7 Beginner Mistakes You Should Avoid in FFXIV

I was not the best beginner player myself when I first started playing Final Fantasy 14! Don't be like me! Here are the 7 common mistakes new players make in FF14.

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0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Not reading your Tooltips!
1:32 - Not playing your role in the party!
2:36 - Not checking the NPC Prices!
3:57 - Focusing on the wrong quests!
4:37 - Queueing into wrong types of duty!
6:04 - Resurrection Mistakes!
7:00 - Don't panic!

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[drakewarnock]

I just want to say that if you are playing this game for the story, then those yellow side quests are great! That's where a lot of the world building happens, and you get a much greater sense of things if you do them all.

[Stratilz]

Some side quest are indeed worth to do. Some of the "regular side quests" will reward you with emotes and some regular side quests will unlock other side quest, like the questline for the moogles.

[Tachynon]

I want to add one more tip: Get familiar with at least one tank and healer role. DPS is fun but a real hassle to queue for dungeons.

[darkwulfk]

Minor note, some of those side quests unlock blue quests, or triad card players, so some are worth doin.

[Fyrebrand]

DO NOT JUST QUEUE INTO PVP AS SOON AS YOU UNLOCK IT!!!! You will enter a match with no abilities on your skill bar and unable to do anything but move around. Instead, go to the Wolf's Den Pier in La Noscea (sort of a PvP lobby area) to set up your skills. PvP skills are completely different from PvE, so just because you know how to play your job in open world and dungeons, it doesn't mean you know anything about the PvP version of your job. This goes for EVERY JOB. Set up your skills and read what they do first, before you ever queue for PvP.

[acehealer]

If you have tank stance on and you enter a duty in your level range, it will stay on. But if you sync to a lower level, it removes your stance, so you'll have to turn it back on. This also applies to FATEs. Still trying to remember to check for my stance:

Yes, many yellow sidequests lack good rewards, but they also let me give tea to Ala Mhigan refugees, which is its own reward.

[theonlyonealone]

Not me doing side quests just so that i can clear the map of icons or not.... me...

[gclbdho]

Biggest beginner mistake; I had just started playing and decided to take a short cut through the river, and instead got stuck in some rocks 😂

[MVimah]

The sweaty answer to Resurrection is most of the time. Not taking the rez doesn't give you sickness. shortcuts reduce the trek back, and sometimes the place you died is where you spawn.

[ramirezthesilvite]

Saw something in Praetorium just the other day. Be aware of the different boss markers! If you get four yellow arrows pointing inward on you, DO NOT RUN AWAY FROM THE PARTY! That is a STACK marker! You have to share that damage, or it's gonna probably kill you.

Oh, and don't try to melee the hands on the Nero fight if you're being targeted. Use ranged attacks and run away.

[sheriffopossum]

the biggest thing for me was not trying other jobs, crafting, or gathering. i was lancer/dragoon from ARR to endwalker, absolutely refused to try anything else. it was only once i finished the msq that i finally branched out and did other shit (i leveled up all my crafters and gatherers to 90 just the other day!) so don't be afraid to try other classes or your hand at crafting/gathering! there's more to ffxiv than just fighting shit 💛

[obscurekyodai]

my biggest mistake was selling my first thavnairian onion to a vendor, because I thought it was a culinarian item, which I wasn't leveling at that time >_>

[walwal]

Other tips worth mentioning (mostly role specific):
- don't stand in narnia just because you're not melee. Don't be surprised if you find yourself low health and not getting heals if you do... (Also, as a rdm you could literally always stay at melee range to get out your occasional auto attacks and just backflip if aoe circle)
- if you play tank, please try not to move the boss around too much and always face the boss away from the party. Especially for us melee dps that has positionals to land and it's very annoying when the tank constantly spin the boss

[XannisV]

My biggest mistake while still being a sprout was trying to queue in extremes. And I managed to clear a couple of those with the Duty Finder, even! But please don't, save yourself the stress.
Regarding quests, I stopped doing the normal quests once I realized I was constantly WAY overleveled for them, and doing them was both a waste of time and the exp they give (yes, yes, I know it's measly exp). SO after I finished Stormblood with the only combat job I cared to play (main Black Mage here that got to 70 without touching ANY other DoW/DoM class), I started playing Machinist and used that class to go back and do *every single normal quest* I left behind. And you know what? It was great. There are a lot of normal quests that are quite entertaining and give a lot to the lore of the land you're in. Also worth noting that some even give you emotes, minions and other unique fashion items. And there's that *yellow* questline in Foundation about Inspector Briardien, that one is a MUST.

[threenotesoddity]

To add to "ressurection mistakes", a lot of the time, mostly in alliance raids I see people laying dead on the ground, waiting for someone to res them after the battle is over, not realising that if they return to the start of the alliance raid/dungeon, they will not gen ressurection sickness and all their cooldowns will be reset

[hellsing]

holy shit iv been playing since heavensward n nvr notice shop selling price...thats gonna save me a google tab

[Gabbreillenicole]

When I first started out, I went to Summoner and was told by a friend after I just picked up the class that Ruin would be my go to damage button. Hearing this, I ignored all other buttons and just spammed Ruin all the way through ARR, and yes I even done it in my first go of the Ultima weapon fight. No, I did not use any AoE attacks either. It was just Ruin. I kept wondering why we even have a pet if it does nothing but sit there, but figured out why when I picked the job back up after I picked up Bard for HW.

[ingiramy]

One of my biggest mistakes as a new player was turning game into work. Instead of having fun with the content I enjoy, I tried to complete everything available before moving forward.

Replaying the same dungeon over and over again until each class unlocks the next one, doing huge shopping lists to collect a tone of resources to cover next decade of crafter levels for each profession, completing each activity in the area before moving forward and such.

My argumentation in the moment was optimizing storage to ‘optimally’ move on to the next gear set, and surprisingly laziness learned from the other MMOs that if I grind now, I wouldn’t need to repeat it later.

That resulted into grinding out of my mind and burning out from the game. Until later I realized I could actually interact with ff14 as a toy, playing with what I enjoy and ignoring what I don’t, not forcing myself to progress ‘optimized’ but in a tempo that suits me. Surprisingly, optimized wasn’t optimal at all.

[lucestrasz]

Alexander's time stop can be blocked by a well timed res. Well, blocked for the revived player. It was neat moving in stopped time.

[DatBrasss]

I did almost every side quest in several of the Shadowbringers and Endwalker zones as I did the MSQ, and it really helped me feel like I was doing my best to save everyone.