In Limsa if you go to the Arcanist's guild and to the left, you can talk to the airship guy on the right side wall and you can fast travel to the waking sands. Saves a bunch of time not having to always walk over to the Waking Sands from the aetheryte.

Checking guides before doing new dungeons before entering them is something I skipped while I was a sprout and honestly prefer it that way, there's something about the thrill of the unexpected and learning mechanics first-hand that feels oh so amazing, the pure FFXIV experience is simply that good, perfectly paired by the community who is extremely patient and wont flame after a wipe/willing to help you understand mechanics mid-dungeon.

More tips to save gil: When you travel to one location constantly, make sure to register it on the main giant aetherite. It will allow you to travel to said location for half the price. You can register 3 areas on trial and 4 areas on subscription. I didn't learn this till like 3-4 years after playing for first time😂🤣. Another tip if trying to travel to Ul'dah without spending 120 gil, go to Gold Saucer then to Ul'dah for free.Also use the hunting log to gain levels early and complete job quest when available for new weapon and item pieces every 5 levels from level 5-30.

Not sure if this was mentioned before, but in the opening sequence of the game after you create a character, if you select the option of "make a fortune", the merchant will give you a ring with a little crafting boost.

A big one for me recently: there's a setting to allow free movement of the camera when talking to an NPC (as opposed to it snapping to face them whenever you're not directing it elsewhere), this was a game changer for my immersion in the world while questing... I've taken to going into first-person view when running around doing non-combat quests; all of the little emotes that NPC's do to you and toward other NPC's while you're talking to them and progressing your quests, their mouth moving as if they're talking while you're reading their speech bubbles, and just all the little details going on around me in the world that I never noticed, because I was zoomed out as far as I could go most of the time.

Related to both mounts AND the end of the video: you can turn off the altitude warning for flying too high in your settings. Handy if you find yourself in Outer La Noscea especially, but other areas where the ground is really close to the upper limit, too.

Unlock both SCH and SMN at the same time! Both Scholar and Summoner receive Arcanist experience, so you can level both of them by playing one or the other. If you're wanting faster queues, you can play as a scholar and *still* level up your DPS class.

I did take every sidequests, cleared everything optional before I kept going with msq. Sure it took me half a year to finish the msq (I started playing on 5.3 I believe ?) but the satisfaction of knowing every bit of lore and having no exclamation points on any of my minimaps is too satisfying. Some sidequests are very funny or emotional too, I enjoyed everything !

Wish I knew about hunt marks when I started Casually pick up the easy daily hunt marks from the board and just go about your day since they dont have a time limit. Chances are youll run into your targets while youre out & about and theyll have a little (mandragora I think) icon over their head to say "hey, punch me into the ground" so no need to actively look for them if you wanted

One big for me : the game when I began never really explained the Limit Break. Not at least, how IMPORTANT it is, and how to access it easily (the button never pops alone on the hotbars). We see it when you talk about Sprint tho. New players, put this one on you hotbar, easy access. It's an evidence now, but for DPS it's an impressive amount of damage. For heal that can save the party (litterally, when everyone is dead), same for tank (maximum protection). Some boss mecha even require the use of tank LB (eeeeh yes).

A tip I recommend to newer players is to go to the armor vendors in major cities and buy gear in 5 level increments. Place it in your armory chest, then every five levels on your character you can just hit recommended gear and you will be wearing level appropriate stuff. Also, do the hall of the novice all the way through asap. You get a exp boosting ring for under level 30.

With the map open, hold Ctrl for the Aetherytes to pop up for easy clicking, no zooming in! (for when there are too many quest markers overlapping the crystal) Also, Ctrl + arrow keys to pan the camera!

To elaborate on the resurrection, if you see a knock back aoe that might knock you off the arena hold onto your rez until it resolves. There is a 60 second timer for some wiggle room. Just remember, immune to damage unless you use a skill, but not to knock backs 💞

You can use the different layouts for different stuff and you can use a command to switch between them all. Say for example /hudlayout 1-4 Layout 1 Combat Layout 2 Crafting Layout 3 Gathering Layout 4 (Whatever you want) I have yet to make mine good.

Yesss, I love opening KZfaq to a new AvyCatte upload >:)

As a healer on the D-pad, toggling up and down select allies while left and right selects enemies. Good for dps and tanks too of course.

My advice would be things after you get a retainer: - learn extract materia as soon as you're able. Materia I is still quite very useful on the game and it's a good way of making money as a sprout. - the market board is your friend. If there's anything you have that's worth something, don't be afraid to put it on sale and/or undercut(as in selling your item with the lowest price) You don't need to hoard anything. If you don't know what that item is for, you probably don't need to use it right now and you can get it easily later. That serves for items as well for gear.

you are quickly becoming one of my favorite FFXIV channels

Something I would slightly amend, as someone who completed ARR for the first time literally yesterday: there is an exception to the 'no need to consult tutorials for MSQ dungeons', and that is the 3 Crystal Tower quest alliance raids, which are needed to unlock Heavensward. I saw on the wiki that the fights are largely trivial, so I went in blind to the first one, and died pretty much constantly (playing as melee DPS, but still) (no, not dragoon. Ninja.) I think I literally spent more time dead than fighting. It was a horrible first experience with Aliance Raids. For the second and third, I learned my lesson and watched a 'updated for 2022' guides for both, and I think I died once across both raids, and made such a big difference to how much fun I was having (since a lot of the mechanics you need to have pre-knowledge of or die, but if you have the pre-knowledge, they're very doable). So, I very, very, very strongly recommend fellow sprouts check video tutorials for those. The level 50 Titan was also suprisingly hard, even knowing mechanics, but that may have just been me. Anyway, aside from that minor nitpick, nice advice, thanks. The 'don't attack after dying' in particular I found useful.

Holding X to click through players changed my life when I finally learned it.

/bgm turns off music. its much faster than searching for the vollume bar seperatly. its also cool if you wanna hear a podcast or something in the background :3

One thing I find a lot of people don't know is that if you die and the fight ends you can take the return to start and avoid the rez debuff.

fyi for the food buff, you can in fact eat two pieces of food for a full 60 min which is the timer cap.

one important thing is also'' /petsize all small '' just write this on the ingame chat box and summoner pets don t give you jumpscares no more.. other good thing is to mark locations on the map!

That mount music really helps! I’ve been wondering if there was a way to do that!

Really great video! Did really learn a lot of new useful things I can take with me in my FFXIV adventure, so thx! Btw usually I find such guide videos as this a bit boring, but this one was different. It felt like it only just had started when it ended. Keep up the good work : )

other thing I have seen often too is people rushing to press ok to raise in some situation waiting a bit is the best option then raising when you know everything is safe can be a amazing idea after all you have a minutes to accept a raise too so can help you if the healer became busy doing a mech or anything because not all mech would be nullified for the 4 second meaning sometime you can get doom a vuln stack or even die again

I've been playing the game for years, and there's still side content I haven't completed. It's so fun going back to do it at a ridiculously high level because it always feels like you're time traveling. And I'm constantly finding something new to enjoy. 💖

Spectacular tipps for sprouts, no important parts left out, really good job^^ Especially the invuln after getting revived is a thing that even a lot of endgame players dont seem to know... or they just ignore it because death 3 seconds after getting rezzed is fun... */shrug* One hint I would give is: Unlock and use your retainers as soon as possible! Selling gear and items you dont need on the market and getting really valuable items every once in a while from quick ventures to re-sell can give you a well needed gil boost in the early game. Oh and one more thing, you can change your settings so that new gear that you obtain will be thrown into your normal inventory instead of your gear chest, that prevents that useless or outdated gear clutters your gear chest without you noticing it and having to sort out useless gear every so often

if you are going to level a crafters and or gatherers , I would recomend doing them all at the same time (as they feed off each other and can share most of the gear.) (i'm at 90 on all my doh / dols ) wish I knew this back in the arr days (beta) :)

Focus target, it gives you a big arrow above the target that can be seen through walls. I usually focus the tank to know where they went. (Or focus the healer when playing as the tank)

Macros. I type quite slowly, so I don’t usually have the option to stop and type in a dungeon- I get lots of comms for communicating well, but I don’t type anything out! I have simple “hello! I’ll try my best!”, “thanks for the run!” “Thanks for raising me!” And a few more and I find it really helps ease my anxiety around communicating with my party. I keep them on a separate bar next to my chat box. On that note, you can do SO much with a combination of customising HUD layout and macros. The game is so flexible to your playstyle and it’s absolutely worth messing around with- you can always do it on a second tab so your original layout is still there. After looking at some tutorials, I have buttons to hide all my emote bars and my quest list in combat, shortcuts to my gear list, all sorts- and it all still looks so nice!

You don't have to out yourself if you're new to something. The system message will pop up and let the group know there's someone new to the duty. No one cares if you're doing it blind, no one cares if you die or get hit by things, just don't be the one to queue up for extreme trials. Use party finder for that.

Buying a customizable gaming mouse with lots of programmable buttons changed my life (I purchased a Corsair Scimitar RGB Elite, had a good Black Friday deal). I mapped Sprint to the mouse wheel button, and my stun abilities and gap closers to buttons that are easiest for my thumb to reach. Also mapped a Raise macro (casts Swiftcast + Raise). My response time is so much quicker and it's made those tough raid fights a thousand times easier. Highly recommended.

One very useful thing that I found out as a healer main after 70 hrs of play, If you want to play dungeons as a healer, but healer queue isn't popping you can switch to another healer known as Warrior. This fixxing bugged healer dungeon queue 95% of the time and you can still play as a healer with anger management issues. Also you can use Ctrl + arrow keys to change camera view. Ctrl while using map will highlight Aetherites in the sea of side quests. Ctrl mousing over items will show you the difference between NQ and HQ versions of that item (if available). Casting any spell on RDM to trigger dualcast, will allow you to instant cast Sprint... Why is that still in the game, Yoshida-san?

Thanks for the video! I already fell off for the side quest trap as I suffer seeing my map full of marks even in MMOs, but then thought that I could enjoy the main story with my favourite classes and whenever I wanted to try a new class till next expansion or patch I could just trabe, the world again doing side quests to learn about Eorzea inhabitants .

You can rent Chocobo's from the Chocobo keep in the 3 starting cities that will give you something like 10minutes with a chocobo mount if you know where you need to go but you dont have a close aetherite to teleport to. You can also use the Chocobo Porters for a cheaper transport between major aetherites, sure it will take a little longer but you can use that time to check other things that you can use all the gil you will save from transportation fees. You can get to the Gold Saucer for free if you take the airship from the 3 starting cities. While we are on the topic of cheap/free teleports, setting major aetherites as Favored/Free destinations will save a lot of gil in the long term (I will always set the major hub/endgame hub of expansions as one of these to save tons of gil). If you have Blue Mage unlocked you actually have a free Return to your home destination...its called Self-Destruct (you can also do this in the overworld by getting a mob to kill you)

for controller players, you can set up a sprint macro on macro spot 98 or 99 and map it to L3 or R3. can also put mount roulette in the same macro for areas that allow them. save hotbar space.

I wish I knew about holding down the Ctrl button to make aetherytes come to the foreground on your world map. It makes keeping up with Hunt Trains so much easier.

omg i love all your glams ! and thank you for making this video ❤

I didn't know about the ressurect thing, thanks!:)

the culture shock of the community and type of people you run dungeons with in FF compared to coming from like a WoW is REAL lol. Its like "wait... but youre.. um... like... nice about the wipe"

Thank you for this, I've been playing for 3-4 years now and I forgot how some of this stuff works. Especially the dark experience bar.

Notifications for emotes to self is so genius !

I actually wish I had known that as a caster DPS you had to actually aim and click when using Limit Break. Yes, I now know you can make a macro out of it, but when I did find that out I was in "Chrysalis" trial and caused a wipe because I failed to limit break the portal. Oh yeah... remember to put Limit Break skill into your hotbar.

For those who like me plays on controller go to to button configuration and set l3 to activate Macross 99 then go to your macros and on macros 99 set it for sprint. Congrats you basically made the sprint button you normally use on other games

You only get to experience the game for the first time ONCE. Don't ruin it for yourself. I've personally heard from people that wished they hadn't done it (buying a skip, or tow, aka both story and job skips) Savor, cherish your sprouthood. It's like it's almost a batch of honor.

this game looks like it has the potential to be a lot of fun, I just wish I had friends who were willing to try it out too. Hopefully the game will allow me to find mutually minded people who want to play together!

Actually, do your secondary quest when you encounter them, it fix the pacing issue poeple have with msq sending them all over the place. + you get more connection to the world and its poeple you are saving.

Why I've stayed with FFXIV: The Story and most of the community is super kind. There is rarely anyone super mean.

You totally blew my mind with the sound effect when someone emotes to you!

From any major city-state, you can get a free ride to the Gold Saucer. Then, from the Gold Saucer, you can get a free ride to Ul'dah. Use this to your benefit :)

I'd recommend levelling everything you plan to level at the same time cause some jobs share gear and also once everything hits a new milestone like 40, 50 etc you can sell all gear under that level and have a nice clean inventory ^^ also don't be afraid to just talk to people!!

I will definitely be turning on that notification for headpats, as a lala i get them a lot

Ohhh! I Never thought to trigger sprint during a battle. I just assumed it would be canceled out if you were attacking/weapons drawn. Thank you for this informative video!

We need more KZfaqrs like her very entertaining content

3:21 I can’t breathe 😂 Your adventurer plate killed me!

Character configuration > control settings >general and scroll to the bottom for camera speed and height options that are great for roegadyn, lalafell, and tanks that want to see over their armor

I started playing the game about 2-3 weeks ago. I love it to bits, love the story, the characters, but especially the couple of people I've met that have guided me through my low level struggles. Wholeheartedly I would've most likely dropped the game if it wasn't for those people. Even though the game is on the newbie friendlier side of things, it is extremely confusing when you start out. Especially if you are used to the skip the story type of mmorpgs which was my case. There's quite a few things that are like, oh just figure it out yourself. Things like differences between field gear and battle gear, how to get into the side jobs like fishing and mining and what not. It took me to lvl 40 to find out that you can save your gear so when you change jobs you don't have to manually equip everything on and off. That you can use dungeons to gain massive amounts of exp daily (literally already had finished ARR when I figured that out). So if you can, grab a friend for those first 20 levels of yours specifically one that's well versed.

I wish I knew about expert deliveries for easy seals when I started. And the left Ctrl button to bring aetherytes to the forefront of the other icons covering them on the main map. And holding X (on pc) to click through crowds covering seasonal quest targets.

How did you dye golden elements on this skirt's garter?

Nice video i try to find fc any place with alot ppl so i can chat ? Or u have make any video how to find fc ??

I absolutely love this game. People are so friendly and helpful. I do still think it's hilarious that I once had my dungeon party FINISH OFF the boss before I finished the intro cutscene 😂.

I could listen to that accent for hours and never get tired of it.

Dope video., I been playing FF14 on and off for about a year.... Im doing the free trail version for now . a lot of videos I've watch say you really should doe RR and HW rather than skip, but my brother who's already in Endwalker wants me to skip. I have a okay understanding of my character ( Lvl 43 WAR) , but I still want to learn the game and experience the story. Also I feel I need to learn to world more. outside of doing main story im kinda lost lol. any tips on what I should be doing for weapons and armor would be great.

Game changers for me when I was new was (I play on controller) You can put a macro and sprint like in other games and you can just press the l3 button down to sprint /action sprint /mucin sprint I think it has to be on 98 or 99 there’s a video about it on KZfaq I recently discovered this one you can change the 3rd person camera angle I played all through arr to endwalker with my camera being too close to the ground so happy I found that out 😂 easier to dodge mechanics now too. Also enjoy more of the Ffxiv world visuals now. You can add a second hot bar on top of your original hot bar so you don’t have to keep flipping through your hot bars with L1 there’s a video about it on KZfaq I forgot how to do it myself You’re invincible right after you wipe just don’t press anything forgot how long it last too I think a lot of ppl know that one This is for new tanks ALWAYS expect the dps or healer to run ahead of you don’t panic and even if they grab trash just pick them up and keep it moving usually your team will stop right before the enemies so you can pick them up. Also SPRINT before you pick up trash your sprint will last longer than when you’re already aggroed and just sprint in general before trash I use to just do the normal jog picking up trash made me whipe a couple of times doing that (not being aware that you had to sprint) and also while you’re pulling use one mitigation if you do decide to jog and if you’re taking damage (I also said to sprint befor trash because when you run pass the trash far enough they cant do ANY damage to you which is actually really stress relieving playing tank. Use aoe to pick up trash Sprint Gap closer Aoe enemies Run to next mob Gap closer Aoe enemies Mitigations It may change in certain dungeons (Also don’t forget your tank stance at the beginning of anything you do playing that role) You can auto change targets closes to you after defeating a enemy it’s in your configurations I forgot which exactly (I forgot a lot of things lmao) New shield Healers cause I sometimes see some shield players say they guess when to put shields up the enemy on the enemies list has a bar that gets full right before they attack so make sure to put the enemy list somewhere you can easily see it. Focus target tells you too If you want to get into crafting level your gathers first no kidding you’ll want to get mats by yourself so you don’t have to spend money on the market to get the mats. start with alchemist if you feel too overwhelmed trying to level all of them at the same time I leveled mine one by one starting weaver was not a good choice at all 😂 I say alch because it’s one of the easier crafters to lvl imo not too many mats to get (not too expensive on the mb if it comes down to you needing to buy something on there) and you can get a good groove on how to level your crafters I started doing level quest but stopped because it was expensive ishgard restoration at the firmament is by far way faster and collectibles from 70-90 will get you there quick . (Yeah this changed from game changing tips to tips overall lmaooo) Tomestine gear is way easier to get than mb gear when leveling your classes if you don’t have the gil I think you can start getting them at lvl 50 someone correct me if I’m wrong For new MMO players this play style consist of a tank healer and dps 🟦Tank collect trash (enemies) keeps the boss distracted while dps does damage and healer heals every one 🟩Healer keeps the tank and the rest of the party alive (ALSO DOES DAMGE lol) 🟥Dps does dps they can also have party buffs (Don’t be like me playing dps and running ahead of the tank just grabbing trash thinking it was like any other game my ARR sprout days were ROUGH🤣🤣🤣🤣) You can turn mount music off In configurations You can use your retainers to sell things that you get to sell on the mb I didn’t know about that until mid heavenswards 💀 Healers aren’t the only ones with raise summoners and red mage I think can also raise you so don’t lose hope when you accidentally wipe to something with them in your party new healers. You can visit other worlds and get things way cheaper than your server if it is cheaper use universalis to check other servers markets on something you’re interested in. There’s a whole lot more I’m missing but this is already long enough if anyone comments they can add to this or correct me

I was playing on a new server on Light and I was shocked. People yelled, made fun of not informed players and expected to skip the cutscenes. Having played on a legacy world 2 years ago, I was used to people being SUPER nice. But it seems it either isn't the case anymore or new worlds attract tryhards that are weirdly rude..

Later content, especially 24 player raids, its often hard to see with all those flashy particle effects from other player attacks on screen. Select Character Configuration -> Control Settings -> Character then look for Battle Effects settings. YOu can choose to show: all, minimum, or none for you, and your party, as other players too. I'd recommend "Minimum" so you can still see your party members' ground targetting aoes like a healer's heal circle or a dps' dmg aoe circle so as a tank can move to stand in buffs and place enemies in ally debuffs etc.

I 1st started playing FF14 back at the tail end of 2021 and everyone told me that I just had to make it through the ARR part of the game to get to the good stuff so my expectations for ARR was rock bottom simply bc everyone told me it was bad. Then when I actually started playing it I was honestly blown away by how good I thought it was. I even go as far as saying that I enjoyed ARR more than I enjoyed Stormblood

I play on a controller so I've got macros 98 and 99 (pretty sure it's those 2) set to R3 and L3 aka click on the sticks. L3 opens up the teleport menu and R3 does one of 2 things, if I'm in a place where a mount is able to be used I get on my mount OR if I'm in a city or dungeon or anywhere a mount is not usable I sprint. It's very handy.

you know, one big help for boss battles is roll the camera back, i tend to play with the camera close, and you tend to miss some of the later attack telegraphs, so rolling way back really helps the visibility. i know on the new trails , it makes a massive difference seeing some of the cues.

Adding Limit Break to a hotbar is always a good one, and Skipping previously played cutscenes.

Great video for new players! ^_^

The biggest tip i give for new players is this game is filled with people who love to help, don’t feel ashamed for asking for help as people in this game mostly love to help newer players

as a new player im loving the story so far, sure there are soe parts where i say uff drag it to long with this quest, but when there is a cutscene is gold

Related to turning off music: You can turn off field battle music, which is useful if you are in a place where mobs aggro you a lot as you go through the zone (especially when you can't fly yet) and you wanna hear the background/zone music instead.

Loving the starter tips.

I would actually go a step further and mention hunts and aetheryte tickets. cheap to buy, simple to get, and completely erases teleport cost. would also mention you don't have to feel married to an FC if you do join one. Sometimes theres just some bad apples in them that can ruin your experience or they just don't do the kind of content you want, in which case leaving is totally fine. I had this problem with the small one i was in and it felt like i was betraying them wanting to leave, but it was overall for the best. Do what makes you most happy.

back in old prae the most important thing a friend told me was to use numpad 0 to interact with the teleporters... saved me from a lot of deaths

I didn't know about that buff after being resurrected, so that's very nice to know

"First time in a dungeon": WANDERER'S PALACE! RIP 😂Hope you enjoy getting Throat Stabbed I'm way past needing these tips, but I discovered you recently with your video about the Lalafell baby chair and loved your videos since then. Guess I just love your voice and humour. I would have loved to have you for Mentor when I started.

i started playing this game with my family a few years back, but i've also developed extreme social anxiety lol so it's hard to join dungeons i've never done before without watching the same guide three or four times. especially if it's with a class i'm still learning and don't understand the rotations yet

I wish I knew about the Balmung Quicksand sooner

your voice is SO Angelic ^_^ Also, another little thing to get more lore out of your game, is when u highlight a picture with your mouse on a mount or minion on the minion/mount selection menu, u will get some surprise comments about them.

Did you buy a story skip to Endwalker when you started?

I’m really loving my new journey in this game.

I do turn off mount music when I do the MSQ, but NOT in Coerthas Central Highlands! That zone music makes me want to rip my hears off!!

A video with all of the common terms - those that only FFXIV uses - would be very helpful. I've been so confused by things like dots, "we used to have dots," "will they bring dots back?" And then there's fiz, "I'm a fiz player". All of those shortened terms that people who've played the game for 10 years take for granted.

Spectacular guide. Though if I'm ever to level an alt of a different race I will personally be getting one of those story skips... For ARR. While the main story itself is perfectly fine the stuff between the main story and Heavensward is some of the most tedious and mind bendingly boring/uninteresting content I've ever had to do. And since they're mandatory I damn near found myself not even playing because the stuff felt like it takes a million years to complete

Some people will wait for you to finish a cutscene, others will nuke the boss and clear the fight before the cutscene is over. And I was the sprout tank in that case.

removing error message that keep occuring when we spam skill and it isn't ready with character configuration

I try to log out in Sanctuaries, but i can't always. Due to my controller breaking

I have to say about people watching cutsenes in dungeons. I've been seeing an increase in people just ignoring it and starting the boss battle in the last 1-2 years. I don't know why, but it's something I've noticed and find it quite sad 😕

The hud wasn't there when I started (had a few ui options)... it was a shiny toy when it came out... That didn't have enough options.

I love your voice, its so soothing 💖

Your voice is so high, wow o_o thanks for the tips!

ok but your first outfit is sooooo cute. do you have a glamour posted for it?

Ultros Novice network is actually really nice and helpful. Its extremely rare that there is some cringe ass argument in there and is usually just used as a general chat. There are so many 'regulars' that a lot of us just know everyone. I hate that mentors have the rep they do, but some of us genuinely like helping new players out.

I am late to this video, but it was great to watch. I am at the point where I am level 90 and am looking for a guild (free company) and to be honest it feels so overwhelming. I joined one that I really didn't like and felt like an outcast in. So, if anyone has some suggestions to find that "special home" I would be all ears. Thanks!

My friend I’ve been trying to get to play for years finally installed. He is spamming through the dialogue and skipping every cutscene he can. I’m gonna miss him.