5 HUGE Things I Wish I Knew Sooner in FF14 

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"If you disturb a sprouts story, youll die alone" our healer in a random dungeon many years ago. Words to live by

Still a sprout but something I learned recently is if you accidentally skip cutscenes (or just want to watch them again) you can rewatch them through a book in an inn.

One more thing: don't skip the Novice Hall quests. The Novice Hall is a short walk from Aleport, and the MSQ requires you to go there, but that's about it. Many new players never talk to the "Smith" NPC there, or in the adventuring guilds in Limsa Lominsa, Gridania, or Ul'dah, to do the job-specific exercises. These give you valuable information, such as a better understanding of the range of your tank's AOEs, or telling you that healers are expected to do DPS when no healing is required. You'll also get a solid set of gear to get you through your first few dungeons, and an exp bonus ring with some nice stats. the exp bonus is applied from lvl 1 to 30 and is useful for all professions except crafting and gathering. you can access these quests once you've reached lvl 15 and you don't need to go to Aleport, you can just talk to one of the "Smith" NPCs in your starting city's adventuring guild. You can complete these quests for any role (tank, healer, caster, phys. dps) and receive a job-specific set of gear and the ring, which you only get once.

I've played FF14 for literallly 3k hours and somehow didn't know the difference between the enemy spell bars for stun/interrupt so well played sir! :D

I have a veteran tip that somehow a lot of people seem never to catch on: there are certain trials and raids where you cannot do damage to the boss unless you fulfill certain conditions! The classic example is Bismarck (the "Limitless Blue" trial one unlocks in HW). When you fetter the whale to the island, you CANNOT do damage to the chitin caparace unless you're on the whale's back. A lot of physical ranged and casters think they can chill on the island and do damage from there, but they're in fact doing 0 damage! You can tell you're not doing damage because besides seeing your hits go for 0 damage, they have a distinctive metallic "clink clink" sound feedback to them, and visually there's a translucent hexagon showing whenever your animations impact the boss.

The MSQ is super important, but don’t forget to unlock things (the blue missions with the gold plus sign), they will get you all sorts of new content - such as mounts and other fun stuff.

the best tip that i can tell is, in the PC, when you want to teleport to an aetheryte that is surounded by quest markers, just hold CTRL, it will bring the aetheryte to first plan and you can just click on it

New player to FFXIV just joined on the Xbox open beta/free trial, thanks for the tips I will have to use them

Healers: dps when you can, but also, HEAL when people need it. Tanks: Use your AOE abilities when pulling trash packs! >3 mobs? always AOE. DPS: please dont pull. Wait for tank to engage before attacking.

On the item UI your equipment is usually green but if it is white it means that it is 100 percent spirit bonded and ready to get the materia from

I have 2000+ hours in game and have never seen anyone have a problem with waiting for cut scenes. However sometims the tank doesn't realise there is a first timer playing and accidentally pulls the boss while the cutscene is running, so don't be afraid to let people know at the start that you will be watching the cut scenes.

My biggest tip is: READ YOUR TOOL TIPS!!! You arent expected to play perfectly or optimally but you are expected to at least have a general knowledge of what your job can do and how to do it. And while there are some skills with tool tips that are a mile long and/or might not do exactly what you think they do, there are plenty of people out there willing to help and teach you! Throw a question to your dungeon party or shout in Limsa (dont shout in Limsa or do I cant stop you. May god have mercy on your soul) or look up one of the numerous guides on your job, there are tons of vids on YT and plenty of other resources to help you learn!

For healers and bards, debuffs you can cleanse will have a white line above them

Tip even a lot of vets don’t know about: there is a ferry between Limsa and Vesper Bay (the Waking Sands). Just go outside the Arcanist’s Guild/Mealvaan’s gate and talk to the ferry guy behind the counter at the bottom of the ramp.

As a new player, you are going to find it hard to get seals in the beginning, as you will need them to 'level up' your rank in the grand company. Leveling up your grand company raises your cap on the amount of seals you can have at one time. The best way to do this is to do your grand company hunting logs! (Doing hunting logs in general is a great way to get exp up to level 30 or so) - The other way to get seals early on is the adventurer in need on leveling roulette. If you have already unlocked roulettes, when you open your duty finder it will show a role icon to the right, OR, when you click on it, it will state Adventurer in Need (role in parenthesis). It's usually tank or healer, but sometimes you'll get lucky for dps. You can also farm ARR fates for seals, but frankly, I find this to be the least efficient way to get them.

Solid advice, great video 🤗 I will say, the only thing of note about turning in your excess gear to grand companies for seals is that the lower the level, the fewer seals you get. The 2k a pop will come from current endgame (Lvl 90) gear, while anything under level 50 will net you about 150-400ish. Always roll on gear to exchange for seals! You get relic materials, ventures to pay retainers, dark matter to repair your gear, coffers with mounts/minions from Heavensward & Stormblood. All around a great investment, and you can make a nice amount of Gil from selling duplicates ✨

400 hours in and I didn’t know about the inventory expander 😅 thank you so much for this vid

Just a further clarification for shop price and restricted: Sometimes this is locked behind something that will take a few hours and/or days to get to. For example, beast tribe quests. Sometimes it's an area you don't even have access to yet. So sure, if you have the rep for them built up and you can get it from them then it's good to do so. However, if not then it comes into a question of time/cost, which is what a lot of people base their marketboard prices on.

top tip: you dont have to run to the exit at the end of a duty, you can just press U (or whatever you use for duty finder menu) and click 'leave'

Thank you. About the cutscenes on dungeons i was on pure stress.

As a sprout player (began playing for the very first time 10 days ago), it was very informative to know about the shop details of things (selling price, if available in npcs, etc) and being able to sell trash dungeon gear to the grand companies. Also I'm glad that the community is receptive and understading with the fact that I need to watch the cutscenes to understand the story. I've played other MMOs (SWTOR per example) that people would go nuts and start spamming chat non-stop if the cutscene played for even 5 seconds.

I think the banning thing should have some clarification, you wont get banned for constructive criticism, only for remarks that are designed to disparage the player. I see a lot of people confuse the two, in both directions. Some are afraid to make a comment that might help someone but are too afraid to speak up because people tell them they will get banned for correcting people, and on the other side there are people who erroneously think disparaging and negative comments are somehow constructive but they are not. You can help your fellow player if you think they are doing something in error, but do it in a polite and civil manner. A kind helpful comment will do far more good than a dozen negative ones.

For background music (both game music and mounted background music) I have macros setup to mute these on a single click instead of having to go into settings. /bgm - this mutes/unmutes regular background music including bards playing music. So if I get tired of hearing Gold Saucer music for the 3rd hour straight or not wanting to listen to the bard next to me plink away on thier guitar, I click my macro button to turn it off, and then again when I'm ready for it to be back on /mountbgm - mutes/unmutes the background music when mounted. There are some mounts I love the music for, there's not so much. Just a quick way to enabke/disable that music.

Just reached level 40 on my first character. This has been BY FAR the singular most enjoyable gaming experience to date……Witcher 3 used to be my favorite for many years until I started this game. The combat, COMMUNITY, and all around content is 2nd to none for me. But the community is what makes this game imo. It’s nice to not be surrounding by screaming, petty children all the time….

A note regarding limit breaks in dungeons. The general approach for dungeons is wall to wall (where the tank grabs every possible mob between the start and end of the current section). When a dungeon is being played in such a fashion (the dungeons are designed around wall to wall play) do NOT save your limit break for the boss. Instead, if you have a ranged or magic DPS, use the LB on the mobs. It does infinitely more damage and is a much more efficient way of playing. In addition, when a dungeon is run wall to wall, those big mob packs are much more dangerous than a boss. Using an AoE LB on mobs is not just more efficient, it is better for survivability too. Of course, in (almost all) raids and trials this doesn’t apply as there are no mobs. That is the right time to use LB on the boss, assuming the tank LB3 isn’t required as it is with REDACTED and REDACTED. :P Oh and of course if the LB wasn’t used on mobs, then use it on the boss. Better to use it inefficiently than waste it entirely.

Thanks so much for this video i just started playing ff14 and the things you mentioned shed a lot of light on some things i was confused about. Plus now i know how to get the glamor prisms so thats a big help so thanks i love how you explain everything in detail and not to fast but clearly and actually show in the video what to do and where to go. Keep it up!!!!

I played the first version. I have come back to arr with the Xbox beta. This game is soooo good. I'm lvl 58 and almost done with the base story, having to clear crystal tower missions to progress the msq. It's really ok to watch the cutscenes without pissing veterans off? I love this player base!

jumping in and bouncing off glamouring: glamour plates. you get 20 plates when you click into the glamour dresser in an inn that you can use for glamous that you know you will be using often and you can set them up for general glams or for certain jobs which you will be able to apply in any city in the game. with glamour plates you can also go into your set list for all the gear sets you have and apply certain plates to certain jobs then if you change in any city it will auto update all your gear to be the glam for you and keep your portraits pretty up-to-date as well. another thing i will say is macros. there are helpful things that you can use to use a certain set of skills back to back with only clicking one button [crafters use these a bit] or have a second hotbar in the UI that will have all your jobs for a quick and effortless switch from one job to the next

Awesome video! I have alot of hours in this game and I don't think I really knew what the shop selling price actually meant. My tip for newer players would be to make sure you set up at least 3 active hotbars for all of your actions, and while the game will give you one action at a time as you play through it, it is possible to read through what every action does and place it on your hotbars before hand from the Actions and Traits menu. Also to set up your keybinds accordingly with each action in mind and how they can be used across multiple classes (tank mit cooldowns being on the same key, knockback prevention etc). This will help to build up the muscle memory early as you play.

excellent video Lucky! your quality is over 9000! ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

Just a heads up, if you have a duty that's tied to a quest, once you complete that duty you'll automatically be teleported to the spot where you unlocked the duty or an area nearby as dictated by the story. So the best way to avoid unnecessary teleports while doing the story is not to immediately go to the job quest, but rather do the job quest once you hit a duty roadblock (denoted by "______ is now available in the Duty Finder"). Do the job quest, then queue for the duty and complete it. That way you don't have to teleport back to the story point because the game will put you there once the duty is completed.

My advice after 1.5k+ hours is this: If you’re gonna be DPSing a lot, you’re gonna want to turn on a setting. It will show the enemy’s health % remaining. Do not use the LB3 until the boss is at 5%-10% or lower Healer LB3 is game changer and if you pop the LB3 too early, it could make the difference between a clear and a wipe For those who are joining from other MMOs: 1. Welcome to the family

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet (I didnt seen it as i scrolled down so apologies if someone has already covered this) but a note about the "massive xp massive gil" statement on the Daily Duty Roulette rewards. If you notice it says "Adventurer in need (Role)" above those amounts. So that massive xp and massive gil is "extra" on top of the daily reward IF you queue for that duty AS the role in need. You dont just automatically get it for running it.

Awesome video!! I was wondering if you have a guide for housing?

Thanks for the tip about mount music. There has been mounts that I want to use, but music sucks.. now I'll be able to use them again :)

F2p PC sprout here, just cleared ARR. I haven’t loved a FF game this much since X, and it’s the most fun I’ve _ever_ had with a hotbar MMO. Legacy movement was such a game changer. Before that, I had to dodge AoEs by _releasing lock-on, spinning the camera a quarter turn, and running sideways_ lmfao and then I had to hurry and lock back on. Lots of other great info here that I’ll have to put into practice :D

loved the vid! learned interrupts thx to u!

Thanks. Started free trial on xbox last week!

This helped alot! Thank you!

The 5-second rez immunity can be cancelled as soon as you used any skill or auto attacks. So it’s always a good idea to wait for heals before getting back into action.

The tip I took away from this was selling gear for seals. Regrettably, I have let other people's time make me decide to skip cut scenes quite often.

The thing i still forget is to extract materia. There is the quick check right next to the inventory bubbles, if the gear slot shows white bubble, extract!

Been playing on Xbox. Loving it! Been a FF fan since the early days. Feels good, man.

Nice tips! There's a lot of knowledge I've gained in my like 7k hours but it can be hard to think of on the spot. One thing about glamours, use the glamour dresser! It only costs a prism to place it into the dresser and then you can apply it individually or with a glamour plate whenever for free. Plates can be used in any sanctuary and once again they're free to use.

I thought interject was worthless. I took it off my tank bar. Gonna add it back now

Thank you for the tips.😊

Just a possible heads up about having an expanded retainer inventory: I don't know if it's just me or not, but whenever I search an item and it's found in a retainer's inventory, the page where it is does not seem to reflect the expanded inventory, but rather the normal. Also... I was not aware there was an Open All option for personal inventory. Another heads up is about Limit Break: while normally all you need to do is click Limit Break and you'll do it, but if you're playing a caster you instead have to MANUALLY AIM the Limit Break... unless you've created a macro that makes it drop on the targeted enemy/object. I learned this in the worst way possible.

Great video! I'm coming back from a long hiatus and this video was very helpful

Idk if anyone already said this but if u find the SMN summons are filling up most of ur screen u can make them smaller by typing "/petsize all small" in the message log.

A few more: 1 - I find better to buy ventures using Wolf Mark or GC credits instead of buying glamour prism, because you can buy prisms cheap on NPC, but ventures aren't sold for gil. 2 - There's a feature called Focus Target, usually bound to Shift + T, you can also right click a target's name and select this option. It's amazing for keeping an eye on the boss attacks and act accordingly, this can help keeping an eye on interruptable casts, avoid gaze attacks, and also prevent wipes in a raid.

Definitely don't rush to the end. Take some time and do the side quest. There are some awesome stories. Take the mog mail quests. They are perfectly corny. I loved them.

One thing that's helps me is knowing the percentage if remaining health of a mob/boss. There's a option in the character configuration to turn that on to.

If you're a controller player usually who plays this on PC, these keyring changes absolutely revolutionized my gameplay. Go to Keybinds, change all your hotbar keybinds to the corresponding key on the 10-key num pad. For hotbar 2, it'll be Alt+numpad, and hotbar 3 will be Alt+Ctrl+numpad. This allows you to use or queue abilities while leaving movement unrestricted.

Normal raid is still good because you can get drops worth millions. The orchestrion rolls. So think of it as gil reward, a lot of people don’t even stick around to roll for the orchestrion

Level your crafters and gatherers. If you want to do it with minimum effort, use the daily turn ins at your Grand Company. You get a boatload of xp, and if you turn in a HQ item, it is doubled !

After every expansion there is a "wrap up" quest that is marked as a generic side-quest (Heavensward has two if you include the Scholasticate). If you enjoy the story it's highly recommended to look these up and complete them.

Great video Lucky!! Makes me miss FF now I want to play again

Thanks just started currently level 31 and this helped me alot!

Xbox sprout in heavensward story at the moment. never knew that I could sell my gear to the alliance guys 😰 I was so confused on how to rank up faster 😰 thank you!

The shop selling price. Years of playing and did not know that was what it meant. Thank you. Enjoyed your voice also.

lot of all the dungeon loot can even if you dont want it and go to your GC to turn them in for a ton of seals under the "Expert Delivery" tab

There's obviously not a correct way to do it, but my experience got a lot better when I changed my hotbar keybinds. The default basically forces you to click the hotbar a bunch.

Just started playing ff14 a couple days ago, your guides have been beyond helpful!

The only thing to clarify in your video - While "Shop Selling Price - None" means you can't buy it from an NPC for gil, doesn't mean you can't buy it for seals or poetics. In-game there's no easy way to figure out if this is the case.

Hey! I'm a 14 vet and I have a tip~ Please read your tooltip, it will help alot in knowing what your class is able to do.

Just started on Xbox and this is really helpful.

Some of the dungeons absolutely can be beaten without you. I once had a boss intro cutscene interrupted by the boss defeat cutscene, because my teammates killed it without me.

gracias muy buenos consejos, todos me abrieron el mundo

About gear, know your role, tanks have the highest requirement for gear. As a tank your gear determines how much punishment you can take and how much you get healed so staying up to date on gear is imperative. You can feel the difference when healing tank at synced gear, average gear, and then min ilvl gear. If youre dying a lot in a dunge9n you are leveled at and tou feel confident that you and your healer are doing well, check your gear.

Just getting back in with free trial on xbox. Originally played from og release to heavensward.

thanks for the guide mate! i love the game but feel it lacks explanations for the enormous amount of content it offers so I appreciated the breakdown

When i played as tank and first few dungeons i had Limited knowledge, the teams i was there with paused progression in the level and explained very patiently to me. This community is one of the greatest i have been part of ❤️

Just some added information: 1. Allagan tome gear for each expansion is good up to usually 3rd/4th dungeon of the next expansion example a heavensward augmented shire gear 270 ilvl is good enough up to 3rd dungeon of Stormblood the only time to ditch the old Allagan tome gear is once you past this certain levels in the game (3rd dungeon for SB is level player 65-66 Avg Item level to get in is 250) this is to save you tomes for newer players and the gear you get from quests you can sell them on the Market board for profit since they are HQ items or use them for your future alt jobs. 2. Buying prism via Grand company is a good idea but selling high level items from older expansions for grand company seals is only good if you don't have a crafter that can desynth them. Desynthing items will turn the gear into materials for crafting and can turn into HQ crafting items you can sell for more profit off the Marketboard then selling the gear to the Grand company . Example is Solution items for Alchemy like Immutable that can be bough only via scripts or desynthing items from the latest expac it is more profitable to desyth them and sell them or use them as they make the 640 crafted gear for the latest expac. So don't always sell every items you get from the dungeons if its from dungeons last 2 expacs or 60/70/80/90 as they are valuable.

Biggest tip on earth: You can press enter on PC during a cutscene to open the chat window, and the Event tab shows all the dialogue that's played so far in that cutscene. Helps me not miss anything

Here's something I didn't know and recently figured out. If you have already collected an item like a triple triad card, a minion, or an orchestra composition, the icon will show a small check mark in the bottom right to indicate if you have the item. This is useful for dungeon drops and such

400 hours in and never tried legacy camera… gamechanger

Been playing for a month now and absolutely loving it and the community is so lovely , even the veteran players, its so refreshing coming from other MMOs where the community is nothing like that x

open all for inventory is a life changer ty

As a new player it's insane how good it was for you to mention the legacy camera mode. It is SO MUCH BETTER Was one of the main cons for me starting out with the standard camera mode

Just did a few dungeons as tank. Peeps still have a way of making you feel small just because it’s your first or second time. It’s friendly but not that much.

Lucky Ghost could be a lore-friendly Hellsguard Roegadyn name. Thank you for the guide! I appreciate your helping new players like me!

Nice vid, man! And I don't even play the game!

Do Hildibrand quests, do all the 8 man and 24 man raids, log out in big cities, tell people when you are in a dungeon your first time, and realize that tanking is not hard in this game.

I'm guessing a lot isn't available on the free trial? Like gold saucer? I never got the quest marker for it so am assuming? It's not available for demo players?

I skip the cut scenes because i'm on a time limit since I use batteries to play and for some reason even if i just got the batteries from the store they only last a few hours sometimes only an hour and finding a group to run dungeons with takes most of that time anyway

I've been playing since ARR on and off, and I just never knew or experimented with a Legacy movement. I will be switching immediately.

Do you have any tips on organizing the action bar?

Just want to point out, the numbers you mentioned on the Duty Roulette, those are the Adventure In Need bonus for going in as whatever role the game is short on at the moment. (The AIN bonus has always felt really low to me, but at the top 10 levels you can at least get materia tokens from leveling and alliance.) The *daily* bonus is the one above it that's just a cryptic up arrow - they can't tell you in advance because it's calculated to make whatever duty you land in about as rewarding as a duty of that type at the level your character actually is. Raids always release at the current level cap, so they never gave much experience; a daily roulette is basically good for tomestones only. Weirdly, *alliance* raid roulette is a lot better for experience. Maybe just because it's longer. PVP "roulette" is also decent for experience, and you can change jobs once you get in (the exp goes to the job you queued as) so you can always play your most comfortable job, or switch to what's needed if you like.

Customizing and resizing the HUD. For the longest time i didn't know that you can resize just about any window or display element.

As someone that plays on and off that would technically be considered a veteran, I did NOT know about the legacy movement thing. Very useful tip, wish I knew that sooner lol Also, 100% agree with everyone being okay with waiting for cutscenes. When I was still working my way through MSQ, I was doing trials and the like to get to the next expansion (I think it was the patch content leading into Shadowbringers) and everyone in my party was so excited for me. Plenty of "Enjoy Shadowbringers!" appearing in chat once we wrapped up. The community is awesome.

Hey new player here who is coming in with the xbox crowd and thanks alot of these i didnt know about

Is there a version of legacy that gets the character pivot without camera pivoting? I cannot stand legacy because it ruins camera controls for my settings and I feel like I’m doing something wrong.

Oh damn, you still got those crafter specific glamour prism ? That's retro,

New player here. I’m an archer but want to be a samurai, once I hit 50 I know I can switch, will re gearing be a huge annoyance? Would love if someone could give me advice thanks

I’m playing on the Xbox beta and am trying to level all the crafting classes to 30 so I could make my own gear and since it saves me gil if I don’t mind running around collecting ore, trees, fish and the like.

theres a novice/mentor system now. i havnt olayed thos game since 2021 and they answer questions its cool

Thanksfor the info, I’m thinking of starting this game, and I want to tank thinking about warrior or dark knight

Some things to note. Doing your job "correctly" isn't as important as learning and doing boss mechanics correctly. Keep your eye on the bosses you encounter, what the moves they use are called as they do them and keep an eye on the stage around you as well. Many bosses will spawn some type of thing on the edge of the level and it will likely shoot a beam straight from it meaning you don't want to be standing in line with whatever it is, just keep an eye on the surrounding stage when you can and watch what the thing that spawns does so you can avoid it the next time it appears assuming it was avoidable it will actually be pretty obvious if it's something you could avoid. Sometimes attacks will appear so fast you might think it's broken or unfair but in those cases it's likely the boss moved it's body in a way telegraphing an attack before it appeared on the ground, you actually have to dodge these attacks before they appear by moving when the boss starts telegraphing the attack. Like for example a boss might raise it's right hand to telegraph a huge attack on the bosses right side prompting you to pre-emptively move to the left side of the boss to avoid the attack. It's not always as telegraphed as raising an arm though, sometimes it's just the name of an attack you need to watch out for in order to actively move and position while it's casting rather than waiting for the attack to appear because once it appears, it's probably too late to dodge. ALL boss fights in the game show you mechanics before they're used in more complex ways. The first time you see a boss use a new mechanic it's usually just the learning portion of the mechanic so they expect you to get hurt by it. The bosses will almost always "Use ability 1" once or twice "Use ability 2" once or twice and then you'll see the same 2 abilities get used but in more complicated ways, the first times you see something is just so you can learn the mechanic before the abilities are used seriously. I can guarantee you the mechanic you just got hit with is coming again but it will be slightly harder to avoid next time maybe it will even be combined with a different mechanic just to trip you up, so make sure you pay close attention to each mechanic during the learning phase of the mechanic. The game also generalizes certain mechanics so you know what to do when they appear in multiple fights. Like for instance the marker for "stack together to absorb the damage as a group" is indicated by yellow arrows pointing towards whoever is targeted by the attack. Tank busters or big damage boss hits on tanks are usually a strange red marker, It's on the tank so you'll know it when you see it trust me. If the red tank buster marker is slightly yellow it means the attack is actually not just a single target tank buster like usual but it can also hit other players usually it's like a huge cone attack towards the tank so don't be behind the tank or near them. the yellow/orange tank buster marker is very obviously not the same color as the very red marker so you don't need to stress about it, you'll know it when you see it. Another example of a reused marker you see a lot is the big red eye marker on the monster or another player, it means look away from whatever has the eye on it until you dodge the attack. I'm not typing this to teach these "complex" markers to anyone though, I know it's confusing, they're complicated scary markers you don't need to learn from someone online, the game actually teaches these markers fantastically over time at a natural pace by just showing them to you as you play, I just wanted it to be known that these reoccurring mechanical markers exist and you'll be seeing them a lot and they mean the same thing every time you see them.

One thing I really wish items have is the ability to lock them to make it easier to clear unused or old gear.