Is it to late to start now?

[Azuwi]

I was listening to a podcast and they were talking about this game and it seem interesting enough that I am making this post, but is it too late to start play this game now seeing it have already been out since 2014?

Like everyone running around with mega farm 10 million worth of armor and $1000 p2w items and not beginner friendly anymore? just give me an honest answer of the game state

[Azuwi]

okay so the game itself isnt just played by a bunch of guys who played the game for 10 years and have maxed everything including gear? there is still new players coming to the game?

how long does it take to hit lvl 70? like 7 months like wow or like 1 week?

whats the max level cap in game ? just curious

[ErikaLol]

There are still new players joining and you can jump on in and take it at your own pace. It's not really pay to win either as you can just buy solid gear right off the market board when you hit level cap which is 90.

Play it and enjoy the story, if you do queued content just mention it's your first time and people will explain things and be more than welcoming.

[Azuwi]

which class are recommended to play ? if there is classes in this game

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by Seraphita:

The game is ALWAYS beginner friendly. You'd have no troubles finding people to help you here and there, the pace is a bit faster than it was when it started so you'd be fine on that side. Seriously, no, not too late to start now. Try the free trial, though. Lv70 cap. :D

It wasn't in the past, but it is now. You can run required story dungeons with groups of NPCs now.

Originally posted by Azuwi:

which class are recommended to play ? if there is classes in this game

warrior.

[Tactical Drongo]

One thing about reaching any level is also that you can have *all* classes on one character and can play all of them till the given level

that means we have currently (technically) 20 classes for adventuring 8 crafting jobs and 3 gathering jobs

there is a lot of time you can put in maxing all that out

[Azuwi]

I played Wow for 1 month (bought 1 month sub) and only hit level 32, it was very tedious to level up, and after calculating some maths I think I needed to do 12 dungeons per level to level up and 750+ dungeons to hit level 60. Can you get a level up in atleast 1-2 dungeon in FF 14 or is it same slow as wow? (one dungeon took about 1 hour, and thats a 12 hour playthrough a day to get just 1 level, most people dont have time to sit at pc 12 hours a day)

[FOOD]

Originally posted by Azuwi:

how long does it take to hit lvl 70? like 7 months like wow or like 1 week?

It depends what you want to do in this game.

Neither WoW nor FFXIV takes a long time to level in,
a Gamer could max-level in a few days by manual leveling in either of the games.

Originally posted by Azuwi:

... after calculating some maths I think I needed to do 12 dungeons per level to level up and 750+ dungeons to hit level 60. Can you get a level up in atleast 1-2 dungeon in FF 14 or is it same slow as wow? (one dungeon took about 1 hour, and thats a 12 hour playthrough a day to get just 1 level, most people dont have time to sit at pc 12 hours a day)

The simple answer is: You cannot judge how long it will take just by running a couple of dungeons and then multiply that to max level (especially not in WoW where you have Diminishing Returns in experience).

Dungeons in FFXIV work a little bit in the same way, there are certain Break-Points in a dungeons level where you get less Experience Per Hour than you would from running a lower one.


As a complete new MMORPG player, my advice is take it slow and enjoy the journey.

[Azuwi]

You can do level 70-80 in WoW in 3-4 weeks if your fast, but normally it takes 3 months around there.

I am talking about WoW classic, not WoW default.

Im not a new MMORPG player, i played some mmo but never final fantasy. But if leveling in Final fantasy is same as Wow, i might not like it. 3 months for average player, and I am abit slower then average, so 6 months for me just to get to endgame content might be too slow for me. I would like to start doing endgame content after 2-3 weeks of playing the game, so you need to run 12 dungeons per level up in FF14 also per level up? (If ff14 has a dungeon system)

For quest its more or less slower, (in WoW), where a quest equal to your level reward you maybe 3150 XP and you need 67000 xp to level up, so you need to do about 36 quests on average per level, and a quest can take anywhere from 10 min to 60 min depending how fast and knowledgable you are, so 36 hours for one level if it take 60 min per quest or 6 hours per level if your super fast (10 min per quest)

Also does ff14 use addons like WoW do or is it required? (I prefer not use addons and hope all the essential stuff and a decent looking UI is already in game to avoid to download extra stuff) , I am just a press-play-and-play player then trying configure everything before.

[xyz]

Buy the game, the expansion pack, pre order the next expansion, buy a jump potion, a story skip, a monthly subscription and use the 3m the game gives you to buy some end game gear for it to be irrelevant in 6 weeks when the next expansion / raid tier drops.

That's this game for you.

[Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨]

Originally posted by Azuwi:

how long does it take to hit lvl 70? like 7 months like wow or like 1 week?

This is the wrong question. Leveling in ffxiv isn't something you do to reach the endgame, it's something that happens as you experience the story. As such, leveling your first job will probably will depend on how much you pace yourself in the story.

Leveling alt jobs will be faster because once you're done with the story, you'll have a bunch of stuff unlocked you can use and the further below your highest level job your equipped job is, the faster it levels up.

Originally posted by Azuwi:

Also does ff14 use addons like WoW do or is it required? (I prefer not use addons and hope all the essential stuff and a decent looking UI is already in game to avoid to download extra stuff) , I am just a press-play-and-play player then trying configure everything before.

The official policy on add-ons is that they're completely banned with no exceptions. The unofficial policy is no one cares as long as no one knows you're using them. Naturally, nothing is required but there's probably some neat qol stuff that'll catch your interest.

The game has no anti cheat so you have to out yourself and then have someone report you.

[Azuwi]

And one character can play all classes? So you only need to make one character?

[Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨]

Originally posted by Azuwi:

And one character can play all classes? So you only need to make one character?

Yes, you can unlock every single class (they eventually evolve into what are called jobs) on a single character.

[♥ Beepy ♥]

Originally posted by Azuwi:

$1000 p2w items

This isn't Diablo: Immortal, there is zero P2W here. The only mtx you'll find are cosmetics, emotes and mounts in the MogStore online. And for those that want them, content skips.

PVP (if you choose to partake) is standardized stats across the board for everyone. There is no advantage between a Lv10 and Lv90 player other than knowing your job.

[VaryNia]

Originally posted by Azuwi:

You can do level 70-80 in WoW in 3-4 weeks if your fast, but normally it takes 3 months around there.

I am talking about WoW classic, not WoW default.

Im not a new MMORPG player, i played some mmo but never final fantasy. But if leveling in Final fantasy is same as Wow, i might not like it. 3 months for average player, and I am abit slower then average, so 6 months for me just to get to endgame content might be too slow for me. I would like to start doing endgame content after 2-3 weeks of playing the game, so you need to run 12 dungeons per level up in FF14 also per level up? (If ff14 has a dungeon system)

For quest its more or less slower, (in WoW), where a quest equal to your level reward you maybe 3150 XP and you need 67000 xp to level up, so you need to do about 36 quests on average per level, and a quest can take anywhere from 10 min to 60 min depending how fast and knowledgable you are, so 36 hours for one level if it take 60 min per quest or 6 hours per level if your super fast (10 min per quest)

Also does ff14 use addons like WoW do or is it required? (I prefer not use addons and hope all the essential stuff and a decent looking UI is already in game to avoid to download extra stuff) , I am just a press-play-and-play player then trying configure everything before.

On your first class (and second class if you are efficient) the amount of XP the story quests (mandatory to reach endgame) will give you enough XP to level to max, so don't worry about that. Also, before you ask: One class is sufficient to enjoy the game, although I would recommend trying all out.

[♥ Beepy ♥]

Originally posted by Azuwi:

I would like to start doing endgame content after 2-3 weeks of playing the game.

I started Jan of last year and It literally took me a full year to play from the beginning of ARR through to Endwalkers closing quests. And that was just focusing largely on the MSQ, skipping all the misc "filler" quests and the majority of the blue quests.

You have 10yrs worth of content to catch up on. If you want to just rush to end-game (which I do not recommend), You can buy story-skips for every expansion up to before Endwalker.