This is a very broad guide explaining the majority of the features in Final Fantasy 14. This is mostly focused on people who haven’t played the game yet and are thinking about playing it. Since there are a variety of people, some who don’t play MMOs, some who’ve played over MMOs before, and some who have dabbled with FF14 before, multiple approaches are required. If you feel a part of the video isn’t for you, please do skip using the timestamps below.
Some features will be covered in more detail than others and this is intentional. Features not discussed in this video are Gunbreaker, Dancer, Sage, or any Endwalker content.
Since the initial recording of this video, Adventuring and Gathering Foreys have been renamed to Field Deployments.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:03 FREE TRIAL
0:04:24 What is Final Fantasy
0:09:30 Character Creation
0:24:26 Early Game Mechanics
0:30:35 Keybinds
0:33:41 Settings
0:38:53 User Interface or HUD
0:41:32 Newbie Filter: Dialogue Problem
0:51:35 FATES and Hunting Log
0:54:27 Guild Leaves and Hests
0:57:22 Hall of the Novice
0:59:04 Gear and Set Basics
1:03:01 Airship Travel and Teleportation
1:06:25 Challenge Log & Gold Saucer
1:13:56 Dungeons & Duty Finder
1:18:45 Area of Effect (AoE) Mechanics
1:20:24 Roguelike Dungeon: Palace of the Dead (POTD)
1:43:31 Retainers: Bank & Auction House
1:47:19 Server Travel & Social Features
1:53:40 Retainer Ventures
1:56:42 Retainers are Pay To Win
1:59:16 Cosmetic Features: Galmors, Dyes, Plates
2:05:54 Materia (Enchanting Items)
2:10:57 Story Trials (Boss Battles & Other Modes)
2:14:46 MSQ: The Primal Gods
2:17:12 Grand Company Basics
2:19:47 Chocobo Mount & Battle Pet
2:23:13 Daily Roulette System - Dungeon Finder
2:27:43 Grand Company Advanced
2:31:11 Grand Company Squadrons
2:35:36 Player vs Player (PvP)
2:38:41 Job Quests
2:43:19 Sightseeing Log
2:44:15 Tribal Quests aka Daily Quests
2:47:18 The Hunt & Rare Spawns
2:51:27 Starting Gathering & Crafting Classes
2:57:33 Gathering
3:04:15 Crafting: The HARD Way
3:07:01 Crafting: The EASY Way
3:08:45 Crafting Log
3:11:00 Fishing
3:13:16 Desynthesis (Disnechanting Items)
3:15:16 Treasure Maps
3:18:16 MSQ: The Garlean Empire
3:22:27 Optional Dungeons & Tomestones of Poetics
3:25:24 Realm Reborn Relic Grind
3:26:40 Rare FATES
3:28:19 Blue Mage the LIMITED JOB
3:38:08 Blue Mage Power Leveling (Cheese Method)
3:39:45 Blue Mage Carnival Game Mode
3:40:33 Blue Mage Advanced Skills
3:43:43 MSQ: Mandatory Trials and Raids
3:46:35 Optional Raid for ARR’s Story
3:49:04 MSQ: Post Realm Reborn SLOG
3:52:04 Heavensward Expansion Pack
3:58:10 Crafting/Gathering Collectables & Scrip
4:01:53 Gathering Ephemeral Nodes
4:03:30 Ishgard Restoration
4:09:11 Roleplaying (RP)
Full Game Required (Post Free-Trial)
4:14:14 Level 50 Jobs Samurai & Red Mage
4:16:42 Stormblood Expansion Pack
4:21:42 Heaven On High (Palace of the Dead 2)
4:24:02 Eureka: The Forbidden Land
4:39:46 Shadowbringers Expansion Pack
4:45:14 Shard FATE System
4:46:23 Bozja: Save The Queen
5:06:30 Endwalker