How To Get More Out of FF XIV's Story

In this video, I try my best to give you a comprehensive guide on what I think are the best side quests to complete. Especially to get the most out of Final Fantasy 14's main story quest. There are tons of blue unlock quests and yellow side quests that deserve so much more attention. Obviously, I couldn't include every side quest so please comment below the ones you think I missed!
Side quest list:
Aesthetician: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Gold Saucer: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Triple Triad: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Glamour: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Dyes: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Remembering The Past: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Magiteknical Difficulties: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
A Dark Spectacle: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Sky Pirates: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Disarmed: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Gods of Eld: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
The Paths We Walk: consolegameswiki.com/wiki/The...
Dramatis Personae: consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Dra...
The Hunt for Omega: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
An Auspicious Encounter: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Word about Komra: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
In the Middle of Nowhere: consolegameswiki.com/wiki/In_...
Old Enemies, New Threats: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
The Crystal from Beyond: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
A Mission in Mor Dhona: consolegameswiki.com/wiki/A_M...
Primal Awakening: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Shadowed Pasts: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Shadowed Pasts Once More: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
A Heartless Hypothesis: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Sandwiches and Pretzels: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
Small Business, Big Dreams: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
The Rise and Fall of Gentlemen: ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Character Creator
1:58 - Jobs
2:54 - A Realm Reborn
3:16 - A Realm Reborn Patches
3:50 - Heavensward
4:20 - Heavensward Patches
4:54 - Stormblood
4:50 - Stormblood Patches
5:42 - Shadowbringers
6:09 - Shadowbringers Patches
7:00 - Optional Shadowbringers Quests
7:43 - Endwalker
7:57 - Endwalker Patches
9:29 - Optional Recommended Quests
9:54 - Outro

[@proudwhovian5161]

I just clear all quests in a zone before moving on. Doesn’t take long and I like learning more about the folks and world I’m saving.

[@Dharengo]

"MSQ relevance" aside, cleaning the maps of side quest isn't as daunting as it seems. There's a lot of funny and good story in there. The Great Serpent of Ronka arc should not be skipped.

[@toscatattertail9813]

1) you can't change jobs until you are level 10 You can't travel between nations until level 17-20. Lancer is in Gridania and rogue is in Limsa.
2) Every early job has it's challenges, I prefer to begin in Limsa on Arcanist which will split into Scholar and Summoner at level 30 but what experience you gain on one will apply to the other. From there on what job you choose becomes dependent on what is available at 60 i prefer to change to DNC and 70 i pick up sage.
3) do your job quests as you go, even from the beginning, there are skills that you can only get from them
4) if you use your MSQ for leveling the first job you can use the Side Quests to easily level the second job.

[@c0untz3ro2]

I would definately do the Hildy quests as they come up whilst leveling as they required if you want to do the Relic Weapons for Endwalker. If you do the whilst leveling, you then don't have to smash through them to unlock the relic weapon. Although with Dawntrail the weapons may become Glamour items towards the end of DT.

[@Draylin41]

For a minute I thought he was going to completely skip over Binding Coils of Bahamut. I get not doing them right at level 50 since you'd have to build your own group for them and not a lot of people are interested. However, I'd say if you have a buddy at endgame that's willing to carry you through an unscyned run, do them as close to Completing ARR as you can. There's a lot of context that people just don't realize is there and I feel most people would have an easier time piecing it together while ARR's story is still fresh in their mind.

[@thisisnotargun]

Very true! If you have a buddy to carry you through it, it is totally worth doing at 50!

[@vegassims7]

I just recently finished up ALL 2ndary quests in all expansions so that I have a clean map when Dawn Trail drops.

[@captaincaveman177]

I very much agree with your opening statement, just today I encountered a poor sprout who had more or less completed the msq, put the poor guy was completely clueless didn't even know basic stuff like tomestones, and the only had 20 hours left on his sprout.
He didn't know about mounts, extremes, and he had forgotten about raids.
And here's me who is approaching 3000 hours and I'm still in heavensward. Everybody in the novice network felt sorry for the guy. He was completely lost

[@thisisnotargun]

Oh yeah, you can miss out on a lot of great content if you do nothing but msq.
I remember I didn't get any tome gear through most of ARR because I had no idea it existed. So I can relate to that guy a little bit

[@PandaXs1]

tfw out of nowhere stormblood trials get a mention in dawntrail msq

[@skybuilder23]

Basically do all the quests the developers bothered to implement NG+ for.