I accidentally hit that “only walk” button at one point and spent a half hour trying to clear up my inventory thinking I was carrying too much stuff and had gotten too thicc to run. I blame the Elder Scrolls for that one
This happened to me during one of the MSQ solo instances and I thought it was just part of the story for dramatic effect or something so I didn’t think much of it. Getting out of AOE’s was a bitch though especially as BLM lmao. Wasn’t til after I finished it and kept walking that I realized something was wrong. A quick Google search helped me solve the problem immediately though. Still really funny when I think about it
I jumped off a cliff, and survived at 1 HP. I assumed that would always happen, so i jumped off a cliff to escaped an enemy, thinking i was clever, and died instantly. Big sad
That's the case when you have certain dmg reducing buffs like MNK's fist of earth. You'll survive falls with 1 HP (might only be the case if you jump with full health)
@@jeremybitar9831 actually the game only kills you with fall damage if it registers you as "in battle" if you're not then you'll always survive giant drops with 1 hp
Yeah, otherwise the only way to 'jump' off without taking damage is using the dragoon skill as far as I know. But that has more to do with displacement on the x/y-axis of the game plane.
I was losing pretty badly to a mob and decided to make a break for it, jumped off a cliff but the mob got one more hit on me, cue death animation in mid air xD
I had my cringe moment yesterday, I’m a healer. On my literal second dungeon ever, unfortunately I messed up and we wiped. In my panic tho, when the wait/return box turned up, I chose wait... not knowing my team couldn’t revive me. I also didn’t know how to return myself, so there’s just my character lying dramatically on the floor as my poor teammates keep spawning in, frantically trying to type to explain, whilst the mobs are also spawning in. There was a solid 5 mins of these poor, sweet people trying to escape the cycle of death... I logged out in sheer embarrassment and sat in pained silence for at least 20 mins before I had the courage to try again.
All healers have done this for sure lol especially now that there are so many healers, at first I would mistake other classes for healers that could revive me and remember feeling annoyed when I didn’t get revived. But don’t feel bad healing is really hard. You will wipe from time to time. It’s nornal
I had the same experience, I got delayed by the cutscene and the seal was on and I died, it is the first time for me died in the dungeon and I was panic and don't know which button should use, wait or return, I was afraid that return will return everyone to the beginning of the dungeon so I choose wait and then watch my whole party wiped by the boss XD.
I appreciate it on a spiritual level since i originally found that feature accidentally, and then decided it was a good idea to do the whole story like that. Intentionally. Which I'm still in the process of doing for science, and memes. Doing a walkthrough ain't easy nowadays.
I met one early on during A Realm Reborn. I have a party of 3 and we are lacking a Tank, so we go DF. We found a tank that only use walk. At first we were annoyed but after a few minutes, we also walk alongside with him. Super chill run.
Yeah but if you think about it that's real life lol, we can't cast spells LMAO or maybe wait for it: You know you play FF14 to much when your trying to cast a spell to kill a fly!!!!
I'm going to make a D&D character out of your story for my next one shot. Wizard who doesn't know how to cast spells so they beat monsters to death and became a Barbarian by accident.
It's nice to be reminded, as a long time player, that there will always be new players that don't know as much simply due to not playing as long. It's important to be friendly and patient at all times, as a lot of the time these players will not speak up out of fear of being embarrased.
I recently started playing and a random player gifted me a minion, it caused me so much anxiety because I play with a controller and couldn't manage to find how to click the accept trade button. My SO finally grabbed my mouse as I cried out in frustration and clicked the right button. Sometimes being nice to the new guy can leave them feeling stressed out.
@@Haylormoon Just ignore them. You are there for the fun. I play alot of other game that has more toxic community (dead by daylight) than ff14. You can get used to toxicity. I'm not bothered anymore. I just ignore them and just have fun. And you can get banned for being toxic too. Maybe just report them.
@@Haylormoon i purposely haven't gone into a dungeon with my level 25 conjurer. I main Blackmage. I like sticking in the back letting everyone else worry about things. For the most part im ignored. If you get tired of healer try out black mage or Arcanist. Both are fun and mostly ignored by any toxic people.
I didn't know I was a healer as a conjurer until level 20... During dungeons, someone asked "Who is healing?" (obviously nobody did at that point in Sastasha... I was stoning the whole time... and aeroing.) and people said "I'll help heal"...their reactions always were similar to "Duhh"... I was confused. No dungeon runs went smooth. A lot wipes, and I didn't understand why. I was told this was the strongest DPS. So I wanted to be strong! I went to my friend who told me to be a Conjurer since it is the best DPS ever. I asked: Why does people want me to heal all the time??" My friend said "I got confused with Arcanist..." I cried.
I was confused too. I picked the conjurer instead of the arcanist but i realized it early enough to switch to the arcanist just as i finished the lv 10 quest with the conjurer
I just got my friend into the game like a month and a half ago and she got up to level 60 by doing every side quest she saw.....she was only in level 30 MSQ...Godspeed......
I didn't connect "lb" to "limit break" until level 70. Folks would tell me to lb as a dps main and I'd just be so lost like "i'm not playing with a controller what" it was so embarrassing finally hearing a friend actually say limit break and just dishljfdhfngskf
As a new player, I've not had anybody say to lb in a dungeon (I've been playing as a thalmaturge ) i have been using it when the last boss is at like 30% HP, but I think I've wasted it on trash once or twice.
@@k2k4 depending on what your doing, a lvl 3 lb will generally leave a boss a 1-2% if not outright kill it if you pop it around 10%. It's also worth noting Lbs do different damage based on the archetype of your job. Physical ranged has a directional with mediocre damage, magic has a large AOE with ok damage, melee has a high damage single target. Healers have a party heal/rez Tanks give a party shield (which you will probably never see unless doing high end content and even then it's rare.)
I started as a Marauder. When I unlocked the tank stance ability, I didn’t realize it was one of those abilities you only had to click once and not touch again. I treated it like a normal ability and kept clicking it during fights, so I would be going on and off, on and off, on and off my tank stance.
I started FF14 a little while back but only got to level 34 and quit playing for a long time. I finally started playing again and I was playing the the main quests and got into a dungeon and didn't realize I was doing this. My healer on the team explained it too me which was really cool. Use to some games where people just yell and get pissed off. I thanked them for the info and decided after that dungeon I was going to watch some videos to learn more about how I should be playing my tank.
on my first run of Cutter's Cry when we reached Chimera, tank told me to hug the boss when it's eyes turned violet .....I literally /hugged the boss for the entire battle
What I learned from doing Chimera (and I quote): "Purple - Go hug the mob" "Blue - Run the hell away" And my 1st time healing as a White Mage... I went in a wedding dress, NOT my gear. Lmao
When I first played, I remember running into a FATE with my Goldsmith and plopping my table down, expecting some mad exp gains because in my head I was supplying the war/fate effort.
That "Stuck in RP Walk" is such a mood. I pressed something during Prae and couldn't figure out how to get out of it. The entire party started walking too to humor me. It was funny yet embarrassing lol
This happened to me too and someone sent a message in chat saying "Astro I guess you accidently started walking and don't know how to stop? Press this key and you'll run again" They got my com that match and the whole party were wetting themselves at me and decided to walk too for a bit.
@@zidaryn i found this out too, i got to level 30+ and got my whm mount before reaching the company chocobo quest, you dont actually have to do any grand company quests to unlock seals since the next main story quest gives you just enough seals to get the chocobo license
@@john_7000 Entirety really translates to like 98/100 quests or so. I don't remember the exact number, it being like 5 years and some change ago. I wasn't referring to ARR+ patch quests. Though if that were possible, i'd pity the poor soul that walked that lonely road.
I'm enjoying my slow journey through AAR. I avoided most of the mistakes mentioned in this video. My mistake was that I started Arcanist and pushed to then get Summoner all the lvl 50 whilst not really enjoying the job. I mean it's not like I hate or dislike it, I just don't find it particularly fun. So I experimented. Did Gld to Pld 31 and disliked being a tank in group dungeons. Lnc is currently 27 and I'm getting drg to lvl 30-35 to see if I like it. So far so good. But what really caught me by surprise was conjurer. Solo it felt a lot like arc/smn which is fine. But group content... it seems I'm a born healer. I absolutely loved it so much I made a new character for it for role play purposes. She's already white mage lvl 32 and I'm loving it. I found my calling. So my advice to newbies is study each job as best you can on the net. Try to talk to players about the job and watch what they do in group content. If a job seems interesting at least get it to lvl 20 to get a good feel for it solo and as a team. I wish I'd discovered whm before I slogged through 95% of ARR as Summoner.
Most girls: "The real main quest is to have fun!" Most boys: "The real main quest to ninja my frriend, kill everything in sight, and hurl out troll insults."
First time doing Haukke Manor, I thought using Return would take me back to Gridania, so I ran ALL THE WAY BACK to the start of the dungeon from the basement. My party was not pleased.
I didn't even know I should be back to the entrance and wondered why everyone dissapeared! Two minutes after panicking what I should do the chat explained to me which button to press 🙈
Ugh I literally just had an issue like this, I took return off of my hotbar and freaked out when everyone suddenly started disappearing and couldn't find it in my actions and spells and had no idea you could type "/return" and other actions in the chat
My first mistake, I was a Tank. I didn't know what a Tank Stance was. I thought people were being dirty asking me to squate my avatar on the ground to make it look like they were taking a poop, I tried all the emotes looking for "Tank Stance", never found it. Nobody ever said "cast iron will" which would of helped the first time.
There's something about STANCE under the Character tab window. Amongst all those things relating to your Minion, Mount, but above that. Traits, Stance...I think I've seen it there.
Hey I was one of the layers that didn't get their job stone. I was a pugilist until level 42 lul. I'm thinking like others that did this why tf dont I feel like my class(a paladin). Welp that's why went and finished off the job quest(I did some but forgot/stopped right before lvl 30). Shit happens.
My most embarrassing moment was when i didnt realise i had to repair my gear to keep heals strong and everyone in my party were confused why the heals were weak since i was pressing the right buttons. They then asked if i repair my gear constantly. I said, “y-you have to repair it..?”
And here I was thinking I knew pretty much everything 😭 rpgs are my favorite kind of games so I always check and repair my gear but I had no idea this affected healing wth 😭😭😭 ?!
Friendly reminder that everyone should always do the Hall of the Novice for each role when you 1st try it. A lot of these things are actually taught in there. Will save lots of heartache.
one question about the part where you need to close the gate to stop adds from spawning I've seen nothing like that ever is used anywhere else? So is there anything like that anywhere else?
TBH, I think you should not be allowed to queue for a duty in any particular role until you complete the hall of novice. There could be a pop-up directing a player where to go if they tried. I have encountered new players who didn't even know about the hall.
@@ericisbeowulf Well, the MSQ takes you there, and there's a Smith at the entrance to the 1st 3 dungeons, but it's optional to do it, I do think they should make you do at least 1 of the roles before doing Sastasha, though.
Same but very embarrassing for me bc I literally already played the game 150 hours but decided to restart from the beginning as a different class bc I hadn’t played for months but I’m level 25 and I still managed to forget you get your mount through a side quest and not the main one 😭 a comment on this video that I already saw months ago just reminded me 😂 this game has so much going on it’s easy to make mistakes but they’re not game breaking most of the time, just annoying
@@Writersexchange-ebooks honestly just read everything ! most people just glance at stuff wich is why they miss important things, like tool tips ESPECIALLY I just learned after 350hrs that as a tank the ability “arms length” can be use to slow down mobs auto attacks and skill usage ffs, that is pretty handy for your healers 😭
Lol I remember when I was a new player, and I unlocked the level 40 crafting doublet or w/e, I thought it looked so cool that I put it on immediately and wore it all the way until level 50. It wasn't until my tank in the Aurum Vale mentioned "why is our healer wearing crafting gear" that I realized how important it was for me to not do that lmao.
Gear is really poorly explained, like don't use tank/lancer gear on tanks, tank only gear has better stats for tanking, so why is the gear even tank/lancer?
@@Gee-xb7rt dragoons used to be able to tank back then. They had the marauder aggro weaponskill and keen flury as dmg reduction cooldown... Yes, it was weird
I just started playing this week, and this video has been incredibly helpful, thank you! I too have been clearing all sidequests in each zone too soon, so now I am lv 30 in 3 classes before even unlocking the job quests lmao
I don't know if you mean "unlocking" in a different way, but the only req for job quests is job level...so you should have, now... 18 job quests unlocked? Lol +3 actually with the level 30 quests that bring you to your soul stone, so 21 quests to do!
@@henrykramer365 There is another requirement for the job quests: msq. I leveled up a few classes while ignoring the ARR msq XD. Meaning you unlock job quests both by leveling and msq.
Been playing for like a Year and a half... AND I JUST LEARNED: ctrl + up/down arrow, will move your camera vertically (very useful on TALL bosses with gaze mechanics)
I did the same, although for me it was because I'm very used to how things work in WoW. People who instantly respawn upon dying are generally considered noobs, since ressing is preferable most of the time. I didn't know about any debuffs, shortcuts or whatever in ff14, so I lay on the ground and waited for someone to rez me for quite some time until people told me to respawn :D
Same case with me, in my first run of Tam-Tara. But in that first run, our healer wouldn't heal me. At all. So I laid there for ages waiting for them to res me. Thankfully I found out sooner than later how to respawn but yeah. That was a disaster of a run, so I thought I was being a bad tank. And then our healer left in the middle of a boss attempt.
When I first started playing WHM, I was new to MMORPGs and had only played a DPS before, which had no abilities that targeted allies. I didn't understand that you can click the party list to select someone, and thought you had to click on their avatar itself to select them so you could heal them. The whole time I was SO IMPRESSED by healers especially in large instances because I was like "how do they identify and click on the players so quickly and accurately when there's so many people running around". When someone told me I could select a person from the party list, my mind was blown. Before that I just spammed medica because I couldn't target anyone properly :S
Well to be honest targeting can be annoying. I found I’m faster at healing with a PlayStation remote because it’s easier to scroll through people where as dps is more annoying to target for me.
The first time I ever ran Haukke Manor I was healing, and just after the first boss I hit a hotkey that put me into first-person perspective, and I had no idea how to fix it. I finished the dungeon that way, I have no idea how we didn't all die. It was immersive, but quite stressful.
I did this with my DRG and I was freaking out when we went to face each boss! I had to dodge all the mechanics and stuff in first person and was on the edge of my seat every time a sound went off LOL!
@@thecatfromspace72 TheCat FromSpace I play on the ps4, but I think I accidentally pressed one of the joysticks to get into it and afterwards I figured out that I could just press it again to get out of the mode. I think the home key is what you use on the keyboard though :3
I used to zoom into first-person in WoW, running around going ham on things. When my friends watched my feeds, as I healed in first-person viewpoint, always checking the floors for AoE I shouldn't be in and turning to throw down my own, they lost their shit. I was just doing it because I am a very good healer, and was bored and having a blast trying something odd. It about killed them to see me do it, and that made it ALL the more worth! ^,^
I was in a dungeon on my Dragoon and the tank spun the boss in circles while it spewed poison all over. So I stood back with the Summoner and tossed my Piercing Talon at it the entire fight! Summoner said "EPIC" and gave me a commendation LOL
FFXIV was my first MMO ever. I happily strolled my way through the MSQ thinking ah, what a nice, slow-paced Final Fantasy game :) so relaxing :) and then walked into Sastasha with absolutely zero knowledge of what a "dungeon" even is. My poor noob ass was SO BAFFLED when everyone just booked it forward, not even pausing to fight the things that attacked them, instead running through to the end???? how can be??? are we not gonna take our time and explore the cool new area? what is happening?? I thought it was all going to be like the MSQ and didn't even understand what the roles in the party were lmao. I ended up running ahead of the tank, thinking that the point was just to get to the end as quick as possible. I aggroed half the dungeon and got creamed by the boss before the rest of the party even got to the door. Nobody bothered to bring me back lol which was fair and also gave me some time to look up how to actually play the god damn game lmao. The party were unfortunately dicks about it, but it's pretty hilarious to look back on now because I was honestly so clueless lol
Well did your party try to tell you ? Cause i ran to the same kind of person where he again and again ran straight to the mob killing himself (he is a dps). We tried again and again to warn him but he keep doing that so we kicked him out
@@mch5546 bro just think. he can rev himself and go back to the beggining of the dungeon and go back to his party. and take things with calm and ask what he was supposed to do. its not that hard to understand. also it was a risk for the party if was literally 'trolling' in the dungeon.
@@mrlogicks InstaIock Exactly!!!!! But he Didn't. He just keep bombarding ahead alone. Dunno if he even read the chat. His behaviour is either complete beginner or someone that is drunk. I actually met someone that use skip potion to go straight to stormblood and lvl max Paladin. Got wiped a few times but the dude actually want to listen what to do and how to do better and we cleared the dungeon.
Back when ARR launched, dungeons where like that. Very chill and friendly players and was always a fresh view for a while. As the player base eventually shifted past that area, it started to go down hill to "move move move" when the wave of new players thinned and everyone was sick of running those first dungeons lol.
When I started as a healer 3 months ago, I didn't have a wipe until Moogle King. Most dps did not follow mechanics whereas I always watch guides before. After the first wipe, we defeated him but one dps was all angry saying the healing was terrible. It hit me so hard ( is my first MMORPG ) I apologized and ran out crying, but the rest of the players all gave me recommendations saying it was all fine. - I learned that day, that most of the time, this community is really amazing and kind to sprouts. Just need to grow a thicker skin when it comes to bad apples.
In my static during our Titan prog one of our tanks spun titan around in a circle because he got confused on his positioning and our NIN was trying to follow him while trying to get his positionals off and over voice we here "WHY IS HE DOING A 360?!" and I loooooooooost it. I was laughing so hard because I just pictured our NIN's fingers moving at warp speed trying to keep up with Titan while also trying to pull off positionals and ninjitsu's and I had to mute myself the rest of the night because I was laughing so hard at the image. Closest I've come to peeing myself in years.
I think I just made an idiot move during Titan last night. I was a DPS trying to get out of the huge AOE and backed right up to the edge, and he blew me right off the cliff. Nobody could revive me, I couldn't restart, the rest of the group had to take him on their own. :(
@@varia2354 XI vet here. just started up 14 cause it was free on PSN. i legit noticed you could jump immediately and thought to myself "...holy shit direct lines not blocked by annoyingly raised pixels?! MADNESS!" and then just yesterday while trying to run back to Ul'dah i'm like "is there fall damage in this game?" *drops off cliff, loses half health* "YEP! There's fall damage!" Total Achievement Hunter moment.
I started as an archer - I found that strafing in a circle around melee enemies actually did help - they just follow you around but never get to pull off an attack animation.
@@HamsterPants522 Thank you! Didn't know that is an actual thing. I'd stop my circles whenever other players come close in fear of looking stupid cause it's the easiest way to dodge for me.
I cleaned them all out while leveling my main in Shadowbringers. It was such a nice feeling to see those clean maps that I've been going back and clearing out the older stuff too. I cleaned out Stormblood quests while leveling Gunbreaker, and now I'm planning to do ARR and HW as part of the process of leveling White Mage. That might take a while... lol
they are really good for leveling alt jobs. i got bard, machinist, and dancer leveled at the same time just doing random stuff, and it helps a lot with inventory management having them all roughly the same level. i'm sure some edgelord master of leveling will tell me i'm wrong, i should just level one job first, but they don't pay my sub.
I still am a new player, a great big Sprout. I went a long long way into dungeons without ever needing to release to the start of the instance. When it happened, I didn't know that you need to press the OK button *and hold it down, for like five seconds.* So I kept tapping it - as you would any button - and NOTHING happened...
Same happened to me a week ago. I was typing in chat like "help, i cant respawn, the button doesnt do anything" until someone told me after like 2 minutes, that i had to hold it down XD
my favorite mistake i ever made was not realizing that high-level hunts would aggro to me to i walked up to a giant cactuar outside of ul'dah, /hug'd it, and promptly died
The first time I saw someone called out a S-rank mob in the map I was in, I went to the coordination and I saw 3 people stood a couple of feets away. me being an idiot for not watching where I was going, I accidentally walked pass beside the mob. I said hi to those people and died 1 second later upon getting hit by the mob. They all laughed and I said not again! (Yes I died couple of times before that lol). Thankfully, one of them was healer so I got ress xD Edit: the mob was lvl 80 and I was lvl 15 at that time lmao
@@h3llthing This actually reminds me of a time in WoW Classic when an opposite faction toon helped me kill a mob and then less than a minute later two people on my side just watch me die after I drew aggro gathering a quest item. I was like WTF... This was a PvP server too.
@@h3llthing Yeah, a hell where their lack of compassion for their allies is punished by never being able to find the roles they need for dungeons and raids. :p *Shudder* the horror.
Me, the whole video: "Haha, this is hilarious! I never did ANY of this stuff! 😂" Me: "Wait... high end gathering node respawns aren't listed as Earth time....??"
I could've been in the same situation as you if by a chance i wouldnt deside to check out what i have on my tabs, where i found stuff like hunting log, sightseeing log, challenge log etc. Damn those days were fun... and embarrassing...
ngl, I have 3 characters, 1 of which I have 3 lvl 80 jobs, and cleared the entirety of Eden's Gate Savage, and the first 3 fights of Eden's Verse Savage... And I just unlocked my challenge log last week
"Imagine you had a tank that was spinning around trying to avoid attacks and you have a monk running around the * laughs too hard to continue*" I was that monk.
When tanks did this to me while i was leveling monk i just gave up and sat still while doing the rotations. The damage increase for my positionals was not worth the headaches.
I was doing Hauck Manor for the first time and I rolled greed on an item that I wanted after the second boss. Suddenly everyone starts teleporting away leaving me alone in the room. I thought they quit the dungeon because they were mad that I got the loot. 😔 when I checked the chat they were just saying "/return" and I thought they were telling me to return the loot so I spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out how to return the loot to them before someone said "type /return in console"
Ah yes, the dreaded /return thing that no one ever properly explains. Because it was never explained properly to me, I decided to make it a habit of it myself. As a result, any time I see the message "one or more party members are doing this for the first time" (not exactly in those words, but you get the idea), I "type /return into chat, and it'll take you back to the beginning of the dungeon." And then proceed to do just that.
Same thing happened to me. Everyone left me in the room to oblivion. No one told me anything. Suddenly the a cut scene of the boss showed and after it was over, i was still in the room, alone. That was scary tbh 😅
As a DRG main this makes me sad hahahaha. We're like: COME FRIEND, LET US BE POWERFUL TOGETHER! SHARE THE BLOOD OF THE DRAGON! Other person: OH SHT what is this mechanic let's just run away and see if it disappears- Us: Friend? T_T
I think considering the staggering amount of players that missed their job stone at level 30 that at this point it could be considered a design flaw. There needs to be a small unintrusive but clearly noticeable popup for people who make it to 30 (perhaps in the same fashion that gauge tutorials pop up) explaining that you can now get your job unlocked. The game runs on the assumption that you have been following your classes quest line every 5 levels which is easily missable even despite that little message that pops up that states that your next class quest is available. Some people may disregard it and save it for later because you have to go so far out of your way to do them in most cases when following the MSQ.
Back when I started playing, I mained a WHM and figured that since I was a healer, it didn't really matter what weapon I had. "It's not like I need the best damage" I thought and just used the weapons you get from job quests, completely ignoring the stats, and what's worse, the durability. It wasn't until I ran Brayflox for the first time and my wand suddenly broke in the middle of the first boss, and my healing suddenly started doing close to nothing. Having no idea what happened, I started freaking out, spamming Cure on the tank, watching their HP steadily drop despite all my effort, until I ran out of MP and we wiped. Luckily I had all my old weapons still in my inventory, so when someone pointed out my weapon must've broken, I switched to a different one and we were able to clear just fine, but I felt horrible the whole way through. From that point I make sure to repair my gear before going anywhere at all, out of fear of something similar happening again....
I came back after a long hiatus from the game and found my gear trashed. Now I compulsively repair my gear. Still not sure if I should rock staffs or wands though, my main reason for preferring the former soly being because I think shields are cool...
@@BRBingeDrinker I figured that might be the case. Don't need a shield so long as you've got a tank. Still neat that it is an option even if it isn't optimal.
It's kinda neat as a long time player seeing the perspective of new players. Though I will admit that I am utterly baffled at the amount of people who don't look at what their skills do as they unlock them. It feels really weird that so many people go through the game not even wanting to learn what the button they unlocked does, and I'm not sure how to fix that problem.
Had a Gladiator last night in Hades Extreme. took a wipe before we even noticed it. the red mage asked the Glad to equip their soulstone but the Glad refused saying it was useless. My healers were the first to nope out.
I've gone through and looked at a lot of different jobs, but I play SMN and DRG mainly. The number of abilities that are unlocked simply by equipping the Soulstone is astounding.
@@Demon_of_Razgriz Of course it is. Thats what they are for, making your job complete. Just wish Square would automaticly equip them.....or autopromote you at 30.
I feel like they were planning to have many different jobs for each class (like SMN and SCH), but then gave up and now we have this weird system that don't make much sense.
I needed this. I live in constant fear of getting in the way of everyone around me which is why I dont play mmos usually. Nice to know everyone has there oops moments
play with an experienced friend, honestly the best way to get through the noob phase without having to look up every little thing that the game doesn't tell you about
I really feel this. I've been playing for a couple weeks but I watched a ton of videos to make sure I wasn't messing up. I still get anxious when I have to do a new dungeon, and I don't know the mechanics
@@gay_aliens I'm slowly learning that if you announce that you're a first-timer you'll get a lot of leeway, even moreso if you mention that you watched a guide beforehand. A few days ago I was the off tank for a particularly complicated boss and made sure to tell the other players I was a noob. We ended up wiping once (the main tank kinda slipped up on one of the mechanics) but I still got two player commendations out of it. I still get tank anxiety, but communication apparently gets you a lot of sympathy with the other players.
For reals. Quests never gave you decent xp before. Instead they would have you kill xxx mobs and 90% of your xp gain was from killing those mobs. I've only been playing FF14 for 5 days now, but I didn't understand why the MSQ gives you so much xp, and regular mobs give you basically nothing. Although dungeon mobs give you a ton. Honestly I like it better that quests give you all of the xp so the grind isn't as bad, but I'm still getting used to it.
@@GoodBoyGoneDad I have been playing for a few days and I keep finding myself doing this same thing. I will see my XP bar is maybe a thousand from level up and I will kill like 10 mobs and it will be good for only like half the xp. Where as in games like WoW you can totally top off XP with mobs of near enough levels.
I think the only thing I did once was, I kind of just waited a good 5 minutes in front of a boss in a dungeon waiting for the 5th guy in my party to show up, then I remembered 4 is the max in this game
Biggest Mistake: Trying to play FF like wow, racing the game instead of playing it like an FF game: slow and chill and for fun. Also honored to have my comment used ahh
Yeah, I made that mistake after buying a voucher to skip all of Heavensward JUST so I could see Aymeric! That's what happens when you mix me with a game that has hot guys. XD
What's wrong with wanting to clear content when it's relevant? There's statistically significant amount of players that enjoy doing end game as fast and efficient as possible.
Something stupid I did the other day: I started as a Thaumaturge, decided to start up Conjurer for better queue times. Forgot to do Novice Hall for healer and didn't know how to heal my tank. Tank almost died in the first pull. He asked me if I was green, and I didn't know what meant... Shortly before the boss in Sastasha, I stopped to type an apology, that I was new. While I was slow typing on PS4, the tank started the boss fight. I was a mile away. Tank died before I could heal him, I raise him back up... A dps dies, tank is trying to get back aggro. I do a dumb and try to rez the dps that died. Tank dies again, then I die. I was so mortified I just closed the game. I feel so terrible about it, I haven't even logged in for a couple days.
Currently, I main a tank in A Ream Reborn. And, to tell you the truth, I think you just got a pretty lame tank! Tanks should NOT just rush into the boss fight without even bothering to check where the healer is. Tanks should not do ANYTHING if the healer isn't close enough, haha. XD Also, tanks should always keep an eye on the rest of the party! They shouldn't do things their teammates aren't ready for. If you'd had a more responsible tank, your experience of Sastasha would've been a lot less stressful. Anyways, though it may have been a tough thing to go through, I hope that hasn't kept you away from the game for too long. :) In FFXIV, I think one should just learn to not care too much what other people think. Sure, we try to help our party members to the best of our ability! But more importantly, we should have fun, grow, and be very gentle with ourselves as we try to learn the game and get good at it. :)
@@Philosophy.and.Tostitos Thanks, your reply does make me feel better. I did get back into it, but I'm going super slowly. Haven't even beaten the main story yet because I got sucked into crafting. I've also gotten a keyboard for my PS4 just so I can type faster, haha. I tried tanking at one point and thought it was ten times worse than healing, so I admire you being a tank main. 😫 If I'm healing, I get annoyed at a good tank leaving before I can give them my commendation! Thank you for your kind words! FFXIV is my first MMO and I'm so happy that the community is filled with mostly understanding and helpful folks such as yourself. 😭💕
@3:40 okay, just including this because it might be unclear to anyone who is new/learning: by "look away" they really mean you need turn your character away from the monster so their back is facing the enemy, not just moving your camera
Me 15 minutes ago: I'm feeling pretty good about my FFXIV performance, but I'm sure there are still some things I could learn :) Me one minute into the video: ...what's a tooltip?
I think it's a bit more of a PC concept though, in the console version, the descriptions are mainly accessed from the Actions window. I didn't know what she meant either at first, but yeah, I always read them through. Do I always understand them correctly?! NOPE! I've gone many levels misusing a skill, or blowing one off until someone explains to me it's usefulness.
@@carlos-zy7vx some enemies have abilities that can be interrupted by either a stun like tanks for instance have low blow to stun an enemy from using a powerful attack usually you can tell the powerful attack by the channel bar being red or in some cases you can put them to sleep to interrupt their big attack
I know this comment is already fairly old, but I hope you see this anyway. I just wanted to say that almost 10 years ago now, I watched every single one of your videos and I'm very glad to see that you're still around today! I instantly recognized your profile picture, even after all this time! :) And of course I'm also happy to see that you too have picked up FFXIV in the meantime ;)
I know right. I run into “helicopter” tanks even today. Some of them are sprouts some not. Ironically MNK is usually the DPS I play most often. Sometime I think people are just fishing for a tilt out of me lol...
I come from action combat games and couldn't get used to tab targeting. After I got told to LB in a dungeon I mistargeted and ended up LBing a single fly trash mob (...that animation felt like an eternity knowing what I just did). I also called my rl friend cause I thought my headset was broken as it kept making ssssshhhhh noices the whole time. I tried all kinds of things to fix "my broken headset" and then after about a half hour realised that I stood next to the alchemy crafting station which kept making that noise.
Omg this! The first time I was playing I didn't notice I was standing near 5 crafters and I wondered why I kept hearing these tools noises lol. I had to walk to them closely and clicked on them to inspect like what are you guys doingggggg XD
I played a lot of mmorpg's, over 14 years I played a few different ones, and I just fucking learned 3 weeks ago that you can TAB TARGET ENEMYS.. I just felt like the dumbest person on this planet, but now I really enjoy playing FFXIV
@Timothy Clark Hahaha yeah it can. In ishgard restoration, I found a spot to quietly doing my craftings but then I saw this player came to me. Kinda hanging out. The next few hours and later became DAYS when I came back to the spot, that same player had took my spot lol!
@@srankhunterliz6843 For a while I didn't know we could click on the enemy list to change target and the fact of red spot beside their name would show that we have aggro. It was a struggle before finding out about that red thingy when I tried to play as tank haha
When I started as a red mage after about a week of playing, I thought the verthunder and veraero 2 spells were simply upgrades of verthunder and veraero, so I ended up using the 2 spells against every enemy until I figured out that the normal versions did more damage to single enemies
It took me until just now, from this video, to learn that you have to look away from the glowing eyeball.. I have 3 lvl 80's and have completed the shb msq . :(
honestly you can do everything in the game without knowing any dungeon mechanics. makes it that much funnier when people take it seriously and yell at you for it.
@@trancebodega2739 You absolutely cannot do extreme trials and savage dungeons without knowing the mechanics. Because it's not just you who you kill, it's the whole party, or the healers economy, or the DPS to meet the DPS checks. Even in normal raids and dungeons, people get annoyed because it's not just your own experience you're messing up by ignoring mechanics, it's theirs too.
@@FaithOriginalisme most(or all?) of the overworld ones have AoE markers that you can avoid altogether by not standing in it, voiding the need to look back.
I was throwing away all the Triple Triad card duplicates. I found out just recently you can sell them in the Gold Saucer casino. I really like TT and I always win all the possible cards from NPCs, so I threw away a lot of cards...
As a melee DPS, I didn't care about AoEs since you know, "my healer will heal me anyways", it's only waaaaay later when I tried being a healer that I realized how obnoxious I've been to my healers all this time !
Ya... whenever I saw someone not move for AoE's, I would tell them to move out next time. If they did, awesome. If they wouldn't, I wouldn't heal them again the rest of the run. I never cared if we wiped, I'm too stubborn for that crap lol.
Me as a sprout:Haha so dumb I have never made any of these mistakes Zepla: using regen before every fight on tank Me getting mad at tank for not aggroing correctly yesterday: **starts sweating profusely**
Okay I know this is old but as a very experienced WHM, putting regen on the tank before they pull is a *good* thing. Not only does it give them regeneration, but if you do take threat on some enemies, you essentially become a tank cooldown, supplementing their health with your own. Just make sure that you bring those enemies to the tank so they don't keep hitting you. At that point, if they fail to take those enemies back, it's their own fault.
I love that my sons mostly tell me how to play. MSQ's first.. then go to Class (job) quests.. then back to MSQ.. it's helped a lot.. though I am only lvl 30 because I work full time :(
So it’s been a week... not sure I like the game. I hate being forced to do dungeons.. period, they are stressful mostly because each person has a job to do and welp...archer gets to shoot from far away..which is what I like..but I know from watching videos that there’s more to it. I want to have fun and learning rotation some colored circles or other things about parties is not my thing. :( in WOW you can lvl and enjoy game play without dungeons at all. I got several characters to 120 just questing cause it’s possible, FF needs to add a high XP rewards to side quests so people like me will enjoy the game.
Now I've played other MMO's before I got into FFXIV... And I've always played either a healer or some form of a DPS with heals in between. My mistakes: 1) You don't "overheal" in this game. You run out of MP very quickly. Me being somewhat anxious, I'm always looking at the tank and my HP, making sure we live. 2) You can't spam potions to heal your MP. (other games you can do this if you're soloing or in a pinch in a dungeon.) 3) You gotta plan your positions here. Make sure to dodge all AoE's and other things. 4) You do have to deal damage here. Which again, I don't mind. I rather keep busy than be bored and heal all the way. 5) Better learn the mechanics of a boss/trials/dungeon by watching videos on UA-cam. It improved my usefulness as a healer, and I get a lot more player commendations~ 6) I practice dungeons I suck at. Hell, I'll PUG it. Why? Because the more you do it, the better you're prepared.
1.B: Overhealing causes you to gain agro. So wait till after your tank starts taking damage to cast Regen. (On a funny note, I once used this to steal agro from a tank during a low level dungeon that I was synced down for)
I ignored a lot of the unlock blue quests. That meant I unlocked: - Barber at lvl52 - Challenge log at lvl60 or so - Heroic Tam-Tara at lvl66 (and I actually thought Limit Break is some charged boss attack and not for the party)
You know one of my biggest misunderstandings was what the return button did, I literally went through hakors manor and half way through people would just disappear and I would be like "i guess the dungeon is over" so I'd leave and quit the game thinking that I just some how got stuck in the game, then I would log back in and wonder why I had a leaver queue, I went and searched the forums thinking that it was some sort of bug until square Enix support literally sent me a message through my email about the return button on the manor
@@MikaMausArt my first run of the manor, everyone disappeared and i was like "alright, good job team!" and im like "....but how do i leave", but was thinking it to myself. after literally a minute, my party typed "/return" for me and i teleported lmfao i was "wallowing in self pity" when i arrived and they all said it was ok and even gave me commendations lol
The first time I did the manor, everyone went back to the beginning using return, and I never even knew about that at the time. I decided that since I thought I was alone, I would check every single room until I got back to the top for treasure or something that was left behind. I never even noticed everyone saying use the return ability. I wasted probably 5 minutes of their time and I felt soooo bad. I kept apologizing. They said it's okay but I couldn't help it.
Bruh I had this happen to me too, it's the first time that spell is useful in a dungeon, and I was so confused when I checked the loot for a room and turned around to see everyone fucking gone
the RP walk toggle happened to me while leveling my WHM, ended up wiping on ifrit cuz I didn't know what bind it was and the RP walk wasn't fast enough to dodge the abilities T_T
I was healing in Aetherochemical research facility when my cat stepped on my keyboard and hit the key to make you walk. I play on ps4. I didnt know the keybind. None of the party knew the keybind. The whole dungeon ground to a halt for 5 mins while we figured out which key it was. You are not alone with this LOL
I saw a FATE pop up while I was doing some CRP stuff from just having finished a logging session. I ran in with my saw trying to turn enemies into lumber, then getting disappointed when I got no XP for participating. And yes, there were other people doing the FATE, witnessing a berserk carpenter sawing enemies to death very slowly.
Sprout casters; do yourself a favor when you’re in a dungeon with a tank that does large pulls... LB on that mass of mobs and cackle as you reign down the pain! (Actually wish more folks would use the LB in general. ^.^)
Caster lb1 doesn't really do anything to mobs pull like that! Best to save for boss but then 70--90% of time no one even uses lb when I tank or heal I have a macro with something like "A DPS should use Limit Break and Single Target=melee over Caster/Range" and still no one uses lb. (they need to fix how limit brakes are gained again cause most of the time don't even get to see lb2 in dungeons or lb3 in raids or trials there are a few raids you can see lb3 but even then some still don't use lb3) mainly when I'm healer or tank but when I'm dps and want to use lb someone else goes and uses it.
@@gtasthehunter The thing is LBs before a boss doesn't save for the boss phase. As far as I can tell now, as I saw the LB bar more often to see the timing, you always have a single LB bar in Dungeons, 2 bars in Alliance Raids, and LBs in Dungeons during a pull isn't always needed, but it does help like a good 3%-5%. Its not meant to outright nuke them, just more damage. I always use LBs for bosses at like 10% remaining health.
I bought it from the merchants that sell levelling gear. And it was never one full set at once I apologize I worded myself wrong so if one piece broke I wouldn’t repair it I would replace it from the levelling gear merchants
"imagine being in a dungeon where the tank is spinning it in circles" This was literally the dungeon I was just in, I was playing pugi! I was torn between telling them or not... I ended up not, but probably should have in case they got someone who was mean about it later. I just wanted to let them have their fun.
I first played the game as pugilist, but later became a tank main, so I've always been hyper conscious of the positionals for my allies. It sucks that the game doesnt teach tank players to keep the boss facing one way.
I was in that dungeon once while the new tank freaked out about his health dropping and starting running in circles away from the boss, making my character run laps around the area chasing the boss while throwing my lance at random intervals.... Man that was straight out from a cartoon XD
Thank you soooo much for this!!! It's great to know I'm not the only one who's done some of this...such as stepping outside Uldah as a crafter and thinking I need to level up by fighting with my trust needle...!!!
i never saw the eye before because im playing from bird eye view to look down on my character to see if im standing in shit, so i always got hit by it because i was like "there is no eye what are you talking about" xD
@@firby7341 i mained healer so i didnt look at enemies alot so i never noticed the eyes haha, didnt learn till innocence to look away, though i accidently avoided most eye mechanics
Yeah, I've only played CNJ, SCH/SMN and DNC so far with a zoomed out camera. Going to have to look out for this eye animation cause I never noticed it before either. Just got told in dungeons to look away from X attack.
I'll be honest, the walking thing mentioned at the end is something that happened to me when I first started playing WoW. I was so confused. After rebooting and going through my system settings I ended up pressing my keyboard keys one at a time until I found the correct one.
@@sithsquid1 Beyblades are the spinning tops that were and still are popular toys and had and still has a popular anime so when they say beyblading around the boss they mean constantly moving around it to avoid the attacks which as a tank isnt ideal lol
When I went into my first dungeon as a Conjurer I mistook MP for HP and spammed Cure on the dps bc I thought he was losing HP like crazy... and then the tank died and I realized my mistake. He was super understanding and everything went super smooth after that, but good god was that embarrassing
friend of mine who's caught up with shadowbringers had the auto attack button instead of lb on her hotbar and couldn't figure out why nothing was happening
@@GamerNym I...never notice it until I see this comment lmaooooo Like I knew how LB symbol looks like so I just opened the general tab under skill window and dragged the LB button to hotbars so I didnt check the other buttons xD
I think there is an option that auto-attack happens anyway when targeting mobs? Unless you are a healer. iirc. But playing with controller I think if you double click when you target a mob it does auto-attack anyway.
Heavensward sprout here- The only time I had ever run Aurum Vale was with 2 blue mage friends. It was very scary when I rolled Aurum in leveling queue with randos and ended up trying to pull wall to wall and just kept dying. This was like a week ago lol.
The Eyeball AoE is misleading because it's not used consistently . Some enemies Eyeball has a telegraph, other enemies there is no telegraph. Really only the enemies that don't have a telegraph you have to look away from
I started FF14 summer of 21, and this video was a huge help to me! UA-cam just recommended it again and I went back to rewatch for the nostalgia, figured I should leave a comment and say thanks!
I didn't know that sprint existed until I got my mount, I guess I just used it, didn't notice the movement speed increase, and took it off my Hotbar. Only learned when I told my friend that I was so happy to get my mount because I wouldn't be moving at the same slow-ass pace anymore. He jokingly asked if I'd been using sprint. I still haven't lived that one down
BTW, for anyone coming here now. Sprint is still useful after getting your mount. It's commonly used in dungeons and raids, and sometimes trails. Tanks that like to do big pulls will often use sprint before entering combat and then use the speed boost to help them collect a bunch of mobs. In addition, because the tank has a speed boost, they are able to easily run by enemies and create distance between them. Causing the enemies to be too far away to hit him while the tank is pulling more mobs. It's a form of damage mitigation. When the tank activates sprint, the dps and healers should also active sprint. It is especially important for the healer to active sprint. That tanks wants to run ahead and everyone else should active sprint to keep up with the tank. Once the tank has decided they pulled enough mobs, in a short while they are going to be taking a lot of damage. If the healer is too far away, chances are the tank will die. Note for tanks, while your party members should be using sprint to keep up with you, it is also your job to know if they are keeping up with you. If your healer isn't keeping up with you, you need to adjust the pace. In addition, pay attention to the LOS with your healer. I've had a tank die because stairs broke LOS. If they were at the top of the stairs instead of a little past the stairs, it would have been fine.
I've never noticed, either. But my main is a Bard, and we don't get positionals. It's even possible they don't show the gap for casters and ranger DPSs. I'll keep an eye out.
6:29 Omg I had a tank that did that in a duty I was in. I was going insane. He would just not stop running around, made positioning my DRG impossible. He wouldn't listen to us, wouldn't put on his stance. We ended up voting him out. Then the other DPS left because apparently that was her boyfriend. So the healer and I finished the dungeon with just the two of us lol.
as a mid-heavensward sprout, i was running dungeons with my friend who was completely new to the game. during one of the early dungeons, our healer DCed and we were all kinda shocked. i offered to heal since i did have healing/res capabilities as arcanist. it took a while but we cleared the dungeon without any deaths or wipes and i was super proud that i managed to save the run. i didn't realize that we could've just found a new healer, because i'd never been in a situation like that before and the only other users in the party were completely new so they didn't know either. :') also, before the summoner rework, i used to just run around bosses spamming ruin 2 and my debuff skills. i never used ruin 3 because i didn't like how i had to stand still for 2 seconds to cast it. i played like this until near the end of heavensward. then i actually looked up the summoner rotation and was hit by immense shame lmao
I accidentally hit that “only walk” button at one point and spent a half hour trying to clear up my inventory thinking I was carrying too much stuff and had gotten too thicc to run. I blame the Elder Scrolls for that one
I hated that in elder scrolls. Really hurt me throwing good stuff away
Ah... I dunno how to walk until 6 months ago. This coming from a returner trade mentor
I didn't know there was a sprint button...I thought that most people in dungeons were PC players or had better connections.
This happened to me during one of the MSQ solo instances and I thought it was just part of the story for dramatic effect or something so I didn’t think much of it. Getting out of AOE’s was a bitch though especially as BLM lmao. Wasn’t til after I finished it and kept walking that I realized something was wrong. A quick Google search helped me solve the problem immediately though. Still really funny when I think about it
I did this. In Stormblood. During a Zenos fight. And I had no idea lmao
I jumped off a cliff, and survived at 1 HP. I assumed that would always happen, so i jumped off a cliff to escaped an enemy, thinking i was clever, and died instantly. Big sad
That's the case when you have certain dmg reducing buffs like MNK's fist of earth. You'll survive falls with 1 HP (might only be the case if you jump with full health)
@@jeremybitar9831 actually the game only kills you with fall damage if it registers you as "in battle" if you're not then you'll always survive giant drops with 1 hp
@@jeremybitar9831 all class and job are the same, falls with 1 HP unless u are in battle
Yeah, otherwise the only way to 'jump' off without taking damage is using the dragoon skill as far as I know. But that has more to do with displacement on the x/y-axis of the game plane.
I was losing pretty badly to a mob and decided to make a break for it, jumped off a cliff but the mob got one more hit on me, cue death animation in mid air xD
I had my cringe moment yesterday, I’m a healer. On my literal second dungeon ever, unfortunately I messed up and we wiped. In my panic tho, when the wait/return box turned up, I chose wait... not knowing my team couldn’t revive me. I also didn’t know how to return myself, so there’s just my character lying dramatically on the floor as my poor teammates keep spawning in, frantically trying to type to explain, whilst the mobs are also spawning in. There was a solid 5 mins of these poor, sweet people trying to escape the cycle of death... I logged out in sheer embarrassment and sat in pained silence for at least 20 mins before I had the courage to try again.
All healers have done this for sure lol especially now that there are so many healers, at first I would mistake other classes for healers that could revive me and remember feeling annoyed when I didn’t get revived. But don’t feel bad healing is really hard. You will wipe from time to time. It’s nornal
Another reason why I love playing a DPS with rez
I did this just the other day, same exact scenario LOL
I had the same experience, I got delayed by the cutscene and the seal was on and I died, it is the first time for me died in the dungeon and I was panic and don't know which button should use, wait or return, I was afraid that return will return everyone to the beginning of the dungeon so I choose wait and then watch my whole party wiped by the boss XD.
That person who just walked everywhere was pretty legendary, though, you gotta admit. Warrior of Chill.
🤣🤣
I appreciate it on a spiritual level since i originally found that feature accidentally, and then decided it was a good idea to do the whole story like that. Intentionally. Which I'm still in the process of doing for science, and memes.
Doing a walkthrough ain't easy nowadays.
I met one early on during A Realm Reborn. I have a party of 3 and we are lacking a Tank, so we go DF. We found a tank that only use walk. At first we were annoyed but after a few minutes, we also walk alongside with him. Super chill run.
Warrior of Chill should be an achievement
oh god, the dungeons would be hilarious
I started as an Archanist and I didn’t know how to cast spells, so for my first fight I ended up beating a ladybug to death with my book 😂
Saaaaame
LOL
Honestly tho the beating stuff up with our weapon is the funniest thing
Yeah but if you think about it that's real life lol, we can't cast spells LMAO or maybe wait for it: You know you play FF14 to much when your trying to cast a spell to kill a fly!!!!
I'm going to make a D&D character out of your story for my next one shot. Wizard who doesn't know how to cast spells so they beat monsters to death and became a Barbarian by accident.
Thug life didn't choose him
It's nice to be reminded, as a long time player, that there will always be new players that don't know as much simply due to not playing as long. It's important to be friendly and patient at all times, as a lot of the time these players will not speak up out of fear of being embarrased.
I recently started playing and a random player gifted me a minion, it caused me so much anxiety because I play with a controller and couldn't manage to find how to click the accept trade button. My SO finally grabbed my mouse as I cried out in frustration and clicked the right button. Sometimes being nice to the new guy can leave them feeling stressed out.
@@azurastar3223 😂👍
Someone was so mean to me (new healer here) the other day I actually wanted to cry lol
@@Haylormoon Just ignore them. You are there for the fun. I play alot of other game that has more toxic community (dead by daylight) than ff14. You can get used to toxicity. I'm not bothered anymore. I just ignore them and just have fun.
And you can get banned for being toxic too. Maybe just report them.
@@Haylormoon i purposely haven't gone into a dungeon with my level 25 conjurer. I main Blackmage. I like sticking in the back letting everyone else worry about things. For the most part im ignored. If you get tired of healer try out black mage or Arcanist. Both are fun and mostly ignored by any toxic people.
I didn't know I was a healer as a conjurer until level 20... During dungeons, someone asked "Who is healing?" (obviously nobody did at that point in Sastasha... I was stoning the whole time... and aeroing.) and people said "I'll help heal"...their reactions always were similar to "Duhh"... I was confused. No dungeon runs went smooth. A lot wipes, and I didn't understand why. I was told this was the strongest DPS. So I wanted to be strong! I went to my friend who told me to be a Conjurer since it is the best DPS ever. I asked: Why does people want me to heal all the time??" My friend said "I got confused with Arcanist..." I cried.
😂
Rofl!! XD
This is amazing.
Holy fuck id cry for sure hahahaha
I was confused too. I picked the conjurer instead of the arcanist but i realized it early enough to switch to the arcanist just as i finished the lv 10 quest with the conjurer
I do every single sidequest because seeing that marker bothers me, damnit.
Yesss sameeee
If I see it, I have to do it, because I can't not click it. I like a cleared map.
I just got my friend into the game like a month and a half ago and she got up to level 60 by doing every side quest she saw.....she was only in level 30 MSQ...Godspeed......
I know that feeling so bad, I'm used to rpgs without the job system that ff14 has.
Same here, trying break the circle now
I didn't connect "lb" to "limit break" until level 70. Folks would tell me to lb as a dps main and I'd just be so lost like "i'm not playing with a controller what" it was so embarrassing finally hearing a friend actually say limit break and just dishljfdhfngskf
As a new player, I've not had anybody say to lb in a dungeon (I've been playing as a thalmaturge ) i have been using it when the last boss is at like 30% HP, but I think I've wasted it on trash once or twice.
THIS JUST HAPPENED TO ME LAST NIGHT
@@k2k4 depending on what your doing, a lvl 3 lb will generally leave a boss a 1-2% if not outright kill it if you pop it around 10%.
It's also worth noting Lbs do different damage based on the archetype of your job. Physical ranged has a directional with mediocre damage, magic has a large AOE with ok damage, melee has a high damage single target.
Healers have a party heal/rez
Tanks give a party shield (which you will probably never see unless doing high end content and even then it's rare.)
I started as a Marauder. When I unlocked the tank stance ability, I didn’t realize it was one of those abilities you only had to click once and not touch again. I treated it like a normal ability and kept clicking it during fights, so I would be going on and off, on and off, on and off my tank stance.
Dps? Your healer probably has PTSD from this run xD
I was scrolling going "glad im nit this bad. But then I seen this one. I did this.
I did the saaaame thing lol
I started FF14 a little while back but only got to level 34 and quit playing for a long time. I finally started playing again and I was playing the the main quests and got into a dungeon and didn't realize I was doing this.
My healer on the team explained it too me which was really cool. Use to some games where people just yell and get pissed off. I thanked them for the info and decided after that dungeon I was going to watch some videos to learn more about how I should be playing my tank.
Omg I just recently started the game and did the same exact thing.
on my first run of Cutter's Cry when we reached Chimera, tank told me to hug the boss when it's eyes turned violet .....I literally /hugged the boss for the entire battle
I had a tank do the literal opposite. Blue eyes meant run away. He continued running for about 30 secs
What I learned from doing Chimera (and I quote):
"Purple - Go hug the mob"
"Blue - Run the hell away"
And my 1st time healing as a White Mage... I went in a wedding dress, NOT my gear. Lmao
He probably played final fantasy 11 where you had to spam /soothe on the behemoth boss in einherjar and /kneel on the Odin boss in there as well.
@@MrNicko555 I think that tank was me and now I wanna die ;_;
@@pelosuelto70 At least you looked beautiful
When I first played, I remember running into a FATE with my Goldsmith and plopping my table down, expecting some mad exp gains because in my head I was supplying the war/fate effort.
So pure 😂😭
hahaha
Omg I did the same thiiiiing. 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
I am crying. Iol
Lmao
That "Stuck in RP Walk" is such a mood. I pressed something during Prae and couldn't figure out how to get out of it. The entire party started walking too to humor me. It was funny yet embarrassing lol
What a chill group. God bless.
❤️
That's so rear for ppl to actually humor other's ppl embarrassing moment you got a good party there xDD
NUM/ is ur friend
This happened to me too and someone sent a message in chat saying "Astro I guess you accidently started walking and don't know how to stop? Press this key and you'll run again" They got my com that match and the whole party were wetting themselves at me and decided to walk too for a bit.
When i was new i didn't know you unlocked mounts around level 20 by a sidequest, so i did the entirety of ARR on foot.
Well, it is one of those Blue Plus quests. Or was this WAY back in the day before those were a thing? (I played back in 2.0)
@@zidaryn It was back in 3.0, but i didn't really pay attention to every side quest at all. I was only focused on msq to catch up to my friend.
@@zidaryn i found this out too, i got to level 30+ and got my whm mount before reaching the company chocobo quest, you dont actually have to do any grand company quests to unlock seals since the next main story quest gives you just enough seals to get the chocobo license
But wait that's impossible since the final mission of ARR requires for u to get a chocobo, for the end cutscene
@@john_7000 Entirety really translates to like 98/100 quests or so. I don't remember the exact number, it being like 5 years and some change ago. I wasn't referring to ARR+ patch quests. Though if that were possible, i'd pity the poor soul that walked that lonely road.
"I looked away irl"
*PC throws out a flashbang*
xDDD
Thats a common thing for CS:GO players tho.
Terrorists Win.
That made me laugh..it had to be a troll. surely nobody is that dumb
@@luminoussun nah I've done it before XD
"The real main quest is to have fun." I love that
@Solaire of Astora What's this... game you speak of?
I'm enjoying my slow journey through AAR. I avoided most of the mistakes mentioned in this video.
My mistake was that I started Arcanist and pushed to then get Summoner all the lvl 50 whilst not really enjoying the job. I mean it's not like I hate or dislike it, I just don't find it particularly fun.
So I experimented. Did Gld to Pld 31 and disliked being a tank in group dungeons. Lnc is currently 27 and I'm getting drg to lvl 30-35 to see if I like it. So far so good.
But what really caught me by surprise was conjurer. Solo it felt a lot like arc/smn which is fine. But group content... it seems I'm a born healer. I absolutely loved it so much I made a new character for it for role play purposes. She's already white mage lvl 32 and I'm loving it. I found my calling.
So my advice to newbies is study each job as best you can on the net. Try to talk to players about the job and watch what they do in group content. If a job seems interesting at least get it to lvl 20 to get a good feel for it solo and as a team.
I wish I'd discovered whm before I slogged through 95% of ARR as Summoner.
That part!!
Most girls: "The real main quest is to have fun!" Most boys: "The real main quest to ninja my frriend, kill everything in sight, and hurl out troll insults."
This is real life
First time doing Haukke Manor, I thought using Return would take me back to Gridania, so I ran ALL THE WAY BACK to the start of the dungeon from the basement. My party was not pleased.
I didn't even know I should be back to the entrance and wondered why everyone dissapeared! Two minutes after panicking what I should do the chat explained to me which button to press 🙈
Same!
Ugh I literally just had an issue like this, I took return off of my hotbar and freaked out when everyone suddenly started disappearing and couldn't find it in my actions and spells and had no idea you could type "/return" and other actions in the chat
@@idek5 You just taught me I could type /return and I'm in Stormblood. 🙈 I took it off the bar to save space and use the Travel menu!
I just did this.
My first mistake, I was a Tank. I didn't know what a Tank Stance was. I thought people were being dirty asking me to squate my avatar on the ground to make it look like they were taking a poop, I tried all the emotes looking for "Tank Stance", never found it. Nobody ever said "cast iron will" which would of helped the first time.
There's something about STANCE under the Character tab window. Amongst all those things relating to your Minion, Mount, but above that. Traits, Stance...I think I've seen it there.
🤣Nice one 😂
Hey I was one of the layers that didn't get their job stone. I was a pugilist until level 42 lul. I'm thinking like others that did this why tf dont I feel like my class(a paladin). Welp that's why went and finished off the job quest(I did some but forgot/stopped right before lvl 30). Shit happens.
My most embarrassing moment was when i didnt realise i had to repair my gear to keep heals strong and everyone in my party were confused why the heals were weak since i was pressing the right buttons. They then asked if i repair my gear constantly. I said, “y-you have to repair it..?”
You get a message in the chat if one of your items under 25% durability. :D
Thats good to know i had no idea
And here I was thinking I knew pretty much everything 😭 rpgs are my favorite kind of games so I always check and repair my gear but I had no idea this affected healing wth 😭😭😭 ?!
It does? Thank god I'm paranoid about my gear breaking, so I repair any chance I get lol.
Same issue
Friendly reminder that everyone should always do the Hall of the Novice for each role when you 1st try it. A lot of these things are actually taught in there. Will save lots of heartache.
one question about the part where you need to close the gate to stop adds from spawning I've seen nothing like that ever is used anywhere else? So is there anything like that anywhere else?
Also gives you mice gear to last you well into your second or third dungeon at least, plus that ring for extra xp below 30.
@@gtasthehunter It's really there to teach you that you can't just stand there attacking stuff and have to actually do mechanics.
TBH, I think you should not be allowed to queue for a duty in any particular role until you complete the hall of novice. There could be a pop-up directing a player where to go if they tried. I have encountered new players who didn't even know about the hall.
@@ericisbeowulf Well, the MSQ takes you there, and there's a Smith at the entrance to the 1st 3 dungeons, but it's optional to do it, I do think they should make you do at least 1 of the roles before doing Sastasha, though.
I just started the game and now I'm overwhelmed watching this. So much to learn
Same but very embarrassing for me bc I literally already played the game 150 hours but decided to restart from the beginning as a different class bc I hadn’t played for months but I’m level 25 and I still managed to forget you get your mount through a side quest and not the main one 😭 a comment on this video that I already saw months ago just reminded me 😂 this game has so much going on it’s easy to make mistakes but they’re not game breaking most of the time, just annoying
I'm downloading it at the moment, now I'm terrified :)
@@Writersexchange-ebooks honestly just read everything ! most people just glance at stuff wich is why they miss important things, like tool tips ESPECIALLY I just learned after 350hrs that as a tank the ability “arms length” can be use to slow down mobs auto attacks and skill usage ffs, that is pretty handy for your healers 😭
Lol I remember when I was a new player, and I unlocked the level 40 crafting doublet or w/e, I thought it looked so cool that I put it on immediately and wore it all the way until level 50. It wasn't until my tank in the Aurum Vale mentioned "why is our healer wearing crafting gear" that I realized how important it was for me to not do that lmao.
Gear is really poorly explained, like don't use tank/lancer gear on tanks, tank only gear has better stats for tanking, so why is the gear even tank/lancer?
@@Gee-xb7rt dragoons used to be able to tank back then. They had the marauder aggro weaponskill and keen flury as dmg reduction cooldown...
Yes, it was weird
I had a tank with me in the Vale once... wearing a Woolen Robe... T'was the first time I rage quit a dungeon...
@@Mio_Rin lol, that is pretty bad, i don't heal often, and a lot of it is just trauma from undergeared tanks blaming me.
How????? Just read the stats!!! Look in character menu and it literally tells you what the stats do 🤦 use common sense.
I've healed in crafting gear. Despite the stats, I was **not** in control.
you crafted your own demise expertly.
Ok, this comment section is gold. You synthesized your downfall. 😂😂😂😂
Was it Aurum Vale? I tanked an AV with a healer in only crafter gear. My HP was in pain
@@aelanarbrightfield6817 the dungeon was "Sloppeh" despite is not even getting far enough to hear the line.
I tanked sunken temple in crafting gear thinking "eh it'll be fine". It was not fine and I got kicked bc the healer couldnt keep me alive lmao
I just started playing this week, and this video has been incredibly helpful, thank you!
I too have been clearing all sidequests in each zone too soon, so now I am lv 30 in 3 classes before even unlocking the job quests lmao
I don't know if you mean "unlocking" in a different way, but the only req for job quests is job level...so you should have, now... 18 job quests unlocked? Lol +3 actually with the level 30 quests that bring you to your soul stone, so 21 quests to do!
@@henrykramer365 There is another requirement for the job quests: msq. I leveled up a few classes while ignoring the ARR msq XD. Meaning you unlock job quests both by leveling and msq.
Been playing for like a Year and a half... AND I JUST LEARNED: ctrl + up/down arrow, will move your camera vertically (very useful on TALL bosses with gaze mechanics)
Been playing since just before Stormblood, still hadnt figured that out.
Bless you. Going to be using this for bosses that're huge and/or require arena awareness.
Wh.. 2k hours.. i didnt know..
Handy :O thanks homie
I didn't even know this one
when i died in a dungeon i didn’t know how to respawn so i just lay dead for literally 10 minutes
OMG THIS WAS ME IN PREATORIUM
I did the same, although for me it was because I'm very used to how things work in WoW. People who instantly respawn upon dying are generally considered noobs, since ressing is preferable most of the time. I didn't know about any debuffs, shortcuts or whatever in ff14, so I lay on the ground and waited for someone to rez me for quite some time until people told me to respawn :D
@@max8m1 you say that but most people on wow still instantly release, fair amount of the time out of habit but still. even in serious guilds xD
@@MissEvanescenceFan It's usually the first thing my guilds drilled into recruits new to mythic (serious) raiding ^^
Same case with me, in my first run of Tam-Tara. But in that first run, our healer wouldn't heal me. At all. So I laid there for ages waiting for them to res me.
Thankfully I found out sooner than later how to respawn but yeah. That was a disaster of a run, so I thought I was being a bad tank.
And then our healer left in the middle of a boss attempt.
When I first started playing WHM, I was new to MMORPGs and had only played a DPS before, which had no abilities that targeted allies. I didn't understand that you can click the party list to select someone, and thought you had to click on their avatar itself to select them so you could heal them. The whole time I was SO IMPRESSED by healers especially in large instances because I was like "how do they identify and click on the players so quickly and accurately when there's so many people running around". When someone told me I could select a person from the party list, my mind was blown. Before that I just spammed medica because I couldn't target anyone properly :S
Or better yet use f1-f8 to target party members
Well to be honest targeting can be annoying. I found I’m faster at healing with a PlayStation remote because it’s easier to scroll through people where as dps is more annoying to target for me.
same, but thaumaturge struggling to help cus by the time i targeted the enemy and started casting they were dead lmfao
@@tcoren1 good lord, thank you heavens for that one
The first time I ever ran Haukke Manor I was healing, and just after the first boss I hit a hotkey that put me into first-person perspective, and I had no idea how to fix it. I finished the dungeon that way, I have no idea how we didn't all die. It was immersive, but quite stressful.
I did this with my DRG and I was freaking out when we went to face each boss! I had to dodge all the mechanics and stuff in first person and was on the edge of my seat every time a sound went off LOL!
@@aoiharuko8237 What key did you press? I didn't know you could go full first person and it would be great to know for landscape screenshots
@@thecatfromspace72 TheCat FromSpace I play on the ps4, but I think I accidentally pressed one of the joysticks to get into it and afterwards I figured out that I could just press it again to get out of the mode. I think the home key is what you use on the keyboard though :3
@@aoiharuko8237 Cool! Next time I get to play I'll see if its the home key and then maybe I can snag some cool screenshots. Thank you!
I used to zoom into first-person in WoW, running around going ham on things. When my friends watched my feeds, as I healed in first-person viewpoint, always checking the floors for AoE I shouldn't be in and turning to throw down my own, they lost their shit.
I was just doing it because I am a very good healer, and was bored and having a blast trying something odd. It about killed them to see me do it, and that made it ALL the more worth! ^,^
As a new player to both MMOs and FFXIV, this makes me feel so much better about myself lol
I was in a dungeon on my Dragoon and the tank spun the boss in circles while it spewed poison all over. So I stood back with the Summoner and tossed my Piercing Talon at it the entire fight! Summoner said "EPIC" and gave me a commendation LOL
FFXIV was my first MMO ever. I happily strolled my way through the MSQ thinking ah, what a nice, slow-paced Final Fantasy game :) so relaxing :) and then walked into Sastasha with absolutely zero knowledge of what a "dungeon" even is. My poor noob ass was SO BAFFLED when everyone just booked it forward, not even pausing to fight the things that attacked them, instead running through to the end???? how can be??? are we not gonna take our time and explore the cool new area? what is happening?? I thought it was all going to be like the MSQ and didn't even understand what the roles in the party were lmao.
I ended up running ahead of the tank, thinking that the point was just to get to the end as quick as possible. I aggroed half the dungeon and got creamed by the boss before the rest of the party even got to the door. Nobody bothered to bring me back lol which was fair and also gave me some time to look up how to actually play the god damn game lmao. The party were unfortunately dicks about it, but it's pretty hilarious to look back on now because I was honestly so clueless lol
Ur party did the right thing.
Well did your party try to tell you ?
Cause i ran to the same kind of person where he again and again ran straight to the mob killing himself (he is a dps). We tried again and again to warn him but he keep doing that so we kicked him out
@@mch5546 bro just think. he can rev himself and go back to the beggining of the dungeon and go back to his party. and take things with calm and ask what he was supposed to do. its not that hard to understand. also it was a risk for the party if was literally 'trolling' in the dungeon.
@@mrlogicks InstaIock Exactly!!!!! But he Didn't. He just keep bombarding ahead alone. Dunno if he even read the chat. His behaviour is either complete beginner or someone that is drunk. I actually met someone that use skip potion to go straight to stormblood and lvl max Paladin. Got wiped a few times but the dude actually want to listen what to do and how to do better and we cleared the dungeon.
Back when ARR launched, dungeons where like that. Very chill and friendly players and was always a fresh view for a while. As the player base eventually shifted past that area, it started to go down hill to "move move move" when the wave of new players thinned and everyone was sick of running those first dungeons lol.
My biggest mistake was playing wow for 12 years instead of giving this game a bigger chance earlier. Feelsbad
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When I started as a healer 3 months ago, I didn't have a wipe until Moogle King. Most dps did not follow mechanics whereas I always watch guides before. After the first wipe, we defeated him but one dps was all angry saying the healing was terrible. It hit me so hard ( is my first MMORPG ) I apologized and ran out crying, but the rest of the players all gave me recommendations saying it was all fine. - I learned that day, that most of the time, this community is really amazing and kind to sprouts. Just need to grow a thicker skin when it comes to bad apples.
In my static during our Titan prog one of our tanks spun titan around in a circle because he got confused on his positioning and our NIN was trying to follow him while trying to get his positionals off and over voice we here "WHY IS HE DOING A 360?!" and I loooooooooost it. I was laughing so hard because I just pictured our NIN's fingers moving at warp speed trying to keep up with Titan while also trying to pull off positionals and ninjitsu's and I had to mute myself the rest of the night because I was laughing so hard at the image.
Closest I've come to peeing myself in years.
@@MrZaboomafoo822 or me 😂
I think I just made an idiot move during Titan last night. I was a DPS trying to get out of the huge AOE and backed right up to the edge, and he blew me right off the cliff. Nobody could revive me, I couldn't restart, the rest of the group had to take him on their own. :(
@@autumnatic lol i was a dragoon and i was using a jump to get out of an aoe but i jumped right off the cliff xD
@@NimbleWimbIe I've done that on RDM when we do our backward jump. Right off the cliff. But at least I looked fabulous doing it!
I never knew you could jump and thought i got stuck between 2 rocks in Gridania and thought i had to restart the game lol
Lmao, at the beginning of the game i didnt know how to jump until next week xD
I did the same XD
In my mom's defense... she thought you couldn't jump because you can't jump in XI.
@@varia2354 XI vet here. just started up 14 cause it was free on PSN. i legit noticed you could jump immediately and thought to myself "...holy shit direct lines not blocked by annoyingly raised pixels?! MADNESS!" and then just yesterday while trying to run back to Ul'dah i'm like "is there fall damage in this game?" *drops off cliff, loses half health* "YEP! There's fall damage!"
Total Achievement Hunter moment.
How? How the fuck does that happen?
I started as an archer - I found that strafing in a circle around melee enemies actually did help - they just follow you around but never get to pull off an attack animation.
That's a technique called 'kiting'.
@@HamsterPants522 Thank you! Didn't know that is an actual thing. I'd stop my circles whenever other players come close in fear of looking stupid cause it's the easiest way to dodge for me.
This is how I completed some of my hunting logs against slow monsters. 😂
Maybe I'm just insane but, EVERY SINGLE SIDE QUEST MUST BE PURGED FROM MY MAP. Do them all before continuing MSQ lol....
Same, lmao. I see a side quest? FINISH IT! I want the map to be clear and clean of any marks.
I've started doing this since Heavensward.....but haven't finished the 2.0 map zone quests still >3>
I cleaned them all out while leveling my main in Shadowbringers. It was such a nice feeling to see those clean maps that I've been going back and clearing out the older stuff too. I cleaned out Stormblood quests while leveling Gunbreaker, and now I'm planning to do ARR and HW as part of the process of leveling White Mage. That might take a while... lol
I actually went back and did that for the whole game after finishing shb. =D
they are really good for leveling alt jobs. i got bard, machinist, and dancer leveled at the same time just doing random stuff, and it helps a lot with inventory management having them all roughly the same level. i'm sure some edgelord master of leveling will tell me i'm wrong, i should just level one job first, but they don't pay my sub.
Starting as a WHM - Benediction is really good in an emergency.
Now as a WHM - Benediction is really good at letting me cast more holy.
I still am a new player, a great big Sprout. I went a long long way into dungeons without ever needing to release to the start of the instance. When it happened, I didn't know that you need to press the OK button *and hold it down, for like five seconds.* So I kept tapping it - as you would any button - and NOTHING happened...
Same happened to me a week ago. I was typing in chat like "help, i cant respawn, the button doesnt do anything" until someone told me after like 2 minutes, that i had to hold it down XD
my favorite mistake i ever made was not realizing that high-level hunts would aggro to me to i walked up to a giant cactuar outside of ul'dah, /hug'd it, and promptly died
the worst part of it was my higher-level friend was standing a couple feet away and saw me do it
The first time I saw someone called out a S-rank mob in the map I was in, I went to the coordination and I saw 3 people stood a couple of feets away. me being an idiot for not watching where I was going, I accidentally walked pass beside the mob. I said hi to those people and died 1 second later upon getting hit by the mob. They all laughed and I said not again! (Yes I died couple of times before that lol). Thankfully, one of them was healer so I got ress xD
Edit: the mob was lvl 80 and I was lvl 15 at that time lmao
@@h3llthing This actually reminds me of a time in WoW Classic when an opposite faction toon helped me kill a mob and then less than a minute later two people on my side just watch me die after I drew aggro gathering a quest item. I was like WTF... This was a PvP server too.
@@DelphinusVyse Aww thats sweet! I hope those two who ignored you burn in the WoW equivalent of hell
@@h3llthing Yeah, a hell where their lack of compassion for their allies is punished by never being able to find the roles they need for dungeons and raids. :p *Shudder* the horror.
Me, the whole video: "Haha, this is hilarious! I never did ANY of this stuff! 😂"
Me: "Wait... high end gathering node respawns aren't listed as Earth time....??"
I thought I could avoid AoE's by jumping and keeping my feet off the floor. People asking why I kept jumping and not dodging AoE's ;-;
Help this is adorable
So relatable. I’m pretty sure I did that too. 😁
Video ''I didn't unlock challenge log until 70!''
Me, lv80 with 2 jobs: 'Wtf is a challenge log??'
Haha yeah, it is a little hidden
When I heard that one I actually had to check if I had it unlocked
I could've been in the same situation as you if by a chance i wouldnt deside to check out what i have on my tabs, where i found stuff like hunting log, sightseeing log, challenge log etc.
Damn those days were fun... and embarrassing...
I hope those two jobs were SMN and SCH.
ngl, I have 3 characters, 1 of which I have 3 lvl 80 jobs, and cleared the entirety of Eden's Gate Savage, and the first 3 fights of Eden's Verse Savage... And I just unlocked my challenge log last week
"Imagine you had a tank that was spinning around trying to avoid attacks and you have a monk running around the * laughs too hard to continue*"
I was that monk.
Saaaaaaammeeeee... xD
Ive had that happen way too often with baby tanks. "Im trying to dodge the attacks" -_-
LOLOL
When tanks did this to me while i was leveling monk i just gave up and sat still while doing the rotations. The damage increase for my positionals was not worth the headaches.
everyone that has played monk ha sbin in that situation atleast once xd
I was doing Hauck Manor for the first time and I rolled greed on an item that I wanted after the second boss. Suddenly everyone starts teleporting away leaving me alone in the room. I thought they quit the dungeon because they were mad that I got the loot. 😔 when I checked the chat they were just saying "/return" and I thought they were telling me to return the loot so I spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out how to return the loot to them before someone said "type /return in console"
Ah yes, the dreaded /return thing that no one ever properly explains. Because it was never explained properly to me, I decided to make it a habit of it myself. As a result, any time I see the message "one or more party members are doing this for the first time" (not exactly in those words, but you get the idea), I "type /return into chat, and it'll take you back to the beginning of the dungeon." And then proceed to do just that.
Same thing happened to me. Everyone left me in the room to oblivion. No one told me anything. Suddenly the a cut scene of the boss showed and after it was over, i was still in the room, alone. That was scary tbh 😅
.... Huh. Well, I learned something today (been playing for about two weeks now).
Thank god they reworked that dungeon, now there is a teleport on the floor so you don't have to type /return.
im level 75 in Shadow Bringers... I never knew this. Thank you lmao
mistakes new players make: Buying some fish bait on the marketboard for 20k gil when its 800 gil at a vendor :)
Tadpole ah i see your one of them :)
Buying anything at the market-board for 20k when its literally 800 gil at a vendor.
hate this kind of ppls abusing actually new players not knowing that.
@@semiramisubw4864 ikr its super scummy. I learned my lesson the first time lol.
Yeah, stuff like that was common in WoW too.
I was playing during new years eve and people in chat said they were looking for a party, I thought there was a real party somewhere.
Oh my god. I thought that the Dragoon's tether was a boss mechanic so I kept running away from it.
This. Half the time, I'm uncertain when something is a boss mechanic or a friendly visual effect. I run away just in case. XD
As a DRG main this makes me sad hahahaha.
We're like: COME FRIEND, LET US BE POWERFUL TOGETHER! SHARE THE BLOOD OF THE DRAGON!
Other person: OH SHT what is this mechanic let's just run away and see if it disappears-
Us: Friend? T_T
@@plusminuscons LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think considering the staggering amount of players that missed their job stone at level 30 that at this point it could be considered a design flaw. There needs to be a small unintrusive but clearly noticeable popup for people who make it to 30 (perhaps in the same fashion that gauge tutorials pop up) explaining that you can now get your job unlocked. The game runs on the assumption that you have been following your classes quest line every 5 levels which is easily missable even despite that little message that pops up that states that your next class quest is available. Some people may disregard it and save it for later because you have to go so far out of your way to do them in most cases when following the MSQ.
I did get a pop up when my bard quests were unlocked, it appeared right under the MSQ box
@@casdragon_5939 That's relatively new. As of 3.55 there wasn't any.
Back when I started playing, I mained a WHM and figured that since I was a healer, it didn't really matter what weapon I had. "It's not like I need the best damage" I thought and just used the weapons you get from job quests, completely ignoring the stats, and what's worse, the durability. It wasn't until I ran Brayflox for the first time and my wand suddenly broke in the middle of the first boss, and my healing suddenly started doing close to nothing. Having no idea what happened, I started freaking out, spamming Cure on the tank, watching their HP steadily drop despite all my effort, until I ran out of MP and we wiped.
Luckily I had all my old weapons still in my inventory, so when someone pointed out my weapon must've broken, I switched to a different one and we were able to clear just fine, but I felt horrible the whole way through. From that point I make sure to repair my gear before going anywhere at all, out of fear of something similar happening again....
I came back after a long hiatus from the game and found my gear trashed. Now I compulsively repair my gear. Still not sure if I should rock staffs or wands though, my main reason for preferring the former soly being because I think shields are cool...
+Zeter Zero I have bad news for you buddy, You get a staff from 50 on. Mage shields and wands do not exist past 50. WHM main here btw.
@@BRBingeDrinker I figured that might be the case. Don't need a shield so long as you've got a tank. Still neat that it is an option even if it isn't optimal.
It's kinda neat as a long time player seeing the perspective of new players. Though I will admit that I am utterly baffled at the amount of people who don't look at what their skills do as they unlock them. It feels really weird that so many people go through the game not even wanting to learn what the button they unlocked does, and I'm not sure how to fix that problem.
Had a Gladiator last night in Hades Extreme. took a wipe before we even noticed it.
the red mage asked the Glad to equip their soulstone but the Glad refused saying it was useless.
My healers were the first to nope out.
I've gone through and looked at a lot of different jobs, but I play SMN and DRG mainly. The number of abilities that are unlocked simply by equipping the Soulstone is astounding.
@@Demon_of_Razgriz Of course it is. Thats what they are for, making your job complete. Just wish Square would automaticly equip them.....or autopromote you at 30.
Said it was useless... What a fucking idiot
@@adamthomas4462 I made a test...you have like 6 skills without the jobstone. DPS-Combo, Rolecommands and 2 CD´s....nothing else.
I feel like they were planning to have many different jobs for each class (like SMN and SCH), but then gave up and now we have this weird system that don't make much sense.
I needed this. I live in constant fear of getting in the way of everyone around me which is why I dont play mmos usually. Nice to know everyone has there oops moments
there is just way to much going on for anyone to get it right on the first try lmao
play with an experienced friend, honestly the best way to get through the noob phase without having to look up every little thing that the game doesn't tell you about
@@pentadunk bold of you to assume I have friends
I really feel this. I've been playing for a couple weeks but I watched a ton of videos to make sure I wasn't messing up. I still get anxious when I have to do a new dungeon, and I don't know the mechanics
@@gay_aliens I'm slowly learning that if you announce that you're a first-timer you'll get a lot of leeway, even moreso if you mention that you watched a guide beforehand. A few days ago I was the off tank for a particularly complicated boss and made sure to tell the other players I was a noob. We ended up wiping once (the main tank kinda slipped up on one of the mechanics) but I still got two player commendations out of it. I still get tank anxiety, but communication apparently gets you a lot of sympathy with the other players.
9:26 To be fair thats how you leveled up in older MMOs for a long time, especially F2P ones like early Maplestory.
For reals. Quests never gave you decent xp before. Instead they would have you kill xxx mobs and 90% of your xp gain was from killing those mobs.
I've only been playing FF14 for 5 days now, but I didn't understand why the MSQ gives you so much xp, and regular mobs give you basically nothing. Although dungeon mobs give you a ton.
Honestly I like it better that quests give you all of the xp so the grind isn't as bad, but I'm still getting used to it.
@@GoodBoyGoneDad I have been playing for a few days and I keep finding myself doing this same thing. I will see my XP bar is maybe a thousand from level up and I will kill like 10 mobs and it will be good for only like half the xp. Where as in games like WoW you can totally top off XP with mobs of near enough levels.
I think the only thing I did once was, I kind of just waited a good 5 minutes in front of a boss in a dungeon waiting for the 5th guy in my party to show up, then I remembered 4 is the max in this game
Biggest Mistake: Trying to play FF like wow, racing the game instead of playing it like an FF game: slow and chill and for fun.
Also honored to have my comment used ahh
Yup, I've been telling my friends that this isn't a game you play to "get caught up" and "get to the real game" at the end.
@@KRBadonkadonk and yet. You don't believe them when they tell you that. You think everyone is just trying to be nice but it ends up being the truth.
Ugh, me too. No one listens.
Yeah, I made that mistake after buying a voucher to skip all of Heavensward JUST so I could see Aymeric! That's what happens when you mix me with a game that has hot guys. XD
What's wrong with wanting to clear content when it's relevant? There's statistically significant amount of players that enjoy doing end game as fast and efficient as possible.
Zepla: "That's actually really sad."
Also Zepla: *laughs*
Something stupid I did the other day: I started as a Thaumaturge, decided to start up Conjurer for better queue times. Forgot to do Novice Hall for healer and didn't know how to heal my tank. Tank almost died in the first pull. He asked me if I was green, and I didn't know what meant... Shortly before the boss in Sastasha, I stopped to type an apology, that I was new. While I was slow typing on PS4, the tank started the boss fight. I was a mile away. Tank died before I could heal him, I raise him back up... A dps dies, tank is trying to get back aggro. I do a dumb and try to rez the dps that died. Tank dies again, then I die.
I was so mortified I just closed the game. I feel so terrible about it, I haven't even logged in for a couple days.
What does "are you green" mean?
I'm guessing it means "are you ready" but maybe it means something different and less obvious?
@@Grimnoire Are you green means are you new lol
awww I'm sorry! i hope you'll jump back in soon. it was a mistake and a learning experience :) now you know!
Currently, I main a tank in A Ream Reborn. And, to tell you the truth, I think you just got a pretty lame tank!
Tanks should NOT just rush into the boss fight without even bothering to check where the healer is. Tanks should not do ANYTHING if the healer isn't close enough, haha. XD
Also, tanks should always keep an eye on the rest of the party! They shouldn't do things their teammates aren't ready for.
If you'd had a more responsible tank, your experience of Sastasha would've been a lot less stressful.
Anyways, though it may have been a tough thing to go through, I hope that hasn't kept you away from the game for too long. :) In FFXIV, I think one should just learn to not care too much what other people think. Sure, we try to help our party members to the best of our ability! But more importantly, we should have fun, grow, and be very gentle with ourselves as we try to learn the game and get good at it. :)
@@Philosophy.and.Tostitos Thanks, your reply does make me feel better. I did get back into it, but I'm going super slowly. Haven't even beaten the main story yet because I got sucked into crafting. I've also gotten a keyboard for my PS4 just so I can type faster, haha.
I tried tanking at one point and thought it was ten times worse than healing, so I admire you being a tank main. 😫 If I'm healing, I get annoyed at a good tank leaving before I can give them my commendation!
Thank you for your kind words! FFXIV is my first MMO and I'm so happy that the community is filled with mostly understanding and helpful folks such as yourself. 😭💕
Guess it's time for me to learn what the hell "positionals" are.
@3:40 okay, just including this because it might be unclear to anyone who is new/learning: by "look away" they really mean you need turn your character away from the monster so their back is facing the enemy, not just moving your camera
Me 15 minutes ago: I'm feeling pretty good about my FFXIV performance, but I'm sure there are still some things I could learn :)
Me one minute into the video: ...what's a tooltip?
ROFL!!
I think it's a bit more of a PC concept though, in the console version, the descriptions are mainly accessed from the Actions window. I didn't know what she meant either at first, but yeah, I always read them through. Do I always understand them correctly?! NOPE! I've gone many levels misusing a skill, or blowing one off until someone explains to me it's usefulness.
@@EricBBarker Already finished ShB and still have no idea why WHMs can put enemies to sleep lol
@@carlos-zy7vx some enemies have abilities that can be interrupted by either a stun like tanks for instance have low blow to stun an enemy from using a powerful attack usually you can tell the powerful attack by the channel bar being red or in some cases you can put them to sleep to interrupt their big attack
LITERALLY ME RIGHT NOW
lvl 60 bard and healer here, i just finished playing through heavensward and thanks to your vid i now know what lb means x)
i didnt attune to any shards for the first few hours of the game, so I walked everywhere
This video gave me so much anxiety lmao
I know this comment is already fairly old, but I hope you see this anyway. I just wanted to say that almost 10 years ago now, I watched every single one of your videos and I'm very glad to see that you're still around today! I instantly recognized your profile picture, even after all this time! :) And of course I'm also happy to see that you too have picked up FFXIV in the meantime ;)
brb watching episode 15. Thanks for the great memories.
@@NekoNiaChan right there with you. Saw the profile pic and thought no way...
I know right. I run into “helicopter” tanks even today. Some of them are sprouts some not. Ironically MNK is usually the DPS I play most often. Sometime I think people are just fishing for a tilt out of me lol...
But if can be fun...at times lol
I come from action combat games and couldn't get used to tab targeting.
After I got told to LB in a dungeon I mistargeted and ended up LBing a single fly trash mob (...that animation felt like an eternity knowing what I just did).
I also called my rl friend cause I thought my headset was broken as it kept making ssssshhhhh noices the whole time.
I tried all kinds of things to fix "my broken headset" and then after about a half hour realised that I stood next to the alchemy crafting station which kept making that noise.
Omg this! The first time I was playing I didn't notice I was standing near 5 crafters and I wondered why I kept hearing these tools noises lol. I had to walk to them closely and clicked on them to inspect like what are you guys doingggggg XD
I played a lot of mmorpg's, over 14 years I played a few different ones, and I just fucking learned 3 weeks ago that you can TAB TARGET ENEMYS.. I just felt like the dumbest person on this planet, but now I really enjoy playing FFXIV
@Timothy Clark
Hahaha yeah it can. In ishgard restoration, I found a spot to quietly doing my craftings but then I saw this player came to me. Kinda hanging out. The next few hours and later became DAYS when I came back to the spot, that same player had took my spot lol!
@@srankhunterliz6843
For a while I didn't know we could click on the enemy list to change target and the fact of red spot beside their name would show that we have aggro. It was a struggle before finding out about that red thingy when I tried to play as tank haha
@@PsyFurion
Lmao now I don't feel as bad anymore for mistargeting. Yes, there is, just press Tab to cycle through different enemies. ^^
When I started as a red mage after about a week of playing, I thought the verthunder and veraero 2 spells were simply upgrades of verthunder and veraero, so I ended up using the 2 spells against every enemy until I figured out that the normal versions did more damage to single enemies
New to the game literally yesterday. this helped tons! things i never even heard off.
It took me until just now, from this video, to learn that you have to look away from the glowing eyeball.. I have 3 lvl 80's and have completed the shb msq . :(
honestly you can do everything in the game without knowing any dungeon mechanics. makes it that much funnier when people take it seriously and yell at you for it.
@@trancebodega2739 You absolutely cannot do extreme trials and savage dungeons without knowing the mechanics. Because it's not just you who you kill, it's the whole party, or the healers economy, or the DPS to meet the DPS checks. Even in normal raids and dungeons, people get annoyed because it's not just your own experience you're messing up by ignoring mechanics, it's theirs too.
I just walked behind any monsters in overworld with the eye.. lol..
@@FaithOriginalisme most(or all?) of the overworld ones have AoE markers that you can avoid altogether by not standing in it, voiding the need to look back.
@@Gamemaster-64 Yup! so I didn't realize I needed to look away until I got turned to stone by a boss...
I was throwing away all the Triple Triad card duplicates. I found out just recently you can sell them in the Gold Saucer casino. I really like TT and I always win all the possible cards from NPCs, so I threw away a lot of cards...
Wait, you can do that? They've just been sitting in a retainers inventory...
As a melee DPS, I didn't care about AoEs since you know, "my healer will heal me anyways", it's only waaaaay later when I tried being a healer that I realized how obnoxious I've been to my healers all this time !
Lol
Ya... whenever I saw someone not move for AoE's, I would tell them to move out next time. If they did, awesome. If they wouldn't, I wouldn't heal them again the rest of the run. I never cared if we wiped, I'm too stubborn for that crap lol.
and it why there vul stacks
gear clearly marked “All classes “ I thought was ok to wear as a tank
I mean yes but no
@@rustyjones7908 for glamour yes 🤣
Me as a sprout:Haha so dumb I have never made any of these mistakes
Zepla: using regen before every fight on tank
Me getting mad at tank for not aggroing correctly yesterday: **starts sweating profusely**
Okay I know this is old but as a very experienced WHM, putting regen on the tank before they pull is a *good* thing. Not only does it give them regeneration, but if you do take threat on some enemies, you essentially become a tank cooldown, supplementing their health with your own. Just make sure that you bring those enemies to the tank so they don't keep hitting you. At that point, if they fail to take those enemies back, it's their own fault.
I love that my sons mostly tell me how to play. MSQ's first.. then go to Class (job) quests.. then back to MSQ.. it's helped a lot.. though I am only lvl 30 because I work full time :(
So it’s been a week... not sure I like the game. I hate being forced to do dungeons.. period, they are stressful mostly because each person has a job to do and welp...archer gets to shoot from far away..which is what I like..but I know from watching videos that there’s more to it. I want to have fun and learning rotation some colored circles or other things about parties is not my thing. :( in WOW you can lvl and enjoy game play without dungeons at all. I got several characters to 120 just questing cause it’s possible, FF needs to add a high XP rewards to side quests so people like me will enjoy the game.
@@Chey60 play on a preferred server
@@goranlazarevic2613 yes we moved to malboro and I finished the game about a month ago. :)
Now I've played other MMO's before I got into FFXIV... And I've always played either a healer or some form of a DPS with heals in between.
My mistakes:
1) You don't "overheal" in this game. You run out of MP very quickly. Me being somewhat anxious, I'm always looking at the tank and my HP, making sure we live.
2) You can't spam potions to heal your MP. (other games you can do this if you're soloing or in a pinch in a dungeon.)
3) You gotta plan your positions here. Make sure to dodge all AoE's and other things.
4) You do have to deal damage here. Which again, I don't mind. I rather keep busy than be bored and heal all the way.
5) Better learn the mechanics of a boss/trials/dungeon by watching videos on UA-cam. It improved my usefulness as a healer, and I get a lot more player commendations~
6) I practice dungeons I suck at. Hell, I'll PUG it. Why? Because the more you do it, the better you're prepared.
1.B: Overhealing causes you to gain agro. So wait till after your tank starts taking damage to cast Regen.
(On a funny note, I once used this to steal agro from a tank during a low level dungeon that I was synced down for)
@@zidaryn I thought that was gone with the aggro rework tanks got... I've tried to get aggro by overhealing as a test with whm and can't get it 🤷♂️
@@Irisfantasies Your probably right. That funny experience was some time ago.
I ignored a lot of the unlock blue quests. That meant I unlocked:
- Barber at lvl52
- Challenge log at lvl60 or so
- Heroic Tam-Tara at lvl66
(and I actually thought Limit Break is some charged boss attack and not for the party)
I just found LB exist watching this video :D
You know one of my biggest misunderstandings was what the return button did, I literally went through hakors manor and half way through people would just disappear and I would be like "i guess the dungeon is over" so I'd leave and quit the game thinking that I just some how got stuck in the game, then I would log back in and wonder why I had a leaver queue, I went and searched the forums thinking that it was some sort of bug until square Enix support literally sent me a message through my email about the return button on the manor
I did Hakkor's Manor two days ago and was veryyyyy confused as well!! But I trusted the other players and did return, thank god I did omg
@@MikaMausArt my first run of the manor, everyone disappeared and i was like "alright, good job team!" and im like "....but how do i leave", but was thinking it to myself. after literally a minute, my party typed "/return" for me and i teleported lmfao i was "wallowing in self pity" when i arrived and they all said it was ok and even gave me commendations lol
The first time I did the manor, everyone went back to the beginning using return, and I never even knew about that at the time. I decided that since I thought I was alone, I would check every single room until I got back to the top for treasure or something that was left behind. I never even noticed everyone saying use the return ability. I wasted probably 5 minutes of their time and I felt soooo bad. I kept apologizing. They said it's okay but I couldn't help it.
Bruh I had this happen to me too, it's the first time that spell is useful in a dungeon, and I was so confused when I checked the loot for a room and turned around to see everyone fucking gone
I learned that one last night :(
the RP walk toggle happened to me while leveling my WHM, ended up wiping on ifrit cuz I didn't know what bind it was and the RP walk wasn't fast enough to dodge the abilities T_T
It's not just for RP, it can help with jump puzzles too. Not that there are many of those.
I was healing in Aetherochemical research facility when my cat stepped on my keyboard and hit the key to make you walk.
I play on ps4. I didnt know the keybind. None of the party knew the keybind. The whole dungeon ground to a halt for 5 mins while we figured out which key it was.
You are not alone with this LOL
I saw a FATE pop up while I was doing some CRP stuff from just having finished a logging session. I ran in with my saw trying to turn enemies into lumber, then getting disappointed when I got no XP for participating. And yes, there were other people doing the FATE, witnessing a berserk carpenter sawing enemies to death very slowly.
Sprout casters; do yourself a favor when you’re in a dungeon with a tank that does large pulls... LB on that mass of mobs and cackle as you reign down the pain! (Actually wish more folks would use the LB in general. ^.^)
Some don't do it like me as we weren't told before hand that LBs weren't saved for bosses, that it didn't get saved for the LB 2.
Or you do nothing and let them die like the overconfident idiots that they are XD
@@Twilii3
Normally we get through it lol
Caster lb1 doesn't really do anything to mobs pull like that! Best to save for boss but then 70--90% of time no one even uses lb when I tank or heal I have a macro with something like "A DPS should use Limit Break and Single Target=melee over Caster/Range" and still no one uses lb. (they need to fix how limit brakes are gained again cause most of the time don't even get to see lb2 in dungeons or lb3 in raids or trials there are a few raids you can see lb3 but even then some still don't use lb3) mainly when I'm healer or tank but when I'm dps and want to use lb someone else goes and uses it.
@@gtasthehunter
The thing is LBs before a boss doesn't save for the boss phase. As far as I can tell now, as I saw the LB bar more often to see the timing, you always have a single LB bar in Dungeons, 2 bars in Alliance Raids, and LBs in Dungeons during a pull isn't always needed, but it does help like a good 3%-5%. Its not meant to outright nuke them, just more damage. I always use LBs for bosses at like 10% remaining health.
I didn’t know repairs where a thing so I just bought a new set of gear every time it broke until level 70
Damn, where you get the Gil for that
wtf
................
...there no way I can believe that.
What? I exhaust most of my gil by buying just one piece. How did you have the money to buy it early in the game?
I bought it from the merchants that sell levelling gear. And it was never one full set at once I apologize I worded myself wrong so if one piece broke I wouldn’t repair it I would replace it from the levelling gear merchants
"imagine being in a dungeon where the tank is spinning it in circles" This was literally the dungeon I was just in, I was playing pugi! I was torn between telling them or not... I ended up not, but probably should have in case they got someone who was mean about it later. I just wanted to let them have their fun.
I first played the game as pugilist, but later became a tank main, so I've always been hyper conscious of the positionals for my allies. It sucks that the game doesnt teach tank players to keep the boss facing one way.
I was that monk 🤣
I was in that dungeon once while the new tank freaked out about his health dropping and starting running in circles away from the boss, making my character run laps around the area chasing the boss while throwing my lance at random intervals....
Man that was straight out from a cartoon XD
@@midiorch5295 A coward tank... incredible.
Thank you soooo much for this!!! It's great to know I'm not the only one who's done some of this...such as stepping outside Uldah as a crafter and thinking I need to level up by fighting with my trust needle...!!!
lvl 70 here, and today I learned the look away mechanic from this video. I'll go to the corner of shame now.
i never saw the eye before because im playing from bird eye view to look down on my character to see if im standing in shit, so i always got hit by it because i was like "there is no eye what are you talking about" xD
@@firby7341 i mained healer so i didnt look at enemies alot so i never noticed the eyes haha, didnt learn till innocence to look away, though i accidently avoided most eye mechanics
Same.
Yeah, I've only played CNJ, SCH/SMN and DNC so far with a zoomed out camera. Going to have to look out for this eye animation cause I never noticed it before either. Just got told in dungeons to look away from X attack.
Same
I'll be honest, the walking thing mentioned at the end is something that happened to me when I first started playing WoW. I was so confused. After rebooting and going through my system settings I ended up pressing my keyboard keys one at a time until I found the correct one.
oh my god I literally started tanking today and I've been beyblading all day...I"m so sorry T_T
What's beyblading?
@@sithsquid1 Running around boss ( spining it).
@@sithsquid1 Beyblades are the spinning tops that were and still are popular toys and had and still has a popular anime
so when they say beyblading around the boss they mean constantly moving around it to avoid the attacks which as a tank isnt ideal lol
When I went into my first dungeon as a Conjurer I mistook MP for HP and spammed Cure on the dps bc I thought he was losing HP like crazy... and then the tank died and I realized my mistake. He was super understanding and everything went super smooth after that, but good god was that embarrassing
I feel like a god-tier sprout rn ahaha
*As someone who uses healer it annoys me when they keep running out of range and then complain when they die*
Omg yes, when the tank sprints into a room full of enemies and im just walking casting lots on gear drops lmao
friend of mine who's caught up with shadowbringers had the auto attack button instead of lb on her hotbar and couldn't figure out why nothing was happening
Raise your hand if you forgot there was an auto attack button.
@@GamerNym omg yeh I forgot the auto attack button thing existed.
@@GamerNym
I...never notice it until I see this comment lmaooooo
Like I knew how LB symbol looks like so I just opened the general tab under skill window and dragged the LB button to hotbars so I didnt check the other buttons xD
I think there is an option that auto-attack happens anyway when targeting mobs? Unless you are a healer. iirc. But playing with controller I think if you double click when you target a mob it does auto-attack anyway.
Heavensward sprout here- The only time I had ever run Aurum Vale was with 2 blue mage friends. It was very scary when I rolled Aurum in leveling queue with randos and ended up trying to pull wall to wall and just kept dying. This was like a week ago lol.
I’ve been playing for months and I had to find out from this video that limit break was a team thing... I literally never had any clue.
I was today years old when I learned that the eyeball AoEs can be avoided by looking away.
The Eyeball AoE is misleading because it's not used consistently .
Some enemies Eyeball has a telegraph, other enemies there is no telegraph. Really only the enemies that don't have a telegraph you have to look away from
I started FF14 summer of 21, and this video was a huge help to me! UA-cam just recommended it again and I went back to rewatch for the nostalgia, figured I should leave a comment and say thanks!
I never use LB, because I figure I'm the least skilled/competent person in any PUG, and someone else must have a better sense of when to use it.
I'm a tank so i don't even keep on the hotbar so that i don't accidentally press it 😂
I don't even know how to activate it. Which is probably a good thing, since I'm an incompetent sprout tank.
Just today i had a sprout go in an ex for their first time. They had a level 30 weapon as a healer. I helped them out once we cleared.
That was very cash money of you.
which ex?
@@Demon_of_Razgriz shiva
okay, that's more understandable than anything later.
I didn't know that sprint existed until I got my mount, I guess I just used it, didn't notice the movement speed increase, and took it off my Hotbar.
Only learned when I told my friend that I was so happy to get my mount because I wouldn't be moving at the same slow-ass pace anymore. He jokingly asked if I'd been using sprint. I still haven't lived that one down
BTW, for anyone coming here now.
Sprint is still useful after getting your mount. It's commonly used in dungeons and raids, and sometimes trails.
Tanks that like to do big pulls will often use sprint before entering combat and then use the speed boost to help them collect a bunch of mobs.
In addition, because the tank has a speed boost, they are able to easily run by enemies and create distance between them. Causing the enemies to be too far away to hit him while the tank is pulling more mobs. It's a form of damage mitigation.
When the tank activates sprint, the dps and healers should also active sprint. It is especially important for the healer to active sprint.
That tanks wants to run ahead and everyone else should active sprint to keep up with the tank.
Once the tank has decided they pulled enough mobs, in a short while they are going to be taking a lot of damage. If the healer is too far away, chances are the tank will die.
Note for tanks, while your party members should be using sprint to keep up with you, it is also your job to know if they are keeping up with you.
If your healer isn't keeping up with you, you need to adjust the pace.
In addition, pay attention to the LOS with your healer. I've had a tank die because stairs broke LOS. If they were at the top of the stairs instead of a little past the stairs, it would have been fine.
I just realized the targeting circle has a gap in the back. I learned something today.
I've never noticed, either. But my main is a Bard, and we don't get positionals. It's even possible they don't show the gap for casters and ranger DPSs. I'll keep an eye out.
Some bosses and mobs don't the gap in the back so it's understandable
@@EricBBarker I am bard. I just noticed that break in the ring the other day so yes bards do see it.
@@annewandering Lol, I did too, just after I posted this!
i always thought that was just the targeting circle clipping into the ground lmao TIL
6:29 Omg I had a tank that did that in a duty I was in. I was going insane. He would just not stop running around, made positioning my DRG impossible. He wouldn't listen to us, wouldn't put on his stance. We ended up voting him out. Then the other DPS left because apparently that was her boyfriend. So the healer and I finished the dungeon with just the two of us lol.
you an the healer:Fine, we'll do it ourselves.
I ALMOST responded that this was me but then I remembered that in my instance I stayed to finish
Bad gf haha ;>
as a mid-heavensward sprout, i was running dungeons with my friend who was completely new to the game. during one of the early dungeons, our healer DCed and we were all kinda shocked. i offered to heal since i did have healing/res capabilities as arcanist. it took a while but we cleared the dungeon without any deaths or wipes and i was super proud that i managed to save the run. i didn't realize that we could've just found a new healer, because i'd never been in a situation like that before and the only other users in the party were completely new so they didn't know either. :')
also, before the summoner rework, i used to just run around bosses spamming ruin 2 and my debuff skills. i never used ruin 3 because i didn't like how i had to stand still for 2 seconds to cast it. i played like this until near the end of heavensward. then i actually looked up the summoner rotation and was hit by immense shame lmao
My fiance's username outside of XIV shortens to LB, so he kept getting really confused when people would say LB in chat.