This is a very broad guide explaining the majority of the features in Final Fantasy 14. This is mostly focused on people who haven’t played the game yet and are thinking about playing it. Since there are a variety of people, some who don’t play MMOs, some who’ve played over MMOs before, and some who have dabbled with FF14 before, multiple approaches are required. If you feel a part of the video isn’t for you, please do skip using the timestamps below.
Some features will be covered in more detail than others and this is intentional. Features not discussed in this video are Gunbreaker, Dancer, Sage, or any Endwalker content.
Since the initial recording of this video, Adventuring and Gathering Foreys have been renamed to Field Deployments.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:03 FREE TRIAL
0:04:24 What is Final Fantasy
0:09:30 Character Creation
0:24:26 Early Game Mechanics
0:30:35 Keybinds
0:33:41 Settings
0:38:53 User Interface or HUD
0:41:32 Newbie Filter: Dialogue Problem
0:51:35 FATES and Hunting Log
0:54:27 Guild Leaves and Hests
0:57:22 Hall of the Novice
0:59:04 Gear and Set Basics
1:03:01 Airship Travel and Teleportation
1:06:25 Challenge Log & Gold Saucer
1:13:56 Dungeons & Duty Finder
1:18:45 Area of Effect (AoE) Mechanics
1:20:24 Roguelike Dungeon: Palace of the Dead (POTD)
1:43:31 Retainers: Bank & Auction House
1:47:19 Server Travel & Social Features
1:53:40 Retainer Ventures
1:56:42 Retainers are Pay To Win
1:59:16 Cosmetic Features: Galmors, Dyes, Plates
2:05:54 Materia (Enchanting Items)
2:10:57 Story Trials (Boss Battles & Other Modes)
2:14:46 MSQ: The Primal Gods
2:17:12 Grand Company Basics
2:19:47 Chocobo Mount & Battle Pet
2:23:13 Daily Roulette System – Dungeon Finder
2:27:43 Grand Company Advanced
2:31:11 Grand Company Squadrons
2:35:36 Player vs Player (PvP)
2:38:41 Job Quests
2:43:19 Sightseeing Log
2:44:15 Tribal Quests aka Daily Quests
2:47:18 The Hunt & Rare Spawns
2:51:27 Starting Gathering & Crafting Classes
2:57:33 Gathering
3:04:15 Crafting: The HARD Way
3:07:01 Crafting: The EASY Way
3:08:45 Crafting Log
3:11:00 Fishing
3:13:16 Desynthesis (Disnechanting Items)
3:15:16 Treasure Maps
3:18:16 MSQ: The Garlean Empire
3:22:27 Optional Dungeons & Tomestones of Poetics
3:25:24 Realm Reborn Relic Grind
3:26:40 Rare FATES
3:28:19 Blue Mage the LIMITED JOB
3:38:08 Blue Mage Power Leveling (Cheese Method)
3:39:45 Blue Mage Carnival Game Mode
3:40:33 Blue Mage Advanced Skills
3:43:43 MSQ: Mandatory Trials and Raids
3:46:35 Optional Raid for ARR’s Story
3:49:04 MSQ: Post Realm Reborn SLOG
3:52:04 Heavensward Expansion Pack
3:58:10 Crafting/Gathering Collectables & Scrip
4:01:53 Gathering Ephemeral Nodes
4:03:30 Ishgard Restoration
4:09:11 Roleplaying (RP)
Full Game Required (Post Free-Trial)
4:14:14 Level 50 Jobs Samurai & Red Mage
4:16:42 Stormblood Expansion Pack
4:21:42 Heaven On High (Palace of the Dead 2)
4:24:02 Eureka: The Forbidden Land
4:39:46 Shadowbringers Expansion Pack
4:45:14 Shard FATE System
4:46:23 Bozja: Save The Queen
5:06:30 Endwalker
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Want another Confusing, Grindy Live-Service game to learn how to play? Try Warframe, here's my guide on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnYS4dbbFs
UPDATES:
1 – Since the initial recording of this video, Adventuring and Gathering Foreys have been renamed to Field Deployments.
I think this is the longest guide I've ever seen. Talk about dedication! 👍
I wasn’t expecting ff14 tutorial from you. Maybe I shouldn’t since you have knowledge on mmos like wow. I’ll definitely enjoy watching the whole way through! Maybe it will even convince me to try it out!
Nice how long have you been playing FFXIV?
Oh nice I could use a few tips before starting
I DID not expect this from you.
Surely you could have fit this all into 4:59:00
a surprise… but a welcome one!
got only 10k hours played so might as well watch and probably learn something new 😀
40 minutes in and you’ve done nothing but show me that character creation is basic and like every other RPG all but with its own style. The only other thing I saw was how insane it is just to set up all these key, binds, etc. and how I can be playing a game instead of wasting my time doing all that crap holy moly…. I get it makes you better and have a fun time be more efficient etc. but why doesn’t the game come with some mini tutorial to be getting it tells you that it’s so weird that you can change just about any setting? That’s kind of bad on the games part. Especially if you want someone new to enjoy your game and they hadn’t seen your video or how in depth the menu options were.
I have hated the very idea of a final fantasy game since part 4, expecially 10 and 11. But 12 was actually a game I liked. Does that mean I could… play this game…and like it?
I actually interested in playing this and was hoping for a guide just like this
I look foward to watching all of this during a long shift. Even though I've been playing the game for like almost 3 years you never know what the game just forgets to tell you.
A 5 hour Zaric video…. this one is not quite for me… but will be enjoyed on its entirety all the same. "Opens case of Hamms"
On gear updates: There is actually a button in the character screen that updates the current gear set without having to go into the gear set menu. Its the Circle arrows to the top right of the menu, below the reputation tab.
I'm a veteran play and I have to say this is the best video I've seen explaining the game for new players I really wish I had this to help me 3 years ago
I will say, I find real reborn to just be veeeeeeeery long. I do wish to get more invested, however, after a real reborn I encourage people to take a healthy break and then return for a satisfying and great experience. Also take your time. Take this from a sprout 🌱 who went to lvl 50 and reeeeealy wanted dark knight from the trial.
I comfortably can use 4 hotbars it really is needed to main gunbreaker like I do.
MMO people: "MMOs are not hard to get into"
Also MMO people: makes a 5 hour beginner tutorial
1:28:03 Zaric resists sleep effect