Tutorial Series ~ New player discussion

Since I didn't find out about the forum restrictions until after I made the original post I'm just going to link the original post here rather then fully copy/pasting

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...he-Daily-Bread

Short story ~ I'm making a series of tutorial videos mostly aimed at new players or those unfamiliar with MMOs. Is there anything people would specifically like to see or have explained in this kind of format? I'm open to questions and suggestions from anyone really but those unaffected by the post restrictions didn't seem at all interested in helping with that. I will continue to check both posts though as I go forward in the project while updates will more likely end up on the lodestone once it's finished.

I'm a noob with MMO's. FF14 will be my absolute first. I played a bit of the beta and was kind of confused. Tips on the following would be helpful: controls and user interface and combat mechanics. Combat was especially confusing for me. Does one's character attack automatically? How does it work?

Thanks a ton for your help!

A nice idea but would also be nice to have text tutorials for those who prefer that to trying to follow videos. Combat is indeed complex, once you mark or attack your foe you will have to deal with them, they will attack you if you enter into the "awareness" zone and you can avoid that if you want and are careful . I am sure others will give much more detail to this if this thread grows.

You attack in 2 ways, auto attack (which like it sounds happens automatically when you're in melee range of a target) and using skills (either melee attacks, or spells).

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Originally Posted by Makki91

I'm a noob with MMO's. FF14 will be my absolute first. I played a bit of the beta and was kind of confused. Tips on the following would be helpful: controls and user interface and combat mechanics. Combat was especially confusing for me. Does one's character attack automatically? How does it work?

Thanks a ton for your help!

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I was originally planning to do a separate video for UI but the more I thought about it the more it seemed unappealing to cover all in one video. I'm splitting it up more as I go so a combat video will cover any UI needed for combat while crafting will cover the UI for crafting and such. I'm also thinking of doing a less formal video on targeting, target filters and maybe very basic macros but that idea came up more because I use controller to play the game.

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Originally Posted by CrisGer

A nice idea but would also be nice to have text tutorials for those who prefer that to trying to follow videos. Combat is indeed complex, once you mark or attack your foe you will have to deal with them, they will attack you if you enter into the "awareness" zone and you can avoid that if you want and are careful . I am sure others will give much more detail to this if this thread grows.

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I think someone did make text tutorials but I can't remember for the life of me where they were. As for that part on monsters you can run from most things and have them eventually reset to their spawn point. The only place that doesn't work last I checked was in dungeons where monsters will continue to follow you regardless so a bad fight either results in a win or full party wipe to reset it.

there is a good general guide listed here under the topic Leveling Up that one of our very kind community members created, it is very useful but any tutorial that you create will be very welcome too I am sure. thanks so much for thinking of us.

Yes it is possible to run away and eventually they will give up if they are free ranging enemies. That is a nice feature if you can get away :)

By the time I'm done making all the videos they might not be much help to the current new players. If there's anything you run into while playing that you think could use a good explanation then please inform me. There will always be new players until the day this game dies which I hope is years away

Ahh thanks for clearing some things up!

Sounds good tutorials are always welcome especially for those that never played it or people new to mmo's.

I Hope you have good luck on creating the tutorial series! It will be useful to many some day.