ffxiv youtubers

besides mr happy, desperius, and zepla who has a good channel for info and who has good crafting videos (recent patch) i watched some other but wasn't really feeling them. no offense. any name drops would be awesome or if you make videos lemme know! thanks in advance.

It really depends on what sort of content you're looking for in your YT videos. It's hard to just blankly recommend with so little criteria.

WeskAlber can be quite good for videos.. Aside from that, there's nobody I can recommend, and nobody especially for crafting/gathering, at least in terms of consistently good quality content/material

I watch meoni since he has some better videos then mr happy on the same topics depends on which you want. I watch both anyways

Mica Does Stuff checking in. But I don't post all the much, its more a hobby for me than anything and I have been mainly doing updated guides and some random tips for ffxiv. I do have a list of vids I want to do on a variety of topics and some new updated guides that I am about to release, though so there should be a bunch more coming soon, with speed dependent on my overall motivation lol. I also don't solely cover ffxiv.

Ash10 doesn’t only do FFXIV vids but they are a great resource for crafting/gathering for the ones they do make.

Can confirm. Ashe10 does good enough crafting explanations and was basically how I managed to understand expert recipes. Outside of that, each youtuber tends to find a "niche", MrHappy is raiding and general game commentary. Speakers of Hydaelin (or SpeakersNetwork, something like that), GamerEscape do podcast-like content discussing patch content and such. Meoni is also general commentary but tends to focus on glamour. Larryzaur does comedy videos, as did DrakGamestein until I stopped watching (I just... stopped finding him funny? Or the people in his group I actually considered entertaining left). MTQ is guides (from what I know, last I looked up was her guide on E12S 'cause my ex-bf was having trouble visualizing Advanced Relativity).

NightSkyPrince is nice to watch, though he only recently got into XIV so he's fanboying a bit TOO much on ShB (to be fair, it IS considered the best storyline so far), so he mostly just played the MSQ on Twitch and uploaded highlights on youtube. I became aware of him because of Aerith's VA Briana White, who showcased some FF content creators.

It really depends on what you're looking for.

EDIT: Oh! EthysAsher for Lorecasts and Q&As, GamerEscape does Lorecasts every so often but Ethys is exclusively into Lore.

+1 to meoni as he gets stuff up pretty quickly, but his videos do drag sometimes... basically don’t be shy about skipping to what you specifically want to see.

Also MTQ for battle guides.

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Can confirm. Ashe10 does good enough crafting explanations and was basically how I managed to understand expert recipes. Outside of that, each youtuber tends to find a "niche", MrHappy is raiding and general game commentary. Speakers of Hydaelin (or SpeakersNetwork, something like that), GamerEscape do podcast-like content discussing patch content and such. Meoni is also general commentary but tends to focus on glamour. Larryzaur does comedy videos, as did DrakGamestein until I stopped watching (I just... stopped finding him funny? Or the people in his group I actually considered entertaining left). MTQ is guides (from what I know, last I looked up was her guide on E12S 'cause my ex-bf was having trouble visualizing Advanced Relativity).

NightSkyPrince is nice to watch, though he only recently got into XIV so he's fanboying a bit TOO much on ShB (to be fair, it IS considered the best storyline so far), so he mostly just played the MSQ on Twitch and uploaded highlights on youtube. I became aware of him because of Aerith's VA Briana White, who showcased some FF content creators.

It really depends on what you're looking for.

EDIT: Oh! EthysAsher for Lorecasts and Q&As, GamerEscape does Lorecasts every so often but Ethys is exclusively into Lore.

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I found Ethys Asher recently after watching a Mr Happy podcast and oh my! His lore videos are so informative and I learned a lot about the game's lore that I didn't know about before.

MTQ for battle guides. Meoni for general information. Larryzaur for general shenanigans.

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MTQ for battle guides. Meoni for general information. Larryzaur for general shenanigans.

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This is my FF XIV youtube trio for the most part, though Nest amuses me sometimes too. But my focus is more on the former instead of the latter.

Mr.Happy is the biggest and most active so if you know of him you're good to go. There's also Work 2 game, speakers of Hy, Gamerescape. Those are the big ones I know of that post every weekist.

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Mr.Happy is the biggest and most active so if you know of him you're good to go. There's also Work 2 game, speakers of Hy, Gamerescape. Those are the big ones I know of that post every weekist.

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I don't like work 2 game. They don't fact check and post inaccurate information from time to time.

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MTQ for battle guides. Meoni for general information. Larryzaur for general shenanigans.

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Same. They're pretty much the ones I watch. I find MTQ is usually the clearest for battle guides. Larry can be fun.

And I'll add to that: denmomcstronghuge for erm...general strangeness.

MTQ for her awesome puns.
Desperius for his/her cool intro vids.


I usually stay away from 5 min+ vids.

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MTQ for battle guides. Meoni for general information. Larryzaur for general shenanigans.

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These three for sure, plus Mr. Happy for general info as well. MTQ's duty guides have saved my arse numerous times, lol. As far as crafting/gathering guides, if you're not finding anything on YT, try just searching in a search engine for crafting/gathering websites. They're out there, and are very helpful.

Well it take away the ability for the players to act on their own, and then when they have been told what to do and expect and more, then they complain about that there is to little to do..

These ways these youtubers is being the cancer to the community, these guides is often wrong... or inefficient and often if you call them out on it, you will be hearing a tantrum due to ego.

All these things that is updated and released, is shown in patch info, why wait 2 days for someone to post a video about it, when you can read it on day one of the patch, or read pre-patch notes, it seem a it inefficient as well, and also it is not really usefull in FFXIV as this game does not have leaks and sources, like any other MMO has rendering much of the speculations guess work rather than what we are about to expect.

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Well it take away the ability for the players to act on their own, and then when they have been told what to do and expect and more, then they complain about that there is to little to do..

These ways these youtubers is being the cancer to the community, these guides is often wrong... or inefficient and often if you call them out on it, you will be hearing a tantrum due to ego.

All these things that is updated and released, is shown in patch info, why wait 2 days for someone to post a video about it, when you can read it on day one of the patch, or read pre-patch notes, it seem a it inefficient as well, and also it is not really usefull in FFXIV as this game does not have leaks and sources, like any other MMO has rendering much of the speculations guess work rather than what we are about to expect.

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this is extremely off topic. they were asking for recommendations, not opening the floor to discussion on whether or not youtubers were a cancer to the community.

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this is extremely off topic. they were asking for recommendations, not opening the floor to discussion on whether or not youtubers were a cancer to the community.

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It is quite clear that am not recommending it as as a recommendation.

I met Mrhappy and Mizzteq at Fanfest. I always liked them because they had a large impact on introducing newer people to savage and other end game content. It's easier to make the leap because they share their guides and experiences in a way that doesn't make it seem as daunting like some others.

Zepla HQ is good too, she makes good meme videos based on events happening in Eorzea. Pokes fun of top topics from casual to 'toxic elitism' too.

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I met Mrhappy and Mizzteq at Fanfest. I always liked them because they had a large impact on introducing newer people to savage and other end game content. It's easier to make the leap because they share their guides and experiences in a way that doesn't make it seem as daunting like some others.

Zepla HQ is good too, she makes good meme videos based on events happening in Eorzea. Pokes fun of top topics from casual to 'toxic elitism' too.

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Zepla HQ is good for information given in a very calm and easily digestible manner. I've seen her videos on mounts and emotes and they're both extremely informative!

I like how Work To Game discuss different community topics and don't just repeat whatever is posted on the Lodestone. It's something to listen to at work. Tea time with Meoni is a similar but less scripted format of two people talking about the game.

Mr. Happy covers interviews which I'm too lazy to keep track of otherwise. Sometimes I listen to his patch note reading or live letter digest if I haven't had time to read them.

Zepla HQ has fun videos and also some commentary on community topics.

For guides I just use the search function. Many content creators make guides about different things and I don't have a favorite.

I enjoy Speakers Network. It has a lot of information on the lore of the game that is kept up to date and goes all the way back with a series on 1.0 if you ever wanted to see what the game looked like at that time.

Speakers is good for 1.0 topics and inner workings, definitely learned a lot.
MTQ for guides. (Though a special shout-out to AzuristSky who made a very informative O12s unsync guide which helped my group get clears and mounts)
Larryzaur for humor along with Zepla.
Meoni for just random discussion and just posting what rewards are and such. Easy info to find but nice to have it in a video format.

OistyT checking in. I post stuff 2-3 times a week on different things. Also on this subject is there like a content creators Reddit/discord as can’t seem to find places to post/get advice on new videos

Hmmmm.. < looks at YouTube subscription list >

Misshapen Chair (humor and actual how-to)
Work To Game ( a bit pedantic)
Rhigitar (humor and um, lore?)
Lucron (ex? WoW player who does impression/walkthroughs)
Meoni (for all your FFXIV news and commentary)
Zane Lionhart (making gil/crafting)
Larryzaur (more Raiding than straight-up humor these days)

Work 2 Game is a tough one for me. Their videos seem to waver so much between interesting discussion and blatant click bait that I can't say I'd personally recommend them. Out of all of the FF14 content creators I do watch, their videos have the lowest completion rate. It seems I'm just as likely to watch all the way through as I am to just click away after 2 minutes.

Other than the big names already mentioned, I'll throw in TinyBlueGames. He's still fairly new to 14 (or at least is still progressing through HW atm) but he's an MMO vet who brings a fun, new experience to the game. It's always nice to see someone truly experiencing the game for the first time instead of just watching the seasoned, grizzled veterans.

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Work 2 Game is a tough one for me. Their videos seem to waver so much between interesting discussion and blatant click bait that I can't say I'd personally recommend them. Out of all of the FF14 content creators I do watch, their videos have the lowest completion rate. It seems I'm just as likely to watch all the way through as I am to just click away after 2 minutes.

Other than the big names already mentioned, I'll throw in TinyBlueGames. He's still fairly new to 14 (or at least is still progressing through HW atm) but he's an MMO vet who brings a fun, new experience to the game. It's always nice to see someone truly experiencing the game for the first time instead of just watching the seasoned, grizzled veterans.

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I like TBG. He's got a soft voice, and he's a relaxing perspective. Sometimes I feel like he reaches for saying something unique, rather than what he really thinks, but that's just me.

Just wanted to echo what others have said about MTQ. That’s been my go-to resource for battle guides for years now. She’s great.

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Just wanted to echo what others have said about MTQ. That’s been my go-to resource for battle guides for years now. She’s great.

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I like her guides because she has a calm demeanor while being straight to the point with mechanics. I've tried watching other peoples' guides but there's usually a lot of crap I don't need to know in between explanations. Not the case with MTQ though. She tells us what we need to know, no more and no less. Short, sweet and to the point...that's how I like it.

MTQ guides are ok. Sometimes in the past she'd insert an anecdote from her own experience as though it was imperative to winning. Still prefer her to MrHappy or others, if she's got the guide when I need it.

I'm not sure about the quality of his guides in the past, but more recently this Rainesama guy's guides have popped up in my recommended, and I liked his guides for this raid tier.

best for crafting is probably Ashe10

Generally speaking, I like Mizzteq best of the people on the platform for fight guides. She tends to be just detailed enough and breaks down fights in such a way that makes the fights really easy for me to understand. Also her voice is more soothing and clear than some other options out there.

Larryzaur is just good form some comedy content, and more light hearted content.

Mr. Happy I tend to watch for news and updates since he tends to have a good finger on the pulse of how new updates will have a bigger impact, and can go through things like job adjustments and say how it changes things for the better or worse (even if I don't always agree with him on what's good and bad)

Work2Game (since it's been brought up) is a channel I used to watch, but then they seemed to delve into a lot of speculative prediction content, which is fine, but it also felt like the most unlikely predictions based off more of "this is what I want so I'm going to look for evidence to justify it" rather than based off official content. It's fine if you're interested in the speculation of what's coming up... but wasn't for me.