User:Korvana/2016 Video Guide

What follows is a basic outline/skeleton for a series of videos to get people started with FFXI, with a focus on general mechanics and unlocking content. Much of this shamelessly copied from Returning to Vana'diel.

For total newcomers

• Racial stat differences (or lack thereof), starting nation, server choice
• Controls and config menu
• Tutorial NPC
• Macros
• Useful commands, chat modes
• How to search the wikis for stuff

Starting out

• Home points and survival guides
• Records of Eminence
• Trust
• Unity

Basic Mechanics

• WAR, MNK, THF, WHM, RDM, BLM
• Trust
• Aggro
• /heal
• Reraise, weakened
• /check, EXP
• Skill, stats
• Storage, Wardrobe, Mog House
• Maps

Level 1-30

• Records of Eminence
• Fields of Valor
• 1-6 Starting areas
• 6-12 Crag areas
• Rhapsody in White
• 12-16 Valkurm Dunes
• 16-20 Meriphataud Mountains, Crane Flies
• Chocobo License, Raptor mount
• Subjob
• 20-30 Qufim Island

Getting Around

• Linkshells
• Home Points, Survival Guides, Unity NM warps
• Abyssea, Traverser stones, Cavernous Maws
• Tenshodo, Aht Urhgan, runic portals, Alzadaal
• Wings of the Goddess, Cavernous Maws
• Adoulin, Waypoints, Key Items

Jobs

• WAR, MNK, THF, WHM, RDM, BLM, PLD, DRK, BST, BRD, RNG, SMN, NIN, DRG, SAM, BLU, COR, PUP, DNC, SCH, RUN, GEO

Limit Breaks

• LB1 Exoray Mold, Bomb Coal, Ancient Papyrus
• LB2 Xarcabard
• Mission progression to Magicite
• LB3 Davoi, Beadeaux, Oztroja
• LB4
• LB5 Testimonies
• Seal Conversion
• LB6-9
• Farming tails
• LB10

Job Potential

• Merit Points
• Job Points
• Weapon skills

Advanced Getting Around

• Geomagnetic Founts
• Magicked Astrolabe, Loadstone, Portal Charm, Rhinostery Certificate, Bracelet of Verve
• Rise of the Zilart, Sky
• Chains of Promathia, Sea
• Voidwatch, Walk of Echoes

Endgame gear

• Disclaimer: "I don't know shit about midgame/endgame gear, go talk to FFXIAH, BG-Wiki, Reddit"
• Bayld +1, Sparks
• RoE Intermediate, WKR, Skirmish, Ambuscade, Reforged Armor, Alluvion Skirmish
• Delve, High-Tier Mission Battlefields, Incursion, JSE Capes, JSE Weapons
• Sinister Reign, Unity, Vagary, Escha

Job-Specific Equipment

• Artifact/Relic/Empyrean
• Reforged Armor
• JSE capes
• REMA Weapons
• Trial of the Magians
• Oboro

Relic

• Dynamis progression
• Time extensions
• Treasure Hunter
• Procs
• Relic Armor
• Relic Weapon farming/upgrading

Mythic

• Requirements (ToAU, Captain)
• Vigil Weapon
• NMs
• Farming
• ZNM

Empyrean

• Confluxes
• EXP/Cruor chaining
• Lights
• Empyrean Armor, Bastion, Dominion, feet farming
• Procs
• Atma/Abyssite

Goofing Off

• Adventuring Fellow
• Crafting, Synergy
• Mog Garden, HELM, Fishing, Chocobo Digging/Raising/Racing
• BCNM, Garrison, Expeditionary Force, Limbus, Legion, Besieged, Campaign, Campaign Ops, Moblin Maze Mongers, Meeble Burrows, VW, VwNM, Walk of Echoes
• Monstrosity, Ballista, Brenner, Supply Run, Mog Tablet, Pankration, Coalitions