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

[Evergrey]

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

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.

[SnowVix]

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.

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

[Moxxi]

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.

[Evergrey]

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

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.

[DynnDiablos]

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.

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

[Khryseis_Astra]

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

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

[Evergrey]

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

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.

[SnowVix]

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.

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.

[Mcg55ss]

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

[SamSmoot]

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.