FFXIV Dawntrail Checklist & Returner Guide 

The most challenging duty in the game: Account Management Ultimate

I’ve been cleaning out all my inventory in preparation for Dawntrail, because I know I’m gonna have a ton of new items.

"Coming to you live from an abandoned shed in the swamp...."

"Florida woman moves gaming channel setup into abandoned shed. News at 11"

Thank you Zepla for giving us the true Florida experience from your abandoned shed

Post Endwalker stuff was AWESOME - if you're a fan of Final Fantasy IV. I can see how people without that nostalgia and who also had to play it in chunks at a time might not have liked it as much.

I am glad you are safe and sound much love

I was thinking "wow zepla is starting this video out so serious" and then a minute into the video shes already breaking down into the laugh we all love 😂

I've lived in Japan for 5 years. The part you mentioned about Square making it hard to pay them really hit home. Literally every single thing in Japan is difficult to pay for when it comes to bills. Also the mogstation is technically advanced compared to 90% of Japanese websites. They do everything like this, 30 years in the past.

Oh no... Zepla is now floridawoman

Thanks for the list Zepla! Looking forward to jumping back in

Thanks, helpful!

there was a good 3 months I was thinking about resubbing to ff14 but couldn't be bothered to deal with the mogstation before I finally actually resubbed

Also a fun tip for those worried about gear/ilvl going into DT! Once DT goes live the current comedy tomestone gear will cost poetics instead so you can stock up 2k poetics fairly easily for that and save your comedy tomestone because you'll be able to convert them to the new second-tier tomestones and get a head start on lvl100 tomestone armor!

7:36 Thaleia gear was unlocked from weekly limit in patch 6.58 soo if want gear spam those

yoooooo this what i needed. :) ty

welcome back zepla

thank youuuu 🥰

Thanks for the preorder xp ear ring reminder! I almost forgot.

Im grinding for Causality Tomestones so I can catch up. It's been fun. Getting so hyped for a summer vacation type adventure.

I just finished the MSQ today, got 4 90's Pal, Reaper, Sage, Dancer and working on 4 others War, Bard, White, and Sum(subject to change if any of the job changes for Dawn trail makes me want something else instead) Going to unlock the rest of the raids and other side stuff and work on them as I have time. And I am probobly going to make the initial Dawn trail push when it comes out with 3 jobs Pal or War, Reaper or Viper and Sage or White mage. So I have a Tank Heal and Dps at 100 right away.

WHOOOAAA! RIGHT ON TIME I just came back this week

Picked up the game a couple months ago thinking that just playing a couple hours a night I'd get to play Dawntrail on launch, but boy was I mistaken I'm not even done with Heavensward yet lol this game has a ton of side content.

Question: I got the pvp armor already but because I didnt want to immediately use it I deleted it thinking that I could get it back at a vendor but I couldnt find anything. Did I just made a big oops and this thing is gone forever?:D

Wait, what do you mean the PvP armor won't be available after Dawntrail? They said the PvP rewards would be obtainable again later for CC. I didn't get the dragon mount from the second lot of rewards cause I was going through a heckin rough time and figured I'll just get it when it rolls back around.

Does the scenario go away on Dawntrail release, or before then?

Hang in there Zepla, you are wonderful and were excited for you to be in the states!!!

Nice. I was just thinking I need to get back in and get prepared for launch day. I guess It's finally time to do the Endwalker patch quests

This was SO helpful. FFXIV has so much to do, it's daunting to go back and relearn it all again.

i've been playing ffxiv for a while but am a complete noob still, what is the area called at the end of the video?

You should be able to buy 660 ilvl gear with tomestones of poetics once early access begins. If you start the expansion with 2000 tomestones, you can get several pieces of 660 gear right off the bat.

Doing the tribal quest is my main way of grinding lol. Unless I plan to grind for both exp and tombstones for one of the Manderville weapons.

Should I buy endwalker or wait to play it with my dawntrail preorder?

3:25 well technically there's Eureka Orthos lvl.81 + farming 21-30 and Hippo quests

Your sense of humor is incredible lol, thank you for being you.

OMG thank you! I'm returning after a while and wasn't aware of the PvP series rewards, nor do I really do PvP, so I wouldn't have known about the Tyrant gear without you. That set is the absolute dream armor I've been looking for for my RDM for ages -- there are a million varieties of musketeer/swashbuckler clothing and of course caster gear, but basically zero glam with an armored look that was both RDM-wearable and RDM-appropriate in style. The combo of red cloth and dyeable armor is absolutely perfect; as soon as I saw your video I went and spent like 3-4 days on the pvp grind to earn it, and I'm so happy with it! If I would have found out about it after it went away, I'd have been a sad panda.

I would add a 4th REALLY important thing. Who says new island means new beaches. GET YOUR SUMMER GLAMOURS GUYS!

Just came back after mythic raiding all of Dragonflight. Ready to get back into 14 and videos like this always help ❤

Ugh, I am so behind. I have just started on the Ixali tribe and my highest level job is a Level 71 Reaper and Level 70 Monk. Everyone else is below 60. My MSQ is in Stormblood. :(

My to-do list includes Final Fish (friggin' Sidereal Whale blocking me from that) and getting an EX clear of the final trial so I'm ready for mentor roulette as soon as I'm done the MSQ.

Thanks for video help me something I forgot to do. PS love your little quirky saying. They crack me up and are sooo cute. ❤

Hope they fix the payment system bug soon.. so i can get on stuff

How is her chat options the blue popup like at 12:24???

so you can pay the sub with a discover card and not visa, but you can't preorder the game on sqen with discover but you can with visa????

I have been playing through the MSQ over the last few months and conveniently I am at the Lvl 88 MSQ in Endwalker so it seems im going to be fully caught up in time for Dawntrail (I Started playing in Endwalker, so its been a loong story journey). its going to be really nice to play a brand new expansions story, being fully caught up and in love with the characters like a lot of people. Ready for a Scion Beach holiday after Endwalker 😂.

Must-dos: @1:33 1. Finish MSQ @2:53 2. Get your jobs to 90 @4:54 3. Buy the expansion Optionals: @6:45 Get some gear? @7:43 Manderville Weapons @9:00 Island @10:19 Variant & Criteron Dungeons @11:33 Eureka Orthos @12:05 Treasure Maps @12:24 Endwalker Beast Tribes

Can you make a tutorial how buy dawntrail (nonsteam) im confused

i actuly bught dawn trail twice, im leveling some alts on another service account, and the 30% shure are sweet to get fast to lvl 25

Wrestle them gators!

What is grass exactly?

If I start Endwalker now will I make it in time?

I'm in FL! Welcome to crazy state lol. I actually been on a break from ffxiv for over a year or more, basically logging in once a month to keep my houses. I quit when the mid pandamonium raids were out. But now my wife decided to give it a try. So I made a new char that I been leveling with hers. We are uhh...very casual paced lol. I dont wanna get ahead of her so we only work on msq stuff together. Shes lovin it though so that makes me happy. She hasnt really played an mmo since the earlier wow years.

2:02 yea I agree on that, I got there when I only had to wait on the last patch to hit, I loved it. All the FF4 references were great, I could see it being annoying having to stop for months though.

Zeplas laugh will cure my depression

I stopped progressing msq because it doesn’t go anywhere unless I do it so no rush for me. Currently just started endwalker but my Summoner hit max level and I want to level a different dps job. Finally picked up black mage and got him to lvl 50 and now I’m on a personal quest as an alchemist just to change to the color of my artifact armor lol. So I’m side tracked right now. I may even relic weapon not sure. I do want to play pictomancer though.

Thanks for this video. Unfortunately I couldn’t figure out how to give SquEnix my money so I still haven’t resumed yet I don’t actually have an issues like Southeast Asia. It’s just difficult

Just came back 3 weeks ago, hand't played EW at all, and in 3 weeks i finished all the EW MSQ and the Post-Endwalker stuff and I can confirm, had a pretty good time with the Post-Endwalker patches because I was able to do them all back to back. I liked Zero, I liked the dungeons and trials, and I thought it wrapped it all up pretty nicely. One of my favorite post-patch experiences so I was a but shocked when I heard people compare it to ARR or StB where both those felt like a slog, EW didn't for me.

I appreciate the amount of bunboys in this video

I had no idea you moved to NA - Thanks for everything you've done for EU Light! I can't wait to see your reactions to DT - really hope you stream it like EW!

I just came back a month ago after 6 years and i feel i have so much to do. 😂

so overwhelmed I dont know where to begin. 😬😬

I am soooo tempted to come back to the game and prep my samurai. BUT the last time i played i got burned out really good. :(

Yo welcome to Florida I’ve lived in central Florida my whole life , hopefully you moved to a good spot . Just remember the farther north you go in Florida the more southern it is and the farther south you go the more northern it is, so north Florida is basically Alabama and south Florida is basically New York

I'm getting into the game, and I didn't understand what you said at 3:22 because I really need to grind my jobs

As a Florida native, welcome!

i'm waiting the graphic update to go through endwalker... I just finished 5.55 yesterday and decided to wait for a better experience and, maybe even play endwalker with the new jobs... HYPE

wait so I just started the game is it a graphic overhaul willi need a new graphics card I have a shitty one right now but I bout a new one I'm jus ttoo scared to install it my self

I haven’t even gotten to Heavensward yet!!! Good god this is gonna be an adventure

Can't wait to here you say Hey Yall! Welcome to Florida

Heeyyyyy Welcome to Florida!!!

Didn't get this in my sub box :( enjoy it tho! good luck with the move

Fancy background not a necessity. Just glad you're safe. ;p Good luck in Florida.

Nice shed

You can speed run the patch story quest its quite easy and fast

Hey Zepla! Welcome to Florida ☀️. I live in the Jax Beach area, maybe you can do a meetup here? My schedule is pretty packed as a Family Wealth Advisor, but I'd love to grab coffee sometime with you!

Ok Ive been gone since middle of heavensward…should I story skip any of the expansions?

I really do wish Even if it was inn room only they'd give us somewhere we can get to all of our inventory in one screen

I'm leveling crafting for the first time so I can grind EW rep, all for that Lop Hop.

Welcome to Florida Zepla!!!!

I am coming back after Endwalker... like have not played since endwalker came out. I am confused and overwhelmed so thanks for this!

The patch MSQ is awesome! I regret listening to you saying it wasn't good. I put it off for so long

Considering i didn't touch Endwalker and last time i logged in was 2021 i will do as follows: buy and play Shadow of the Erdtree (same as Yoshi P), wait for DT launch and see how the mood develops. Then i decide.

June 20th, account mang still not fixed for NA here.. still overly complicated and the end it rejected my visa ? Just got the sub through steam instead (which is also stupidly complex but at least it took my card), but only MMO I know that actually tries to NOT take any money from anyone for any reason.

Welcome to Florida I'm new to final fantasy really enjoy playing solo but don't like playing in groups I keep messing up 😅😅😅😅

I swear, the Gunblade relic from Mandervile looks just like the Monado

I still haven’t beaten heavensward… absolutely love this game and all your content though!!

Thanks Zep! Coming back hopefully soon after getting married after 6.0 2 years ago 🙏

The 4 daya free login was super nice. Got all content from garo, make it rain and fall guys events.

Zepla moving to Florida means a Griding Gear crossover episode perhaps 🤔🤔🤔

I’m glad you are in Florida and not in…where you were the last time things started getting bad in that part of the world. 😊

Welcome to Florida! Youll love it here...3 months out of the year.

Welcome to Florida!!! We hate it here :)

Dont forget that we will (probably) get a new poetics vendor in either Old Sharlayan or Radz-at-Han selling high level gear for poetics in patch 7.0. Well, thats what we got in 6.0 in Crystarium at least. :)

God I’m just glad I have my classes I’m gonna for sure use lvld up just like one or two more dps classes but I need to work on doing more side content and get some more glam before dawn

I used to play FFXIV religiously last year but i got super busy over the past year, something feels wrong about the fact i didnt know this expansion pack even existed till now

Are we thinking Bozja is probably the best way to quickly level one of the new jobs at launch? When Endwalker launched I immediately got Reaper and hopped in to Bozja. I think I may have done a couple other things for some extra XP, but I can't remember what. I can't just play a new expansion as an old class. It's unseemly. Be kinda funny if Bozja is the go-to for two expansions in a row :p

I lived in Florida for 20 years before moving to the desert hellscape of Nevada and Utah. I'm cursed to suffer in hot climates.

0:16 OMG I spit out my drink on my screen laughing :D

I've never recommended Steam as a way to install FFXIV, but I will after this account management situation. I have never had one issue installing, buying expansions, or making my payments through Steam. Not a one.

I pre ordered but now I don't even know if I wanna keep playing lol