All ffxiv players: I have questions you can answer!

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1. 1: I would recommend doing the blue/unlocking content quests, when they unlock. Unlocking all the different jobs aside, anyways. But the optional dungeons/raids/trials, the normal modes at least, I would do once their available (coils of bahamut aside, as that doesn't have a normal mode… If you play with people though, they'll probably help)

   Question 2…. I don't remember the entire question, but I definitely know that people do enjoy helping others through the game, there's a community I follow/am a part of that built up pretty well, and it started up around two content creators.

   The third question, what I've gotten from the game? I met my best friends through the game, and we now play lots of other things together. The satisfaction of clearing an Ultimate is so incredible, or getting that rare achievement, like completing the Baldesion Arsenal mega-dungeon, or getting the big fish for the Feast of Famine quest, or reaching max level on a new job… And then there's the wide variety of emotions that the story has made me feel. No other game has made me feel as strongly as this one, the two other closest ones being Horizon Zero Dawn, and The Last of Us, but neither of them come close to what this game has done.

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2. Money is why I stopped playing. My buddies and I managed to buy a guild mansion and it was glorious. It was just down to two of us left eventually, hard times hit, and we missed 2 months of playing. After not entering the mansion for 30 days, you lose it. I lost my motivation the next time I logged in.

   I played White Mage, but was more of a crafter. I did support in and out of battle and I loved it to be honest. I can't say I remember enough to give you advice though, especially on DPS. It was just too long ago. I'd need to relearn everything myself. I hope you get the help you need from the community and that you have fun!

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3. I have not played ff14 yet, but I have been contemplating because I hear it has a big free version. But I played some of ff11 when it came out. I paid for the subscription and played as much as I could. I stopped playing because life is to busy and I played it for about a year and I only got 35 to 40 hours total out of the game and wasn't even half way. I felt at the time that it cost too much for what I was getting out of it.

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4. I got a lot of enjoyment out of the end game content. There is still a pretty good community out there playing minimum item level +/- blind for even the older content. As for classes try them all. I was originally dps, got a lot of enjoyment out of Samurai but took a liking to Gunbreaker (so many ogcds), and then Reaper. I stopped playing because my current job doesn’t let me put in more hours into the thing I really loved which is savage raiding with a good group. Lastly the story content is really where ff14 shines. It’s the best story I’ve ever experienced in an ff game. And I’ve beaten 4-16 (except 11).

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5. In my opinion the best way to get the most out of the game is to play how you want to play. FFXIV is not a typical MMO, by that I mean you can play a lot of it single player. Play your pace, play your style, play what you can do each time you long in. I've logged in for 15 mins just to do a quest or to gather resources. Dungeons are mostly where you will group up, where you que up by the party finder and the game does all the work for you on that. So while waiting you still could be questing or gathering resources.

   I am sure that many many people would love to play with you. I would just explain to them what you want to do first so those that do join you go at your pace. There are a lot of great players who will understand. Not everyone plays FFXIV for the same reasons and that what makes it such a great game.

   I currently have an active account but not logged in a while do to life tasks taking over.

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6. I've been playing FFXIV for about 10 years and have 14k hours of playtime. I'm also a long time FF player (since the SNES days). I would highly recommend it to any fan of Final Fantasy, but only if they also enjoy, or at least are able to tolerate MMO's. It sounds like you have MMO experience so you shouldn't have any problems there.

   Some things to consider when starting to play:
   – Since all the updates with Trusts in Endwalker, you can play almost everything as a solo player as if you were going through any single player Final Fantasy game. Trials (more or less boss battles) being the outlier here. You still need to run them with other people. This may change in the future since Yoshi P (producer and director of the game) wants to make everything accessible to people wanting to play solo, but it's not a guaranteed change.
   – As mentioned in another comment, the blue quest markers are quests that unlock a lot of side features (raids, glamours, dyes, mounts, etc). Those are always worth doing.
   – The story is a massive part of the game, unlike other MMO's. Expect to spend A LOT of time to get through the main story if you are paying attention to it.
   – If you end up not enjoying A Realm Reborn's story, do your best to push through it. A Realm Reborn (aka 2.0, aka ARR) has a reputation for having a dry, drawn out story and sometimes it turns people away, however it's worth it cause the later expansions, specifically Heavensward (3.0) and Shadowbringers (5.0) are most people's favorite stories with Endwalker (6.0) usually being highly rated as well. Stormblood (4.0) has a lot of mixed reception.
   – The game, as we have known it for a long time, starts in A Realm Reborn (2.0). 1.0 is no longer playable and is famous for being a disaster and revived into 2.0 by Yoshi P.
   – Dawntrail (7.0), which is scheduled to release in summer 2024, is pitched at this point as a new start for the story since the big story ark for the last 10 years was finished in Endwalker.
   – The crafting and gathering systems in the game are actual big systems with rotations and such. It's much more in depth than clicking a Start Craft button and it being done. Some people focus solely on that.
   – The housing system is very controversial. By this, I mean that there are a limited number of houses, and if you want to get one, expect to have a battle ahead of you there.
   – All jobs can be played on one character. You don't have to worry about selecting a job in the beginning and being tied to it. You can level, gear, and play all of them.
   – If and when you get to optional content at the end and want to do some raids, all the raids have storylines.
   – There's multiple difficulties of endgame content. Normal/Hard trials are tied to the MSQ typically. Extreme trials are optional harder versions. Normal raids are mainly for the raid storylines. Then if you want to run harder versions there's Savage raids and then the hardest being Ultimate raids. I won't give any specifics on what the bosses are, but as an FF fan you'll enjoy seeing some of them.
   – I could go on with many more things, but the main thing is to just hop in and try it out. There is a free trial with no restrictions on playtime that you should try out first if you're not sure you want to pay a sub for as well. At this point, you can play all of 2.0 and 3.0 with access to almost every feature in the game on just the trial. After Dawntrail releases, 4.0 is being added to the trial as well.

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7. As a non fan of mmos ffxiv is the only one I'll play (maybe 11 at some point) because you can be everything on one character. I'm a dragoon/Paladin main, and the job fantasy feels good to me. I have basically all melee jobs at 90. I literally this month took a break for the first time since 2019 when I started. Feels weird not jumping on even just to do dailies, but my fun that kept me there and why I'll be back in April is I enjoy the "theme park" I can just go fight final fantasy bosses as my dragoon I can solo old content and do 24 man raids. It helped me talk to strangers as an introvert, it's actually why I comment here, ffxiv has helped me. Overall I did everything current of my skill level. But if you need a dps tank who can kinda heal I would definitely join if you needed, it's hard to stay away. I mean the game I'm playing now is monter hunter world and it's because I can get dragoon armor lol. I also want to make sure you know I appreciate you and your content.

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8. I started ffxiv around last august. Got almost 1000 hours in and currently still a trial player. I'd say to know every single little tidbit when it comes to lore and character interactions is basically impossible. There are a lot of small lines in dialog that change based on what jobs. Story dungeons can now be soloed with ai teammates who have their own unique dialog. You won't know references to Ver1.0 without playing it. Heck, there are chunks of 2.0 that was removed to make A Realm Reborn less of a slog.

   I think the best way to go through the game is to go in blind with other people who have also never done the content. To figure out how bosses work in a group who has never experienced the fight is an experience you only get once in a lifetime especially with older trials and raids.

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9. 1) Well I dont play as often as I like/should. But the game will always be there. Which is nice. I feel bad playing for hours when my wife is getting bored without me. I have to stress that some of the events are timed and I'm not missing those. 2) Yeah, I'll start playing with you. As long as I can record my part for my channels 3) I love the sense of community, really. My FC is the best and is really patient. #allhailtibbusfibbus

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10. Hey cousin, cousin here!

    Currently working on Warrior and I only play tank/heal types so were we to join forces and reunite the flames, you’d always have support in the form of protection or healing.

    Down to the deets:
    Every class/job/profession can be done on one character. No need for multiple toons who major in specific crafting. you can literally do it all from Mr. Fibbus if you’d like.

    Most friendly MMO out there. WoW is still riddled with the most pretentious, min-max’ing sweats in the genre. FFXIV has their share but 95% of players are super kind and welcoming in PuGs.

    There are lots of references, Easter eggs, and even full on BOSSES you can fight from VI, IV etc. imagine fighting the Zot Tower sisters in 4K. It’s real, and so is fighting Kefka and more.

    Dungeons are 4 people. 2 DPS, Tank and Healer. There are no legal plugins so you won’t hear people complain about DPS meters because even mentioning you use plugins which are against ToS can get people banned. Granted despite that, some people use them. I would never ever use them…

    The story is awesome. You can do Gold Saucer at any time and chocobo race. There’s a 100-hour ish investment of breeding and racing Chocobos to become the best.

    Boss fights are easy to learn and bosses use a predictable gameplay mechanic to teach you how they work. It’s very user friendly.

    Best MMO I’ve ever played and I was in WoW Alpha and played until 2018, you recall the obsession I had for WoW.

    All classes now actually feel
    Unique where before a few classes had identity crises. Dragoon is getting a rework and we are getting Beastmaster(limited job) and Pictomancer (Relm) in the new expansion this summer.

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11. Hey, your video randomly showed up in my feed and I clicked it and I would honestly be excited to watch your journey through FFXIV.

    I got the most of my enjoyment out of the story, the character customization (making my character look badass by collecting armor) and also some of the side content (Palace of the Dead, Eureka, Bozja, Heaven on High and Eureka Orthos [These names won't tell you anything yet]). I am mostly a solo player, who enjoys games at their own pace. I rarely participate in organized group play. But I think this is one of FF14 strenghts. You can play most of the game till the end solo and still get enjoyment out of it. But you can also play the game with friends if you want.

    Compared to WoW, FF14 focusses a lot more on solo play. Because it treats itself sometimes more as an Final Fantasy game than a MMO.

    For the story, expect the same quality of story and writing like the other FF games. I personally am a fan of FF7, FF8 and FF10 and I would say the story of FF14 is as good as the story of those games (if not even better). But I advise you to not overhype yourself with the story, because I have seen people go into the game having "too high" excpectations and then get disappointed. Sometimes the writing and the story can feel somewhat sluggish in the beginning. And a lot of it is "oldschool textbox reading" without voice acting, like in old FF games. But if you have no problem "reading" you will propably enjoy the story.

    I enjoyed every minute of this game, but I also don't want to overhype the game too much. Simply play the game "with an open mind" and let yourself be engulfed by the story and its characters.

    The gameplay can be somewhat easy for gaming veterans, but there are possibilities for hard content. But the hardest content is mostly group focussed. I am a more casual gamer who focusses mostly on solo or casual group content, where I don't have to commit to a schedule, so i can't tell you much about the harder group content. But the stuff I told you before (Palace of the Dead, Eureka, Bozja, Heaven on High and Eureka Orthos) also offers a challenge for solo players. So there is always something enjoyable for solo players.

    Also, very important, you don't need to create different characters to play different classes like in WoW. You can play all the classes simply on one character. And learning a new class simply means accepting a "class quest". Also you unlock more and more classes later in the game. The good thing is you can try them all out with your character. And if you feel like you don't like the gameplay of a class, simply accept the class quest for another class and try it out.

    Overall I would say to keep your expectations "low" and let yourself be surprised by the game and its story. But I only say this, because people overhype this game sometimes too much. I personally loved the story and every minute of it.

    Edit: I did read through the other comments. And yeah i would honestly advise you to only do the blue quests and mostly focus on the blue quests with the "meteor" icon.
    You should definitely ignore all the non-blue quests in your first playthrough.

    Also don't try to skip cutscenes. 🙂

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