Having the wiki while playing is pretty much a requirement lol.
I remember the days when we printed out stuff from old forums like killing ifrit, ffxiah, alakazham etc.

11 isn't a handholding game like 14, you dont have quest markers. NPC are generally cryptic on what you have to do for a story mission and side quests are generally a waste of time, you dont get exp rewards or anything.
It's a very different game made for a different era (pre WoW).