As a fellow FFXIV player I’ll add to the existing responses.
Guild? You can use the ingame finder or if you’re on a ‘full’ or high server often you’ll have people inviting you out of the blue.
Levelling is most flexible in WoW than it is in FFXIV. Quests are pretty good, but if you say have a group of 5 friends or play a tank/healer you have fast dungeon queues. There’s also a ton of maps to choose to level one, all with content that scales with you. The world is your oyster.
No MSQ here. You also have the ability to get a haircut from the start and mount from 20 onward. You still get an achievement for finishing the story of a map but it isn’t pertinent to be doing every single quest or story unless you are hunting achievements.
My most important piece of advice is to play the game the way you enjoy it. The game design is made to be flexible. I made a monk with talents that didn’t follow any of the online guides. I was still able to get all the achievements that I was after.
Depends on your speed. You have 5man dungeons, heroic dungeons (at max level), and Mythic dungeons (again, at max level) and will scale with the key, granting harder challenges and better rewards.
For raiding, there’s regular, heroic, and Mythic if you want something more organized and LFR which is for those who don’t want or cannot keep a raiding schedule. Though typically easier, LFR is its own animal and can be rather chaotic.
PvP-wise, you can do random Battlegrounds, Arena Skirmishes, and Epic (large scale) Battlegeounds. You can also do these in organized and regular groups if you wish to push rating (again, better rewards).
And every few months, Blizzard releases large patches which typically adds more content within the current expansion.
There’s a ton out there to do. My best advice is to take your time, enjoy the levelling, and find your own favorite lane.
*puts out a table stacked with and cool, refreshing, delicious juiceboxes…WITH BENDY STRAWS!!! for all the newbies. Welcome to Azeroth (we have Gnomes so you know we’re better!)
To find a guild you first must know if you’re into pvp, pve, or mythic+ none of which is the main priority for new player. You want social leveling guild, so you can have someone to talk to while you level and digest the lore of every zone in the game(which you can do solo, but it ain’t for everyone. Some find it really boring doing everything solo, and that is fine.)
There are many ways to level up a character, but for a new player nothing beats leveling through questing (and zone dungeons on the side, but those will only teach you the dos and don’ts of group content, and some general dungeon etiquettes. Don’t think too much about it, all those things will come naturally to you over time. ) but questing is your main way of learning the lore and your character’s abilities. The heart of the game is in the questing, and just enjoying the environment, the music, the atmosphere, because for most that’s how they fall in love with this game.
Every zone has “main questlines” that TRY to tell a storyline about that zone, but a 2-minute side quest might tell you more about the lore of the game than a 20 minute “main questline” (but sadly your character will out level way faster than the zone’s questline) so personally I think you should focus on staying in zone appropriate to your level because you don’t want to be level 60 still questing in northern barrens which is level 20 zone. Don’t worry, you will definitely be leveling more characters and absorbing more lore from each zone as you level more characters.
In my first week of playing this game some ubbernerd gave me advice, she said “don’t rush yourself, take your time, only do things in this game that you’re interested in and ignore everything else. You’re new so don’t worry about reaching max level so quickly, this game is not a 100-meter dash, it’s a marathon. And if you’re not having fun in one aspect of the game, then don’t to that particular aspect.” I consider myself lucky that the first person I came across in this game was a decent human being who gave me one of the best advice I could ever get in this game and now I’m sharing that advice with you.
Another tip: these forums can be seriousky migraine inducing at times. And it’s easy to feel run off them, particularly if you’re new.
However, there IS a refuge where you can go to chill out and meet some really cool peeps. That’s the General Discussion Lounge Thread (link below). Lot of fun shenanigans going on in there!
and cool, refreshing, delicious juiceboxes…WITH BENDY STRAWS!!! for all the newbies. Welcome to Azeroth (we have Gnomes so you know we’re better!)