Good Criticisms about FFXIV Leveling for Newcomers

[Chiramu]

Not sure I want to take advice from someone who never seeming read the tooltip for Heavy Thrust or maintain it. *Eye twitch*

So you don't want to help newbies at all? Newbies are just suppose to know? How many people have you helped in this game?

[JunseiKei]

So you don't want to help newbies at all? Newbies are just suppose to know? How many people have you helped in this game?

Video is 23 minutes, the amount of time it'd take you to get to level 10. Claims they played over 8 hours to get to level 15 to do their first dungeon. Seriously. Just do MSQ. They also don't mention anything about leveling- just how long it took for them and implying it's slow. Implying getting to level 60 will take a month and be boring- easily done in a week on a fresh character (you just need to know how, which there are tons of guides and tip videos/websites on this that are just a Google search away).

As a mentor, it's my thing to actually teach newbies about the game. First thing I'd tell him is stop running away from mobs- you're not getting the damage from auto attacks as well as keep Heavy Thrust up for damage buff. >_> Then when they changed to doing only Heavy Thrust from behind, losing their positional bonus (since it's a flank move) while having mentioned moves have positionals. So, he knew about it. Popping Keen Flurry for no reason- guy seriously did not read tooltips or simply didn't care while recording their review.

This is more a rant video steeped in opinion and biased than good criticism. The only thing they said that is honestly correct is that the early game doesn't do the game justice, yet all they are "reviewing" is the free portion.

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Always possible, I will admit. However, anyone that moves their skills around are immediately greeted with a tooltip on their skill, just before you grab the skill and immediately when you set it. This is the case even when cross classing skills and even on controller. They just aren't there while you drag the skill or drop the skill in the same place as it was before on a controller (which is a little odd).