With the current free trial, you're only able to level to 35 (along with a few common restrictions like not being able to access the in-game player market) before having to cough up money. If ever there was a time to start playing Final Fantasy 14, it's now. Even if you don't intend to play after beating Heavensward, you're still able to experience one of the best stories in the entire series. Now, everything up to and including Heavensward, the first expansion, is free and the grind is being reworked to be much less annoying.

Final Fantasy 14's free trial and A Realm Reborn are getting a big overhaul. DPS you will have longer wait times waiting for groups, especially later on (which is what FC’s (guilds) help with, but you can’t join one in the free trial).But on August 11, when FF14's 5.3 update titled Reflections in Crystal launches, I'm not going to have many caveats about recommending it anymore. One thing to note is when you do need to find groups to go into dungeons or boss fights, it’s easiest to find groups as a Tank or Healer, as those are more rare. But for much of the game especially earlier on, it’s “point at the enemy and shoot, dodge the red circles on the floor”. Or you have things like one player gets targeted and you have to kill off the enemy targeting that player as quickly as possible. As a DPS you will still be quite important in boss fights, certain boss fights have ”DPS Checks”, where you need to do as much damage as possible within a time limit or bad things happen.

Of course all the classes get more complex the further you get into the game, and bosses also get more complex. You attack from a distance for the most part, you can attack while moving, as a DPS you do good damage for soloing.

Click to shrink.There really isn’t one, but a fairly simple class for learning the game might be Archer.

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