


TIP - If you create a character and want to change their race / appearance beyond what’s available at the barber then you can use a Phial of Fantasia. Character CreationĬharacter Creation in FFXIV is fairly robust compared to games like World of Warcraft. This buff is only applied to characters created while the server is labeled as Preferred. Preferred ServersĪ server with a low population may be labeled as “Preferred”, which provides a passive buff called “The Road to 70” which should be applied to any job/class you have under 70. You can check the server status on the Lodestone’s World Status page. This means that at any point during the day a server you want to roll a new character on may not be available. In FFXIV a Congested Server is a server which has been closed for new character creation due to high population. On each server you can make up to 8 characters. Servers, or Worlds, are the same as servers in other games. You can travel between servers on your Data Center by visiting an Aetherite in a main city.

It is recommended to select a Data Center that is located close to where you are physically for the smoothest gameplay experience. When you are starting out in FFXIV you will first choose your Data Center, and then you will choose your Server.ĭata Centers are groupings of servers that are connected to the physical server locations.
