FFXIV:ARR The essentials: Introduction

Dec. 22, 2013

FFXIV:ARR The essentials: Introduction

This article brings you some great information on this game and the essentials for beginners, and will be divided into three parts. This is the overview!

*Legacy is if you played the original Final fantasy 14 and subscribed for 90 days before it’s shutdown.

You can buy both PS3 and PC from anygame shop, PSN and the Square Enix website. If you do buy the PS3 edition you will get a free upgrade to Ps4 when it comes out.

A lot of MMO’s follow the trinity of Tank, DPS and Healer andFFXIVis no exception. A single character can swap and change to any class at any time but Jobs require certain requirements before you can change to them. Your starter class needs to be level 10 before gathering and crafting classes become available and from there you can swap and change as much as you like.

The difference in FFXIV compared to other MMO’s is that your class not race dictates your starting city of which there are three:

The only difference between cities is the guilds based on what classes start where, providing customized quests that prepare the player for their selected role. Travel to these separate areas is only possible after level 15, so there is no cross-class questing on early levels Classes will be put into a lot more detail in part 2: Classes,races and job.

Most of the quests in FFXIV:ARR follow a lot of what has come before in other MMO’s. The Fetch quests and kill 10 of these is here in spades. But every once in a while a quest will require you to do a dungeon with other people. Dungeons start around lvl 15. Guildhiests are tutorial dungeons usually showing mechanics that are are used in the dungeons during level 15-20 and they become available at level 10. This will be covered in a lot more detail in part 3 of this series.

So this is thebare essentials. In the next part i will do a in depth explanation of all races,classes and jobs. Hope to see you there.