Most CONFUSING Things in FFXIV for New Players 

In my first days, before I discovered Gearsets, I used to go inside inns to change jobs so no one would see me naked when I switched my weapon.

I spent 20mins trying to figure out why I couldn’t raise a “dead player” out in the Shroud only to realize they were playing dead…I am sure they were amused lolol

I used to never attune any other aetherite crystals becaus i thought it would change my home location and the next time i used "return" i would return to that crystal. When i finally decided to change my home location it popped up "teleport unlock", i almost threw myself out the window.

after fates would end, I used to sit there healing EVERYONE because i thought some kind of attack happened to make them ALL drop to like no HP..... they were just all really high levelled and resetting their stats xD I just wanted to be a good white mage lol

oh the lingo for me for sure. I thought "ERP" meant "extreme raiding party" and when I hit 50 and unlocked my first extreme primal I wandered around Limsa and Uldah shouting "extreme primals look spicy and fun, looking for ERP group" Once someone asked me if I needed help and corrected me I was so embarrassed I didn't log on for a week.

I started playing about a month ago. The most confusing thing to me is that Minfilia specifically makes this big show of giving you a phone then insists on you coming all the way back to see her to tell her every inconsequential detail. Either she’s the ultimate boomer or she’s wicked thirsty for the protagonists.

It took me 4 or 5 dungeons to realize that "o/" was people waving to me/my party. I thought people were just constantly mistyping some kind of chat command at the beginning of dungeons . This is my first mmo ever, and I'd never seen that before in other games

as a healer main, that new healer sightseeing while their group was dying was one of the best comments, it's even funnier since sometimes people switch to a healer job to get a fast queue then forget that they're the healer lmao

the "following mechanic" comment was Extremely funny

Omg the weaver getting killed by bees. I can relate to that as a humble botanist who got trampled by evil mushrooms on my first day...

I didn't know how to get mounts till i got to level 45, i was running everywhere.....that was yesterday.

I relate to that Weaver one so much, when I first started playing I picked up Goldsmithing and because it gave me abilities and a hammer i assumed I had to kill things outside Uldah. I genuinely thought it was some sort of test like if i couldn't kill bee's with my hammer then I wasn't worthy of crafting. I was mistaken.

I'm also new, buddy and I had a good laugh the other day. I was surprised when I found out Dragoon wasn't an actual tank. I thought "Floor Tank" was just a mobile tank. Like a bball player running the floor.

1,000 hours in and I'm still confused about everything.

I remember starting off and shaking my head at characters who had no clothing. Only to later try a new class and have absolutely no equip-able gear. I felt so embarrassed running around naked trying to get some form of low level clothing.

...brb, going dumping all my chest pieces in the glamour dresser which I totally knew existed.

I absolutely LOST IT over “Such ambulation…” 🤣🤣🤣

Came from WoW and have been playing for only 3 days. Your channel have been a blessing for me and the timing on this video couldn't be better.

I audibly gasped at "I spent most of ARR walking." You poor bastard

Can I just say as a WoW Refugee you have been singlehandedly the most helpful RU-vidr for starting FF XIV. Thank you so much for the effort and time you put into this content, really easy to watch and super helpful all the way through. I've been watching your videos for about a week and today I subscribed. Thanks for everything!

The one about the "blue chair/lamp" analogy hits home. Everytime I would take a break and come back to the game I would end up spending my tomes on the wrong gear (lower ilvl) because the vendor/currency system is so incredibly and seemingly unnecessarily convoluted.

The crafting and gathering portion was a lot for me, due to the fact that there were actually skills.

Blue AoE's being friendly. I just semi panicked and avoided them by habit without realizing they were friendly effects. Also the unlock quests. A lot of features really are just in the middle of nowhere.

8:44 I’m guilty of this. I started as a Thaumaturge and when I unlocked Fire 2 I stopped using Fire 1, and same with my other spells. Later when I looked for a guide on my rotation I learned they were meant for different purposes and had different potencies.

Patron deity shows up in the marriage ceremony, when you're actually getting married.

The whole 'switching jobs and being naked' thing hits home. :') I would switch to a new job or a profession and end up naked and be like ".....OHSHIT I HOPE NO ONE SEES ME AHHHHH"

I was near the end of the scions moving their base when I realized that a: those vouchers will teleport you to the scions base and b: there was a fast travel system. I was whole-ass taking boats and porters from place to place. Its a good way to learn the areas but holy shit was it tedious

I did literally everything backwards or wrong when I started about 1 1/2 months ago. 1. I leveled my first class Arcanist to lvl 29 before even realizing I was missing abilities and started doing my class quests. 2. Took me until my lvl 25 arc class quest to realize that I needed to do my main quest line stuff too. Yes I lvld to 29 without doing almost any main quests past lvl 12 I think. 3. Did about 20 hours worth of sidequests and levequests. Didn't realize until maybe the 4th or 5th time doing the same quests that leves are repeatable. 4. Changed classes often and had about 8 different classes going at the same time. 5. Took stuff off my HUD that helped me lvl sync so I couldnt do most fates I ran across for about 30 hours of gameplay. 6. Still to this point have very little idea of how to manage glamours. 7. Wing 99% of boss fights because even though I say its my 1st time most groups just dont explain things or already engaging the boss 8. Cant buy retainers, use the marketboard, get hunt drops, do any kind of pvp, cant trade, create a party, use any /tell say yell commands 9. Didnt understand how to extract materia and didn't know how to manage old gear or spirit bound items. Because everything was done out of order I missed out on 40+ hours of getting fate xp and seals because I also took forever to join a grand company because that is a part of the main quest. I also unlocked most if not all of the duty finder stuff WAAAAYYYYY after I had already out lvld it. If it wasn't for syncing lvls I would completely missed out on tons of shit and not even knew about it.

I was in Haukke Manor when I learned that cure 3 was a short ranged AoE, everyone was dying, was a fun time 😂

3:20 AHHHHH!!!!! I'm so happy to have learned this but frustrated at all the time and inventory space I've wasted trying to look fabulous.

Since FF14 was my first MMO, I’m actually kinda surprised that I can’t remember anything that really confused me about it. Besides navigating Haukke Manor. I *STILL* can’t navigate it without someone leading the way, so I’m always scared to tank it lol

When I got my free fantasia after finishing ARR, I didnt know about the aesthetician so I used that fantasia instead to change my hair style.

Yall are missing the most confusing thing! where does our money go when we teleport!? dose Hydalin take it? is she just floating above a ever growing pile of gold? what do you need the gill for crystal mama!?

As odd as it sounds, the thing that confused me the most (I started October 2020) was the community. It’s so much more nice and welcoming than any other community I’ve been in. I’m so used to other games where if you don’t go into the raid with 100% knowledge and wipe more than once then you’ll get kicked. It was such a stark contrast to anything I’ve ever experienced before.

I wanted to save gold when I first started so I refused to use aetheryte crystals during the first 15 levels of the game

The most confusing thing for me (I finally downloaded the free trial woo!!) for me was the whole tank stance and rotation of abilities worked. I know what aggro is - but 5 commendations later, I think I'm in love with tanking!

I was so upset i had no mounts at low level, that i literally did shiva Ex synced (using the queue feature that took like an hour) and won Boreas the horse mount before I figured out how to unlock the chocobo mount with the GC...

My "uh oh moment" was when I kept forgetting to equip job stones before missions, so now I was a conjurer instead of a white mage 🥲

for sure XIV, as with a lot MMOs, requires learning so much lingo that it becomes a language of its own. Some things I used to be confused about: -How chat worked. I would end up talking to people on the wrong channels. -Moving stuff around in the UI (This is mainly because I am a ps4 player and dragging stuff around is a bit different) -The looting system. Greed, need, pass. -Procs and combos. Reading the tooltips made me realize i had been playing bard and white mage wrong. -The mini cactpot. Used to think I just had to get the larger numbers and was confused when the payout didn't match up. Until i read the instructions. -Main city layouts. You get accustomed to em, but i used to get very lost, especially in Limsa. -Levemetes. Had no idea how to initiate them once I accepted one. -Targeting. Again, this is more a console player problem, but had a hard time switching between friend and foe targets. PSA, up and down is friend, left and right is foes -Praetorium. Had the same issue where I didn't know what to do, so when everyone disappeared in the magitek armor section, i was so confused since i didn't get a key. Probably one big thing that I didn't know was that skills were locked to their individual jobs. I started my journey as a white mage, so when i switched over to bard, I thought I would be able to keep all the healing and magicks I got as a white mage, but nope. You start from 0 with totally different moves. I've been playing a year (finally reached shadowbringers) but there's still plenty to learn. Like leveling and dyeing your chocobo. Still have no idea how to do that lol.

Not having chat bubbles, im still not sure why this doesnt exist, alot of the times when i see new people in the game, they dont even realise you're talking to them, or whos even talking

I remember the game telling me about auto-attacks, but not understanding that auto-attacks happen regardless of if I'm actively using skills or not, so I would use an attack and wait for my guy to swing his sword before using another skill

I started 14 last week and because I had time off work I was able to make it to level 40. This is my first ever MMO and I'm 35 so as you can imagine I was confused as hell by everything. My lowest point so far has been going into a dungeon, beating a miniboss and then having everybody immediately port out to go face the main boss, this was in the haunted mansion place. Everybody just disappeared! I was left standing there like 'wth did everyone just quit?' then I realised they were fighting elsewhere so I tried to run back to the beginning. Of course I was almost immediately killed and I just had to watch in the chat as people were like 'how did he die', 'where did he go?'. I had no idea that you could port to the beginning of the dungeon, and if I'm completely honest I'm still uncertain as to how it's done, and I don't want to press 'return' in case that take me back to Gridania xD Oh, I also walked off the platform when fighting Ifrit and had to watch the rest of the battle play out without me. I didn't know you could fall off! I'm still in the button mashing phase of things, but I think I'm getting there.

I started playing almost exactly a month ago - luckily I came from LotRO with a lot of experience in other mmos too so that made things easier. That said the thing that caught me off guard the most was ID key in Prae. Literally all game thus far key item drops in dungeons are shared and I had no idea where my raid went. Thank god for teleport to combat

I didn't do the magitek registration in Prae my first time, I was a straggler and only noticed everyone getting onto the lift Got to the magitek armor, UH??? Had to backtrack, figure out what to do, and then try to catch up to my party I'm just glad no one yelled at me, since I was a healer o~o''

You should do a video decoding all the in game lingo, it’s sad how long it took me to figure out what PotD, HoH and even MSQ meant 😂

I was so confused by how the gathering game changed at 50. It went from just go hit rocks to the collectable thing... steep learning curve on that one.

One time near the copperbell mines entry as a lvl 62 miner, I was gathering iron ore and there's was a low level player fighting the bombs. I was mining a node when I saw the aoe marker appear under me and ignored it since I was far higher level. It was annoying having to travel back there to continue mining.

I've only been playing ffxiv for about a week so a lot of these I definitely relate to (especially that glamour one oof), and I'm just so grateful that I have friends who have been playing it much longer than me and thus take the time to teach me these things specifically sometimes. It's not my first MMO, and definitely not my first RPG, so the learning curve isn't MASSIVE but there's still stuff I don't get and because I'm ADHD and autistic it can be hard for my brain to process new info if it's not phrased certain ways. New games are intimidating but the more I'm learning about how shit works, the less scary other players are ^-^

The "Features unlocked by quests" is my pitfall. I try my best to stay on top of it but I unlock my second retainer by chance, maybe 2 months after the time I should've unlocked it! As a gatherer I was extremely relieved.

When I started to play SMN in 5.2 because at the time I wasn’t used to having my hot bars filled with abilities and learning that the SMN rotation was 2 minutes long

Oh man I think most everyone forgets that id card in Prae lmao. I was so confused the first time around and was stuck in cutscenes for the rest of the dungeon

Your videos have helped me so much! Thank you~ I was so lost and your way of explaining thing has been easier for me to learn everything there is, I just started playing since last november and I still don't know a lot of thing, but I fell in love with the game!

I'll admit, as someone who has played other MMO's it took me a while to figure out that aoes hit based on time of cast completion rather than the effect going off. I spent a lot of the early days blaming lag, thinking I'd gotten out of the effect in time.

FFXIV is just a beautiful game. It can be a bit overwhelming but once you get the hang of it, it's gold.

6:02 LMAOOO I walked all the way from gridania to ul'dah at level 15 to unlock the glamour quest because i wanted to dye my potato sack gear rose pink

Started playing a month ago, am halfway through the post-Stormblood msq and feel like I know just enough to get in trouble but not actually do things optimally for serious like the crafting /gathering systems, and job but BRD, healing above level 20, the eleven million extra logs /tasks /unlocks that you keep stumbling on. I feel like it takes forever to get my quest log to a manageable place after each major msq chain and I'm always 5-7 levels ahead of where the quests are (75 and still have about 15 msq before I hit Shadowbringers). You're guides have been really helpful, it's just hard when you want to know how to do ALL THE THINGS. RIGHT. NOW.

Before playing, just creating an account and buying/downloading the game was already confusing for my friends. Dif platforms? Steam? Non-steam? Localization?

When I first started out crafting I treated it like every other MMO I had played prior: Got my blacksmith job, and just proceeded to craft just ingots as the way to grind and stock up on materials to create gear for my character at the same time, did not even craft the ingots through fast synthesis, because that gave me less exp... Took me a bit to discover you get a lot more exp when you craft things you never crafted before. Cherry on top: I was a Lancer. I thought crafting Spears was a blacksmith job, but it turned out to be carpenters instead... oof...

I was lucky to have friends already playing to help me out with things, but one thing that confused the Hades out of me was not understanding that I needed to keep my starter clothes for if/when I would start crafting or gathering, or a new job of any kind. I spent gil needlessly on gear I thought I could use and was perplexed when I couldn't equip it. I never did find a video or article geared towards newbies that mentions that aspect of things.

The "Strength making bow stronger" thing WAS a thing in some past MMOs, where stuff like dexterity and agility were entirely for hit rate and crit.

One of my secondary runs through WoD I was alliance C and was on chain duty for Cerberus. I thought I would be a super smart player and get ahead of the mechanic and stood over by the chain waiting for it to become interactable. Once the mechainc happened I ran the chain over to Fluffy and just stood there... like an idiot... thinking that I had to stand there with the chain to hold him in place. The chain disappeared from my hands with about 3 seconds left and I could feel the horrified gaze of my party mates as they frantically tried to sprint back to the wall to grab a new chain. We died horrible deaths and it was a great time!

Your channel is really helping me to feel ok with all the things you have to learn with FF14 for a begginer =)

Didn't know about the "once the shape is gone, it's safe" thing until this week. I am more than half way through Stormblood.

i thought i had to pick up every single yellow quest around... i was so overlevelled till like lvl 50

From "What the hell is a lb and why is everyone yelling at me to use it T - T" -to "What do you mean we all share the same lb bar??" Thems were the days.

I’m about to start FFXIV as my very first MMO after building my very first PC… I’m incredibly intimidated but your videos have made this a little bit easier

one thing i didn't understand for a while was the different kinds of markers. everytime i got one i would always assume it was a get away from others AoE, not realizing there are some that you want to stack with others on to spread the damage out.

I can relate to the first comment so much. City of Heroes was my first 3D MMO where I didn't know jumping was a thing. I had a quest to go inside a warehouse but couldn't find a ramp or stairs up this small little curb. I actually ended up sending in a ticket asking how tf I get up there and they replied, "the default keybind for jump is spacebar" 😂

most confusing so far: finding out midway through Stormblood that I have to go back to do some random ARR thing (ended up being the Crystal Tower storyline) because a character in it shows up in Shadowbringers? jarring as hell when I didn't even know it was a thing lol

Heck yea I do, I still remember soloing a ladybug as a level 1 botanist then looking up on the net that I have to cut trees... cue me running around for half an hour looking for trees to chop WITHOUT turning on Triangulate... Also there was the time when I hit 10 and Archer teacher told me that I can join other guilds so I walked to Ul'dah to join to everything and went to Western Thanalan just to get slapped with a "Ye, you ain't goin' to Limsa!" at the ferry...

I relate to too many of those lmao! It's fortunate I ended up with so many friendly allies in dungeons who basically taught me everything (tank stance, cure II, LB...). The community is so supportive! Of course, it helps to read guides but when you start, there are so many unknowns that you don't know where to look. That's also why I love that game though :)

2:40 on the map subject, what is even topography on FFXIV? xD I think the devs/designers never heard about it, like what is up and down, do you need to get into a cave, is it a wall or not? it sucks, you get used on how much it sucks tho

I just started playing 2 months ago and I got confused why people were yelling at me for not DPSing as a WHM I was like because I am the healer we don't DPS we heal. Didn't realize I was wrong until mid 40's ..... oops my bad.

I just got my first DoL job to 60 and I've been trying to figure out the collectible and scrip system for days. It feels like week 1 of playing all over again.

I was playing the game with my SO back in Stormblood. She casually mentioned that she's going to take a look at what the retainers had brought her from the market. "Ooh, that's a lot of gil!", I was confused as I never paid any real attention to my wallet when I sold something. And I sold decent amount of stuff, a lot more than her, but she was still somehow making more money than I was. After I ran to the summoning bell, I realized I now have enough gil for several small houses.

thank you for your help! the progression and level locked content was new to me. Im level 20 in Bard and most (90%) of the content there i didnt get. Love your videos. Very helpful.

When I first started I didn't know the big aetheryets in cities could be used to travel around, I thought it was only the small ones.

When I started my first crafter, I equipped the tool and I realized I was naked! I was so embarrassed I ran & hid frantically trying to figure out how to put my clothes back on lol

This video is so nostalgic. I too was the Ice mage in Ifrit and the sprout left behind in Castrum and Prae.

Regarding the two different maps: The more detailed one (to the left) is the general map you bring up via the map key/button. The other one is a quest specific map you bring up by clicking on a quest objective, showing only the quest location with no additional info on surrounding points of interest.

The King has fallen. WoW is no longer the King. FFXIV is the new king and your videos are PURE GOLD for us, wow refugees. Keep it up. And thanks!!!

The most confusing thing about ffxiv is taking a long break from the game and coming back trying to make heads or tails of my invintory

Some of the things I struggled with early on were just figuring out the basics and where all the various options were located within the various system menus. I'd never played a game where right clicking was the interaction button instead of left clicking and in other MMOs I'd played you could move by clicking on the area you wanted to move to, not so in FF14! I also played the game for about 4 hours or so before asking someone if it was possible to change your keyboard mapping because I was expecting that option to be under the System Configuration window rather than it's own separate menu lol. Truth be told even over 3 months later there's probably still features hidden within all the various menu options that I don't even know exist!

In the beginning I alway wondered why I was suddenly in underwear when I switched classes. I also didn‘t know I could save the outfits of the classes for a long time.

**Me playing FFXIV for over a year and an Astrologian for half a year** _HoTs are an aggro generator_ * _!VISIBLE CONFUSION!_ * **Me thinking of all the times where a tank sweated to get the aggro back because of me**

Started playing 2 months ago. I thought LB stood for the role action "Low Blow" and I was thinking doing good mechanics when pressing it

The being naked part in Ul'dah got me. When I was leveling my low level tanks (pre level 50) I did not realize that the "auto equip" button was a trap. I had sooo many healers confused why I was taking soo much damage until one pointed it out to me. I then spent time re-equipping gear after a boss to the proper high defense gear. No longer did I have any problems with taking a lot of damage.

i think for me the most confusing thing was the cross-skill stuff that still existed back then. i am so glad they changed this. it was so confusing on which class i had to level just to gain a certain skill, also the job system back when you needed a second class to be able to unlock it

The one confused me was the Market Board. I can buy stuff but there's no option to sell stuff. Then I cannot find the bank to store my stuff.

The only really confusing thing for me was when they started introducing differently coloured AOEs, specifically the one with Titan. That thing looks so much like the ground on which you're staying that most of the time I didn't even notice them being there.

As an MMO veteran the one about the MMO acronyms hits hard. I was confused on forums as everyone uses FFXIV specific acronyms for classes and stuff. But I can’t imagine being brand new to MMOs and not knowing terms like DPS, DoT, AoE, pug and proc.

When I first started a month ago, I didn’t understand how hotbars and class sets worked until the middle of Stormblood, so I was manually changing things. Still have the pain I felt when I found out recommended gear was right next to the glamour plate button, let alone the embarrassment of the rest.

oh my god the currencies 😂got to current content very recently and was So Confused as to what to do with all these different kinds of tomestones, why i get coins from some raids, what all these damn crystals and clusters do. thank god for google

I've been playing mmo's for 12 years, first wow and 3 days ago ff14 either way i still keep bumping into stuff or falling into places i cant get out 😂

Hi!:) So i've followed ur channel since i started playing ffxiv, and u helped a lot on some points ngl. As for the most confusing thing to me, it certainly has to be the craftings, gatherings etc. Also I thought arcanist was a healer so i only healed in dungeons at first ^^'

The one with Prae literally happened to me like two days ago XD Me and two others got stuck so far behind because we missed the key that we had to wait for a boss battle sequence to start for us to even catch up and join in the fight

I've never actually done any of these, but I can definitely understand them. Especially the turning in items for gear part... there have been a number of times that I've helped walk another player through the whole process... it's definitely not an intuitive system. "Okay, so you go to this npc and you buy x number of this item with your tomestones, then you go over to this npc over here and you find out which item you need for that piece of gear, then you go to this THIRD npc and you trade the things you got from that raid you did earlier for that item you need for the second npc, then you go back to the second npc and..."

The one-click crafting is funny - you start out thinking it's 1-click, as you level up it's more buttons, but when you reach the end you're back to one-click crafting (macros).

I can relate to the glam comment. it took me a while to figure out how to use the plate system and the dresser in general. i originally did the same thing and just kept a lot of my stuff in inventory for a while before figuring out how it worked. now i have a stock pile of glam prisms that i don't really need

Moreso on the crafters, you only need to sort through the abilities once, all the crafters share the same abilities just flavored differently. You can sort them on your bar and then use the macro "/hotbar copy [orginatingclass] [hotbarnumber] [targetclass] [hotbarnumber]" replacing the brackets with the jobs and hotbars without the quotations. IE: /hotbar copy current 1 BSM 1 /hotbar copy current 1 ARM 1 /hotbar copy current 1 GSM 1 /hotbar copy current 1 CUL 1 /hotbar copy current 1 LTW 1 /hotbar copy current 1 WVR 1 /hotbar copy current 1 ALC 1 /hotbar copy current 2 BSM 2 /hotbar copy current 2 ARM 2 /hotbar copy current 2 GSM 2 /hotbar copy current 2 CUL 2 /hotbar copy current 2 LTW 2 /hotbar copy current 2 WVR 2 /hotbar copy current 2 ALC 2 This will copy the current hotbar setup to the other crafting jobs. It's extremely useful if you want to keep all the hotbars consistent and make crafting on different job easier as it will be the same location for the skills.