
Critical Hit Rate: Increases the probability that an attack will deal critical damage.Accuracy: Increases the accuracy of physical and magical attacks.Water: Reduces the amount of damage received from water-aspected attacks.


For example: if you have a level 10 Gladiator you will notice that your Strength stat is inherently higher. However, a majority of your points will be based on your class. You can customize your character to some extent by using the bonus points after level 10. I know this sounds small, but you really don't want to end up with a character you can't stand looking at later.Ĭharacter stats, as mentioned previously, are largely tied to the class that you are currently playing. Character creation shows a decent amount of what you can expect your character to look like, but once you start playing you will notice different things about how the character moves and how they look wearing different armor types. Personally I would recommend that you create one of each race that you "might" be interested in, and run around with that character for a few levels. I will explain this more in detail lately, but due to how the class system is set up there is very little reason to create alts in FFXIV. Overall you want to pick your character's race based on how it looks - as you are going to largely be looking at the same character for most of your time in FFXIV. If you really want to know the specific stat difference between races, they can be found at: Racial Stats List Take into consideration where you end up using your bonus points as you level, and that makes the difference even less. By level 50 the difference is going to be nearly invisible. The difference in DPS between a 75 and 71 is minimal at best, and that's only at level 20. By the time you hit level 20 on a Thaumaturge, your Intelligence stat will likely be somewhere around 75.

Additionally, your character will automatically gain stat points depending on which class you are playing. However, as you go beyond level 10 you start getting bonus stat points that you can apply to whatever stat you choose. For example, you may choose the Elezen Duskwight for that high 23 Intelligence starting stat, which is 4 points above the Roegadyn Hellsguard that you were thinking of otherwise. Because of this, it may only be worthwhile choose your race based on stats for those "min / maxers" who want to eek every little stat bonus they possibly can out of their characters. While there is a statistical difference between each of the races, it has been noted by Square Enix devs that the stat differences will make very little difference to your character at max level. Part 13: Dungeons, Primals, and Limit BreaksĬhoosing your race has nothing to do with your starting city-state (which is actually chosen by your first class) as one might think.
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If you have any suggestions or additional information, please feel free to send me a PM and we can add it to the guide as needed. The game itself really seems like a solid hit, and our FFXIV Chapter continues to grow! I know many of you were in the beta with us this past weekend, but I thought it could be helpful to start a "Beginner's Guide" for FFXIV for all of our new and old players alike. FFXIV: A Realm Reborn has finally arrived.
