What would you do first on Dawntrail?

[Jeeqbit]

Shared FATE (if it still exist still)

We are getting FATEs, so it will. They had to add the Shared FATE reward system because nobody saw the point in doing FATEs for experience anymore and that has not changed.

avoiding spoilers might be challenging, particularly since there'll be those who treat the MSQ as if it were some sort of race, but avoiding FFXIV social media as much as possible should offset that a little

My recommendations are:

• Click the Event tab and stay in it. So you only see NPC conversation and can't see player chat in the other tabs.
• Close discord (or at least disable all notifications in all of the user settings, all overlays, desktop notifications, sounds and keep to servers you know won't have spoilers).
• Don't check youtube, twitter, facebook, or anywhere. I often struggle to avoid checking YouTube. One time I caught a glimpse of Crown of the Immaculate in my feed mid-MSQ.
• If you have social media alerts that could spoil from these locations, either disable phone notifications entirely or don't check your phone.
• World Visit to the most dead DC/server (such as Dynamis) so you don't see endgame mounts everywhere that could spoil.
• Disable all titles and minion nameplates in case they imply anything.
• Reduce character and object rendering to Minimum.

just hope that players here remember to spoiler-tag posts.

These forums usually go silent for several days. The most spoilery posts you usually find on release is in the bug and localization forums, just reporting honest bugs that have been observed, or more specific forums complaining about job changes as usual.