Hardcore New with Intense Questions....Follow

Quick once over, My wife and I used to play FF11 and haven't played anything for several months and looking at 14 and the new expansion ( soon to be announced a release date ). We are hoping to try FF14 but would really really appreciate your insight any and all information/details/suggestions are welcome. I'm sure answers posted will be a great resource to any new comers. Thanks in Advance!


1) We are both going to be playing on PC, do I need to purchase 1 Game from like amazon or 2? ( example FF11~ had 1 CD_key per account )

2) Billing is this a monthly Fee or what is the best way to pay for our account/s (discount options available)? ( keep in mind we will have 2 accounts so we can both play same time )

3) Is it worth it coming to 14, also server suggestions we are going to be like noobs 1.0

4) Controller adapter setups you use? I've never played with just a keyboard so please let us know what like to you use!

5) As a "just in case" I do have a Ps3, Is the game slow and or difficult to play on this system? ( or any restrictions you can think of )

6) A run-in question from #1, would it be more efficient to purchase this game from a retail store like Gamestop ect?

7) I heard over and over again this game is "stupid easy" and you can get to end game within a few days...? ( true/false...details plz! )

8) Character types In my head I would like to start as a healer and team up with my wife who will be melee, is this possible? ( your suggestions our focus is Fun, without being c*ck blocked by our job selection )

9) Suggestive starting "City"? In FF11 we stuck with Windurst, Sandy and Bastok were kind of lame. ( just our opinion )

10) Your insight good/bad on experiences you've gone thru A) tech problems B) game play issues C) In game Aholes or problem quests?

if you reply to any of the questions please put the corresponding question number.
Example: #5: Ps3 overheats way to fast when playing this game so your limited to a few hours of game time.

Thank you very much! I can't wait to read your thoughts!

Edited, Feb 12th 2015 10:48am by Nashred

Edited, Feb 12th 2015 10:52am by Nashred

As Kat would say, come to Lamia, there is room for you in our FC. We have everyone from super experienced to brand new, but most of us are just getting into endgame, but on a whole the group is casual and very helpful.



With a PS3 the load times are rough, you will find that PC and PS4 players rush ahead and you sometimes get locked out of some of the fights in the last two story dungeons. You also lag on some of the hard mode dungeons (titan especially). And you probably won't even be able to see the enemies in the Hunt, since so many people mob those, but now that they have their ilvl 130 gear filled with carbontwine, the mobs are slowing down as expected.

Other than that, crafting, gathering, and 99.9% of the ilvl 0-50 progress work just fine on PS3. For endgame stuff I recommend a good connection, access to a voice chat program, and either a good PC or a PS4.



Either is fine, I prefer the digital download on PS4 because I like to think it loads better than when it has to read a disc.



0-50 is tutorial. You can get to endgame within a few days if you push, but that is just the beginning. 75% of endgame you need to at least pay attention. 15% of endgame you need to be aware of the fight (World of Darkness, Extreme Primals, bahamut's coil 5-8). But your group also needs to be good. You are only as good as the folks around you when it comes to endgame. Oh and that last 10%, that is turns 9-13 of the bahamut's coil. Ask around, if you get there and say the game is easy, then join the 1%.




You have two avenues, scholar and white mage. Leveling arcanist gets you access to scholar and summoner simultaneously, which may come in handy if you learn pet management and want to dps. White mage is more straightforward healing. Your wife has the choice of ninja, monk, and dragoon for meele. Dragoon is fairly easy, less positional now. Monk is very positional and can outpace dragoon if done properly. Ninja is complex, and very situational, but its maximum capacity is dependant on whether or not your connection is good enough to resist the server lag that sometimes affects mudras. But I'm talking about 1% endgame stuff. Every class is perfectly capable all the way up to that level.



Limsa Lominsa reminds me a lot of windhurst with more water. Gridania reminds me of San'd'oria/Windhurst, Uldah reminds me of Bastok. But, dependant on your class, you will start in different cities. Go here for more info: http://www.ffxivguild.com/ffxiv-a-realm-reborn-starters-guide/ In order for you and your wife to both start out in the same city, you be a healer, and she be a meele, you have to both go Gridania, you go conjurer and she go lancer.



Community is good, mostly old enough to own a credit card. Biggest problem children are the ones that do the Hunts for a living, where big monsters spawn at intervals and under certain conditions and everyone mobs it for credit. Think notorious monsters from ffxi but everyone gets credit, and instead of drops you get currency to buy stuff. But everyone pulls them so fast you need to be in a hunt linkshell to hear about it late, or in an active hunting party to barely make it on time as it is pulled. This game is less like ffxi in that everyone can teleport and get anywhere fast.

Tech issues, only were serious in the beginning, during release. They didn't expect such a positive response to the beta, and they had to buy more servers to keep up with the demand. Game play issues are dependant on your connection speed. The better your internet connection, the less gameplay problems you will have. I run a PS4 on wireless, standard cable modem, and it is all good.

9. Starting city really only affects the classes you start out as and the story line missions early on. You can't change classes until you hit level 10 on your first class. After that, you'll get airship access at around level 15 (it's gated by progress with main story line, but you'll naturally wind up at about that level just from missions and quests). Those first 15 levels are fairly fast, so you won't be stuck in your starting city for too long. So if you really want to do dungeons together as Gladiator (which becomes Paladin and starts in Ul'dah) and Conjurer (which becomes White Mage and starts in Gridania), it wouldn't be a big deal for you both to start in the same city and get to lvl 15 and then have one (or both) of you pick up a new class from a new city. You won't have the exp from the main story line when you switch classes. But each city has its own set of quests that work well for when leveling a class, and each class has it's own hunt log which contributes exp. You may also need to do some levequests (which unlock at around level 10 and you build up allowances at a rate of 6 per day) or FATEs (events that just randomly pop up around the zone) as well, but that's probably going to be the case whether you stick with your original class or not.

The main story line for all 3 cities merge once you get airship access. So really it's only the early story line that will be different based on your starting city. You can't go back and do the early story missions for the other starting cities (i.e. it's not like XI, where you could switch allegiance and do all of the missions for another city starting from the beginning). And nothing past this point will force you to be tied to your starting city. For example, you will reach a point where you are asked to join the Grand Company for one of the 3 nations, and you will be free to choose any of them, not just the city you started in.

Well, I was going to answer some questions, then I saw that awful eye piercing formatting and decided it wasn't worth trying to read them.

Yes, it's trolling to point out that your choice of colors is painful to look at...

The Rating system keeps us in check. Nah, this is a good group of folks, grown up and friendly conversation, even if we disagree.

But seriously, some of the users have their backgrounds set to dark and text doesn't get reset to compensate, so the dark blue text can show up near invisible on backgrounds like mine, which is set to blue with standard white text. But you couldn't have possibly known that so its all good. I just highlight the text to read it and I'm on my way

I didn't even know that.
Mine is white so I had no issue with his text.


Edited, Feb 13th 2015 2:45pm by Nashred

If you joined on Lamia server, we can send you an invite to our linkshell Grammarian Tea House. You can join that on the free trial if we know your character name. Linkshells in XIV are just chat channels. There are larger organizations, Free Companies, which is what you're unable to join on the free trial. You can be in up to eight linkshells, but only one free company, so linkshells tend to be more special purpose, whereas free companies are used as the primary communication method between a larger, more casual group.

This is to prevent RMT from using 14 day free trials to sell gil (since they will probably be banned before it expires), and SE would rather for them to have to waste another credit card number.

Edited, Feb 23rd 2015 3:29pm by Valkayree