Inevitable Cat Girls | GG Reacts to FFXIV Starter Series

[@shingshongshamalama]

They knew exactly what they were doing having Scrublander turning into a goddamn Default Catgirl.

[@Amovetv]

I would pin this comment if KZbin would let me.

[@Daecoth]

Works for me!

[@nezrafallon4086]

The Fantasia advert on the main site features the same scrublander -> catgirl too. They know their audience.

[@chinhthehugger9284]

@@nezrafallon4086 "you too, can be the cat girl of your dream. dont let your dream be meme"

[@TheRedKnaveLP]

It's one of those guides I watched thinking "Oh this'll just be cringe" but I think it would have been really nice to have all those years ago I started playing. Glad to see SE is commited to helping new players even now.

[@celticlord88]

I never saw the guides. I think I started before they were made. But they are kinda cringe. I prefer KZbin guides

[@ecyor0]

It's cringe, but an endearing kind of cringe.

[@mazusagou1946]

The medals are just how well you did in a FATE! Exp, gil, etc are given based on what rank you get.. Special boss FATES like Odin have how many items dropped based on it and things that require you to do either specific FATES or a certain amount usually require you get a gold.

[@mazusagou1946]

Also, patron deities used to decide your strongest and weakest elemental resistance when that was still a thing. Now it's just a lore thing and only shows up during eternal bonding ceremonies. There also used to be notable differences in physical and magical defense in gear and the dragoon gear had quite notably low magic defense. Playing dragoon with wind weakness against Garuda back in the day sure was not fun.

[@celticlord88]

Or just be in a group.

[@SarahExpereinceRequiem]

Also you don't advance though the challenge log unless you get gold.

[@unknownsample4801]

things like titles and minions usually are tied to getting gold rating on certain fates

[@FirestreakRodimusPr]

BTW, Kyle and Garret, if and when you decide to try the Odin fate out, please be aware that he hits like a Truck.

[@MonosEx]

Tank player about Limit Break : "I don't even have that shit on my bars" uhm.... this is gonna be interesting when doing future trials 😅

[@reshypoo9447]

In the other tank, we trust.

[@AoiKaze2000]

PLD's Stormblood story is awesome, becuase they basically do a "We're going back to being a gladiator now" instead of following the Paladin questline.

[@royox]

It's the mandatory TOURNAMENT SAGA!! of every anime xD

[@TwilightJericho]

I'd recommend Larryzaur's History series of FFxiv it goes over random bits of trivia and QOL changes that since you came in late (like me) didn't have to suffer through.

[@Demonmack0]

ooo good pick.

[@calzonexiv]

I'd say also the "Basically Black Mage" vid he made back in the day so they can learn the story behind the "Healers Adjust" meme lol

[@herebejamz]

Also, you might wanna get LB on your tank bar. No spoilers, but its actually required to survive a few raid wides. They're literally Tank LB3 checks.

[@highbrowstonebender7063]

I began this game in HW as a Roe Bro. Nothing has changed but my hair style. I am 8 ft tall, wrapped in plate and regret NOTHING! EDIT: I had not watched these intro videos before, but the fact you guys were listing off what you wanted to see only to have those very issues addressed show that the devs have been listening and specifically are targetting the confusing barriers to entry. They hit the largest possible audience with the design of thee videos and again, I am impressed.

[@ahorseofcourse7283]

HELL YEAH, FELLOW BROEGADYN! BUILT LIKE A FRIDGE, BUT THREE TIMES AS COOL!

[@azurechan]

just in case you don't know, the hot topic catgirl outfit is their default race outfit, which is why you see it so often

[@Addi-Tube]

I really like the little progress bar you guys put under your self promotion stuff, it actually makes me skip it less just because I know it's not going to descend into a multi-minute long promo or something. It's a very viewer friendly way of handling it.

[@Amovetv]

Thanks! Credit to Donut Media which is the first channel I ever saw do it.

[@Lctl10]

Nothing proves it better that they know their audience than the Fantasia into a Miqo'te showing her panties. That's brand awareness right there.

[@deanospimoniful]

Garrett on the sort function sounds like my dad talking about his messy desk. "I know where everything is."

[@itsjezzer]

Back in the day, FFXIV used to have magic damage divided into the different elemental types, and you had different resistance stats for the elemental types, and there were items in the game to boost specific resistances. If you were going into Garuda Extreme you would stock up on wind resistance items, for example. Your patron deity gave you a minor permanent resistance boost to the element they were associated with. Eventually they simplified all the magic damage types into just "magic damage" and removed the stats and the deity bonuses.

[@Dnomike]

Once you've finished Shadowbringers, I'd recommend Jesse Cox's 15 Years of WoW vs 1 Year of FFXIV. He's kept it very balanced and it would be interesting to hear both of your takes having experienced similar.

[@Lutehammer]

This is actually the video that got me to pick up FFXIV. I was a Jesse fan and a friend sent this to me to help explain why they love the game so much. It works as a great point of reference for anyone who primarily thinks MMO =WOW. He was so right that FF is and RPG with MMO elements.

[@DanKojak]

That "helmet" on her is actually integrated into that particular Viera hairstyle. A few of the Viera hairstyles come with those included to compensate for the lack of most other head gear items.

[@richboywinston5097]

Hey, regarding the Grand Company seal turn-ins, there's an option to hide all equipment saved to gearsets from the list window. It's the drop down menu on the top right corner of that big list window

[@SPAMCAN29]

I drop stuff I want to get rid of from armoury into bag (right click on item for option) then run up to the GC desk and change option on the top of the list to hide armoury chest items. Then I just put the whole list in

[@sennaka]

Wait, really? *facepalm* I'm at 90 and never knew this - this was such a pain. Logging in to click that little button now, thanks!

[@Froggsroxx]

@@sennaka same!

[@rabid_si]

@@SPAMCAN29 For daily use beyond early levels, how often do you ACTUALLY get a piece of gear you aren't going to turn in, desynth or vendor? ESC > Character Config > Item settings > untick "Store all newly obtained items in the Armory Chest" Your Armory and sanity thanks you.

[@sleepysera]

@@rabid_si This. It's just WAY easier to make gear auto-move to the inventory instead of the armory, then after I finish some content, I can look through the new loot to see what I want to keep for glamouring and just take everything else to the GC vendor, set to inventory-only and just dump everything on them. During leveling as a beginner, the default option is perfectly fine, but in endgame, new gear will be very deliberately bought tomestone pieces OR savage coffers, so you KNOW when you have something new, it's not the random influx of gear all the time anymore.

[@Jettison42]

So true on the Paladin quests. There’s a reason they start to go back to the Gladiator characters later.

[@onyx.avenger]

The quests involving the Gladiator's guild is way more interesting than the Paladin ones (which I think you're getting at). I kinda wish the could re-write the PLD quests to bring them up the quality of some of the other jobs.

[@tenebraequeene]

I've been playing since 2016 and I didn't realize you can sort your armory.... Y'all teaching me, a (somewhat) vet! See? You guys are already becoming masters of this game! :D

[@SUPERSIDESWIPER]

I recommend speakers of Hydaelyn’s fall and rise of FF14, which is a fun history lesson on 1.0, and the journey to 2.0 and beyond. It’s a 10 part series with varied amounts of run time at little over then 18 minutes. Check it out!

[@MrLightlike78]

Ooo, speakers of hydaelyn is a good podcast.

[@dell19930]

I see it a few times in the comments already, but Pint's Enslaving Guild and 1000 hours of Black Mage ones are worth a watch! No spoilers given where you are, and it's hilarious af (some swearing but not to JoCat's level xD)

[@andothersuchnonsense2685]

I recommended Pint in the comments of the first reaction video they did and Garrett told me Pint got a LOT of suggestions and will get done as well :)

[@KMCA779]

The hour long documentary? They want you to watch the Noclip? DO IT! Seriously, it's such an interesting look into the history of not only 1.0 but 2.0 as well.

[@Amovetv]

We have! We just didn't know it was a thing we should have recorded ourselves watching when we watched it... lol.

[@DifunctedReble]

@@Amovetv I mean, you could make active remarks on it. Make it a livestream watch party. No forced re-reaction, but now that you have quite a bit of XIV under your belts you have much more context.

[@reyennarhel2505]

I haven't watched these starter videos yet but oh my god they're so cute! Cat boy is such a himbo lol. The FATE medals aren't things you can wear, but they DO determine how much xp/money/etc you get from the FATE. Gold is the most, silver is medium, and bronze is lowest. Some fates require gold medals to get item rewards (like the ones you can collect for mounts etc.) RE: Turning items in for seals - you can hit the checkbox to hide items that are in gear sets. As long as you keep your other jobs organized into gear sets, it will only show the stuff you aren't currently using. Ah Garrett! I work in digital marketing, love that that's what you're doing. It's such a fun industry!

[@hounddog5]

Company seal turn in pro-tip. Before you talk to the officer, put the items you want to keep in your armory chest, and items you want to get rid of in the inventory. Then you can select only inventory items in the turn-in menu and just spam the turn in button (A/X on controller) and go to town.

[@JCPC17]

There's an option in that same menu that will ignore "Gearset Items" thus you can clean out old gear and excessive gear drops that inevitably get put into the armoury. This way as well, you don't need to constantly navigate through the different pages of the Armoury and can clean out unused gear from the turn-in

[@Heldemon]

Ya, that's what I do.

[@hounddog5]

@@JCPC17 That doesn't work for me as I frequently have have gear items that I want to keep that I don't have attached to a specific gear set. I also have gear items set in the options to go to my inventory by default (as opposed to my armory chest) so items only end up in my armory chest if I put them there explicitly (or equip them, obviously). I'm glad it works for you though!

[@Maria_Erias]

Coming back to this video, I just want to say that I absolutely love the self-promo inserts that you do, Garrett. I skip through so many sponsors in videos because I'm not interested, or they're horribly cringe, or any number of reasons. But the fact that you're essentially marketing yourselves (which I already like!) and that you do it in your own great way is a huge plus. This channel and Lazerpig are the two I will always watch for ads. Also, if you've never seen Lazerpig, his World of Warships ads are absolutely brilliant.

[@Geallach83]

For the GC seals, I put everything I'm going to turn in into my inventory (from armory) and change the drop down to Inventory Only so that I can only see the items to turn in. Makes turn-ins so much better for me. I also have set all armor items to go to inventory instead of armory chest, so that I don't have to move them in the first place.

[@Tentaphox]

This is a pretty damn good idea, just gonna casually borrow that trick too >>;;;

[@Firestar-rm8df]

I've started turning in anything I don't have on a gearset. All my glam/bis gear will be in my glam dresser, armoire, or a gear set, so I don't need to worry about accidently turning it in.

[@AuroriaLunestia]

Don’t worry about not knowing that FATE stood for something. There were people who played for years that had no idea until this guide either. XD

[@Heldemon]

That or people just forgot, I went to the active help and it does tell you what FATE stands for. Unless they don't read the help stuff.

[@lethargicwizard]

They really need a guide like this to teach people how to navigate the Square Enix store and Mog Station in order to buy the game.

[@sleepysera]

Or they COULD just simplify the actual process. That would very much be appreciated too 😂

[@christianf.5553]

@@sleepysera They actually have fixed the process quite a bit since this year, I think. At least I recently had a friend who bought it, and his process was way more streamlined then when I bought it back in '20. :D The recruit a friend stuff was a bit cumbersome still, but mostly due to old information/guides being put in front when searching for it. The new guide for recruiters have a link for recruitees, but it's a bit hidden at the bottom of the former.

[@lethargicwizard]

@@christianf.5553 Yeah, it's been only fairly recently ahead of Endwalker's release, did they finally get someone on board who could program a website that looked like it wasn't made in the 00's. They really wanted that launch to go smoothly

[@Rakka5]

That half-second of upskirt at 4:06 is meticulously crafted.

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

Sshhhh it was an "accident" don't draw attention to it or they'll be replacing mi'qote with eggplants like that other mmo

[@sleepysera]

The fact that you managed to zero in on that half second in an almost 36 minute long video...why is this community so horny 😂

[@Daecoth]

The community approves 👌

[@ahorseofcourse7283]

@@kiriuxeosa8716 Creative Business Unit isn't full of sex-pests, so they don't have to resort to half-baked pseudo-censorship to trick shareholders into believing they're a safe investment.

[@Ironysandwich]

"There's medals" Yeah, gold for "you actually participated", and bronze for "you got there right at the end and only managed a single hit, but that's technically contributing so here's a pittance." There's also silver, but that's like "warm" on one of those single nob shower things. It technically exists but you need to be pretty damned precise to ever hit it.

[@GamingPhilosophe]

Okay that certain documentary is actually worth the watch. It's a long one yeah but everyone loves the discussion that usually occurs when someone reacts to it and considering your appeal as content creators it would be a perfect fit. If you guys ever end up watching it, or even watch it on your own time and just talk about it on your podcast, let me know.

[@OathOblivio]

20:20 You're referring to snapshotting. It's where the server tick "snapshots" your character's position at a certain point in time when a mechanic goes off. If you're unlucky, you can get hit by fast moving mechanics if you don't move fast enough. This is WAY too high level of a concept for people starting out and is not necessary to teach new players; MMO veterans, newbies, or otherwise. Players will learn this just by engaging with the community over time if they wish to pursue high difficulty content.

[@elixwhitetail]

Slidecasting to get out of being snapshotted by mechanics, WITHOUT mods that show you the casting bar and the point where you can get away with movement, is a learned skill and expands the skill ceiling for any caster class. Gaining an intuitive sense for both is what elevates combat beyond the usual tab targeting business and it makes combat fun. And it makes DPS greeding that much more, uh, exciting (I'm a healer).

[@andothersuchnonsense2685]

"She's got little badges" That's the ARR Scholar artifact set.

[@reeplays7616]

Just as a tip, you guys CAN consider tossing Recruitment Codes to Gears/members of the Gearbox/viewers who are considering the game! There was an ENTIRE thread on the *official* forum that was dedicated to this in the past, not sure if it persists today since I hit my goal already, but there are legitimate options!

[@dylonhaggis9704]

Highly recommend you guys react to Jesse Cox's Hydaelyn's History and Larryzaur's FFXIV History vid! Some others have mentioned but the medals you get from FATEs are based on your contribution in the FATE which is either based on enmity or your dps, like tanks can reach late to a FATE but if they can get their enmity high enough they can still get a gold for full contribution

[@EpimethiusPSN]

New player's biggest questions/issues: 1. MSQ - What is it? and what is my next one? glad these videos addressed this 2. When can I get a mount? Also, addressed. 3. I'm level 36. I was told I get a mount at 20? New players are frequently confused by the fact that Character level and MSQ level ARE different. SE has scaled the XP earned via MSQ to allow players to level by ONLY playing MSQ for that section of the game. If a player runs roulettes or does sidequests, leves or fates they can quickly outlevel the MSQ. It would have been nice when they mentioned the MSQ if she said if you ever see an MSQ is available then THAT should be what you do next. This series is great! I am in a large FC and I am constantly addressing information that is in these videos with our newer player FC members.

[@BenderUnit22x]

Aside from all the usual stuff people recommend to react to, check out "Destination: Eorzea". Super well edited trailer that highlights a lot of the fun and community aspect of the game. And now that you reached the Crystarium, there won't be any visual spoilers for you.

[@richboywinston5097]

Second this so much. I think they'll love it edit: I also recommend FFXIV Road Trip by Denmo Mcstronghuge but it has a few spoilers on some ShB zones/dungeons that they haven't been to

[@LadyFrostbite]

Hey Garrett, you can reacquire the Brand New Ring (and all of the other novice hall gear)! All you need to do is redo the last mission to get a new ring, and if you want the gear, just redo the specific lessons you earned them from.

[@AlleluiaElizabeth]

I’d think you can also get it from the calamity salvager npc.

[@wolffontech]

@@AlleluiaElizabeth This is correct :)

[@dmillk]

What helps with gear management is to turn on the option to always have gear drop in your inventory instead of the armory. That way you decide what you need and want to pull into your armory. Likewise, when you no longer need something you can put it back into your inventory. When you go to the NPCs you can just select the option to show the gear in the inventory and then you know everything is useless to you and you can just sell/trade/desynth/etc. it

[@Steve-YT383]

I learned this way too late😸

[@Slade951]

Ahh they forgot to teach about the teleport crystals in the city.

[@Slade951]

I believe the Grand company gear turn in, you can select from the drop down menu to make them display only inventory items. And also press num pad 0 for fast hand in.

[@DictatorAtWill]

Check out Pint's videos! "I enslaved my FF14 Free Company" and "10,000 hours as a black mage" are both great!

[@DeeFourCee]

You got the medal system correct. If you join 50% it’s a silver medal and 85% for bronze and it reduces how much exp and gil you get from the fate. Some rare fates also drop certain items that only drop or have varied drop chance depending on medals.

[@hounddog5]

I'm pretty sure those percentages are wrong, but the idea is definitely correct. If you join near the end of the fate and don't meet various participation thresholds you won't get as much exp/rewards.

[@lethargicwizard]

The medals are wholly based on how much you participated in the FATE, as well as how much others in your party contributed to it. FATE participation is also based on enmity (or items collected in certain FATEs). It is possible, esp if you're in a group, to ride into a FATE in the last minute, spam enmity generating skills or heals, and get full participation.

[@craigfunk3453]

@@lethargicwizard this also counts for hunt train rewards. Especially early in any new expansion when servers are LOADED and people refuse to deactivate minions and thus most players that show up after the initial rush can't even see the target (I usually heal for trains and just throw a few AoE heals and get full rewards)

[@Cygryf]

About the grand company exchange. How I always handle it. In settings, set so all the new gear goes to inventory instead of armory chest. Put in armory chest stuff u want to leave. In exchange choose to show only items from inventory. This way you always just sell off everything in inventory and never have to worry about it. I play all the jobs in the game to 90 (only 3 jobs left) so it gets tricky when you have so much gear, so this is how I handle it.

[@tenkiforecast]

"You do Gladiator, enjoy the quests, and then you unlock paladin and the story crashes." True story, I stopped playing Paladin for months because the HW Paladin quests were so freaking bad.

[@TheIvoryDingo]

Meanwhile, I'm the weirdo who thinks that Paladin 50-58 is alright enough (not amazing, but not insultingly awful)... but the level 60 quest on its own ruins all of HW questline that came before it.

[@adjwindu70]

The ad in the middle where you said this was dumb was enough for a like from me.

[@tequilaselai]

So fun fact about seal turn ins. You can select an option on the menu that will make it so that gear that is currently equipped to a class, even if it's not your main and no matter the level, will not show up on the list as available for seal turn ins. That way you won't be turning in what you already have equipped, you still keep your bags clean, and then when you get new stuff you can turn in the old stuff unless it's for a lower leveled job of the same type. One of those WoL things that was a LIFESAVER when they put it in.

[@clumsyturtle8544]

"They started as something else and eventually ended up as a cat boy or girl" I feel attacked :O It's so true I was hyur for AGES and then I saw some male miqo'te glamours which just looked like the coolest thing ever so I switch. I would switch to something else but man do I look cool.

[@celticlord88]

I started as elezen. Then switched to miqote 3/4 through shb.

[@craigfunk3453]

Started as an Au Ra and never looked back. Fantasia? Whats that? 'Tosses bottle into the deepest depths of the inventory'

[@Daecoth]

I went Au Ra male for a patch. Felt wrong and defaulted back to my hyur midlander. It just feels right for me.

[@Renaxula]

Something to help deal with turning in gear to the grand companies is that you can set it so it only shows gear in your inventory. Then you can just transfer what you want to trade to your bag and don't have to think anymore :)

[@rabid_si]

Hi Garrett... for your seal turn in woes... There is a drop down box when turning in that allows you to hide items in your Armory Chest. Along with this, if you go to... ESC > Character Config > Item settings and untick "Store all newly obtained items in the Armory Chest", new gear will go into your bags instead of your Armory. Going directly into armory is useful early, but once you reach 50+ I find you are getting repeat/trash gear much more often than gear you actually want to use (which you can add to your armory manually). That way, you can easily deal with anything you want to keep by sending to armory or dropping in your glam chest before hitting up the seal vendor, and all that will be left is trash to munch through.

[@olmfest3507]

The FATE medals, as you correctly guessed Kyle, only measure your level of participation in the FATE. You don't receive an actual physical medal but the higher the medal that you receive (Gold being the highest) the higher the exp, gil, and Grand Company seals that you receive. Your level of FATE participation will have an impact in a special currency that you receive and access to area merchant items in the Shadowbringers expansion and beyond.

[@SaraHungary]

I also want to recommend Larryzaur's FF history videos and the Speakers Network Fall & Rise of FFXIV series, both are really informative and great fun 😊

[@GunBlade666]

Omg yes his video on how the game used to be is a really good watch for our boys.

[@Reycied]

I started as a catboy, and I'll be buried in the heated clay of Thanalan as a catboy. I can't imagine the Warrior of Light with any other face!

[@anniel9416]

Tbf, that hour plus long documentary is so well done, and so great that even if you split it into 4-5 videos, people would watch it. It's always so fun watching newer XIV creators watch that documentary and learn how XIV was saved from destruction.

[@DoktorWieg]

Little tip for the Expert Deliveries in the Grand Companies, especially on keyboard and mouse : your numpad keys emulate controller inputs. The numpad arrows (2, 4, 6 and 8) let you navigate menus, Insert (0) is the confirm button and the Delete (.) is cancel. The Asterisk ( * ) key is also for subcommands. When doing those turns in, you can just spam your Insert (0) key to quickly turn in items one after the other instead of clicking them one by one. Goes a lot quicker that way.

[@DifunctedReble]

Wonder if they realized that The Rising 2022 event they did has some parallels to the guide. 🤔

[@Burentsu]

On the topic of inventory, in the character settings you can change it so it'll sort items into tabs the 1 2 3 4, first tab will get armor, 2nd will get consumables, 3rd/4th will get misc drops, crafting items, etc.

[@Meepz717]

Hey guys, glad your enjoying the game! Always enjoy your streams! I know you guys are trying to level for role quests and wanted to share how I got stuff leveled fast. Leveling and Frontline roulettes always give the most xp bonus along with your weekly wonderous tales. I don't think MSQ roulette gives as much as it used to. Otherwise most other roulettes don't give as much. Then usually doing the highest level dungeon your able to do 3-4 times will get you a level. This how I got everything from 80 to 90 pretty quickly in Endwalker.

[@NibelungJ]

IIRC, there are two points of consideration while going for the roulettes: XP/quest and XP/minute. Using XP/minute is the most common one, and by that standard, the order from best to worst is: Trial, Alliance Raid, Leveling, Frontlines, MSQ, 50/60/etc, Normal Raid, Guidhest. Usually the ones that gives less XP reward more tomes.

[@reason9750]

For anyone unclear: medals in fates matter a bitttt for your reward. You get a bronze, silver or gold depending on your participation and the participation of others in the same fate. For most fates it just determines how much XP, Gil and company seals you may get, but for fates with unique rewards (like Odins Mantel for example) you may get more or less of the unique reward depending on your participation (for Odin, you get 5 mantels for a gold, 1 for silver, 0 for bronze).

[@Koibito247]

When you’re handing in gear for seals there’s an option right under gear delivery that has ‘hide gear set items’ and that will stop you from handing in gear that is assigned to a class!

[@brunohenriqueazevedoborges5490]

In certain special FATE's, like the Ixion one, the medal matters in you getting the reward that matters in that.

[@sleepysera]

Yeah, bronze doesn't get anything at all, silver gets only one item and I think gold was 3 drops?

[@craigfunk3453]

@@sleepysera on success. You got fewer items for gold participation but the fate failed overall. Got a couple of my drops from doing that

[@Reducer]

They give you a free Fantasia so you can correct your initial mistake of not being Miqo'te.

[@nspaulding07]

I am a proud Elezen. You can never change me! 😆

[@sleepysera]

Nah, it's so that once you buy the expansions, you can switch to the one true race, Au Ra 😉

[@craigfunk3453]

I stand by the Au Ra! I shall never turn my back on them! 'Looks at Magnai' except you little sun, get out of my sight

[@melissag3642]

Gear!!! There are hot keys that you can use to auto submit items at the Grand Company. It's a lot faster. Also, there is a drop down at the top where you can section off anything that is not part of a gear set already. If you've saved it to one of your jobs' gear sets, it won't put it on the list. There is also a part of the settings menu that you can use to adjust how items are sorted in your bags. It also has an option to bring new gear items you receive into your main inventory vs. your armor chest. That way you can select what you want to keep and equip it or, set it aside for turn in later. :) I didn't learn that until I was almost with MSQ XD!

[@InvictusRed1911]

17:25 one of the filters let's you exclude items that are assigned to a gear set 😎

[@gysahlfields7506]

I will never understand why people don't read the Active Help pop ups when they start they game. And then they accuse the game of not explaining things. Not a knock on you specifically, just something I have noticed with a lot of players. Anyway, there are Medals in FATEs, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. More Gil and experience (+ achievements and unique rewards for some dates), if you get gold than silver and bronze and more Gil if you get silver than bronze. PS: When you give Gear for GC Seals, you can lock Gear you use for other classes and they do not appear to the UI so you cannot give it away. I basically turn gear for GC Seals automatically without even looking at the screen. PS2: There is no delay. You have to watch the cast bar, not the animation. The effect is tuned to your cast bar.

[@unstrungzero]

I actually used Fantasia to change from a catboy to... The other kind of catboy. 😂 It wasn't til I had played the game a little while that I found out the other tribe had cat eyes, I hadn't realized there were physical differences like that between tribes. So now my catboy is a Seeker of the Sun with a Keeper of the Moon name. 🤷‍♂️

[@Meshawroo]

Guys .... for GrandCompany turn ins you can use the drop down option to only see gear you don't have on a GearSet or move all the gear you don't want on hand and use the same drop down to hide all Armory Chest gear. This is so you don't have to panic or worry if your trashing something you wanted to keep

[@Khalmidgar]

In response to the comment about turning in gear for seals, u can make it easy. When your in the turn in screen you can limit where the items your picking will be from. You can select inventory only, pull all the stuff you wanna get rid of out of the armory chest and into inventory.

[@klabence]

I just want to mention, you can make sort put different categories of items on different pages of your inventory. It will put gear on the first, then consumables on the second, then materials/tokens on the third.

[@nathaliea9877]

There's a "Hide Set Gear" when turning in gear to the Grand Company. Top left corner. Useful for when you don't want your WoL to suddenly be naked when class changing.

[@chocolatefury25]

I’m still part of the Elezen master race, been there since 1.0

[@Fortexcross]

You really should do a reaction to the documentary, though. It's very well made and indepth. Not to argumentum ad populum but every other content creator I've seen who has watched it has enjoyed it. And the fans love watching it too.

[@reshypoo9447]

Put all the gear you want to turn into Grand Company seals in your main inventory beforehand, Then you can just open the trader's menu and direct it to "inventory only", and tap the Num-pad 0 key, It'll turn them in much faster than manually clicking. Chocobo storage is a good in-between if you don't want to turn-in an item, but also don't want it in your armory.

[@KylerStern366]

I had the same problem turning armor in to the grand company, a tip that works for me is you can choose to hide armory chest items. So anything I want to keep for future jobs or whatever I put in my armory chest them dump everything in my inventory. Then later I'll go through my armory chest and anything I don't want anymore ill put back into my inventory. Don't know how many times I turned in something I needed before i started doing this 😆

[@ThatWitchMorri-V]

My trick for turning in gear for Grand Company seals (yes I know I'm 3 months late, but for anyone catching up like me ^^) is to set all dropped gear to go into inventory instead of armory chest. Then I can move what I want to keep into my armory chest, hide armory chest in the turn-in menu, then I know all the things showing are things I'm ok with letting go.

[@loupinconnu]

There are two videos I will always recommend to anyone, but the caveat is that they can not be watched until after you finish Shadowbringers (and possibly the first wing of Eden depending on how you feel about boss spoilers). A creator by the name Denmo McStronghuge has two of the best videos that show off the community on his channel in "Road Trip" and "Don't Dance Alone Eorzea." I know you two will love them both.

[@MrLightlike78]

Around 20:00 I believe it's a .3 second snap shot of your last read location determines whether you take damage or not. Later fights this becomes a lil bit harder and I recommend making enemy cast bars HUGE to give you more of a heads up for mechanics.

[@FranWest.]

16:16 - idk if you know this or not but there is actually Extra storage bags on your Chocobro!!! These bags can be accessed any time (except in a duty). Great for keeping things you want handy but dont use all the time, like dye, prisms, collection coins etc :)

[@LadyFidchel]

I am a little sad I haven't seen anyone recommend Denmo McStronghuge! He is a master of editing and he's been around since 1.0. His Dance Eorzea series is awesome, and just....anything with Mr. Face. Seriously, go watch a Mr. Face video. You're safe to watch anything he's posted pre-ShB release, though his best stuff is more recent. And if you don't mind some looks at contextless environment shots, his latest ("Denmo McLawnGnome") was great!

[@ryuichiro.sakuraba]

Died at Kaz rambling about the cookies side quest - reminds me too much of the Coffee Biscuits thing that literally is the power source of that settlement in XXXXXX (it's literally printing gil back then). Ahahaha~!

[@DrummerLocnar]

super helpful tip that makes that gear turn-in screen for company seals ACTUALLY useful and preferred: at the top of the window underneath expert delivery is a drop down box, change that selector to "hide gear part of a gearset". if you've been updating your gearsets as usual, the gear will automatically show up in that list when you're done with it. the only thing you have now to think of when going through that list is any gear you were specifically collecting for glam, everything else will be "sellable trash"

[@Eelanos]

Whenever you sell a piece of equipment that is given from a story quest, you can request a copy to the Calamity Salvager.

[@moodudable]

actually there’s an intro episode 0 right at the top but okay. i enjoyed the little zoom in here and there. also that promote section was so raw and great. that’s what 9 hours of gameplay do to you.

[@bandi138138]

28:30 Ummm, you might want to add LB as a tank. There are some fights that require tank LBs to complete lol

[@yazton731]

Even as a tank you should keep limit break on your bar somewhere. Certain high level content requires the use of Tank LB3 to survive.

[@DifunctedReble]

RIP Captain Grim.

[@matt97841]

The better your contribution to the fate the better your medal/rewards. Certain fates have an achievement and sometimes very rare minions for earning gold medal.

[@clumsyturtle8544]

As veteran's who have a mountain of knowledge I'm sure when we all saw this cute little series we all had to stop and be like, well they didn't talk about this thing or this thing which is extremely useful to know then you stop and go oh this is for people who have played the game for a couple of hours, they don't need to know everything just yet.

[@stephenoss196]

if youve sold a quest reward, either by accident or otherwise, you can buy them back from a Calamity Salvager in all of the major cities, they're even organized by category

[@oleub23]

re: the "hot topic catgirl", that's actually the starter set for miqos just like the derplander was completely default also to add, on the (anything) to miqo pipeline: There's a reason for this but its not something that Square would want to advertise - miqos and lalafells are significantly more expressive in their emotes than some of the other race choices, and in a game that's msq is mostly listening to other characters talk and then cutting back to your character for a reaction shot, that helps a lot. I have a friend who plays an au ra and he's made a lot of jokes over the years about his WoL's head empty no thoughts stare, and Preach has a similar bit about his femroe default (when he hasn't changed it to go clubbing with a much smaller character lol) but there's more to it than "catgirl sexy"

[@Someone-dv7hw]

So, for one: the gear you get in the hall of the novice isn't just glam, it's the best available gear until you hit like lvl 30. Any class starting at lvl 1, you want to get it when you hit lvl 15 because you do not have a lot of gear options to get at that point. Secondly, even if you sell/scrap that, be it on accident or whatever, running the matching part of the Hall of Novice again will give it to you again provided you do not currently own the gear (you cannot have 2 sets of any of those pieces at a time, not sure if glamour dresser counts though). I think that also applies to the exp buff ring... so again, I repeat, do this for every class starting at lvl 1 if you do not have the set when you're at lvl 15.

[@TGCidolfus0830]

In regards to your grievance with giving items for company seals, you can have it set to only list items in your inventory (not armory) so you can shove all useless items to there and with impunity turn those in. You can also set it so all new loot goes into your inventory and not gear armories as well, this is more useful when you are max level... but yes clicking directly from your bag would still be a 1000 times better.

[@Michael-jx9bh]

Advice on Gold Saucer is needed: Go do the Gold Saucer intro - until you do that Triple Triad cards won't drop for you. Also the glamour quests should be mentioned, the crystals and dyes are kind of important.

[@stachehenry8901]

A great way to keep your special items is put them in your chocobo saddlebag. It makes sorting main inventory easier

[@dahZeee]

Your editing and presentation of all your videos is really pleasing to watch, not to mention your awesome commentary and reactions. You guys are definitely one of my favorite new FFXIV channels i've found. Looking forward to more of your adventures and other videos!

[@UnashamedlyHentai]

That red chocobo is a Draught Chocobo. You can pick it up with the feathers you get for invite-a-friend.

[@DLMoridin]

its kinda funny she called it "comet"

[@OldManWhit]

1st guide? How to purchase/download the game 😉

[@windsgrace688]

So, it's interesting to note that the English starter guide series is completely different from the one in Japanese (both of which you can find on the official FFXIV youtube channel). The Japanese one's presentation is much simpler visually (only using in-game graphics and a chalkboard with text in it), shorter in length (each being under or around 2 minutes), and surprisingly helpful gameplay-wise. I'm not sure the exact release order but I watched the first four of them after the Live from the Producer LXIII and they were much more class and general mechanics-focused than the "how to do your MSQ" style of the English one. The first two showed off how to handle the different aoe effects and other mechanics (turn around for the purple eyeball, stack for the big open orange circle, get out of AOEs, move away from the aoe after the green meteor icon disappears, etc.). The one about DPS goes into using the combo system and how positional attacks work. The healer one goes into your role as a healer, how to target different party members, how to use Esuna and Raise, and, probably the most hilariously controversial point, that you should also be doing damage in your spare time! I honestly wish there was a translated version of the Japanese versions since they're good references for new players too.

[@LeafStranger]

Starting in Shadowbringers, you DO get currency for FATEs (Bicolour gems) that can be turned in for various things, from ground mount speed, to orchestrion rolls, to minions, to crafting materials.

[@LeafStranger]

Also, the recruit-a-friend benefits the recruitee as well: they get a head armour piece that boosts EXP gain up to level 25, and the /fistbump emote, plus a bunch of aetheryte tickets and, iirc, Silver Chocobo Feathers that they can turn in for Ironworks gear at 50, Shire gear at 60, and so on. The recruiter gets an item that allows them to right-click on sprouts on their friends list and teleport to the nearest aetheryte for free, as well as the gold chocobo feathers, /fistbump, and Friendship Circlet (EXP+% helm).

[@meriwidget3474]

Lol is it a carryover WoW thing? My inventory looks.. IDENTICAL (well mostly) to Garrett's lol. Def have that bottom corner reserved for misc items! I actually found these videos cute, and surprisingly helpful (after playing for 2+ years and having all jobs at 90 lol). They could be viewed as a lil cringe, but I didn't find them so, but maybe you're right.. being a FF fan makes you more receptive to it? Love your clips channel! Your promo was cute, and I had actually just finished watching that 9 hour stream so.. fit well lol.

[@AoiKaze2000]

One of the more amusing things with FFXIV endgame, while it is generally true that there are no differences between the races, occasionally you will have the stat differences between the tribes cause a stat spread to fall across a stat tier... and actually make for different BiS's for jobs at endgame. This has occurred with the 6.2 DRK endgame (if you go by the balance). The appropriate response to this isn't to fantasia, but to point and laugh at the complete absurdity of the situation that a +1 or +2 bonus to strength actually matters at endgame. If you are curious about this, check out the Balance and Allagan Studies discords for more information on the FFXIV stat tiering and how this absurd situation came about.

[@DXDragon38]

Have you taken the time to look at the Side Stories listed on the Lodestone site? There are number of them, called "Tales from the xxx" that provide a FASCINATING read about lore and shows us the thoughts of NPCs we've impacted along the way. You should make a video about it!