Ultimate Final Fantasy XIV Beginner's Guide In 2024 (And 2025)

Truly the greatest best ultimate beginners guide
Still relevant in 2025! But I do intend on eventually updating it.

0:00 Intro
1:27 Main Menu
4:54 Starting Out
6:43 Roles
11:11 Combat
13:10 Limit Breaks
14:45 Quickfire Tips
15:52 Mechanics
17:64 Hall of Novice
18:07 Inventory, Storage & Gear
25:43 Traversal, Mounts, Teleports, etc
29:33 Chocobo Companion
30:15 Leveling Options
31:50 Instanced Content
34:10 PvP
35:46 Duty Roulette & Party Finder
36:17 Inn Room Options
38:05 Calamity Salvager & Moogle Mail
39:25 Gold Saucer
40:05 Deep Dungeons
40:52 Exploration/Field Operation Zones
41:31 Menu Systems
42:49 Logs
43:47 Party Options
44:42 Social Aspects
46:22 Options & System Settings
48:30 Outro

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[VashimuXIV]

Man I almost miss those days I was new to the game. Just a simple boy getting lost in his first ever MMO. But that was then, and this is now. I hope people really do take the time to learn more about the respective jobs, because it will go a long way to helping you enjoy your time. Just have fun and try to make new friends!

[scottcunni]

just saying this now as a fairly newer sprout sitting at level 69 and just finished heavensward. I started and stopped this game 3 different times over the previous 2 years because its very slow to get going but my son also plays it and he has thousands and thousands of hours into it so I gave it another chance but had him escorting me and telling me what to do. The MSQ in first expansion is sloooowwww and be prepared to read A the final few acts and the patches make up for it. Heavensward is really good and picks up and now im in the next expansion. be patient with the game, im telling you again as a newer sprout....it's slow and tedious but its also really fun once you get the jest of it.

[BVCM]

I understood about 40% of this but it was a lovely guide thank you🙏

[ZessaSnake]

very good beginner's guide! Those early days when you are new to a mmo those are really magical

[TheeChaste]

"the MSQ will level barrier you" unless you play on Dynamis, then you have to level 2 jobs simultaneously else you'll end up with a level 90 in Stormblood, sometimes even HW, just from the MSQ EXP mind you

[MagiaErebea]

Been playing since heavensward but I like your videos so here I am. You giving me something to listen to while I drive 2 hours away to seen my first patient

[remi]

Somthing I feel like is important as having recently leveled an alt: 5:38 there is only ONE place in the msq where just the xp you get from msq rewards is not enough and that is at the end of ARR around lvl 47-50. This will NOT happen at all in later expansions as long as you're only accepting the xp rewards on one job so once you're over that hurdle there is no need to worry about it further.

[mizuhashitsunoka]

Started watching the video coz I like Azu content. But holy shit it was actually very useful as a 5 months old sprout. No future content spoiler, no random EW or SHB trailer clips, just straight up information. This is actually gonna be an incredible useful video for tons of newbies who actually wanna know combat oriented information.

[ClapClapSim]

me a 2.5K hour player making sure I know everything

[MagiaErebea]

I love how flushed out the professions feel having whole quest lines and everything and the quest are actually pretty good. I really like the armor and alchemist weaver’s was pretty good too.

[firby]

not a beginner, but a returner watching ffxiv beginner guides while the game is downloading <3

[TheFrantic]

I'm just here to cheer new sprouts on. Go forth! Adventure awaits!

Edit: I forgot that getting SB on free trial would mean getting Red Mage and Samurai for free at 50! When I was on free trial back in SHB, the ARR patch MSQ dragged on for so long mainly because I wanted to get some new jobs, and the HW jobs were all locked in Ishgard.

[Xenado]

Awesome! I have some good friends who play XIV, and I've always wanted to jump in, so when the XVI event started, I just ran through the entirety of ARR in a week, and this clarified most of my confusions!

[blamkazam]

This is my first time playing a game like this and I'm playing on console. All those abilities kinda look threatening lol

[lelouchlamperougevibritann]

Since Xbox has officially hit the scene would it be rude to ask for more controller friendly class guides?

[iggybe]

Played WoW for years. When I started FFXIV I was a bit lost. Thanks to this guilde I know a bit more.

[WTZWBlaze]

Reason 4 for watching this video: You want to help more people play FFXIV.

[VampireNoblesse]

imo start as dps.., going from dps to tank or healer is easier than the other way around

[Wither_Strike]

by the way, you can get up to two fantasia before needing to purchase one on the online store. you get one from the end of A Realm Reborn, and you also get one from a sidequest in Ul'Dah after some story progression, i believe it was the level 17 main story quests that unlocked the side quest? im not sure. not many people talk about that second one though
also, duty support is available for *almost* all main scenario dungeons and instances, not all. as of the time of my writing this you can make your way to Heavensward with 4 parties of real players. but, all 4 of those are very close to the start of HW, and by that point you should have a pretty good grasp of at least one of your jobs, and the community is very welcoming and forgiving to new players, and you can often get at least one person who explains stuff kindly if something goes wrong. source: i played SCH and forgot about Esuna until around level 45 and people were very forgiving about that

[Kofja]

me with almost 4k hours played...
This seems interesting.