier xD

I'm lvl 60 and have just found out about hiding gear sets gear in shops menu. Thank you!

Just started today reached level 17 already doing archer role such a cool game when get used to buttons on pad and map then the fun starts love it .

Thanks for the guide. I am a new player and this guide is the best one out there.

Definitely disagree about doing other things while doing the story. If you're that worried about being overleveled, you just have another class that you're working on as well and just choose whichever character isn't overleveled to play the story. There's enough in the game aside from the story that you definitely shouldn't zero-in on just the story.

Thank you for the video. For a newbie in the game this really helped me out in some points. :)

Sigh, I miss class quests, I hope they come back one day

Something a lot of these types of videos leave out is that the "slow burn" of ARR is a massive understatement. Its nearly 100 hours before the story actually gets good. If you're not invested in the gameplay loop of MMO's going in, you will have an absolutely miserable time and I don't recommend playing at all.

This feels like slightly more than 5 tips.

Thanks for the tips! This is pretty much my first MMO (excluding the one I played when I was SUPER young, I can barely remember it) so the interface looks so complicated and overwhelming ;-; but hopefully I'll get used to it when I play more.

Nice idea for a vid. Cept for all the footage of stuff that happens later in the game, not beginning areas, there some really good tips here.

"pick what looks fun, pick what looks cool!" THIS. I did not want to be anywhere near mmos all my life. I thought they were too intricate and already all had player bases of people who were all way better than I'd ever be. And whoever heard of paying for a game monthly? But seeing Shenpai do Fell Cleave on some savage boss... THAT is what made me want FFXIV. Seeing that animation, as well ass the other cool spinny things the warrior does, are what made me start thinking about getting it. And you know what, I love it!

I have already played so much but man, sooo many things i didn't know are on this video!!!! Thank you so much !

You can pull gearsets from the list and assign them to a hotbar too.

I started the free trial yesterday and I’m loving the tedious early game stuff. That completion-ist urge got me a dance emote!

I love implementing my classes to my character on her journey. She was a white mage in ARR but after the events of the Vault in Heavensward ( if you know you know ) she essentially " lost " her abilities to heal and her heart grew dark enough to open itself to Fray thus her journey as a dark knight began

I never use the Materia Extraction ability. I just right click on the pieces of gear and select to extract. I doubt it really saves much time, but I open my Character menu a LOT more than my abilities menu so it's just more natural for me to do it from the Character menu rather than digging through the other menu.

This is SOO GOOD. OMG I'm like 100 hours in and just learned so much, thank you.

Wow just started playing a learned alot from this. Thanks!

when you use the recommended gear button its important to mention that it only equips gear in your armoury chest not in your inventory. Also, make sure you clear obsolete gear from your armoury so you have room for better gear later.

The way I always put it is: any time your skills are off cooldown and not being used, that is time wasted. The more things you have on cooldown at once, the better.

i've heard that the reason why emnity gets turned off when joining dungeons and such is due to the mechanisms of level sync and instancing since loading a new instance resets cooldowns and removes and player specific buff (minus FC and food boosts)

I've been playing this game for 10 years and I still love these videos because I always find some QoL thing I'd forgotten or didn't know.

5:08 I'm level 50+ on 3 jobs and I have been googling the location every single time for the job quests I'm so ageiaveav thanks.

As a WoW refugee these videos have been super helpful! The only thing I would love to know is, for example to get the "Extract Materia" button. Do you have to do a sidequest or does it come with levels? Things like that. It was the same thing when you got your mount, im looking for the button that helps me get flying mounts in areas but I cant find it

If you change jobs a lot, you can drag the icons from the list of sets into your hotbar.

Regarding Tank Stance: it's not up always and by default because sometimes sometimes you're opener might build more enmity then the MT's opener.

Bro, this was super helpful. Thank you so much!