What are the first things you plan to do in Dawntrail?

Honestly? Stare at my WOL for awhile and then run around to look at all the new, shiny graphically updated areas. Also pick up Viper and Picto to level before I run MSQ with my friend. I'm more excited for the QOL stuff and the new explore-able areas than the story but we'll see!

MSQ to end > EX prog > Blue quests

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Originally Posted by Fhaerron

MSQ to end > EX prog > Blue quests

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I hope we get lots of blue quests!

MSQ then maybe work on alt jobs later if I feel like it.

I'm still hoping we get more new hair styles with DT too.

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Originally Posted by SeriousPan

Do MSQ and run through each zone on foot the first time. I always felt like mounting up in a new zone each expansion was kind of robbing myself of a sense of adventure. Been running through every zone on foot (on first visit) since Heavensward.

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100% this, I started doing msq on foot when I began Shadowbringers, even playing through it without opening my map (had the minimap on max zoom so I could still get the direction of objectives). Makes the world feel so much cooler that first time through

msg/blue quest
maybe lving my crafters or an alt job

then the the glamor hunt begins

Well, I am officially ready. My inventory and armory is cleaned up and cleared out. My fantasia is popped and I am logged out naked in a Gridania Inn. Bring on 7.0 and my hrothgal.

first check Ariannas "glow-up" with this graphical update(i think after the final high level msq quest if i need a break ill look how alts are looking from this graphics update depending on queues)
feed chock(wind-up alpha with its tiny beak)before going off to MSQ
but after the maintenance i got the update from launcher but due to this going on apparently version check errors happen?

MSQ > Crafters/Gatherers > Viper to 90 > spam FATEs on some secondary classes for all those goodies and some Gil > level a class in each role to 100 (if not already done by FATEs) > Prep crafters and gatherers for 7.05

Fantasia Quest > Hrothgal > Viper & Pictomancer unlocks > Decide what class to MSQ with

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Originally Posted by SnowVix

Fantasia Quest > Hrothgal > Viper & Pictomancer unlocks > Decide what class to MSQ with

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Unless your prepared to prossibly spend hours in a queue to login to obtain said Fantasia and then get back in a queue again after changing race, I would suggest to maybe wait a little with it.
At least until you log out for the night. Then the next day you're set to login as a Hrothgal.
Simply suggesting this to save people som time from spending x2 times in a queue the "first" thing they do.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

Unless your prepared to prossibly spend hours in a queue to login to obtain said Fantasia and then get back in a queue again after changing race, I would suggest to maybe wait a little with it.
At least until you log out for the night. Then the next day you're set to login as a Hrothgal.
Simply suggesting this to save people som time from spending x2 times in a queue the "first" thing they do.

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if the queue is bad, i'll grab an ebike and head into town for breakfast tacos or bagels.

While everyone else is enjoying the expansion's content i'll be back in heavensward working my way back up to where my other character left the main story in endwalker, insanity i know but i fell in love with roegadyn.
I will likely spend time looking at the face to see if it still looks good too and continue my journey as a newbie tank after returning like around the time the second benchmark released.
If queue is bad i don't know what i'll do but play something else.

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Originally Posted by SnowVix

if the queue is bad, i'll grab an ebike and head into town for breakfast tacos or bagels.

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I can't speak how it'll be.
But from experiencing previous launches / early access's on FFXIV (and other MMOs), it usually ends up with a few hours in a queue.
And someones one might even get an error or two while in a queue and have to restart from the beginning.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

I can't speak how it'll be.
But from experiencing previous launches / early access's on FFXIV (and other MMOs), it usually ends up with a few hours in a queue.
And someones one might even get an error or two while in a queue and have to restart from the beginning.

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I was on Zalera for EW and I legit waited 10 minutes. I am expecting here on Seraph the queues to be quite minimal.

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

I was on Zalera for EW and I legit waited 10 minutes. I am expecting here on Seraph the queues to be quite minimal.

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Yeah even with EW’s Login Extreme, the morning queues weren’t bad on Crystal! It was the evenings that were the worst.

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Originally Posted by DynnDiablos

I was on Zalera for EW and I legit waited 10 minutes. I am expecting here on Seraph the queues to be quite minimal.

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I usually end up with over an hour of waiting.
And usually at least 1 Error along the way. ^^'
Luckily I always come mentally prepared that things like that can and possibly will happen so it doesn't realle phase me.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

I can't speak how it'll be.
But from experiencing previous launches / early access's on FFXIV (and other MMOs), it usually ends up with a few hours in a queue.
And someones one might even get an error or two while in a queue and have to restart from the beginning.

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i mostly didn't log off until i went to sleep during Endwalker Login Extreme, but hopefully we'll only be looking at Shadowbringers level.

Viper....I logged out right next to where the npc is supposed to be

1. Turn on hide players at questgivers
2. Adjust bars as needed, look into the action replacement feature. (BRD Straight Straight Shot replaces Barrage when SS ready is up?), and any other place I can use it to recover some buttons & keys for future additions.
3. Do MSQ
4. Collect Fantasia in Ul'dah - Steps of Thal (X:13.4 Y:9.2)
5. Explore.

1. Make a Hrothgal alt on one of the 'dead' worlds of Dynamis

2. Keep leveling up my jobs to free up space in my inventories

3. Check out VPR and PIC

4. Stop fartin' around and actually catch up in the MSQ. >__>

Level up crafting and gathering to level 100.

If the air balloon are real-time like the 1.0 airships then ride one of those to enjoy the new scenery/graphics update.

- Desynth the 6.4-6.5 gear in my inventory.
- Unlock viper + picto which I plan to level up whenever I feel like it
- MSQ - no rushing the story and explore side quests while making this priority to reach end game in time for raids
- level up a dps, a healer and a tank while doing MSQ and side quests so that I can queue whatever role is in need
- level up crafters/gatherers as I progress MSQ
- unlock extreme as soon I get there

Work on glamours if I feel the need to make changes (never really cared much - I still have my old fantasia on all my characters).

- Check PvP Vendors
- Check if a golden monopoly car mount was added
- Check if 5m MGP mount was added
- Casually Rush MSQ
- Frontlines til 8.0

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Originally Posted by Eris249

Level up crafting and gathering to level 100.

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Same here but I gotta do this twice since both my catgirls are essentially endgame omnicrafters and gatherers xD.

Also craft lots of the new housing things that will be released to make good Gil on the MB :3

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

Speedrun the MSQ + blue quests.

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I will race you for sure .... will speedrun faster than you and be world first. It's on babe :)

Play with every new setting "oooohh... awwhhhh"
Mute 10 words
MSQ - audio and entire story
Unlock Flying
Level Gathering
Level Crafting
Start Retainer leveling

My bf insists he'll be awake at 2am for it, in which case the first thing is MSQ with him.

But if he's asleep and I have time to poke around I'm going to check out the new furnishings and PvP vendors to see what's new and available.
Also collect the submarine voyages and send them out again.
Then probably look through the dye channels in my gear and run circles through the newly animated grass and foliage until he logs in.

Complete MSQ on main and one of my alts.
Once that's done I'll start my project of completing every deep dungeon alone with all classes.

I hope the fate trains are going to be a thing since I've never been a part of them before.

I will be starting the main story quest, but on the side, I hope to finally engage the Abyssal Fracture: Extreme, Storm's Crown: Extreme, and Voidcast Dais: Extreme. They are/were too difficult for me pre-Echo. I needed/need the last three lynx mounts to obtain Apocryphal Bahamut.

Loot and pillage the golden city for the Spanish

That or fish

Despair > transpose > pictomancer

First of all I'll look for the new option that lets us hide other players so I can actually see Ojika Tsunjika behind his desk. :p

Anyway, I plan to dedicate the weekend to the MSQ. Maybe I'll squeeze in the last two Pandaemonium Raids as I didn't have time to finish those before maintenance.

I do intend to try out PCT fairly soon-ish, probably next week. Hopefully by then some helpful soul will alreday have figured out a good way to play it because right now it's still a bit overwhelming...

Nothing for me. I did not get DT and I don't think I will. I will finish my playtime, that will end in 3 weeks and finish my personal project on my new system. Working on animation and cgi. So no more time to play. I hope you guys have fun in the new expansion.

I wasn't able to go back to homeworld in time (apparently - even though I tried a good 20m or so ahead of time), so now I am stranded on a visiting server. Neither will it allow me to go back to Marilith, nor will it allow me to log in as long as the server is congested. So literally any visitors aren't playing along with me for their first things to do! Yes, yes, I knew I had to go back, my fault! Doesn't matter. Stranded on anything that isn't a dead server, or maybe early hours of the morning (tomorrow perhaps) you aren't playing. Lol.

Oh no! That was just initially! It is now letting me transfer back (finally)! Maybe I can get onto what I actually PLANNED to do now (planning is a strong word though).

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

I wasn't able to go back to homeworld in time (apparently - even though I tried a good 20m or so ahead of time), so now I am stranded on a visiting server.

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so you know in the future, they always turn off world travel at least 30 minutes before scheduled maintenance, to make sure no transfers are in progress when hardware is being shut down.