Just Starting FFXIV? Don't Make MY Mistakes!
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
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0:00 What I Wish I Knew
0:30 The Opening
3:12 The "Filters" Of FFXIV
4:32 The Credits Don't Mean The End.
6:31 The ARR Voice Acting
7:52 Controller Support & Playing Comfy On Console
9:18 The XP Drought That Feels A Bit Bad
10:26 How Combat Works (Go Watch Joonbob's Video!)
10:46 Understand The XP Boosts
12:15 Make Like A Tree...
13:08 Retainers (For Items & Gil, Not Teeth)
13:51 Eorzea de Chocobo
14:42 Go Logging
15:56 Feature Quests - Ігри
I've fallen foul of a misinfo! Misremembered info that was explained to me re post 3.x & beyond patch content XP. It's edited out of this video now, but it can take UA-cam a little while before changes hit the life video. ARGH! Sorry!
Thanks. I thought I had misinformed people all this time haha
Also of note, you mention leveling chocobos, and then you mention the challenge log. Did you notice that there are two log entries for your chocobo also? They give a decent amount of xp for your chocobo so are worth doing weekly
yeah, the post hw and post sb quests aren't AS much of a slog though as post arr since they're only 40ish quests as opposed to the 80ish of arr, or 100 quests back when I went through it in 5.2
No worries, it happens ^^ You should also look into wonderous tails that you can unlock when you get to 60. Its a weekly that is also a good way to get some experience along with some other bonus stuff. If you play your cards right, someone can be halfway to level 81 in less than a minute after they log in when endwalker is out. Turning it in gives you exactly half a level for your current job. If you get lucky with it you could also get a mount that is worth around 10 million gil last I checked, may be a little cheaper nowadays. Just something you can hopefully not miss by the time you can use it :p
An important couple of things to note: ARR had a long period of patches before 3.0 released. The patches were also more heavily story focused than other expansions. This is the reason for as many quests as it has before heavenward. The other important thing is on the exp. In their original release, these quests didn't give any exp. It wasn't until storm blood that they went back and gave a small exp bonus to them. It was at the same time that they gave the 50/60 dungeons an exp reward from the mob kills. They kept this reward small in order to prevent severely overleveling the upcoming expansion by going through that mandatory story.
Leveling roulette has an option, if you want it, to limit instances to only those 7-9 levels under the jobs level you que'd for. You can find in the DF options menu
Please do note: If you are playing on the free trial, you cannot hire a retainer. This is to prevent bots from selling on the market board.
Also other features what have not in free trial is because bots. Bots send party invites, /tells and even make free companys. I needed be many times either under status Busy or in party with my chocobo to stop bots. So that is reason why free trial players can't without help make party.
That is fair, I mean if u make it to the end of ARR u probably gonna by the game at that point, I say this as someone on the free, at level 40,and probably about to buy the game.... I played myself
@@CauseImDuncan Meanwhile my poor ass has finished post heavensward, got all my battle jobs to 60, and am now leveling my gathering jobs (got botanist to 60 and miner to 55 today).... There's just so much to do in the free trial its actually mind boggling... (granted ARR & Heavensward is literally 4 years of content if you think about it)
@@alexmei4602 Make the most of the free trial man! I absolutely don't blame you!
Though i don't think i could ever do it as a 6 year veteran xD I love my gil stash and FC too much
@@hyndil4354 I felt ripped off personally. I had bought the expansions and payed a sub about a year before they added free to play, so I was barred from free to play, even though my highest job was 50 drg and I never started HW. Had I known there would be f2p as an option, I wouldn't have bought the expacs, or subbed before picking the game back up this year.
Mistake one: Waiting almost a decade to finally try the game :P
I kid, I kid. Yay! more FFXIV content!
Haha good one
It wasn't this good a decade ago, and WoW wasn't this bad.
@@Tijuanabill i guess you missed the entire second part of my comment, which begins with 'I kid, I kid.'
Or the ending of the first part of the comment, which included a tongue in cheek ':P'.
@@Tijuanabill Well he could still try it before when WoW was good, it's not like u need to stick with 1 MMO.
I only saw truth
A lesser known EXP tip: Level sync will apply EXP bonuses from rings, earrings etc. So if, for example, your job is level 55 but you're in a level 25 dungeon, you can put on the brand-new ring and get 30% more EXP because you're "technically" below level 30.
Oh wow, that's a huge help. Thanks!
Wait..... Whaaaaaat! Oh my god. I wish I knew this a couple of months ago!
Welp, been playing the game since Closed Beta, I have every single job 80 and I literally never knew this :O
Okay, yeah, that's a protip.
...WAHT?!?!
You missed two important things for a sprout to know.
1. Have fun.
2. Take your time, and don't rush.
Exactly what this 🌱 is doing 😁
BUT THERES NO TIME BEFORE THE NEXY EXPANSION
@@BirdmanG07 it's okay, the expansion will mean a ton more if you take your time and really play the game. Don't worry, the game doesn't make you feel like you're wasting time. In fact, you'll probably wonder where the time went as you go.
I keep telling people that - XIV is not WoW, the content isn't going anywhere, and nothing becomes obsolete after the next patch. Take. Your. Time
@@BirdmanG07 doesn't matter, I played the whole game over the past year so all the content was years old already and my experience was still great
One other thing thats very important to mention sorta related to the "do the blue + mark quests they unlock stuff" is to PLEASE do your class/job quests, they unlock skills that are very important to how the jobs work, and the role quests in shadowbringers that sorta replace job quests arent as important, but you are required to complete at least one quest line to be able to reach the finak stretch of the 5.0 msq and beyond.
He's making guides for new players
We've got him boys
It had it's flaws, but I still think the way they ended the original version of the game was one of the best game ends ever. The cinematic was amazing and the song 'Answers' just killed it. Also sets the stage for ARR. granted I only know this from youtube because I could barely take 2 weeks of the original before I crawled back to WoW back in the day
Id say top 5 video game cinematic of all time
Which made me realise that endings really shape up the story. If the story is great but the ending is shit then it will sour the experience. But if the story is mid, but the ending is amazing then I'll remember it for a loooooong time. Like full metal alchemist or hell, even Graces f.
@@Zuhri69 Graces F, ooof. Hitting us with the nostalgia hammer XD I loved that game!
@@sailorofmyvessel7890 same. I mean I hated the base game but the future arc and its ending was great, I ended up forgiving it
it was pretty emotional to say the least.. Yoshi P and the team did well with the "live story" of 1.6... i still have ptsd from it :P
To think that it was you guys that finally pushed me over the edge and made me decide to try out the game. Two weeks later, and four level 50 classes, halfway through post-ARR, I can’t even pull away!
Thank you, Bellular!
welcome :)
One of us, one of us
Welcome to Eorzea. We have hot chocolate
Oh dang! Did you wear out the duty roulette? Haha
yeah, Matt's hype 6 months ago really tipped me over the edge, now i'm here fully into the lore, completly mind blowned after Shadowbringers
5:35 Actually...no, it's not any different with any of the expansions. As soon as you hit what is the cap of that expansion, you get about 10% of the experience you had been getting before until you get to the next expansion. There is also a good reason for it, it keeps you from being +5-10 levels into the next expansion before you even get to it. And its not like you need that experience since the game is good about keeping you up with the msq better than it use to be.
It felt weird at first but it makes so much sense.
Once you were 50 when ARR originally came out, there were no exp gains since you were max level. After the first expansion was released they introduced exp rewards for 2.x quests since the cap was raised to 60 and like Xylira said was kept minimal so you didn't get your character to say lvl 55+ by the beginning of HW. With daily roulettes however, you can easily get past that by the time you step into Ishgard.
Was thinking this, it makes complete sense though, if they tried to spread it over the patches, it'd risk you being under levelled for the .0 content.
The story quests also didn't seem quite as much of a slog in the patches when they were new, due to them being only done in pieces spread months apart.
Im still doing post HW content but somehow am lvl 65. Its really easy to over level but ill never complain about that.
Just a tip for new player or not so new players as well:
If you get a message saying: "You feel the presence of a powerful mark" this means there is an S rank mark in the area that someone spawned. These are incredibly difficult to spawn and people will wait until everyone who wishes to participate in killing it is there. They are usually max lvl creatures (for their respective expansion) marked with an orange mark. However for characters who are lvl 60+ soloing the ARR Version of such is incredibly easy and you may unknowingly kill one, thus pissing off the whole hunts community. Which is pretty much everyone who reached end game and is not a raid only player lol. So keep that in mind :P!
+1 for the Controller support it's one of the big reason i stick to the game its really well made.
That Amaurot theme always hitting me.
Just watched a media tour interview with Yoshi-P where he asked content creators to turn on Japanese closed capturing for their videos.
Just wanted to share with those who's content I watch.
That was the Jesse cox and jp video- such good interviews going through the community- Love to see it
Bellular, Alphinaude's original VA was and is an experienced professional by the time of the launch. Sam Reigel even went on to win a daytime Emmy
Yeah, but to be fair, in arr Alphi sounds like the teenager he is.
Personally, I like to headcanon that he just went through a second puberty.
I think Sam Riegel is the only VA I actually genuinely miss from ARR.
But I've gotten so used to Colin Ryan that I can't hear Alphinaud any other way.
Many of them are really good VAs, it's just unfortunately like he said in the video, that there was either bad direction or a near complete lack of it. It doesn't matter how good you are at your job if you don't actually know what the boss wants done, and even worse when everyone else is in the same boat. Or more accurately for the discussion at hand: everyone else was in their own separate boat going their own ways.
That's actually sort of the same problem they had with 1.0 - no one knew what everyone else was doing, so they ended up making all these individual parts of a game that didn't really fit together well when all was said and done.
The directing I think wasn't really there. Keep in mind that as 2.0 released, they had very little budget as SE wasn't expecting it to do as well as it has. As soon as the decision was made to continue the story with HW, that's when you start to see things like the voice acting improving.
The only VA I genuinely miss to this day is Merlwyb's, she went from bad ass captain mommy to swashbuckler pirate and it's still jarring.
Once your chocobo gains a level, you get skill points to spend on what amounts to a tank, healer or dps skill tree. I played the MSQ as a healer with my chocobo tanking for me, and now he heals me while I level dps jobs. There's an item to reset chocobo skill points available from your Grand Company once you're high enough rank.
As for the Intro, you can also look up a video online named *"The Waning of the Sixth Sun"* that details what happened in 1.0's lore...
I was about to post this. Cudos to you sir.
The thing about the patch content being a filter is really just leftover wounds from old players. That was by far the worst content in the game. Everyone who has played will agree. There were large swaths of game and quests that made the crystal hunt before Garuda look like a John Wick action flick.
In fact, this was so bad that Square eventually just cut all of that from the game. They removed hours of meaningless quests and filler and running around, because it added literally nothing to the game except to pad its length. Since it has been removed, us veterans need to stop talking about how bad the patch stuff is now, because it just isn't that bad anymore.
PTSD is hard to escape though. I mean Titan still triggers me from trying to get the extreme clear from back in the day.
indeed. I always follow up with people playing the patch content with "it's better than it used to be". Might still seem like a slog to some people but it is still definitely better than it used to be.
I'm genuinely curious which main story quests you think are worse than the Garuda crystals because for 8 years that has been literally my single most despised part of the entire story so far. Other bits might be tedious, but at least they had some sort of minor character moments or lore substance. This was literally just "lol, wrong crystal, you're wasting your time with irrelevant NPCs". Even the minor aetherology lore is stuff we've seen elsewhere in the game. I was astounded it got left in in its entirety after they trimmed things down instead of just slashing everything except the siren fight.
@@cariandi They only changed the patch content, everything in the actual game is left as is for pacing and XP gain reasons. Those crystal quests were terrible, I remember in particular the npc you got the quests from knew exactly what you needed but went out of their way to not actually tell us the crystal to get or where to get it until like 3 quests in. But all things considered that was short. The stuff with the patch quests just kept going. It never stopped, and you get no xp from it. Which is a minor thing all told, but at least knowing you are making progress towards max level helps to make it feel like you are doing something. I started skimming and outright skipping dialogue until something interesting started to happen and it still took me hours to get through. So it's just the fact it took so much longer than the crystals for me.
glad you mentioned retainers, seeing people like asmongold and rich neglect them is heartbreaking
who needs retainers when everyone gives you as much money as you need
They def don't need em besides for storage
Rich has the max amount of them lol, he just filled them with trash gear that isn't even good for glam
They are wealthy. They accept gill hand outs. I would too. So market and venture don’t matter. Asmon literally deletes items at random when he gets inventory full, and doesn’t want to horde items. They are aware they exist. And Rich is maxed out on them
@@TheMadMedek Yea that encourages non streamers to do the same or know nothing about them. Retainers arn't for hording they are for making money.
A quick protip for everybody here. go into your settings>character config>inventory settings and uncheck "Store all newly obtained items in the Armoury Chest"
It makes inventory management while you're leveling much easier. As only stuff that you actively equip will be placed into your armoury chest. instead of EVERYTHING. Especially if you're leveling crafters.
Totally agree. It took me way too long to do this, and my armory chest was a nightmare by the time I finally forced myself to sit down and clean it out.
Bruh, I played this game on and off for 6 yrs and I never knew this LOL, thanks WOL
@@hentainin87 Yeah, I was just about to say that. I'm popping in to do that immediately before I forget again, lol. (That legit solves my biggest complaint about the game, dicking with the Armory Chest trying to sort what crap just got added to it.)
... I didn't know that
Oh god this would have saved me such a headache, I’ve been playing for three months and I hated when it put it into my armory chest!
7:53 There needs to be more awereness towards controller and consoles so that other tab target MMOs would implement Cross Hotbar in to their game just like WOWs Console Port Add on. What i am getting at, is it would be amazing if people would spread the word around that the Cross Hotbar can be added in to other Tab Target MMORPG's and that it isn't even patented or anything. It's free to use just like Yoshi.P said him self. If i remember right he even might have said they even would help Devs if they askd them about it on how to implement the cross hotbar. 😉
Thank you SO much for your continued FFXIV content. Watching now!
To be fair on the post ARR filter, Bellular played it when they'd already cut a whole load out. That bit used to be a hundred quests. "Pray return to the Waking Sands" is a meme because of that part of the game.
The earring will also work at level 80 and whilst you are synced to level 80 and under
yes, the post-expansion patch content doesn't give much xp, because at that point you are supposedly "max level" for that expansion, and they don't want to over-level you beyond it. that's because the next expansion's x.0 content continues from there. makes it more consistent for ppl who play only one job. as for leveling alt-jobs, post-expansion MSQ wouldn't be good, because the minimum required level is supposedly your main job's max level at that point. so it makes perfect sense to "stall" your xp gain in MSQ.
Congrats on the new channel! You made a good choice for the intro music. Hope you hit that dungeon that it comes from really soon.
As someone who's been playing ffxiv since the beta of ARR, I just wanna say it fills me with such joy to see so many different people pick this up and enjoy it, it's so wholesome seeing new people talk about it ☺️
my wife and I started FF14 in july 2020. we played several characters, as we learned many of things you mention here. probably a good 6 mos. then, feeling much better versed in FF14 stuff, we created new characters, on preferred servers for the buff, and went at t with much better intent, knowing stuff. I got to Omni 80 (all jobs, combat and crafting) in about 6 months, could have even gone faster. but more importantly, playing through the story once, then starting over, was good for us. each successive pass through the MSQ and such, has revealed previously missed, foreshadowing, etc. 1.5 years in almost, and STILL learning new stuff. this game is so rich. SOOOO HYPE for endwalker! Yoshi P., and his massive team, really have our backs, and really love this game just like us. so refreshing.
If you're on a preferred server with ''Road to 70'' do not ever worry about XP, you will easily be 60 before you even finish 2.0. My alt character is right now at the very first quest of HW and has at least 3 jobs sitting at or above 60.. without me having even tried to make that happen. This has advantages and disadvantages, as often you'll level so fast that you're consistently fifteen or so levels above your MSQ progression.
Me with 13 lvl 80s and with all craft/gather jobs at 80
“Sure, Ill watch this”
What I find that many sprouts don't know about is that their chocobo companion has special skills you can assign to them each level they gain. They can start out being Healer, Defender, Attacker and eventually do all three. You can choose which abilities you want them to start out with. There is also special foods other than the standard Krakka root. Curiel roots give them an experience bonus for example, another gives them a healing boost etc...These foods can be bought of the mb or if you have access to garden plot they can be grown. They also have certain commands too that are useful. Such as away, follow, withdraw and more.. Chocobo's level cap is 20 and they are useful when you are fighting in the world solo
I played for years and never did a Guildhest before. Great video explaining stuff that is easily missed!
Bozja music in the outro ❤️
Another thing new sprouts should know and start early as it takes time. Build up your grand company squadron. You need to get yourself promoted up to a certain rank to start but it doesn't take long if you farm a bit of the grand company hunt log. You can use the squadron to help you solo ARR dungeons, which helps for future alt jobs.
It would be nice if the video had japanese subtitles for the off chance a dev watches it, they asked for it in a recent interview
I believe that they asked for it when Jesse Cox interviewed them. It was a good watch
8:25 "I do have a 65" incher". Damn, Bellular is paccking 👀
Couple notes about the exp bonus. There is also an earing you can earn from a level 80 area that does more or less the samething as the endwalker pre-order. Any of these bonus keep getting applied even if you are sync-ed below the effect. So if you are level 60 and get sync-ed to level 24, the hall of novice ring will still give you its exp bonus if you put it on.
Zepla has a good video on which unlock (blue) quests are important to do while leveling; check it out. A couple other things I wish I'd known sooner:
First, don't just get your retainers, start leveling them early. Like the battle chicken, it takes awhile. If you craft, you can send them on ventures to fetch mats for you. Even if you don't craft, you can send them on ventures to fetch random things, some of which you can sell for good gil on the market board. It might feel hard to get enough ventures for this initially, but you'll be able to buy them with Grand Company seals eventually.
Second, rank up with your Grand Company. You can use GC seals to buy handy things like glamour prisms and venture coins. You can hand in unwanted gear for seals. You eventually get a "squadron" of NPCs with which you can solo run some of the ARR dungeons, which is nice if you're leveling a DPS alt job and don't like the queue times. However, just like retainers, you have to level these guys, and it's slow, so start early.
Third, the crafting is amazing, but I wouldn't rush into it. It's a big inventory and time sink, and can be a huge gil sink. Also, it's faster and easier (IMO) once you open a special crafting area part way through the Heavenward expansion. It's really fun, though, so do check it out eventually.
I never thought about why Derplander was never accompanied by his party again. That's actually going to bother me now.
Tip for controllers - activate your cross hot bars, if you haven't already (they aren't displayed). You will need it when you get more skills. Basically double tap the left or right bumper and it will bring up your second hotbar (you can set to a different hotbar). It's under character configuration.
Excellent video! Just to clarify one thing in regards to the accessory buffs, the pre-order earring, brand new ring & friendship circlets grant XP buff's THROUGH the levels in the tool tips so, the earrings +XP% till 81, BNR +XP% to 31, & Circlet to 26 !
Retainer ventures are a HUGE asset to crafters. Training one in any combat class allows them to hunt monster parts far more efficiently than you can, especially parts with low drop rates (*cough, Night Milk, cough*). They can also be trained as gatherers, and a fisherman retainer can use a venture to gather specific fish, rather than sifting through an ocean of trash for a half-dozen edible sardines.
If you are interested in crafting, you can try them easily at level 10. You can buy all the mats you need from vendors for the first 15-19 levels of recipes, after which you will need to farm them or buy them off the market board. Some crafting/gathering traits are universal, like Quick Synthesis; as long as one class is a high enough level to unlock the trait, all the other crafting classes can use those traits from level 1.
For gatherers, some abilities can be shared between classes. For example, at level 50, the "Truth of Forests" ability can be applied to your miner, letting you know when ephemeral/unspoiled/legendary herbalism nodes appear while you're mining.
A happy Bellular - glad to see you're loving the game! I just started and loving your new content.
and... /cpose changes your pose between a few options when sitting or standing. And the facial expression emotes do work during many other emotes. For instance, you can use the expression emotes while doing any dance emotes. /gpose of course is a wondrous tool in general. Also for inventory management, note that a lot of the class quest reward gear as well as many quest reward gear in general can be re-purchased (for not much gil) from an npc.. calamity salvager I think? But take note as not all sets can be repurchased from them.
Also know that the item search function works great for figuring out where you put something between all the various inventory systems. And once you start gaining enough grand company currency, it can be an easy place to buy tons of glamour and unglamour stone things (once your GC rank is high enough to buy them).
15:11
I have 600 hours in ffxiv and I missed Challenge Log until last Tuesday.
This video is mandatory for anyone I refer ff to.
With the ‘more exp than you know what to do with’, I noticed that by the time I’d finished Heavensward my main job was somewhere like level 64, and I was getting so much exp that I levelled to 65 before even getting out of the first zone of storm blood. So I decided to powerlevel up an alt job to 60 so I could play through with it and alternate for quest hand ins. It worked out quite well- so well in fact that I was out-levelling quests on the alt job before long. So, over the course of Stormblood, I actually ended up levelling 4 jobs to 70. There’s enough exp in Stormblood MSQ to get 4 jobs from 60 to 70. HOWEVER, there is NOT enough exp in Shadowbringers to do that because the Road to 70 buff turns off. My mistake was my hubris to level cap 4 jobs to 80, I hit a point where the MSQ quests required level 74 and I had to go grind out some levels before I could continue the MSQ.
BELL! i love this type of video, its so clean, its no bs, no time wasting, i love it, so informative, its why i followed you, and i love the background videos displaying what you are talking about. im not a fan of the long stream like talking videos, where i feel my time is being wasted between information or helpful content. thanks, thought id share, keep up the great work
The blue quest marks vs the regular quest marks is probably one of the best advices for new players. Some of those quests, like the ones that unlock the first few Alliance Raids, are actually required to continue on the story.
In particular, you should be doing the blue quests related to the classes and jobs since they unlock some abilities that become key to playing the jobs propperly.
And also, you must equip the crystal you get from the job quests at level 30, otherwise you will be stuck with a less powerful class and won't make progress.
I cannot express how much my second monitor has helped me in this game. Quickly looking up locations of numerous things. Lost? Guides. Etc. Last night I was hunting triple triad card locations. There’s a handy guide I kept up on second monitor. Long queue? Maybe have some YT on.
You have nailed so many features others either miss or dismiss. I'm so glad you pointed out Hall of the Novice and Guildhests in particular. Those are designed largely for players new to MMOs in general and FFXIV in particular and more experienced players will dismiss them -- and then dismiss Sprouts who miss mechanics that get taught in these two areas. Joonbob's video is great for those experienced players, but even as someone who has played the game since ARR's launch I still run Hall of the Novice and Guildhests for the exact reasons you bring up.
One other thing tho, from a historical perspective, that people new to the game may not realize is that the XP in the quests during the X.1-X.55 updates is largely nerfed because when you are in that expansion, you're already at level cap (and usually on several classes) by then. I'm not sure what's worse -- getting a tiny bit of XP that's mostly useless or getting a ton of XP that is completely useless -- but quite frankly there are better ways to level alt jobs and those options have only grown over time.
I think anyone in this latest expansion -- in Shadowbringers -- will tell you they blew through the post 5.0 MSQ content as fast as possible. Most people just don't use it to level alt jobs, and I think we can all agree there are better things for the devs to focus on than going back to previous expansions and rebalancing XP awards for quests.
Thanks so much for bringing your perspective to FFXIV, and I hope a lot of new players get a lot from this video.
Additional clarification - challenge log resets weekly, so you can get that xp boost repeatedly.
Hey just in case anyone see this: After unlocking the chocobo at level 30 it becomes ride-able for all your alt classes even at level 1, this includes flying if you have that unlocked. I have seen plenty of sprouts think you have to wait til 30 in all classes to use the mount for that class.
Quick off the bat Bellular: Eorzea is the *region* on the Continent of Aldenard. It encompasses the territories of The Twelveswood, Mor Dhona, Ishgard, Dravania, Thanalan, and Vylbrandt (Limsa). Don't worry pretty sure we've all made this same mistake once.
should be worth noting with chocobo companions is you can assign them to heal, tank or dps to compliment your job as you level
Don't level the Chocobo's Tanking trait line beyond the third skill until you can purchase the entire line, else it will not be able to hold Emnity.
For a quick explanation, this is because if you only give it the first three tank skills, on tanking/defensive mode the only skill it will be able to use is the +Emnity one. However if you unlock the fourth skill (a slowdown I believe, that doesn't generate any extra Emnity), it will alternate between the two skills and lose Aggro when casting the slowdown; Assuming you yourself are putting out decent DPS.
Once you've got enough skill points to purchase the entire skill line, I think you can do so though as the final skill is also a +Emnity skill.
I learned this the hard way when levelling Healer classes (after already maxing my Chocobo's Offense and Healing lines), forcing me to use an expensive Chocobo Respec item to simply unlearn the extra skills on the Defense line.
For the Chocobo Companion, if you're in an FC and going to take a day or more break from the game, it's also usually worth putting your Chocobo in your FC Stable. While in there your FC Members can feed and train the chocobo inside, giving them exp. They can only bring your chocobo up to 1exp away from levelling, so you still have to withdraw it and fight at least 1 mob for it to progress, but it's a great way to give your chocobo some extra progression while you're out of the game. It does require your FC Members to actually interact with the stable though, so your mmv. Oh, and while in a stable, you can't summon your Chocobo to fight with you, so if you put it in and want to summon it, remember to take it out before you go adventuring!
One more thing. For duty queue settings, take note of the language options and whether or not to join runs in progress. Both settings can impact queue times.
I love to see this kind of video, i remembered my 2nd playthrough from a fresh start with a new account still got me goosebump every single time. Love this game and its devs and the community.
Love that guys are using Bozja music as the outro! Great story and the Shadowbringer relic weapons! =D
that Bozja theme got me by surprise lol... can't wait to get home to grind some more
As a vet since ARR and currently playing with over 2000 days subbed, I suggest taking breaks at the sign of the feeling you get when you'd say "I have to get on with it" for MSQ. You can burn out real quick if you just hyper focus on MSQ or even just the game entirely. I burned myself out 3 times, 2 of which I thought I'd quit but I came back for the expansions.
Also for leve quests, I suggest saving the allowances (you need them to obtain the leve quests and caps out at 100) for crafting and gathering classes if you plan on leveling them. Back in HW, I used them along with grand company turn ins for massive exp boosts and capped out 2 classes from 1-60 (was the cap at the time of HW) in a day.
Preferred servers exp bonus along with the exp boost from FC buff, earring buff from pre-order bonuses can net you about +500-600% exp from killing mobs. With this amount of exp bonus, I suggest you level other jobs you think of playing at the same time and alternate every couple of lvls. For example you can get your class to lv30 but still be on lv20 MSQ so I would then lvl another job to 20 then continue with the MSQ until I get to 30 with that class then hopefully you'll get to unlock the jobs by then because you cant really unlock jobs until you reach a certain MSQ quest thats around lv25 or 26 irrc, even if you're already lv30+.
So crazy that when you are scrolling through the retainers the Roegadyn looks exactly like my character lol great video as always
3:55 I can't agree with that hard enough. Post-Titan is the moment where the story really clicked as something truly special for me, that despite what things might have felt like up to that point this wasn't just some "excuse plot" to keep me ferrying from points A to B to C. If anyone says they don't care about the story, I can't recommend hard enough to just...not skip it up to that point (it happens at level 35, no just about the halfway point through ARR's story), even if you're just speedreading and glancing through the dialogue.
The challenge log also gives Gil :) I know 1-3k gill per entry is almost nothing to higher level players but for low level players still having trouble scraping enough gil to afford both gear and teleports every little bit helps.
You don't need the FC boost. Do the GC (Grand Company) quests, you will get a NPC squadron to sent on missions or do dungeons with them (AI Controlled). You can get better buffs scrolls from there than the ones from the FC, including manuals for extra exp for DOL and DOH, and you don't depend on your FC activating the buff you need.
Advice on Hunting Log:
On your first run of each class, you'll want to absolutely use it until Level 30. The XP granted by this point is nearly vital to quickly level without Dungeons and Guildhests. This is ESPECIALLY useful if you are a DPS and your queues take forever.
Completing each log grants a Level 50 ring for the class that is pretty useful up until Heavensward. If you've already been that far... you've got better. But, you also get achievement points, which give you certificates, which you can use to buy things. The level 50 ring is fairly useless once you're into Heavensward as you're just going to have access to far better gear. But, completing the Hunt Log for each character is pretty useful regardless. Do it for the achievements.
An added side-effect of the Hunt Log is that it basically trains you where some of these mobs spawn at. You'll spend a bunch of time looking for them in the area and find places in your map that you didn't see before. If you're doing ARR Hunts, having this knowledge of where these mobs can spawn, can make those hunts much faster and not require a guide. Likewise, if you decide to do the ARR Relic Quests, some of the monsters required by the Braves Books are actually ones you've already killed via the Hunt Log.
Many of the Hunt Logs are actually easier to complete when certain FATEs spawn up. I recommend sometimes waiting for those FATEs as they give significantly more XP for completion and make finding some of the more rare mobs much easier to find.
My Advice for sprouts:
1. ROLL ON EVERY PIECE OF GEAR. I am not kidding. Do this. Even if you don't need it. You can trade it in at a certain point for Grand Company Seals which can then be traded in for the useful Ventures for your Retainers as well as a number of other very useful equipment/gear/items. I can't count the amount of idiot players who DO NOT ROLL ON GEAR. Roll on all of it. You want it. Yes, even if it only gives you 23 Seals for turning it in to your Grand Company. Every little bit helps and every Venture is only like 200 Seals or something. They're super cheap.
2. RAISE YOUR RANK IN THE GRAND COMPANY YOU CHOOSE. I am not kidding, you want to do this. DO IT. Trade your early Seals for rank in your Grand Company. You want to do this in order to unlock easier ways to gain levels in Gathering/Crafting classes as well as to get access to "Squadrons". You WANT squadrons. Why? If you're leveling up DPS classes, this is a guaranteed INSTANT QUEUE for you. Granted, your team will consist of Bots and your choices of dungeons is EXCEPTIONALLY limited... But, this is one of the fastest ways to level. LIkewise, you can get some of your exploration achievements this way and get a substantial amount of loot. You can also use Squadrons for any "run a bunch of dungeons" grind you need to do. There is also a final rank in each Grand Company (maybe more?) you get from doing enough Squadrons content. Now, running each dungeon with your squadron WILL cost you some Seals to do. But, if you've been doing number one... Or looting everything and killing everything... the price of admission isn't much for the excessive XP you can get.
3. While it is tempting to just "run to the end of the dungeon" as quickly as possible, you may want to avoid that. Not sure if you've noticed, but the XP you get from every single kill is VERY significant. You can easily gain 3+ levels BEFORE a boss fight if you're killing everything. If dungeons are particularly long, you also gain a lot more XP from the kills than you would from "fast dungeon clears". One of these is just "fast dungeon clears" for a small XP reward, which leads to needing to clear a dungeon multiple times (which can be a problem as a DPS and needing to queue). The other is "maximizing XP gain per run". Generally, most people are playing to level up. It's honestly better to be efficient about your time. Namely, if you've gotta spend more than 20 seconds in queue... you should be killing everything to maximize the time you've spent. That's less queueing you'll need to do later for leveling.
Of course, the exception is going to be the MSQ Roulette. It's way too long for how little XP it gives you. You're best off just running that one as quick as possible.
4. The earliest mount you can get, I think comes from the CNJ questline. I think you can obtain it at Level 20 or something. Once you have CNJ to level 20, you can take a random sidequest nearby where you would take your class quests and get awarded the Unicorn Mount. Far earlier than any other Mount you're going to have access to.
5. Fight alongside your chocobo nearly every day. It is VERY LONG and VERY TEDIOUS to level up your Chocobo Companion. Leaving it in the FC Stable is going to SEEM faster, but it may not be. You are going to forget it is in there. You are going to forget to actually level it up in there. And it can't actually help you in combat at all if it's in there. Put it in the stable to change it's color and then take it with you everywhere. I promise you, as long as you're doing "current content" for your class, it will level up quickly. Especially with the "Bosom Buddies" challenges in the log, which give your Chocobo a TON of XP.
The ideal leveling method for your Chocobo is to put it in the stable, let others train it, then bring it out with you everywhere and run "the highest content" you can. Namely, a ton of FATEs for your current level. Your Chocobo will level up VERY FAST if you can do this. Especially since they can only be trained so many times a day. Basically, if you're logging out for a while, stable it so it can be trained while you're offline. If you're online, pull it from the stable and travel with it to level it.
“Don’t make my mistakes,” things I wish I knew before starting: voice actors are replaced with brits in later patches. 👍 thanks mate
for controller topic people have to remember this is a cross platform game with cross play. So it is designed with Console players in mind first. Which if you keep that fact in mind a lot of design decisions do make a lot of sense.
I played ARR for several years around 2014-2015. Never got into the MSQ and was content leveling jobs, botany, crafts and playing the market board. I came back recently and when I reached Heavensward, oh boy, did it get incredible! I'm in Shadowbringers right now and I'm so invested in he story. I'm kicking myself for skipping ARR cutscenes and had to go on YT for a recap. I'll be doing New Game Plus eventually, just to experience it again.
For new players that curious the story before ARR or confuse with the start of ARR cinematics, I highly recomend to watch a video called The waning of sixth Sun, It should be enough to fast forward you
Check for the controller action bar settings. the game allows you to have multiple bars on screen and change to others with key combinations.
One thing I wish I knew was for positionals, it only matters where you are when you do the skill, not when the animation goes off.
Let me give you another hot tip, there's a setting to display all of your inventory bags at once under character config > items
You can click on a player on a multiseater mount in your party and ride on there mount as well. =).
This can be very helpful if a member of your party doesn't have flying. Additionally if you want to mark a spot on a map in a party bring up your map and control right click an area.
Should be ps4 tap R1+L1 on PS54.
Also, all starter cities by the innkeeper have a npc that has a green icon/ sproutish icon on their head. They train class roles in dungeons, if you complete them you get a fat xp ring for level 1-30 for all your alts if you dont have friends to recruit. Also beast tribes = reputation quests = mounts and exclusive glams. -> for the crafter mains there is a beast tribe for each expansion including ARR that is for Crafters only, you cannot progress them without crafting. Any crafting.
Uh, yes, that *IS* the Hall of The Novice...
The Smith is also outside Aleport and near Halatali in Eastern Thanalan.
Oh, the continent is Aldenard (and Vylbrand, where Limsa is). Eorzea would be sort of the equivalent to the European Union. A collective of nations.
And you missed to mention that voice acting is never a problem in JP, using an all-star team of actors and consistent directing, which can be easily swapped for in the Settings.
Garuda was one of my catalysts to being hooked into the game. As soon i started her trial i was beginning to comprehend the scale of the boss fights and how each and every single one of them left an impression on my brain as i progress. Definitely a favourite from arr for me.
Nice list of features. I wish I knew some of them few months ago.
One of the things I did not know is that you can chat during cinematics :)
I still find players at max level who don't know that.
Leveling alternative jobs after you finish Main line in ARR is really good tip. In HW I started dual leveling with MSQ. Now at the end of Shadowbringers I am sorry I did not triple level, because I am in the end of main story and have two lvl 80 and one lvl 72 which is not high enough for the rest of the quests. You may reach the end little slower, but If you like playing different roles like me this is awesome way to do it.
I want to mention that Controller isn't just a narrative control scheme. You can 100% beat the hardest raids with a gamepad and be just as comfortable as KBM.
I know this sounds like insanity to people who are used to WoW, but it's just true. All your spells and abilities will fit on a controller, and the game is designed to be really smooth when you use it. For example your character will auto-face your target in this game when you click an ability, which means you don't need to finagle your orientation in a fight - just your positioning.
I personally recommend something like a PS4 or PS5 controller, because it has a touchpad. Not only is it useful for chat, but you can also use some 3rd party software to bind gestures to it (for example I have my "blink" ability on swipe-up, and mount summoning on swipe-left, freeing the more useful buttons for combat abilities.
played for about 2 months about to finish ARR once u get to know the characters.. its pretty easy to read in ur head with their voice.. i haven't skipped any dialogue.. FFXIV made me like 2 things i hated in MMO's story and tab targetting
Something that should be expounded upon more is the retainers. Just like Bellular I didn't bother with retainers until the end of ARR. However, I wish I had earlier. I didn't need more inventory space nor didn't care about selling things on the marketboard since I didn't need the gil so early on. But still, I wish I had started the process of leveling them up, because there's this thing called "ventures" that you can send your retainer out on every hour (real time), which will help your retainers level up. This is important so that they can do higher level missions and bring you back better goodies. If you wait too long, you'll be playing catch up for a while waiting for your retainer to catch up to your own main job's level, which kind of sucks. So yeah. Unlock early and start using ventures right away. You can also spend your grand company seals that you get early on, on venture coins. This is also one of the best uses for company seals if you're looking to make a lot of gil later on.
You missed the Grand Company Squad - nice way to get exp and a possible way to get a Battle manual that boost exp too (they can do doungens with you... quing as DPS can be slow and the squad can cut that down)
I wish the Squadron was a bit more robust, but I understand the devs fixed that for Shadowbringers with the Trust system. But Squadrons are a great way for a new player to get comfortable with the roles before queuing up for groups!
Rested exp is accrued whenever you are in any sanctuary. You'll notice entering and leaving cities and outposts that you get a chat log message that says "You have entered a sanctuary." As long as you are in there, you accrue rested exp. The amount you gain is much higher when you are logged off, but it accrues regardless of being online or not.
Glad you mentioned it. This was one comment if not in here I was going to make. Also note that you can tell if you are in a sanctuary if you see a crescent moon symbol next to your xp bar
While general sidequests don't offer amazing EXP, they often do offer a piece of gear as a reward. For people running the MSQ for the first time, especially if they switched jobs right before starting a new expansion pack, they might find their gear lacking, and doing a few sidequests here or there can supplement missing pieces. ALTERNATELY, starting in Heavensward, these pieces of gear are HQ (High Quality) and can be sold on the market board, often for pretty hefty prices, due to them being required turn-ins for crafting leve quests. Imagine getting a piece of gear for killing 3 easy monsters that rakes in 80,000 gil. It's entirely possible to end up a multi-millionaire by the time you reach Shadowbringers simply by doing the sidequests that give gear and selling it. A lot of people will tell you to take the Allagan Coins options, but those are almost always worse. Even shitty ARR gear still rakes in about 1000 gil or more, which is a better conversion rate than Allagan Tin pieces.
Something to know about the ARR patch quests: in 5.2 (I think) they trimmed it down A LOT. about 20%-30% of the quest content has been cut entirely when they revamped ARR to streamline the leveling there. Before 5.2, there were a few level walls and a loooooot of clearly garbage quests. Older players remember the feeling of those still, and that heavily colors their perception of that slog, because back then it was. Now it's pretty smooth but it used to be very, very rough.
BOOM FIRST i hope
I don't know why I'm watching it because I'm a vet, but man it's fun watching the influx
Edit: Aw a few seconds late.
I'm only a half a year in myself but I played the trial years ago. Was cool my old character was still there. Just recently got money to keep a sub going.
Palace of the Dead followed by Heaven on High, seems to be a popular way of levelling alt jobs 1-70, no armour required.
ARR by and large is a giant introduction to the world and characters. From Heavensward on, the story picks up in a big way.
Heck yeah keep them coming Bellular!!
And remember to use Thavnarian onions to get your chocobo from lv 10 to 20. You can get all 3 jobs to top in your chocobo, just need the onions.
The challenge log is probably the most important thing because it will give you exp for yourself, your chocobo and mgp bonus'.
great choice for the outro soundtrack
A little off topic but There is at least one standard quest that I think deserves to be elevated to a blue one.
It unlocks an emote where your character adjusts their glasses and each race will do so slightly differently. You also get a robe/ jacket thing and a pair of glasses in the style used by a character involved in the level 50 Hildebrand quest chain.
It can be started in the markets in ishgard once you get into its Endgame. Not sure if you need to have done the Hildebrand 50 stuff to get it to appear or not but those quests are worth looking into anyway if only for a laugh and some emotes.
To clarify Hildebrand quests are a laugh. There is a separate one for heavenward too but the glasses quest is more serious
More for the chocobo, as this comes in real important for soloing for many jobs, get its healing tree up pronto. While it is no full fledged healer, for those jobs without much in the way of self heal it is invaluable for keeping you alive, especially if you want to solo fates with bosses.
People seem to often overlook the main use for the Chocobo: You can give it healing abilities which increases your soloing potential and saves you when things go south.
Just started last night and really enjoying the storytelling of the game. I’m a hardcore mythic player and raider but this casualness is a nice touch. I’m going to play both game as I love love WoW my fist true love in gaming. I will enjoy both to its maximum. Both amazing games for me.
Really considering playing. Between you and Asmond Im getting closer and closer to caving. Especially as Ive run out of content in ESO
The bozja song at the end! Love it
We did a lot of side quests instead of understanding the true importance of MSQ. At 18 we watched a video and changed our strategy. Our goal was to be at Endwalker when it released. After finishing Shadowbringers, we have the options to have some fun opening up the dungeons at our leisure as we work on other jobs. It's good to know that the MSQs and food (and earring) will handily get through through an expansion. There is so much to do at any time, the luxury of doing what I want for side quests, apartments, glamour, Golden Saucer, etc., when I want, after the forced WoW grind, is amazing.
Heads up. Hunting log is only for ARR and is kind of meh xp wise comparatively to other systems. It's not a bad thing to do, but it's not something you'll rely on past 50. There are weekly hunts in each expansion you can do, but Hunting Log just sort of falls to the wayside.
OH, and another huge tip, keep up with your class quests. It's a quest that shows up under your MSQ button that shows up every time one is available (ARR - every 5 levels). This is how you'll unlock job abilities through ARR.
Bless editor for Bozja drops at the end of those