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Getting Started

Welcome to the Warrior guide! This resource is designed to assist you in mastering the Warrior job in Final Fantasy XIV, providing core strategies, essential tips, and a detailed breakdown of your rotation.

Note: This guide isn't focused on advanced dungeons, trials, or raids; those will be left to their own specific guides. Instead, this guide introduces some foundational strategies for your job in FFXIV.

The goal is to help you grasp the mindset behind your job and to offer some useful approaches as you level.

Video Resources

These video resources from experienced players and content creators will provide additional perspectives on the Warrior playstyle.

Gear Recommendations

Keeping your equipment up-to-date is crucial. Insufficient gear can hinder your damage output/healing/survivability. Aim to have gear that matches your current level or is only slightly lower.

While progressing through the Main Scenario Quest (MSQ), you will frequently acquire gear upgrades and coffers to keep your setup competitive.

For leveling outside the MSQ, gear can be obtained through vendors (using Gil), the Market Board, or by trading Tomestones and Poetics earned through roulettes and other activities.

Gear Recommendations by Key Levels:

Leveling Tips

This sections is for helping you understand how to level an alt job. If you are still doing MSQ this section can also help you catch up another job todo the MSQ with.

Before getting started it is good to make sure you have EXP buffs on. Some come from gear while others come from food or FC or being Rested.

Gear That Increases EXP Gain:

Gear Name EXP Buff Obtained From
Moogle Cap 20% level 10 and below Pre Ordering ARR
Helm of Light 20% level 10 and below ARR Collectors Edition
Friendship Circlet 20% level 25 and below Recruit a Friend Campaign
Brand-New Ring 30% level 30 and below Hall of Noivce
Ala Mhigan Earring 30% level 50 and below Pre Ordering Stormblood
Aetheryte Earring 30% level 70 and below Pre Ordering Shadowbringer
Menphina Earring 30% level 80 and below Pre Ordering Endwalker
Azeyma Earring 30% level 90 and below Pre Ordering Dawntrail

Other EXP Buffs

Food

Make sure to always have a Food buff up whiel leveling. Food Buff gives 3% increase to EXP and is very easy to obtain. I recommend buying Boiled Eggs from a merchant to use for the EXP Since they are cheap.

FC Buff

If you are not a trial player, you have the option to join or create and FC (Free Company). Free Companies are FFXIV's version of Guilds. An FC has the ability to have different Active buffs. Having Either Heat of Battle II or Heat of Battle III active will increase your EXP gained by 10% or 15%

Rested EXP

Make sure you are taking breaks! By taking breaks from the game and logging out in a safe zone with an Aetheryte or Inn you will get Rested EXP. You can store up to one and half levels worth of Rested EXP and you increase your EXP gained by 50% for all monster kills.

How to Level

If you job starts at level 1 the best way to level up is to do Fates and your Hunt Log.

Once you reach level 15 you can start doing dungeons! Running the highest level dungeon available to you is the fastest way to level up.

Dungeons List

Duty Level Range Unlocked Via
A Realm Reborn
Sastasha 15-18 It's Probably Pirates
The Tam-Tara Deepcroft 16-19 Fire in the Gloom
Copperbell Mines 17-20 Into a Copper Hell
Halatali 20-23 Hallo Halatali
The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak 24-27 Into the Beast's Maw
Haukke Manor 28-31 Skeletons in Her Closet
Brayflox's Longstop 32-34 The Things We Do for Cheese
The Sunken Temple of Qarn 35-37 Braving New Depths
Cutter's Cry 38-40 Dishonor Before Death
The Stone Vigil 41-43 In Pursuit of the Past
Dzemael Darkhold 44-46 Fort of Fear
The Aurum Vale 47-49 Going for Gold
Heavensward
The Dusk Vigil 51-52 For All the Nights to Come
Sohm Al 53-54 Mourn in Passing
The Aery 55-56 Into the Aery
The Vault 57-58 A Knight's Calling
The Great Gubal Library 59 Forbidden Knowledge
Stormblood
The Sirensong Sea 61-62 Not without Incident
Shisui of the Violet Tides 63-64 The Palace of Lost Souls
Bardam's Mettle 65-66 In the Footsteps of Bardam the Brave
Doma Castle 67-68 The Die Is Cast
Castrum Abania 69 The Price of Freedom
Shadowbringers
Holminster Switch 71-72 The Lightwardens
Dohn Mheg 73-74 The Key to the Castle
The Qitana Ravel 75-76 The Burden of Knowledge
Malikah's Well 77-78 A Fresh Start
Mt. Gulg 79 Extinguishing the Last Light
Endwalker
The Tower of Zot 81-82 In the Dark of the Tower
The Tower of Babil 83-84 Gateway of the Gods
Vanaspati 85-86 Skies Aflame
Ktisis Hyperboreia 87-88 Caging the Messenger
The Aitiascope 89 Her Children, One and All
Dawntrail
Ihuykatumu 91-92 For All Turali
Worqor Zormor 93-94 The High Luminary
The Skydeep Cenote 95-96 Road to the Golden City
Vanguard 97-98 All Aboard
Origenics 99 The Resilient Son

Duty Roulette

Everyday you can do your Duty Roulettes for a large chunk of EXP.

Roulette Min. Level Req.
High Level Dungeons 50
Leveling 15
Trials 50
Main Scenario 50
Normal Raids 60
Alliance Raids 50
Frontline 30

Wondrous Tails

The Wondrous Tails are one of if not the best weekly EXP you can get. No matter what level you are you will always get half of a level upon turning in the book.

Speak with the NPC Khloe Aliapoh in Idyllshire (X:5.7, Y:6.1) to receive a book

Once you have your book make sure to complete 9 of the task and then turn the book back end at the end of the week or when you get your job to half a level before levelcap to min max your EXP gain!

General Tips for Warrior

  • Always maintain Surging Tempest for a consistent 10% damage increase. Use Storm's Eye or Mythril Tempest to refresh it.

  • Use Berserk and Inner Release strategically to maximize burst damage, prioritizing Fell Cleave and Decimate during their windows.

  • Keep your Beast Gauge above 50 to ensure you can use powerful abilities like Fell Cleave, Decimate, or Inner Chaos at crucial moments.

  • Plan your defensive cooldowns like Vengeance, Holmgang, and Raw Intuition to mitigate incoming damage effectively during boss mechanics.

  • Make good use of healing abilities such as Equilibrium and Bloodwhetting to reduce pressure on healers.

  • Holmgang is a lifesaving cooldown—use it during moments of unavoidable lethal damage.

  • For large pulls, use Vengeance and Shake It Off to reduce damage taken and shield your team.

  • Don’t forget to utilize Onslaught for gap-closing or to quickly engage enemies.

Rotation Overview

Single Target

  • Open with Heavy Swing, followed by Maim, and then Storm's Eye to establish Surging Tempest.

  • Continue with Heavy Swing → Maim → Storm's Path for additional damage and HP restoration.

  • Use Infuriate to generate 50 Beast Gauge and enable abilities like Inner Chaos.

  • During Inner Release, prioritize using Fell Cleave for massive critical hits.

  • Use Upheaval and Primal Rend when available for significant burst damage.

Multi Target

  • Start with Overpower to establish enmity on multiple targets.

  • Use Mythril Tempest to apply Surging Tempest for a 10% damage buff.

  • Spam Decimate when Beast Gauge is available to deal consistent AoE damage.

  • During Inner Release, prioritize Decimate for free critical hits on all enemies.

  • Include Chaotic Cyclone if under the effect of Nascent Chaos.