Tutorial Series ~ New player discussion

[Lilymoon]

I'm a noob with MMO's. FF14 will be my absolute first. I played a bit of the beta and was kind of confused. Tips on the following would be helpful: controls and user interface and combat mechanics. Combat was especially confusing for me. Does one's character attack automatically? How does it work?

Thanks a ton for your help!

I was originally planning to do a separate video for UI but the more I thought about it the more it seemed unappealing to cover all in one video. I'm splitting it up more as I go so a combat video will cover any UI needed for combat while crafting will cover the UI for crafting and such. I'm also thinking of doing a less formal video on targeting, target filters and maybe very basic macros but that idea came up more because I use controller to play the game.

A nice idea but would also be nice to have text tutorials for those who prefer that to trying to follow videos. Combat is indeed complex, once you mark or attack your foe you will have to deal with them, they will attack you if you enter into the "awareness" zone and you can avoid that if you want and are careful . I am sure others will give much more detail to this if this thread grows.

I think someone did make text tutorials but I can't remember for the life of me where they were. As for that part on monsters you can run from most things and have them eventually reset to their spawn point. The only place that doesn't work last I checked was in dungeons where monsters will continue to follow you regardless so a bad fight either results in a win or full party wipe to reset it.