5 HUGE Things I Wish I Knew Sooner in FF14
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"If you disturb a sprouts story, youll die alone" our healer in a random dungeon many years ago. Words to live by
Those are wise words.
If I am the healer I always make sure sprouts like me get priority.
ima need an explanation T^T wdym by that
@@3n0k1 In a instanced story dungeon when there is a sprout/new player and they are watching the story cutscene before a boss fight and someone pulls the boss, usually the dps, the healer doesn't heal him, and he gets to be the reason for the wipe.
As opposed to dying in a group ? :|
deep wisdom
Still a sprout but something I learned recently is if you accidentally skip cutscenes (or just want to watch them again) you can rewatch them through a book in an inn.
I've played FF14 for literallly 3k hours and somehow didn't know the difference between the enemy spell bars for stun/interrupt so well played sir! :D
awesome! I tried to get something in here for everyone!
I'm at 4k and it's the same for me😂
Brother I feel you I'm 20k hours deep been here forever
Yeah, that was new to me too. I never even noticed the different colored cast bars.
It rarely matters so you didn't miss much
One more thing: don't skip the Novice Hall quests. The Novice Hall is a short walk from Aleport, and the MSQ requires you to go there, but that's about it. Many new players never talk to the "Smith" NPC there, or in the adventuring guilds in Limsa Lominsa, Gridania, or Ul'dah, to do the job-specific exercises. These give you valuable information, such as a better understanding of the range of your tank's AOEs, or telling you that healers are expected to do DPS when no healing is required. You'll also get a solid set of gear to get you through your first few dungeons, and an exp bonus ring with some nice stats. the exp bonus is applied from lvl 1 to 30 and is useful for all professions except crafting and gathering. you can access these quests once you've reached lvl 15 and you don't need to go to Aleport, you can just talk to one of the "Smith" NPCs in your starting city's adventuring guild. You can complete these quests for any role (tank, healer, caster, phys. dps) and receive a job-specific set of gear and the ring, which you only get once.
Good advice but at the same time, don't take the Hall of the Novice's lessons to heart. They're designed for 2.0, which looks very different from the current game. The Tank version teaches you to use ranged attacks to pull one enemy at a time, which almost always does not work (mobs aggro in packs) and even if it did is not the way the community tends to run dungeons (you usually want a bunch of guys on you so you can AoE them). The DPS version tells you you alwayd do more damage from the side or flank, which is no longer the case except with specific skills that specifically say they do in the tool tip. I'm sure there's more stuff like that, too. Take the Hall of the Novice with a grain of salt - it's mostly OK, but ocasionally outdated.
I agree, it's somewhat outdated here and there but there is still some valuable advice to get. the rest comes with playtime =)@@masterplusmargarita
@@masterplusmargarita i would never expect a new player as a tank to pull more than one group. Let them start slow and gain confidence instead of wearing them down to never play tank again.
Also, the Novice Hall gives some nice Armor and Ring for starters which can last a few levels. So either way, just do it.
The MSQ is super important, but don’t forget to unlock things (the blue missions with the gold plus sign), they will get you all sorts of new content - such as mounts and other fun stuff.
Wait you can get mounts from those!!! I just started playing in the last two weeks and reached my first 100 hours I appreciate this!
@@Arctic-Wolfy Also later on that's how your mount flies in that zone
I have a veteran tip that somehow a lot of people seem never to catch on: there are certain trials and raids where you cannot do damage to the boss unless you fulfill certain conditions! The classic example is Bismarck (the "Limitless Blue" trial one unlocks in HW). When you fetter the whale to the island, you CANNOT do damage to the chitin caparace unless you're on the whale's back. A lot of physical ranged and casters think they can chill on the island and do damage from there, but they're in fact doing 0 damage! You can tell you're not doing damage because besides seeing your hits go for 0 damage, they have a distinctive metallic "clink clink" sound feedback to them, and visually there's a translucent hexagon showing whenever your animations impact the boss.
Good tip!
I'm exactly the person who would think I'm so smart doing 0 damage to the boss. Thanks for the tip. I just unlocked HW, so hopefully I'll see that soon
The Thanatos boss in Labyrinte of the aincents cannot be damaged if you are not effected by a boss specific debuff. makes you see through, kinda like a ghost.
You are correct, but something even earlier, the bowl of embers, if you deal enough damage to the boss he will start spawning "infernal nails" if you keep hitting the boss he will turn invincible until you defeat the infernal nails OR you take too long and die to an attack he only does if you don't break the nails
Before ShB came out the ARR trials did not go invincible so you could accidently push them far enough to just wipe the party. was much more common on unsynced extreme's thou.
the best tip that i can tell is, in the PC, when you want to teleport to an aetheryte that is surounded by quest markers, just hold CTRL, it will bring the aetheryte to first plan and you can just click on it
New player to FFXIV just joined on the Xbox open beta/free trial, thanks for the tips I will have to use them
Welcome! I'm afraid there's a stigma you may experience. A fair number of people are worried that Xbox users are going to be toxic. You may catch a bit of flack for it. I only ask that you take it in stride for now. Eventually the worries will subside, and you'll just be another friend having fun.
People are people, and if someone needs a little grace and patience, they're free to give. Enjoy the game!
Hey I'm on xbox aswell as a new player I'm in a group that's clearing all the raids and such were on second coil of bahumut stage 4 right now on diabolos server
@butiliketacos thanks for the heads up. So far haven't ran into that yet but I'll keep that in mind
Healers: dps when you can, but also, HEAL when people need it. Tanks: Use your AOE abilities when pulling trash packs! >3 mobs? always AOE. DPS: please dont pull. Wait for tank to engage before attacking.
Thanks I just started and I’m a healer and so far I’ve been mostly just healing the tank and dps if they aren’t taking damage but I was wondering if I wasn’t doing enough dps.
Is the healer expected to damage a lot?
@@justinashworth849 Every class has multiple job tasks in a party, but the first is always dealing damage. Your class-specific task varies. For healers, it's keeping everybody alive, primarily the tank. For tanks, it's keeping aggro off the rest of the party, and for DPS, it's picking up the adds so they don't go after the healers.
They say the first duty is to the truth, but in dungeons, the first duty is to burn that mofo down.
@@justinashworth849 The faster an enemy dies, the less damage it will deal, and the less healing you need to do. IDEALLY, the only damage you SHOULD be healing is unavoidable mechanics and auto attack damage. But people aren't perfect...
On the item UI your equipment is usually green but if it is white it means that it is 100 percent spirit bonded and ready to get the materia from
I have 2000+ hours in game and have never seen anyone have a problem with waiting for cut scenes. However sometims the tank doesn't realise there is a first timer playing and accidentally pulls the boss while the cutscene is running, so don't be afraid to let people know at the start that you will be watching the cut scenes.
Huh?? I must be playing with former WoW players, just made 60 on my Bard & NOBODY I have ran dungeons with has ever waited on cut scenes lol, don't ask me the story, I couldn't tell you 🤣🤣🤣
@@TheBlessedone37Sorry to hear that man... Thankfully most of the time all it takes is a "Hey, first time in here!" and most people will wait.
@@TheBlessedone37you can also go to an inn and rewatch any cutscene in the story. Also there isn’t that much story to be told on the cutscene entering a dungeon. Most the time it’s just a camera roaming view of the dungeon. Albeit those are cool to watch as well. So as it was mentioned most the time if you say “new” it may make them more aware.
You must not do weekly Savage raiding
@user-og4cu1fp7d I would assume by the time they are doing weekly savage they would have already seen the cut scene.
My biggest tip is: READ YOUR TOOL TIPS!!! You arent expected to play perfectly or optimally but you are expected to at least have a general knowledge of what your job can do and how to do it. And while there are some skills with tool tips that are a mile long and/or might not do exactly what you think they do, there are plenty of people out there willing to help and teach you! Throw a question to your dungeon party or shout in Limsa (dont shout in Limsa or do I cant stop you. May god have mercy on your soul) or look up one of the numerous guides on your job, there are tons of vids on YT and plenty of other resources to help you learn!
hey hi, absolute newbie here, why not shout in Limsa? haha thx
For healers and bards, debuffs you can cleanse will have a white line above them
Tip even a lot of vets don’t know about: there is a ferry between Limsa and Vesper Bay (the Waking Sands). Just go outside the Arcanist’s Guild/Mealvaan’s gate and talk to the ferry guy behind the counter at the bottom of the ramp.
Solid advice, great video 🤗 I will say, the only thing of note about turning in your excess gear to grand companies for seals is that the lower the level, the fewer seals you get. The 2k a pop will come from current endgame (Lvl 90) gear, while anything under level 50 will net you about 150-400ish.
Always roll on gear to exchange for seals! You get relic materials, ventures to pay retainers, dark matter to repair your gear, coffers with mounts/minions from Heavensward & Stormblood. All around a great investment, and you can make a nice amount of Gil from selling duplicates ✨
As a new player, you are going to find it hard to get seals in the beginning, as you will need them to 'level up' your rank in the grand company. Leveling up your grand company raises your cap on the amount of seals you can have at one time. The best way to do this is to do your grand company hunting logs! (Doing hunting logs in general is a great way to get exp up to level 30 or so) - The other way to get seals early on is the adventurer in need on leveling roulette. If you have already unlocked roulettes, when you open your duty finder it will show a role icon to the right, OR, when you click on it, it will state Adventurer in Need (role in parenthesis). It's usually tank or healer, but sometimes you'll get lucky for dps. You can also farm ARR fates for seals, but frankly, I find this to be the least efficient way to get them.
Dungeons, Fates, Roulettes, Hunting logs, Hunts (via hunting board), Command Missions (via unlocking your army), turning in crafting and gathering stuff, levequests (also helps with the achievement if you’re into that), completing the log that resets weekly.
A ton of content gets you seals. And if you want? Seals get you gear, power ups, and other things to make leveling smoother.
Just a further clarification for shop price and restricted: Sometimes this is locked behind something that will take a few hours and/or days to get to. For example, beast tribe quests. Sometimes it's an area you don't even have access to yet. So sure, if you have the rep for them built up and you can get it from them then it's good to do so. However, if not then it comes into a question of time/cost, which is what a lot of people base their marketboard prices on.
absolutely!
I was with you until that last line. "Most people" base their marketboard prices on the cheapest one currently on the market.
400 hours in and I didn’t know about the inventory expander 😅 thank you so much for this vid
As a sprout player (began playing for the very first time 10 days ago), it was very informative to know about the shop details of things (selling price, if available in npcs, etc) and being able to sell trash dungeon gear to the grand companies.
Also I'm glad that the community is receptive and understading with the fact that I need to watch the cutscenes to understand the story.
I've played other MMOs (SWTOR per example) that people would go nuts and start spamming chat non-stop if the cutscene played for even 5 seconds.
The best advice I can give to someone who's played other MMOs is to familiarize yourself with your settings and learn to customize your hud early. It's a bit overwhelming at first, but knowing how to change things you don't like can drastically improve your experience. And in FFXIV you can customize almost everything.
@@Lordoftheapes79 oh yeah indeed, I already customized mine the way I want and also make some tweaks here and there every now and then.
Oh you’re one of those who watched cutscenes in dungeons and wastes everyone like 10mins…
I played the first version. I have come back to arr with the Xbox beta. This game is soooo good. I'm lvl 58 and almost done with the base story, having to clear crystal tower missions to progress the msq. It's really ok to watch the cutscenes without pissing veterans off? I love this player base!
yes! Watch them. If anything the FF14 community will be more upset that you skipped the story than they will that they had to wait a few seconds for your cutscene to play. I'm not kidding!
Yes, absolutely watch the cutscenes and enjoy! The vast majority of vets are 100% ok with waiting for you to watch.
In alliance raids like Crystal Tower, I will regularly see people report in Alliance chat if even one person in their group has a cutscene so that the raid knows to hold up. You still might get an early pull every now and then, but I've never seen anyone give a sprout any grief for watching a cutscene, even long ones.
Yeah, worst case scenario they don't care about the cutscenes and pull every time, but they will _never_ give the sprout themselves grief for watching it.
Yea it's part of FF14's culture to allow people to watch cutscenes, so 99% of the time your group will just wait as usual for you to finish watching the cs before proceeding forward. Now sure there is that 1% where people do early pulls but most of the time those early pulls happen by accident.
Just reached level 40 on my first character. This has been BY FAR the singular most enjoyable gaming experience to date……Witcher 3 used to be my favorite for many years until I started this game. The combat, COMMUNITY, and all around content is 2nd to none for me. But the community is what makes this game imo. It’s nice to not be surrounding by screaming, petty children all the time….
The Community indeed, like this one dungeon run, dps died not dodging aoes. The healer apologized to them, wat. Even crazier the dps admited fault themselves and said sorry to the healer. I have never ever seen that in any other co-op online game or MMO period 😮
@@HyouVizerone of the best communities and willing to help. Did not expect that when I started playing
Thank you. About the cutscenes on dungeons i was on pure stress.
A note regarding limit breaks in dungeons. The general approach for dungeons is wall to wall (where the tank grabs every possible mob between the start and end of the current section). When a dungeon is being played in such a fashion (the dungeons are designed around wall to wall play) do NOT save your limit break for the boss. Instead, if you have a ranged or magic DPS, use the LB on the mobs. It does infinitely more damage and is a much more efficient way of playing.
In addition, when a dungeon is run wall to wall, those big mob packs are much more dangerous than a boss. Using an AoE LB on mobs is not just more efficient, it is better for survivability too.
Of course, in (almost all) raids and trials this doesn’t apply as there are no mobs. That is the right time to use LB on the boss, assuming the tank LB3 isn’t required as it is with REDACTED and REDACTED. :P
Oh and of course if the LB wasn’t used on mobs, then use it on the boss. Better to use it inefficiently than waste it entirely.
I would add one caveat to an otherwise great comment: newer dungeons are wall to wall. ARR? not so much.
@@DonaldTurner Hallati is a good example for a WtW ARR dungeon. Also, the LB shouldnt be used by a Melee since its just a Strong hit against a Single mob. Ranged DPS have a priority to use it against groups.
My advice after 1.5k+ hours is this:
If you’re gonna be DPSing a lot, you’re gonna want to turn on a setting. It will show the enemy’s health % remaining.
Do not use the LB3 until the boss is at 5%-10% or lower
Healer LB3 is game changer and if you pop the LB3 too early, it could make the difference between a clear and a wipe
For those who are joining from other MMOs:
1. Welcome to the family
Ty very useful and to be frank I DO want my tanks to sit on my face tank you very much
top tip: you dont have to run to the exit at the end of a duty, you can just press U (or whatever you use for duty finder menu) and click 'leave'
For background music (both game music and mounted background music) I have macros setup to mute these on a single click instead of having to go into settings.
/bgm - this mutes/unmutes regular background music including bards playing music. So if I get tired of hearing Gold Saucer music for the 3rd hour straight or not wanting to listen to the bard next to me plink away on thier guitar, I click my macro button to turn it off, and then again when I'm ready for it to be back on
/mountbgm - mutes/unmutes the background music when mounted. There are some mounts I love the music for, there's not so much. Just a quick way to enabke/disable that music.
Just a heads up, if you have a duty that's tied to a quest, once you complete that duty you'll automatically be teleported to the spot where you unlocked the duty or an area nearby as dictated by the story. So the best way to avoid unnecessary teleports while doing the story is not to immediately go to the job quest, but rather do the job quest once you hit a duty roadblock (denoted by "______ is now available in the Duty Finder"). Do the job quest, then queue for the duty and complete it. That way you don't have to teleport back to the story point because the game will put you there once the duty is completed.
For example, starting Heavensward, you're second dungeon is Sohm Al at 53. Your first job quest is available at 52. Don't peel away from the story yet until you get to the point where you unlock Sohm Al. Teleport to town to do the job quest then instead of going back to the quest point, just queue for Sohm Al. You save one extra teleport.
I think the banning thing should have some clarification, you wont get banned for constructive criticism, only for remarks that are designed to disparage the player. I see a lot of people confuse the two, in both directions. Some are afraid to make a comment that might help someone but are too afraid to speak up because people tell them they will get banned for correcting people, and on the other side there are people who erroneously think disparaging and negative comments are somehow constructive but they are not. You can help your fellow player if you think they are doing something in error, but do it in a polite and civil manner. A kind helpful comment will do far more good than a dozen negative ones.
Yeah offering advice does not, and should not, contain insults. If you simply say "hey during that phase you will live if you do x" no one is getting banned
Literally everyone is negative in their criticism on this game. I’m new and already considering stopping because I have no room to learn without feeling bad.
Awesome video! I have alot of hours in this game and I don't think I really knew what the shop selling price actually meant.
My tip for newer players would be to make sure you set up at least 3 active hotbars for all of your actions, and while the game will give you one action at a time as you play through it, it is possible to read through what every action does and place it on your hotbars before hand from the Actions and Traits menu. Also to set up your keybinds accordingly with each action in mind and how they can be used across multiple classes (tank mit cooldowns being on the same key, knockback prevention etc). This will help to build up the muscle memory early as you play.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet (I didnt seen it as i scrolled down so apologies if someone has already covered this) but a note about the "massive xp massive gil" statement on the Daily Duty Roulette rewards. If you notice it says "Adventurer in need (Role)" above those amounts. So that massive xp and massive gil is "extra" on top of the daily reward IF you queue for that duty AS the role in need. You dont just automatically get it for running it.
I was about to say this too :D
jumping in and bouncing off glamouring: glamour plates. you get 20 plates when you click into the glamour dresser in an inn that you can use for glamous that you know you will be using often and you can set them up for general glams or for certain jobs which you will be able to apply in any city in the game. with glamour plates you can also go into your set list for all the gear sets you have and apply certain plates to certain jobs then if you change in any city it will auto update all your gear to be the glam for you and keep your portraits pretty up-to-date as well.
another thing i will say is macros. there are helpful things that you can use to use a certain set of skills back to back with only clicking one button [crafters use these a bit] or have a second hotbar in the UI that will have all your jobs for a quick and effortless switch from one job to the next
The 5-second rez immunity can be cancelled as soon as you used any skill or auto attacks.
So it’s always a good idea to wait for heals before getting back into action.
F2p PC sprout here, just cleared ARR. I haven’t loved a FF game this much since X, and it’s the most fun I’ve _ever_ had with a hotbar MMO.
Legacy movement was such a game changer. Before that, I had to dodge AoEs by _releasing lock-on, spinning the camera a quarter turn, and running sideways_ lmfao and then I had to hurry and lock back on.
Lots of other great info here that I’ll have to put into practice :D
awesome to hear! glad you are enjoying ff14!
New F2P here. Are you able to get a Soul Crystal with F2P? I know a fair bit is locked behind subs and trying to find this anywhere online is a nightmare lol.
@@bazdin You should be able to unlock Soul Crystals/jobs from any update besides…Endwalker, I believe. So I think that locks off Dancer, Reaper, Sage, Gunbreaker… Anything else should be up for grabs.
I’m not f2p anymore, but I was planning my job choices around that limitation when I still was. I fell in love with Red Mage when I was still f2p.
@@Densoro Thanks for the additional insight. I'll poke around for some of the others. Everything else I had looked up just said lvl 30 quests done and up to 20 for the MSQ. I was like there has to be something I am missing somewhere because I'm well past both of those lol.
@@bazdin That sounds right, if you're referring to the Soul Crystal _for your starting job._ Like Lancer -> Dragoon. Every job on the character creation screen works like this.
A lot of the jobs can be considered 'prestige jobs' -- Red Mage requires you to be level 50 to unlock it (and complete MSQ for A Realm Reborn I believe), and it _starts_ at level 50 once you unlock it. Thus, you can't accept the quest for it until you reach that point.
The thing i still forget is to extract materia. There is the quick check right next to the inventory bubbles, if the gear slot shows white bubble, extract!
Normal raid is still good because you can get drops worth millions. The orchestrion rolls. So think of it as gil reward, a lot of people don’t even stick around to roll for the orchestrion
If you're a controller player usually who plays this on PC, these keyring changes absolutely revolutionized my gameplay. Go to Keybinds, change all your hotbar keybinds to the corresponding key on the 10-key num pad. For hotbar 2, it'll be Alt+numpad, and hotbar 3 will be Alt+Ctrl+numpad. This allows you to use or queue abilities while leaving movement unrestricted.
A few more:
1 - I find better to buy ventures using Wolf Mark or GC credits instead of buying glamour prism, because you can buy prisms cheap on NPC, but ventures aren't sold for gil.
2 - There's a feature called Focus Target, usually bound to Shift + T, you can also right click a target's name and select this option. It's amazing for keeping an eye on the boss attacks and act accordingly, this can help keeping an eye on interruptable casts, avoid gaze attacks, and also prevent wipes in a raid.
Thanks so much for this video i just started playing ff14 and the things you mentioned shed a lot of light on some things i was confused about. Plus now i know how to get the glamor prisms so thats a big help so thanks i love how you explain everything in detail and not to fast but clearly and actually show in the video what to do and where to go. Keep it up!!!!
I thought interject was worthless. I took it off my tank bar. Gonna add it back now
The only thing to clarify in your video - While "Shop Selling Price - None" means you can't buy it from an NPC for gil, doesn't mean you can't buy it for seals or poetics. In-game there's no easy way to figure out if this is the case.
Level your crafters and gatherers.
If you want to do it with minimum effort, use the daily turn ins at your Grand Company. You get a boatload of xp, and if you turn in a HQ item, it is doubled !
Nice tips! There's a lot of knowledge I've gained in my like 7k hours but it can be hard to think of on the spot.
One thing about glamours, use the glamour dresser! It only costs a prism to place it into the dresser and then you can apply it individually or with a glamour plate whenever for free. Plates can be used in any sanctuary and once again they're free to use.
Awesome video!!
I was wondering if you have a guide for housing?
Thanks for the tip about mount music. There has been mounts that I want to use, but music sucks.. now I'll be able to use them again :)
For real, the mount music is horrible 😂
Some of the dungeons absolutely can be beaten without you. I once had a boss intro cutscene interrupted by the boss defeat cutscene, because my teammates killed it without me.
After every expansion there is a "wrap up" quest that is marked as a generic side-quest (Heavensward has two if you include the Scholasticate). If you enjoy the story it's highly recommended to look these up and complete them.
I've tried looking them up....do you have a link or something with all the wrap-up quests? Having difficulties finding it....
The tip I took away from this was selling gear for seals. Regrettably, I have let other people's time make me decide to skip cut scenes quite often.
Been playing on Xbox. Loving it! Been a FF fan since the early days. Feels good, man.
Heck ya! Enjoy!
The shop selling price. Years of playing and did not know that was what it meant. Thank you. Enjoyed your voice also.
Thank you 😊
Thanks. Started free trial on xbox last week!
Definitely don't rush to the end. Take some time and do the side quest. There are some awesome stories. Take the mog mail quests. They are perfectly corny. I loved them.
Idk if anyone already said this but if u find the SMN summons are filling up most of ur screen u can make them smaller by typing "/petsize all small" in the message log.
One thing that's helps me is knowing the percentage if remaining health of a mob/boss. There's a option in the character configuration to turn that on to.
Some things to note. Doing your job "correctly" isn't as important as learning and doing boss mechanics correctly. Keep your eye on the bosses you encounter, what the moves they use are called as they do them and keep an eye on the stage around you as well. Many bosses will spawn some type of thing on the edge of the level and it will likely shoot a beam straight from it meaning you don't want to be standing in line with whatever it is, just keep an eye on the surrounding stage when you can and watch what the thing that spawns does so you can avoid it the next time it appears assuming it was avoidable it will actually be pretty obvious if it's something you could avoid.
Sometimes attacks will appear so fast you might think it's broken or unfair but in those cases it's likely the boss moved it's body in a way telegraphing an attack before it appeared on the ground, you actually have to dodge these attacks before they appear by moving when the boss starts telegraphing the attack. Like for example a boss might raise it's right hand to telegraph a huge attack on the bosses right side prompting you to pre-emptively move to the left side of the boss to avoid the attack. It's not always as telegraphed as raising an arm though, sometimes it's just the name of an attack you need to watch out for in order to actively move and position while it's casting rather than waiting for the attack to appear because once it appears, it's probably too late to dodge.
ALL boss fights in the game show you mechanics before they're used in more complex ways. The first time you see a boss use a new mechanic it's usually just the learning portion of the mechanic so they expect you to get hurt by it. The bosses will almost always "Use ability 1" once or twice "Use ability 2" once or twice and then you'll see the same 2 abilities get used but in more complicated ways, the first times you see something is just so you can learn the mechanic before the abilities are used seriously. I can guarantee you the mechanic you just got hit with is coming again but it will be slightly harder to avoid next time maybe it will even be combined with a different mechanic just to trip you up, so make sure you pay close attention to each mechanic during the learning phase of the mechanic.
The game also generalizes certain mechanics so you know what to do when they appear in multiple fights. Like for instance the marker for "stack together to absorb the damage as a group" is indicated by yellow arrows pointing towards whoever is targeted by the attack. Tank busters or big damage boss hits on tanks are usually a strange red marker, It's on the tank so you'll know it when you see it trust me. If the red tank buster marker is slightly yellow it means the attack is actually not just a single target tank buster like usual but it can also hit other players usually it's like a huge cone attack towards the tank so don't be behind the tank or near them. the yellow/orange tank buster marker is very obviously not the same color as the very red marker so you don't need to stress about it, you'll know it when you see it. Another example of a reused marker you see a lot is the big red eye marker on the monster or another player, it means look away from whatever has the eye on it until you dodge the attack.
I'm not typing this to teach these "complex" markers to anyone though, I know it's confusing, they're complicated scary markers you don't need to learn from someone online, the game actually teaches these markers fantastically over time at a natural pace by just showing them to you as you play, I just wanted it to be known that these reoccurring mechanical markers exist and you'll be seeing them a lot and they mean the same thing every time you see them.
I learned this hardcore with Rhitahtyn’s floor punch last week. I thought the move was over after you dodged the four pillars of light. I didn’t realize those pillars _turned into the explosions_ covering 90% of the field later.
Just some added information:
1. Allagan tome gear for each expansion is good up to usually 3rd/4th dungeon of the next expansion
example a heavensward augmented shire gear 270 ilvl is good enough up to 3rd dungeon of Stormblood the only time to ditch the old Allagan tome gear is once you past this certain levels in the game (3rd dungeon for SB is level player 65-66 Avg Item level to get in is 250) this is to save you tomes for newer players and the gear you get from quests you can sell them on the Market board for profit since they are HQ items or use them for your future alt jobs.
2. Buying prism via Grand company is a good idea but selling high level items from older expansions for grand company seals is only good if you don't have a crafter that can desynth them. Desynthing items will turn the gear into materials for crafting and can turn into HQ crafting items you can sell for more profit off the Marketboard then selling the gear to the Grand company . Example is Solution items for Alchemy like Immutable that can be bough only via scripts or desynthing items from the latest expac it is more profitable to desyth them and sell them or use them as they make the 640 crafted gear for the latest expac. So don't always sell every items you get from the dungeons if its from dungeons last 2 expacs or 60/70/80/90 as they are valuable.
great tips!
lot of all the dungeon loot can even if you dont want it and go to your GC to turn them in for a ton of seals under the "Expert Delivery" tab
Here's something I didn't know and recently figured out. If you have already collected an item like a triple triad card, a minion, or an orchestra composition, the icon will show a small check mark in the bottom right to indicate if you have the item. This is useful for dungeon drops and such
Just want to point out, the numbers you mentioned on the Duty Roulette, those are the Adventure In Need bonus for going in as whatever role the game is short on at the moment. (The AIN bonus has always felt really low to me, but at the top 10 levels you can at least get materia tokens from leveling and alliance.) The *daily* bonus is the one above it that's just a cryptic up arrow - they can't tell you in advance because it's calculated to make whatever duty you land in about as rewarding as a duty of that type at the level your character actually is. Raids always release at the current level cap, so they never gave much experience; a daily roulette is basically good for tomestones only.
Weirdly, *alliance* raid roulette is a lot better for experience. Maybe just because it's longer. PVP "roulette" is also decent for experience, and you can change jobs once you get in (the exp goes to the job you queued as) so you can always play your most comfortable job, or switch to what's needed if you like.
There's obviously not a correct way to do it, but my experience got a lot better when I changed my hotbar keybinds. The default basically forces you to click the hotbar a bunch.
As someone that plays on and off that would technically be considered a veteran, I did NOT know about the legacy movement thing. Very useful tip, wish I knew that sooner lol
Also, 100% agree with everyone being okay with waiting for cutscenes. When I was still working my way through MSQ, I was doing trials and the like to get to the next expansion (I think it was the patch content leading into Shadowbringers) and everyone in my party was so excited for me. Plenty of "Enjoy Shadowbringers!" appearing in chat once we wrapped up. The community is awesome.
Do Hildibrand quests, do all the 8 man and 24 man raids, log out in big cities, tell people when you are in a dungeon your first time, and realize that tanking is not hard in this game.
Biggest tip on earth: You can press enter on PC during a cutscene to open the chat window, and the Event tab shows all the dialogue that's played so far in that cutscene. Helps me not miss anything
Just a possible heads up about having an expanded retainer inventory: I don't know if it's just me or not, but whenever I search an item and it's found in a retainer's inventory, the page where it is does not seem to reflect the expanded inventory, but rather the normal. Also... I was not aware there was an Open All option for personal inventory. Another heads up is about Limit Break: while normally all you need to do is click Limit Break and you'll do it, but if you're playing a caster you instead have to MANUALLY AIM the Limit Break... unless you've created a macro that makes it drop on the targeted enemy/object. I learned this in the worst way possible.
Here is some nice Macro's to help with the Spell Effects.
Turn Effects ON
/micon "Yes" emote
/battleeffect party all
/battleeffect other all
/soundeffectsparty 100
/soundeffectsother 100
Turn Effects Off
/micon "No" emote
/battleeffect party simple
/battleeffect other off
/soundeffectsparty 50
/soundeffectsother 20
Put these macros on a hotbar and you can instantly turn them off or on, depending on your situation.
This helped alot! Thank you!
Been playing for a month now and absolutely loving it and the community is so lovely , even the veteran players, its so refreshing coming from other MMOs where the community is nothing like that x
When i played as tank and first few dungeons i had Limited knowledge, the teams i was there with paused progression in the level and explained very patiently to me. This community is one of the greatest i have been part of ❤️
Xbox sprout in heavensward story at the moment. never knew that I could sell my gear to the alliance guys 😰 I was so confused on how to rank up faster 😰 thank you!
You got this!
excellent video Lucky! your quality is over 9000! ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Hey! I'm a 14 vet and I have a tip~ Please read your tooltip, it will help alot in knowing what your class is able to do.
loved the vid! learned interrupts thx to u!
Great to hear!
open all for inventory is a life changer ty
thanks for the guide mate! i love the game but feel it lacks explanations for the enormous amount of content it offers so I appreciated the breakdown
Just started playing ff14 a couple days ago, your guides have been beyond helpful!
hearing that vets are so willing to have us experience the cutscenes and don't get mad about not skipping them is such a breath of fresh air. I tried playing lost ark but lost interest so fast bc every time I wanted to watch a cutscene or asked about lore I got flamed. It made me stop playing it bc I was so scared and shy to go into dungeons.
here is one for everyone, use Sprint in dungeons, it is a mitigation tool... they cant hit you if you are far ahead of the mobs
Great video! I'm coming back from a long hiatus and this video was very helpful
I've been playing since ARR on and off, and I just never knew or experimented with a Legacy movement. I will be switching immediately.
Just started on Xbox and this is really helpful.
so glad to hear it, thanks a ton for taking the time to comment!
Oh damn, you still got those crafter specific glamour prism ? That's retro,
😎 haha
As a new player it's insane how good it was for you to mention the legacy camera mode. It is SO MUCH BETTER Was one of the main cons for me starting out with the standard camera mode
Just getting back in with free trial on xbox. Originally played from og release to heavensward.
Customizing and resizing the HUD.
For the longest time i didn't know that you can resize just about any window or display element.
Lucky Ghost could be a lore-friendly Hellsguard Roegadyn name.
Thank you for the guide! I appreciate your helping new players like me!
Great video Lucky!! Makes me miss FF now I want to play again
400 hours in and never tried legacy camera… gamechanger
Just did a few dungeons as tank. Peeps still have a way of making you feel small just because it’s your first or second time. It’s friendly but not that much.
Im so sorry to hear that. I think you were just unlucky with the party which was a shame as generally most people are not like that. In fact just the opposite and are normally supportive and kind.
So I’ve been playing ff14 for roughly 4 days and trying out keyboard and mouse for the first time so my learning curve is unbearable lol.. but this game…love it, the sheer amount of content and story, lore, gear…. It’s all amazing and unforgettable with a feel good learning curve when it starts clicking. I read some comments about “snobby” veterans in parties. In my experience I have not met one toxic or even slightly standoffish person. Hands down best community ever. Everyone is soo excited to hear and talk about their favorite game and first time experiences . The community truly loves this game and looks out for each other. Came from , nba 2k,ROK,COD… some of the most toxic communities ever(genshin impact lol). All I say when I first get in the part is “hey sorry I suck I’m new lol” and they all support , help and teach. Great game, even better community. ..*side note*…play ninja, hate ninja, main ninja lmao.
Been playing for about 6 months now, used to play WoW years ago and have to say the players are _amazing_ here. We've run into the occasional "toxic" person but _nothing_ like other online games! Enjoy the journey and welcome to Eorzea!
@@bsparky01 you too my fellow warrior of light lol. Man I love this game soo much. Only downside is I don’t have friends to party and run around with. Hence why I don’t play mmo’s. But still love it.
@@fknkashi There are a lot of really helpful discord servers and 'free companies' (guilds) to check out, if nothing else!
Being a player since ARR the tip to get stuff from your grand company is useful. However I tend to sell gear I dont need for gil. Instead I do the daily Frontline PvP roulette, which win or loose gets a minimum of 1k of the Wolf Mark currency, Which you can then trade for ventures, glamour prisms and repair materials. Unlocks at level 30 and after increasing grand company rank a bit. I don't enjoy crafting but have gotten all my crafter and gatherer to max level through Tribal quests and other means. This allows you to repair your gear yourself and even over-repair it. (to a max of 199% durability) essentially for free. it works even when inside dungeons, trials and raids as long as no-one is in combat. Healer's have a max heal range, dont be out in narnia and wonder why your not getting healed. since a lot of time healers will use AoE heals to top up themselves and DPS.
As for combat, I have a very specific pet peeve which is probably also the most common miss-conception in the game. Garuda. At some points in the fight she will become untargetable and vanish up into the sky only to come back down. At which point she will do a cast with a short cast time (minstral shriek iirc). This is blocked by standing with a rock tower between you and her. Later on in the fight she will do the same thing and do a long cast. (Aerial Blast). and everyone will hide behind the rocks. For this attack, where you stand dose not matter, only how many rocks are left. This is true in all three versions of the fight.
Just a tip from someone that did way too much of all roulettes: 50-80 roulettes XP is not worth the time. Do it for tomes and, sure, for the XP if you want, or even to do something different once in a while, but it's very low on the priority list. You wanna do the levelling, alliance raids and msq for good XP and trials & normal raids because they're quick. You can also do the frontlines roulette for a good chunck of xp, but this is only if you have any kind of interest on PvP or else you're just being a dead weight on others that are actually into it.
Also, for other good xp sources, current tribal quests to your level range is VERY good in terms of time/reward relation.
Cheers!
Thank you for the tips.😊
theres a novice/mentor system now. i havnt olayed thos game since 2021 and they answer questions its cool
Hey new player here who is coming in with the xbox crowd and thanks alot of these i didnt know about
my pleasure! glad to be able to help!
I skip the cut scenes because i'm on a time limit since I use batteries to play and for some reason even if i just got the batteries from the store they only last a few hours sometimes only an hour and finding a group to run dungeons with takes most of that time anyway
One thing I really wish items have is the ability to lock them to make it easier to clear unused or old gear.
I’m playing on the Xbox beta and am trying to level all the crafting classes to 30 so I could make my own gear and since it saves me gil if I don’t mind running around collecting ore, trees, fish and the like.
Thats smart starting crafting and gathering early on and makes tons of money too. All tho one of the free trail version's restrictions is cappinf your Gil (in-game money) to only 300k at the most.
and cant use the marketboard@@HyouVizer
Dont forget you have to pain through the fist 100 hours ( A Realm Reborn ) before the game will be acceptable to play
I would like to correct your points about the duty finder: with the 50/60/70/80 dungeon roulette there is very little exp for the time played, while for the normal raids roulette there is significantly more exp for the time played.
Yep I noticed this. I do the 50 roulette if I need gil and the normal leveling dungeon and trial if I want exp.
50/60/70/80 Roulette is for poetics more than exp or gil. Your biggest poetic return is from MS Roulette, but that's generally the longest time commitment too. Next is the 50/60/etc roulette.since these were previously "level cap" levels before release of new expac, they were minimal exp dungeons.
For the cutscene thing, quite a few times I tried watching cutscenes I got called a troll for holding everyone up so I could watch the cutscenes for the first time