Im going to be downloading ff14 and i am excited!

[SoloMmofriendly]

I understand it will take a long time to get up to speed in end game, i love that concept! with me being a completely new player a fresh sprout (ive been watching videos) i wonder if anyone here might be interested in recruiting an old time wow player into a guild?

Obviously i havent even downloaded the game yet so my first thought is what server do i go to? my choice comes down to either

a) a heavily populated realm, any suggestions?
b) maybe someone here would be interested to take me under there wing? by this i mean be accepting that i might ask a very noob like question from time to time.

Anyone interested to take me as there new pet sprout?

[Scathan]

I understand it will take a long time to get up to speed in end game, i love that concept! with me being a completely new player a fresh sprout (ive been watching videos) i wonder if anyone here might be interested in recruiting an old time wow player into a guild?

Obviously i havent even downloaded the game yet so my first thought is what server do i go to? my choice comes down to either

a) a heavily populated realm, any suggestions?
b) maybe someone here would be interested to take me under there wing? by this i mean be accepting that i might ask a very noob like question from time to time.

Anyone interested to take me as there new pet sprout?

Sure. I am on hyperion which is in the primal data center.

[Tenjen]

I can always help you out with advice here. Also dont forget to use a friend code before applying your first subscription payment.

Taking advantage of the free-play to HW btw?

[mario710]

I understand it will take a long time to get up to speed in end game, i love that concept! with me being a completely new player a fresh sprout (ive been watching videos) i wonder if anyone here might be interested in recruiting an old time wow player into a guild?

Obviously i havent even downloaded the game yet so my first thought is what server do i go to? my choice comes down to either

a) a heavily populated realm, any suggestions?
b) maybe someone here would be interested to take me under there wing? by this i mean be accepting that i might ask a very noob like question from time to time.

Anyone interested to take me as there new pet sprout?

Don't waste your time.

This game is a massive disappointment plagued with stereotypical anime tropes & “limitations” (budget constraints) that keeps it from being the masterpiece that it deserves to be.

This game is a solid 3.5/10 and I pray that it fails. Only then will Square Enix realize that massively restricting the dev team’s budget to line their own pockets is wrong.

Hopefully Yoshi-P jumps ship with his team and creates his own company and MMO.

[Calfredd]

Don't waste your time.

This game is a massive disappointment plagued with stereotypical anime tropes & “limitations” (budget constraints) that keeps it from being the masterpiece that it deserves to be.

This game is a solid 3.5/10 and I pray that it fails. Only then will Square Enix realize that massively restricting the dev team’s budget to line their own pockets is wrong.

Hopefully Yoshi-P jumps ship with his team and creates his own company and MMO.

You can ignore this poster. There are valid negative criticisms towards FF14 but this poster is not a reliable source of it.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

a) a heavily populated realm, any suggestions?

The game lets you - while playing your character ingame - hop between servers on your datacenter. So you can play with anyone as long as they are on your datacenter.

Your server choice only matters if you want a house or not, because you can only buy property on your home server. However, only a small fraction of the playerbase owns houses, because housing is very limited and there are a lot of hoops you have to jump through to get a house AND to keep it, so much so that it's not really worth the bother.

b) maybe someone here would be interested to take me under there wing? by this i mean be accepting that i might ask a very noob like question from time to time.

Anyone interested to take me as there new pet sprout?

Ask questions here anytime.


General advice.

• The game is first and foremost an epic JRPG, and an MMO second.

• The story is 200 hours long (100 hours of cutscenes, 100 hours of gameplay), and the first story arc, ARR, does not give off good first impressions (mediocre English voice acting, story isn't that interesting, kinda feels slow at first).

• Personally, once I reached patch 2.3, I was starting to get pretty invested in the story. Also the English voice acting improves tremendously with the first expansion, Heavensward, which is also where the story really picks up the pace, and it only gets better as it goes on. Shadowbringers is legit amazing.

• I would recommend reading this post. TL;DR: if you reach level 50 defeat the Ultima Weapon and think that you like the ideas in the game but think it can be executed better, stick around because it gets better. If you're just not feeling it though, you should probably just go ahead and drop it.

• The free trial includes the base game (ARR) and Heavensward, so don't pay yet. Play through that. Once you finish HW, go ahead and buy the complete edition, which includes the other two expansions, and gives you 30 days free subscription. You can pretty easily beat the rest of the story within that time.

• Your choice of race and starting city has no real story relevance. Pick whichever suits you the most. However, IMO the Lalafell have the most expressive facial animations, and look the best in cutscenes.

• The vanilla jobs (that you can pick from the character creation screen) don't unlock their main job mechanics until the mid 60s/70s, which is about 100+ hours into the game. The post launch jobs, namely Ninja, Samurai, Red Mage, Gunbreaker, and Dancer are fun right off the bat. You can switch to Ninja once you hit level 10, and it gets its job mechanics at level 30, which is very early on in the game. Samurai and Red Mage can be unlocked after you beat Ultima Weapon, about 30-50ish hours into the game, but requires that you own the Stormblood expansion.

[Beefhammer]

Ask questions here anytime.

Not to hijack this thread, but my daughter got me to DL this today. I made a SE account but the game tells me my account info is invalid. Mogstation says the same thing. I've changed my password just in case I had it wrong and still get the invalid error. Figured I'd ask if you guys had any suggestions while I wait for a response.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Not to hijack this thread, but my daughter got me to DL this today. I made a SE account but the game tells me my account info is invalid. Mogstation says the same thing. I've changed my password just in case I had it wrong and still get the invalid error. Figured I'd ask if you guys had any suggestions while I wait for a response.

Square Enix's accounting system is infamously whack.

You have the Square Enix store account, which you used to buy a game key... which you then redeem for your FFXIV account on mogstation (which is not the same as the store account that you used to buy the key).

Also, if you signed up for FFXIV through Square Enix, then you can't sign in to play that account on Steam, and vice versa. Again, stupid system.

[Micfeind]

I had the same issues, spent about 2 hours resetting passwords last because i couldn't log in with my old square enix account, seems also that you need to use the account name and not an email address as the log in info and its case sensitive

[Beefhammer]

Square Enix's accounting system is infamously whack.

You have the Square Enix store account, which you used to buy a game key... which you then redeem for your FFXIV account on mogstation (which is not the same as the store account that you used to buy the key).

Also, if you signed up for FFXIV through Square Enix, then you can't sign in to play that account on Steam, and vice versa. Again, stupid system.

So how do I get access to mog station? when I tried to create an account there the email they sent told me i have an account with this email.

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I had the same issues, spent about 2 hours resetting passwords last because i couldn't log in with my old square enix account, seems also that you need to use the account name and not an email address as the log in info and its case sensitive

It appears I have an online store account and am unable to create a game account ATM.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

So how do I get access to mog station? when I tried to create an account there the email they sent told me i have an account with this email.

If they're saying you already have a mogstation account, then I think you'll have to do a "what is my account?" or password reset or wait for a response.

[Beefhammer]

If they're saying you already have a mogstation account, then I think you'll have to do a "what is my account?" or password reset or wait for a response.

I do, and it sends me an email saying an account with this info already exists. I'm in a weird loop.

Update:

I found a reddit thread that guided me. I was able to get access and link everything. Now to DL it and check it out.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Now to DL it and check it out.

New player tips:

• The main appeal of the game is the JRPG story. Unfortunately the story does not make good first impressions, and the English voice acting of the base game is inconsistent. You can switch to Japanese voices, if you'd like. The English dub gets great starting with the first expansion.

• Don't bother sidequesting to level up; they are inefficient. Only do the sidequests if you are a completionist and wants little extra tidbits of fluff lore. If you want to level up, just stick to doing the main story questline, and doing leveling roulette dungeons.

• Blue questmarkers mean that they unlock a feature or content and you should probably do it.

• At level 15, you can go to Ul'dah and pick up a blue quest that unlocks the Gold Saucer, which is a nice minigame casino which provides fun breather activities like jumping puzzles or playing a card game and racing chocobos and stuff.

• Outside of a very early ilevel requirement that forces you to buy vendor gear, you don't need to really spend your money on any gear or whatever. The stuff you get from the main story and dungeon drops should be enough to keep you going. So you can save your money and spend it on cosmetic stuff.

• Don't be stingy with the teleport fees; teleport whenever you can. Don't try to save money by running there if you can just teleport close to where you are going.

• At level 15, you will start travelling to a place called "The Waking Sands" a lot. You can directly teleport there. The fastest way to get there is to teleport to Limsa Lominsa, then teleport to the Arcanist's Guild, and talk to the ferryman to be ferried to the Waking Sands. (I've seen too many stories about people not realizing they could do this, and wasting a lot of time running the whole way there every time)

[Beefhammer]

Tyvm for this. Yeah, I've always heard the story early on is meh but gets better. Just seeing her play and seeing some interesting thing has changed my mind on the game.

[Wangming]

Tyvm for this. Yeah, I've always heard the story early on is meh but gets better. Just seeing her play and seeing some interesting thing has changed my mind on the game.

The 2.x main scenario is pretty lackluster, that is true. It helped me that I was already and FF fan so all the Final Fantasy stuff got me distracted for a time and by the time it ended I was already invested in the characters. It gets better in Heavensward, goes down in Stormblood, and up to amazing in Shadowbringers.

[The Casualty]

New player tips:

• The main appeal of the game is the JRPG story. Unfortunately the story does not make good first impressions, and the English voice acting of the base game is inconsistent. You can switch to Japanese voices, if you'd like. The English dub gets great starting with the first expansion.

• Don't bother sidequesting to level up; they are inefficient. Only do the sidequests if you are a completionist and wants little extra tidbits of fluff lore. If you want to level up, just stick to doing the main story questline, and doing leveling roulette dungeons.

• Blue questmarkers mean that they unlock a feature or content and you should probably do it.

• At level 15, you can go to Ul'dah and pick up a blue quest that unlocks the Gold Saucer, which is a nice minigame casino which provides fun breather activities like jumping puzzles or playing a card game and racing chocobos and stuff.

• Outside of a very early ilevel requirement that forces you to buy vendor gear, you don't need to really spend your money on any gear or whatever. The stuff you get from the main story and dungeon drops should be enough to keep you going. So you can save your money and spend it on cosmetic stuff.

• Don't be stingy with the teleport fees; teleport whenever you can. Don't try to save money by running there if you can just teleport close to where you are going.

• At level 15, you will start travelling to a place called "The Waking Sands" a lot. You can directly teleport there. The fastest way to get there is to teleport to Limsa Lominsa, then teleport to the Arcanist's Guild, and talk to the ferryman to be ferried to the Waking Sands. (I've seen too many stories about people not realizing they could do this, and wasting a lot of time running the whole way there every time)

To expand on the above:

• Until you are max level and trying to refine your substat thresholds for things like skill speed, determination etc... ignore them over item level. Item level in most circumstances will be king, and you will be generally outleveling gear at a decent pace or won't have your full kit/rotation to worry about building around.

• The exception - If you are a low level tank, Disciple of War (DoW) armor is not really great for you. Sure you could technically get by in a dungeon while wearing it, but you are far squishier and will have lower HP than if you just stick to the gear that only you can use. This largely disappears as an option past 30 when job crystals take over and the shift to a more strict gear dynamic (plate, leather, mail etc...) picks up.

• At 15, in your adventurer hall in any city (right outside of the inn area wherever you start) you can - and definitely should - do the Hall of the Novice. To start the mini tutorials, speak to The Smith. After doing them all you will get a nearly full set of gear that will be on par for gear you find in the first few dungeons and a ring that has decent stats regardless of your class and will give an experience bonus until level 30.

• Probably not for someone immediately new, but when you get to 50, spend Tomestones of Poetics in Mor Dhona to get Ironworks gear. Going from item level 50-70 or so to 130 is a nice quality of life bump and will be better than anything that drops prior to the level 55 dungeon. The same applies for the gear jumps at 60 and 70.

[drix93]

I'm sure you'll have fun, it might be daunting at first but once you take the time to play it slowly and not rush, you'll transition into how everything works. Gameplay and all.