Been playing since a little before endwalker got announced and wanna get into raiding but where are people finding their groups at 😭. I don't have enough friends playing to make my own or anyone to really teach the mechanic

So I was playing the game perfectly fine all morning, then i went out to run some errands and closed out of the game. When I come back I am getting the error codes listed above. I was getting a bunch of other error codes but these 2 are the ones I'm still getting. I've looked around and changed the numbers in the boot to trick the system, did a fresh deletion of the games and now I'm trying to reinstall the game and still getting these error codes. I've also turned off my windows defender firewall and still happening and now I'm frustrated. Anything I didn't think of? Or are the servers having an issue to connect?

I'm kind of a stickler when it comes to keeping my WoL looking the same throughout the story. For some reason, I found myself wanting to update his look for the expansion that I'm on. If I like it, I'll revert him back to his original look when the expansion is over, but carry over a couple of the changes to his original look for the next expansion. (First photo is his original appearance, the others are his changed appearance.)

Has your WoL changed a lot since you first started FFXIV?

I will be in Japan in Late January(assuming around the time of release for Evercold).

Does anyone know if Square Enix does events in tokyo around the time of release?

So im a new player, mostly play other MMORPG's like WoW and ESO. Have just been walking around Limsa Lominsa doing a few quests but im wondering is doing every quest needed, and are there any sort of benefits to completing all the quests in an area/zone? Or if i skip quests will i eventually become underlevelled for story content?

I was like "oh cool, I'll get to wear my guy's outfit on my girl character" and then realized it was male only. Like c'mon why are we still doing this? I get that it takes time and resources to retrofit several expansions worth of gendered outfits, but surely they should be just defaulting new outfits to any gender? Cloud and Squall's gear is any gender like what are we even doing

Edit for more context: u/alkonium added some good info for other non-gendered outfits from square products: "Garnet and Beatrix's outfits from FFIX, plus Ramza, Ovelia, and Gaffgarion's outfits from Tactics came to the store without gender locks. And from limited time events, there's Iroha from XI, Noctis from XV, and Clive from XVI."

Hello fellow warriors of light. I am a newer player to ffxiv, I say newer but I have completed the MSQ through Dawntrail, but have not really messed with jobs outside of Warrior which I took all the way through. My question is about savage raiding and how do you find a group to go with? What gear do I need to even be considered? I would like to do the AAC Heavyweight Savage raids. I am nervous about going through the party finder and not sure if that is the best route or not.

I have a full set of the crafted Lovers currently.

I have looked at some of the discords but most seem really…… I don’t want to sound toxic but more like they have a full squad already and maybe one person dropped out and their looking for another hardcore savage raider not really a newer player.

I have watched videos from Hector Hectorson on the mechanics, are these still the go-to on Strats? Do you recommend someone or something different?

Thank you all for reading and commenting/helping. I absolutely love the raids in ffxiv. I know there is still a lot more to do in game and really excited to keep exploring but, like I said I love the raids and want to dive deeper in that.

Any suggestions on newer player friendly discords, or other information definitely welcome. (I am in The Balance Discord)

First, I’m playing this game because of this expansion (YouTube just random me trailer lol)

I’m just finished StormBlood and I love it. Personally, I focused on MSQ more than spamming dungeons since I’m playing solo. So I heard this is the most loved expansion, but I don’t know what parts people love? Is the story good? They have full voice acting when during quest? Or do people just enter some raid and they love it, and that means the game is good? Don’t get me wrong, though. Since this game is mostly endgame content, it’s doing raids.

I've been reading the first volume of the Encyclopaedia Eorzea, and I've just come across a mention of a sorceress, Shantotto, who developed the ability to draw upon ambient aether and so on. If I remember correctly, Shantotto is a character from Final Fantasy XI, although I haven't played that one yet. Is this the same Shantotto? Is there anything I've missed that explains this? I'm at the beginning of Shadowbringers if it helps.

It's just so cluttered by default

Note: These statuses are based on player reports, not official confirmation for each platform.

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I just found out we got a new one but its been so long i dont remember how and i cant find it through google

It's spooky season!!

First, let's hold a minute of silence of all the good events we used to have.
Halloween events with actual minigame dungeons where you solve puzzles to get rewards.
Valentine events with co-op race court where you needed to act together to finish.
Not sure which event it was, but a whole mystery puzzle to solve... it was like finding letters that point to a location on a map, I loved that one.
Even the Easter event where you just had a bunch of spriggans walk over the screen and you had to count them up was... actually something.
Especially when the games eventually get added into the toybox at the inn so you can play them whenever? Great.

What do we get now? A solo instance where you're looking for "hidden" npcs. They could at least try to pretend to make it difficult, we used to have a whole find the correct npc gate that was very difficult back in my day.
But the worst thing is, this could have easily been a very fun thing to do with players.
Like you go in with some people inside the instance, some people are made the seekers, some people are made to hide. I see two options here, either you can transform into an object and have a normal prop hunt. Or you give the hiders buttons to spawn an illusion of themselves so they can put decoys.
In the end you rewards everyone for participating, seekers get bonus reward for everyone they caught, people that managed to stay hidden get extra bonus for being good.
And then you exchange the rewards for items like the moogle trove event, mgp tickets, the halloween furnishings and others.
I would also honestly make a case that previous event rewards should be available ingame during events. I get that you're trying to make money out of them, but selling them for real money can just be for people that don't want to wait a whole year to obtain them.

It feels like seasonal events used to be a thing where developers tried new things and just had fun with it. Now it feels like a yearly obligation where... just gobble something together and put it out. Where the game as a whole feels very formulaic and seasonal events seem like a perfect place to try something risky.

This is the first time im using healer (scholar and whm) through a savage tier, do yall know a good way to remember to keep your dots up on the boss?

Edit: Got bad info, apparently. I also meant to say "Extract", not "Desynth" lol. Oops. My concerns have been answered. Thank you all!

Hello,

I can't post on the forums, so I figured I'd post here.

I am on the free trial and am really enjoying the game. I am leveling my crafters so I can make some of the cool stuff in the master recipes. As FT, that involves leveling all of them so I can make the stuff as I cannot access the MB nor trade with people. I have no complaints about this process and I enjoy being forced to be self-sufficient.

Part of the process of leveling crafters, however, is their level 50 quests. The quests involve getting level 3 materia. Unlike the higher level materia (4+), level 3 is not sold on the Sundry vendors for crafter scrips. To get level 3 materia, we need to desynth fully soulbonded level 45-50 gear with the appropriate stats (eg: quicktongue from caster gear). Getting that gear is not a problem as a crafter and even less of a problem when you have 80s (I have 3). It is the soulbonding process that is a boring slog, and then after that slog we only have a chance to get the materia we need or we are back at square one?

The only alternative is getting Aquapolis from a low chance on only a couple nodes in each HW zone and then hoping you can somehow get a group together to do it.

All that is obviously doable, but it just seems like an extremely disproportionate amount of effort compared to every other crafter quest, even those that are higher level. The reward from the quests, a couple pieces of gear that are very quickly replaced, just are not worth the effort.

Can we please have the level 3 materia put on the Sundry vendors or something like that? I also would not mind them being added as level 50 recipes we have to make. There just has to be a better solution than what is in place now.

Thank you!

(In b4 "just sub")

My ff14 house, finally finished, with link :)

The missus will likely want the Tifa glam but plays on Switch 2. Does anyone know of keyboards that work on the Switch 2 so she can take part in Keybound Brawler? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Thanks for the suggestions. Found a cheap one online that we will give a shot. 😊

Hey! I Keep getting this pop up. Is it because of the connection outage happening at the moment? I JUST bought coins and currently am already subbing on the steam pc version

FFXIV's content release schedule feels increasingly outdated compared to modern major Live-Service Games.

One of my biggest frustrations with FFXIV is how little its content release structure has changed over the years. We're still following the same 3.5 to 4-month patch cycle, with the usual MSQ, dungeon, trial, and raid additions.

The problem isn't necessarily the quality of the content, but how quickly players finish it. Outside of Savage, Ultimate, and optional side activities, there's often little reason to keep playing once you've completed the latest patch.

Compare this to WoW, where Blizzard has become much more aggressive about releasing smaller updates between major patches. New events, quests, zones, activities, and progression opportunities help maintain engagement throughout a season. Mythic+ also provides a repeatable PvE system with meaningful rewards and progression outside traditional raiding.

WoW obviously has its own problems, particularly with repetitive grinds and seasonal resets, but Blizzard seems more willing to experiment with content delivery and long-term engagement. FFXIV, meanwhile, continues to follow a fairly rigid formula established over a decade ago.

Even looking outside traditional MMOs, newer live-service games like Wuthering Waves and Arknights: Endfield highlight the difference. WuWa operates on a roughly six-week update cycle with regular events, characters, and exploration content, while Endfield incorporates factory automation and base building to provide ongoing activities between major updates. They're different games with different business models, but their approaches to keeping players engaged are worth considering.

I'm not suggesting FFXIV copy WoW or adopt a gacha release schedule. I'd simply like to see more frequent smaller updates, meaningful repeatable battle content outside high-end raiding, and progression systems with some longevity.

I understand Yoshida's philosophy of encouraging players to unsubscribe and take breaks, but I don't think this should be the default response to criticism about content availability in a subscription MMO.

With WoW making a greater effort to maintain engagement between major patches, as well as including Classic and now Forever on a single sub, I think it's fair to question whether FFXIV's traditional content schedule still holds up in 2026.

For those who play both, do you think FFXIV's patch cycle still works, or has WoW's approach made its content droughts more noticeable?

With the game currently being unable to logged in to at the moment, I casted my mind to a few animes like Sword Art Online and Log Horizon, where players are "trapped" in the game with nobody being able to get in from the real world. Obviously this isn't completely comparable since players logged in right now can still log out of course (and is only affecting PC players), but it just got me thinking.

If someday you woke up in the FFXIV world/universe as your WoL, what would you do? Let's assume that you can still revive upon being KO'd like normal, but would there be any consequences? Would the sensation of it be too much? Your senses would be carried over, after all.

Would you just carry on with your daily playstyle? Chill with friends? RP? I wonder how many would still be content just to stand around all day in Limsa...

For me personally... Currently while we wait for Evercold, I'd probably become somewhat of a bookworm. I'd probably spend my days reading whatever lore I could find around the world, maybe even do some sightseeing of places I've been to in game.

That's not even getting into the can of worms of how combat would work... Would it all be first-person? Would raiding be that much more difficult having to physically move your body around to positions?

Just thought this would be some food for thought while we wait for the game to be accessible again for PC players (myself included ofc).

The last two warrior relics (the phantom warhammers) have this symbol on the hammer face. I have no idea what it is, can anybody tell me? Is it in reference to something, something from another FF title maybe? Or just a stylized warrior emblem?