New player's server

[NVI]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently planning Start FF XIV. Some friends had recommended the Spriggans server to me, but in the end they didn't play the game. So I'm wondering which server I should choose for a French who intends to join a French guild later on.

I've heard about xp boosts on new servers, are there any right now?

Thanks to all of you.

[Sunny]

Heyya.

Everything is down right now so I can't grab names of servers outside of my data center, sorry!! The game will be back up tomorrow.

What you'll want to do when it's back up is click the meteor in the upper right corner of the launcher.

That will bring up a data center / server list thing. You'll want to click on the right region, EU? And then you'll have a server list.

What you're looking for is one that says NEW beside it -- that's one that has the incentives for new players (1M gil, 15 days playtime at reaching level 30 the first time--once per account).

From what Google tells me, it looks like Moogle is the primary French server, with Shiva also having a big community. Idk if either of those have the incentives though.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/39210/discussions/5/

that's the French steam forum for ffxiv

[♥ Beepy ♥]

Any DC that has "Preferred World" or "New" next to it would give you the 1M gil and Road to 80 XP buff. In-game it would have a star next to the name. However, it's patch-day and servers won't be up until tomorrow.

[NVI]

Hello, thank you for taking the time to reply. Can I join any guild while being on a server or do I have to be on the same server? Does an empty server mean I'll have trouble finding players for content?

[Sunny]

For guilds, same server.

For EU I believe it's a non-issue. Queues are Data Center (DC) wide, and I don't think the EU has a totally new DC like NA has. Your queues, even on a NEW server, should be fine -- because of the other servers on the DC. Dynamis, which is a NA DC, or the Aussie one, those both are suffering heavily right now because the entire DCs are NEW.

There's things you can do on Dynamis to make it no big deal at all, but I don't think any of it applies to the EU situation; you should be fine.

[NVI]

Okay it works, thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Have a nice evening!

[Sunny]

Originally posted by NVI:

Okay it works, thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Have a nice evening!

You too!! Welcome to Eorzea, I hope you have a lot of fun.