Ffxiv Continuing Job Quests After Level 50
When you start a new MMORPG, you have certain expectations. There will be classes, quests, dungeons, guilds, crafting. But every game developer puts a unique spin on things and Final Fantasy XIV is no different. I jotted down a few of the most helpful and important things I learned when playing for the first time. Some of the tips are more about optimization, but if you're unconcerned about that, there is still plenty of useful information about becoming the newest Warrior of Light.
You can unlock all jobs on the same character.
First things first: no, classes and jobs are not the same thing. When you create a character, you choose a starting class. Upon completing your level 10 class quest, you will be able to unlock additional classes by speaking with the guild master in the appropriate city-state. You can pick up as many classes as you'd like on the same character but you level them separately.
Your starting class only determines which city-state you begin in, so if you'd like to adventure with friends up until level 15, consider choosing classes that begin in the same city-state. You can see which city-state a class starts in by looking in the lower left-hand corner of your screen when a class is selected during character creation.
Upon completing your level 30 class quest, you will receive a soul stone as a reward and be able to equip it to specialize into a job. There is no reason not to equip a soul stone—it gives you access to more actions after level 30. Without it, you won't be able to learn any new skills via leveling or job quests. The arcanist class is unique in that it allows you to specialize into the summoner DPS job and scholar healing job. They level together but you must do two separate lines of job quests to obtain all the actions.
Expansions don't have classes. You simply unlock the new jobs by completing the appropriate job quest when you reach the requisite level (and area, in the case of Heavensward jobs). Expansion jobs start 20 levels below that of the new level cap except in Heavensward, in which they begin 30 levels below. The quest names usually make it fairly obvious which job you're unlocking, e.g. "Shall We Dance?" for the dancer or "Taking the Red" for the red mage.
You don't have to do every quest you see…
There are a few different kinds of quests in Final Fantasy XIV. All are marked by an exclamation point symbol, but each type has a unique appearance. Almost everything is locked behind the Main Scenario Quests (MSQ). These quest icons are round with a gray background and fiery gold border.
Side quests give significantly less experience and are always optional. Sometimes they give you minions or other special items as rewards. These quest icons are shaped like an upside-down teardrop with a brown background and a solid gold border.
Feature quests unlock things like optional dungeons and trials, character customization, and emotes. Class/job quests have the same icon but unlock actions (occasionally) and gear sets with special job-specific appearances at the end of an expansion. These quest icons are similar to side quests but they have a blue background and plus (+) symbol in the lower-left corner.
Which can make maximizing experience tricky.
The MSQ gives you all the necessary experience to level and keep up with it on a single class/job. I recommend you choose a DPS job to level with the MSQ. Defeating enemies in the open world and story instances will be faster than on a healer or tank. Additionally, healers and tanks have much shorter queue times for dungeons, so you will be able to level quickly by repeating them later.
You should try to keep your MSQ job's level in line with the MSQ. If you become underleveled, you won't be able to pick up or turn in MSQ, but if you become overleveled, you will reach the level cap before the MSQ does, wasting a ton of valuable experience.
- If you have or use experience boosts, you will outlevel the MSQ. Boosts that only apply at a low level, e.g. the Brand-new Ring or Friendship Circlet don't matter much in the grand scheme of things, but the boost from being on a preferred server persists until level 70.
- They expect you to do MSQ dungeons on that job, so if you switch to a tank or healer for a faster queue time, you might become underleveled. On the other hand, experience boosts such as those listed above can balance this out, allowing you to have the best of both worlds.
- You don't need to and shouldn't do side quests on your MSQ job. Save those for leveling additional jobs. Similarly, while experience from FATEs (Full Active Time Events) isn't phenomenal, you can overlevel by doing a lot of them.
- I recommend you unlock a healer and/or tank and use it to do optional dungeons and daily duty roulettes as you unlock them.
Gearing can be pretty feast or famine.
There are two aspects to gear: the level required to equip it and the item level, which dictates the overall quality of the piece. It's normal for your average item level to be a few or even several levels lower than you are on your initial playthrough of the story.
At lower levels, your best bet is to do the Hall of the Novice duties when you get access to them at level 15. These are solo duties you do with NPCs, the goal of which is to educate you on the basics of your role. If you're completely new to MMOs and RPGs, this can be useful, particularly for tips like reminding you that some jobs do extra damage with certain attacks while standing behind an enemy or to its side, known as positionals. However, if this isn't your first MMROdeo, just do what the NPC tells you to get the gear. Either way, keep in mind that there's a lot more nuance and not all the information is entirely correct. You'll also get a Brand-new Ring for completing all the duties, which increases experience by 30% at level 30 and below.
As you level up, you can buy gear from merchants, craft your own if you chose to pick up a relevant crafting discipline, or buy crafted items from the market board. The best gear will usually be found in dungeon chests, so make sure you open them and roll 'need' if it's an upgrade.
Once you reach level 50 and do your last job quest, you'll get a free set of item level 95 gear, which enables you to do all the post-expansion content. However, the best gear to get at a level cap is from Allagan Tomestones of Poetics. This gear has a significantly inflated item level to prepare people for the next expansion.
Upon finishing A Realm Reborn, you'll be able to get ilevel 130 gear using this currency, a huge increase from the job artifact armor and maximum level crafted gear. Just look for the sparkling blue bag icon on the map in any of the big city-states and speak with the Sundry Splendors representative there to find it. You can buy a set after finishing every expansion except for the current one. When a new expansion is released, gear from the previous expansion will become available for Poetics instead of that expansion's unique currency.
The free trial does give you access to Heavensward, but…
Fans of Final Fantasy XIV, eager to sell the game to their friends, will be quick to tell you that the free trial includes Heavensward, the first expansion. They tell you this because A Realm Reborn can be a slog, while Heavenward has a great story that really picks up the pace. But unless you want to hold yourself back, you'll probably only be able to get through ARR on the free trial.
The free trial has a few limitations. The first, and what prompted me to buy the game, is that there is a 300,000 gil cap. Conveniently enough, I hit that shortly after I finished the ARR story. I knew I'd potentially have the opportunity to double that during the first expansion, so I wasn't about to sit at cap and funnel funds into the void going forward.
But what about storing the gil or spending it? I'm afraid there's no getting around the cap using those methods either. You have no access to retainers, NPCs for hire that can store gil and items for you and sell things on the market. And speaking of the market board, the system of player buying and selling, you also have no access to it during the free trial. By the time you hit 50, there are plenty of ways to get significantly better gear than that sold by NPC vendors, as outlined above. So, unless you want to give your gil to the aether, or perhaps you rushed through ARR and didn't get close to the gil cap, you probably won't make it through Heavensward on the free trial.
I hope all you sprouts learned something new, and for the more experienced Warriors of Light, did I miss anything? What advice would you offer new players to make their experience more enjoyable?
Source: https://www.phoenixuprising.net/5-things-before-starting-ffxiv/
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