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Some tips for new players in FF14

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I used to be a noob clumsy Bard (BRD) when I first played this game. After many hardship and got slapped by many people, I have come up with the idea to gather some info for new players in FF14.

Here are something you should know as new players:

1. For the queue in Duty Finder, you should look at the "gear" icon on top left corner of Duty Finder, that's settings.
*For Languages tab, tick all, so you can queue faster.
*For Requirements tab, you can use Undersized Party to do unsync dungeons. Eg: all dungeons/trials/raids sync your level, but with unsync, you can play solo lv70 at lv50 dungeon easily. But no EXP or Tomes for unsync, except 1st time clear bonus.
*Normal Duty Roulettes can’t be unsynced.

2. When you attack mobs around you. For blue mark mobs, they're fine as long as you dont attack them. For red mark mobs, if you run in front of them + your level is lower than them 1-10 lv, they will attack you.
*Do not touch huge mobs, they might be The Hunt mobs and extremely strong for new players.

3. At lv20, you can go to Ul'dah- Nald to get your Chocobo (companion) there so you dont need to run with your legs. And then later at South Shroud, you can get a quest to make your companion fight with you.
You can dye your Chocobo's feather if you have stable and recipe to feed them food in order. In Heavensward, for lv50+, your chocobo and other flying mounts can fly.

4. To level up, you can choose to do:
_ All roulettes once per day
_ Levequests
_ FATEs
_ Dungeons
_ Palace of the Dead in Quarrymil, but you need to unlock it from New Grandiana - airship landing. You should try to reach F50, F50-F60 is the best EXP and you can try all class jobs there.

5. Each boss has mechanisms to dodge attacks and the damage, so don't panic and learn bit by bit.

6. When you get loots from dungeons/trials, make sure to roll for all loots, otherwise your party can't get them until you roll. Normally I roll Need/Greed so I can exchange color gears for GC Seals later. Only Pass if I got that already or not necessary.

7. After applying to 1 of 3 Grand Company, make sure to increase your rank, they sell a lots of stuffs in higher ranks.

8. If you want to catch up with the game content, only do main + blue quests, ignore sub quests. Main quests have flame icon, blue quests are blue.

9. The queue for healer/tank are very fast, but dps is very slow. Also melee dps has faster queue than ranged dps.

10. For Limit Break (LB), you can find that button in Menu/Action & Traits.
_ Tank LB = increase Defense of party (only use that in some special trials/raids, rarely used)
_ Healer LB = heal HP for party. But LB3 of healer can revive all party, except for those who died because of falling over cliff.
_ DPS LB = deal damage to the target. Limit break is 95% being used by DPS, although people prefer melee DPS to LB than ranged DPS because it deals slightly more damage.
Melee DPS to single boss while ranged DPS for a bunch mobs.

11. You can hire free 2 retainers and summon them by Summoning Bell at Old Grandiana/Ul'dah-Thal/Limsa Lower Deck...
_The level of retainer cannot exceed your class job level. Eg: if your Ninja is lv45, your retainer as Ninja can only reach lv45, unless you level up your Ninja.
_You use Venture (exchange from Grand Company seals/Allied Seal/do Beast Tribe quest) to level up retainers. If you're online much, use Quick Exploration, 1 hour long. If not, use others (18 hours)
_ You should apply different classes for retainers. Eg: my retainer is White mage (DoM) + botanist (DoL).
_ Better gears you equip to retainers, they bring better items.
_ You can use Retainer Fantasia (buy from market) to change your retainer appearance.

12. You can go to Mog Station to buy Fantasia ($10 each) to change your appearance, reset everything like your race, your body, your face...

13. Here are the classifications of all jobs:
_ Disciple of Magic/War (DoM/DoW):
+ Tank: Dark Knight, Gladiator/Paladin, Marrauder/Warrior
+ Healer: Conjurer/White Mage, Arcanist/Scholar, Astrologian.
+ melee DPS: Pugilist/Monk, Lancer/Dragoon, Samurai, Rogue/Ninja
+ physical ranged DPS: Machinist, Archer/Bard
+ magic ranged DPS: Arcanist/Summoner, Thaumaturge/Black mage, Red mage.
***Note: When you level up Arcanist to lv30, you can unlock both Summoner + Scholar at once. And then they share EXP, you just need to level one class to get both. If you dont unlock one of them, then it's fine. Eg: if your SMN is lv45 and you unlock SCH at that moment, your SCH will be lv45.

_ Disciple of Hand (DoH): Carpenter, Armor, Blacksmith, Goldsmith, Alchemist, Leatherworker, Weaver, Culinarian.

_ Disciple of Land (DoL): Botanist, Miner, Fisher. (Don't try Fisher when you're not ready, it's one of truly endgame, also fishes are only used to some Culinarian recipes. If you want to get deep sleep and meditation, you can go try FSH).

**Note: DoL is a foundation to level up DoH without burning too much money. As my experience:
_ BTN goes well with: CRP, LTW, WVR, CUL
_ MIN goes well with: ARM, BSM, ALC, GSM

14. To level up DoH/DoL, I buy EXP buffs with my Grand Company seals, then auto synthesize the easy ones in crafting Log + do levequests + deliver items to Grand Company once per day.
HQ items give you double EXP.

15. While leveling DoH, you should learn Desynthesis and increase all desynthesis points of classes, except for CUL. If you desynthesize FSH to increase CUL points, all you get is Fine Sand and crappy items.
Desynthesis points has limit. If you go over limit points, other class's point will go down.
If you accidentally increase CUL points, you can use Cooking for Mastery book to reset it to 1 point. The crafting recipe is ALC (master recipe II).

16. You can turn off "sprout" icon.

17. Linkshell is just like a chat room/communication for everyone in server to share their things in game.
You can create your own linkshell at Old Grandiana/Ul'dah/Limsa, or join Novice Network. Look for "pearl" icon on map, that's where you can create your linkshell. If you receive any invitation to linkshell, open Menu/Social/Linkshell and accept it.
You can only have 8 linkshells in total.
Each linkshell has 128 slots.

18. The Hunt is when the big mob appear and people gather to take it down.
Blue mark mobs are B rank, for only weekly Elite marks (give you Allied/Centurio Seals). You can only get rewards if that's wanted in bill mark.
Red mark mobs are A/S rank, you can kill any of these mobs to get rewards, but need many people to do together.

19. Party Finder: it's in Menu. You can look for members across servers to do anything with you

20. In Guildhest, if you're killed, you can respawn again and continue to do it. Make sure to kill all mobs to clear the guildhest.

21. If you're bored with doing dungeons, you can go gamble at Gold Saucer. I wrote a blog about that, feel free to have a look.

22. If you get married in game (Eternal Bond Ceremony - Free/$10/$20), you can have a teleport ring + double mount Chocobo - the mount which can carry 2 people.

23. At lv50, when you reach Mor Doha, remember to unlock Glamours so you can cosplay. Also unlock Dye at Vesper Bay.

24. In Stormblood, if you reach Yanxia and see Doma's gates, make sure to take photos with those cool gates, otherwise you will be regretted later. (This might be spoiler for someone, sorry).

25. When you play with JP/F/D people, you should use auto-translation function. That thing has red and green brackets. Just type Hello and press Tab, enter, then also we see it as "Hello", but other people will see it in their languages. There are many common phrases, try to test all of them.

26. To create a Free Company (FC), you need at least 3 people to register. And to reach rank 8, you need to do roulettes/raids... My fc is myself, just need 1 month to reach rank 8.
Or you can join any FC you like.

27. Your chocobo has max 20 ranks with 10 levels in healer/tank/attack. You can stable it in a Chocobo Stable then feed Krakka Root once per hour to rank up.
Each time it reach rank cap, you need to take it out and kill some mobs to get EXP, then you can stable it back.
When your Chocobo reaches rank 10, start from there, you need to feed him Thavnarian Onion per rank to break cap. So you need 10 Onions in total to reach rank 20. Dont forget to take him out to kill mobs and feed Krakka Root every hour too.
Also, if you do Treasure Hunt, take him with you for EXP

28. Treasure Hunt: we normally call it "do maps". You will get many loots and money if you get a portal and reach 7th chamber. It's kinda fun, but remember the Loot rule: Owner of the map rolls Need, while other people roll Greed.

29. When you jump from very high place, you won't die no matter how high it is. However, if a mob attacked you and you jump, you will surely die.

30. You should apply One-time password to secure your account better. Also, you can get Free teleport at 1 Aetheryte + 3 Favorite Aetherytes (50% discount).

31. If you're doing quests in a specific place, make sure to make the Aetheryte to be your Home point so when you die, you can revive near there.

32. To repair your gears, go to any Mender in map. The icon is "hammer". If your gear condition goes below 10%, you must repair it.

33. Make sure to attune all Aetherytes in the map so you can teleport via them. Running is tiring.

34. For tank: your task is to keep aggro of mobs so mobs won't hit your party. Can use Mark target to point out which one to attack first.
Don't let the mobs face toward other members, they will get hit.
_ For healer: dont put Regen on tank before they can get aggro from mobs
You dont need to dps if you're not solid enough
Right click on boss and choose Focus Target to see boss attacks and dodge it while healing.
If you run out of MP, use Lucis Dreaming
_ For DPS: dont get hit by AEO and follow mechanims

I wrote too much and reach limit of entry blog, I will add more in comment. You guys feel free to do so.


Comments (20)

Joe Schmoe

Hyperion [Primal]

Good guide!

Not sure if you already had it in there, but it's also best to level up the crafting classes fairly evenly, since a) Every class has a skill that's useful, and b) Crafted equipment often requires a wide variety of mats. May just as well level THEM ALL up.

Annabel Ashcroft

Faerie [Aether]

Nice guide, but questions on some things.

1. I did not know about that but I have to question the language thing, do you REALLY not want to be able to communicate with your group? What if you have to?

4. Each of the Roulette's are accessed at various levels or unlocks, so you may get others asking you do do one only to find that you have not unlocked it yet. Also, dungeon Roulette's REALLY level your character quickly so you if you use them you will outlevel the story content fast.

Annabel Ashcroft

Faerie [Aether]

8. Do ALL quests that have a plus sign, they unlock game content. You will find most of FF14's features are locked behind these.

9. I did not know this.
10. LB's are usually used by DPS to finish off the end boss. I've never seen an actual healer one.

If your going to level up crafting, make friends, it's MUCH easier with people giving you stuff that is just clogging up their inventory they don't want and money they have nothing to do with.

16, LOL, I NEVER will, Sprout for life!


Annabel Ashcroft

Faerie [Aether]

18. If you do high class hunts, be SURE to ask to join a group when you are there or you probably won't get credit for it.

22. free ceremony does NOT give you the good items, only the paid ones.

23. Glamours are unlocked at 15 now.

28. These won't happen till you are in the high levels.

34. If you are a healer, you CAN use shields on a tank prepull if you have them. but regen, don't sweat it if you forget at times and do it. I was doing it for AGES and no one ever complained. LOL

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

@Annabel: oh, dont worry about the languages. Tick all languages in Duty Finder means that you will queue with J/E/D/F players. In your search info and Party info, you’re still English player. I’m in Kujata server which is JP server, so I often play with JP people and use auto-translation to communicate with them.

Thanks for your info, both of you guys.

Yoru Kuro

Phoenix [Light]

Some corrections:
Language does not matter anymore they change the duty finder algorithm to ignore the language in 4.0, 4.05 or 4.1 (I read something about that on the patch notes)

The queue in dps is the same for range and melee. The reason is simple, the duty finder care only about role: dps in that case. But true tank/heal are quicker (if not instantaneous).

For Glamour it is unlockable lvl 15 know. Since patch 4.1 (read the patch note)

Yoru Kuro

Phoenix [Light]

Another detail: for repairing your stuff, if your crafts are high enough and you have Dark Matter on your inventory, you can repair yourself (even during a dungeon) that is useful when you forgot you repair ^^"

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

34. For tank: remember to use Provoke to keep aggro from mobs.
_ For healer: always cast “Protect” at the beginning of dungeon.

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

35. There are 4 housing areas:
_ The Lavender Bed (access from New Grandiana aetheryte)
_ The Mist (access from Limsa Lower Deck aetheryte)
_ The Goblet (access from Ul’dah Nald aetheryte)
_ Shirogane (access from Kugane aetheryte) - only when you reach Stormblood
You can buy an apartment (500k + GC rank is 2nd Lieutenant); or buy a 300k chamber at FC’s house; Buy small/medium/large plot and build a house

36. You can unlock swim + dive in water later.

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

37. Go to Menu/Party tab, you will find some useful things for the fight tactics like Countdown, Ready Check, Waymarks, Signs...
38. In Menu/System tab/User macro, you can create your own macro. There are many types, you can search for yourself.

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

39. When you do Alliance Raid (24 people), remmber to stick with your Alliance (A, B or C). Sometimes there is a dps check for each alliances and it’s easier for healers to heal all
40. Unlock Fashion at Gold Saucer and attend it weekly from Fri-Tue
41. Unlock Duty Recorder at Mor Doha
42. You now have Chocobo Sandlebag with 70 inventory slots
43. All glamour prisms now can be exchange to the general Glamour Prisms which use for all gears. Talk to Calamity Savager (at Old Gradiana)

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

44. You definitely want to attend Fashion Report at Gold Saucer (Wonder Event East then jump down). The requirement to get 80+ points are hard but for whatever glam you apply, you will get at least 52 points -> 10k free MGP. It starts from Fri to next Tue everyweek

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

45. You dont need to wait exactly after reset time to do roulettes to earn bonus rewards of next day. Eg: my reset time is 10:00pm, I do dungeon at 9:45pm and finish it at 10:00pm -> I will still get bonus of next day. Save more time
46. If you want to do the Hunt, just use Shout and type o/ , people will add you in their party. Or you can add them to your party from their Shout
47. To locate your location on map: hold Ctrl+right mouse click -> Enter. Or hold L1+R1

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

48. At top right corner, it’s timer. ET is in game time, you need it for collecting collectible nodes for MIN and BTN. LT is local time.
49. To take photos with other people, you can type /gpose and enter the mode.
50. If you dont want to continue the fight, you can vote abandon. If party refuses, you can leave/rage quit. Just open Duty Finder and Leave. But you get 30m penalty waiting.
51. If you’re afk 10m in the fight, you will be auto kicked. You can vote kick others but please no salt.

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

52. You can skip all cutscenes before the fights you watched before. Go to Menu/System/Character Config. Control Settings, General tab, there are 3 lines about: Skip playback of previously..... just tick all 3 lines

Division Bell

Excalibur [Primal]

I just want to say 'Thank You' for such a well written informative and super helpful post! :)

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

You’re welcome, Division Bell :D

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

53. Red Mage can Raise non-stop by using Vercure then Verraise.
54. Heaven on High F21-30 gives you 60 poetics + 40 creations + 30 mendacity per run, no need to queue for roulettes.

Hydeus Cantatherust

Kujata [Elemental]

55. In order to try the Dye on gears in market or NPC, just right click, choose Try On, then in Try On windown, you right click on the gear and choose Dye Preview. No need to but any Dyes before hand.

Sango Tsuki

Brynhildr [Crystal]

Thank you so much for this, I am new; just switched over from world of Warcraft , and all this is so much to absorb ! This really helped me get a better picture. I have a question though, how do I unlock fly? Maybe you could do a blog post for that. And a blog on Healer guides and tips! That would be so amazing!
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