Giving that the newest expansion is on the horizon, and the fact the game is now available on a new platform in xbox there is a like to be many new players giving final fantasy xiv a try, and so here is a guide to help all those new players trying the critically a claimed mmorpg with a free trial up to level 70.
Useful Links
Servers Status: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/
Server Bonuses: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/option_service/world_transfer_service/population_balancing/#worldtype
Data Center/Server Travel: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/contentsguide/datacentertravel/
Free Trial Page: https://freetrial.finalfantasyxiv.com/na/
Time Stamps
Intro – 0:00
Character Creation – 0:20
Settings – 2:42
Quests – 3:20
Aetherytes – 5:25
General Tips – 6:42
Outro – 11:05
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Make sure to checkout the description for some useful links like the server status page or the free trial page.
And also, Truth of Mountains/Forests is only available on your home server too! A la, unspoiled nodes.
A big tip is to look into Party Finder & also to get into Linkshells &/or a Free Company who will actually allow you to experience content: a lot of random matchmaking Duty Finder is full of players expecting optimization, efficiency, and/or speedrunning. They'll have no qualms with rushing you through the experiences where you retain your sprout icon & then use your later inexperience, when it's gone, to farm clout & content
So, I highly recommend new players play with people they know for sure won't do things like pull the last boss before you're finished watching a cutscene or be passive-aggressive about learning to tank or heal by getting your bearings with aggro-management+cycling through defensives+attention to enemy placement/position for tank & overhealing for healers, rather than DPSing the way experienced players doing their dailies would prefer you to (but could easily cause a wipe because you're learning the game & need the time+space to do so before you can comfortably DPS more as tank/healer)
Our community seems nice, at first, but there's a lot of exploitation of inexperience/ignorance which can only be avoided by vetting that your party members are fellow noobies/casuals towards the beginning of your journey or else you'll have hours of great story & fun gameplay sniped away by some dude who is trying to get an easy dunk just so Xenosys Senpai notices him on social media & maybe makes a video about it, sustaining both of them at the detriment of your enjoyment to the game
Yellow quests usually have really good story & semi-important worldbuilding context in the expansion they're first made available in. I wouldn't recommend skipping them nor rushing the leveling experience, as that's the core of the gameplay experience itself & are worth doing alongside the MSQ
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When I first started and I was choosing a server, I saw Aether, Crystal and Primal and thought they were representative of Atlantic, Central and Pacific time zones. There has to be some kind of correlation there.