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  • The Basics
  • Changing Your Home World
  • Incentives For New Worlds/Recommended Worlds
  • Eligibility Requirements
  • What Carries Over, What Does Not

Final Fantasy fourteen is one of the biggest MMORPGs out there and has many things for you to see and do within its enormous world. However, one of the first things you exercise when creating your character for the first time is to selection a Server where your character volition then get assigned for the foreseeable time to come.

There are eight total Data Centers in Final Fantasy xiv, with three defended to the Due north American actor base of operations (Aether, Fundamental, and Crystal), three for the Japan player base of operations (Elemental, Gaia, and Mana), and the last ii for the European players (Chaos and Light). Choosing your Data Center is just equally important as picking your Server, so be sure that'south the best ane for yous, or you will be jumping through many hoops to switch to a new one.

The Basics

A crowded Limsa plaza in Final Fantasy XIV, filled with tons of players running around!

Before jumping into the thick of things, it is essential to know that choosing your Data Eye is only the beginning of the process, every bit yous volition then have to select your Habitation Globe under the Data Center you decided to choose.

When changing Servers in Final Fantasy 14, you will exist presented with a pool of Dwelling Worlds to choice from, which is probably overwhelming for many people. Below is a chart of every Home World and its respective Data Centers, which will make things a bit easier to take in. With the chart below, you will chop-chop come across which Server Name (Home Earth) belongs to which Data Middle, allowing you to make your choice much more than effortlessly.

North American Information Heart

Aether Primal Crystal
Adamantoise Behemoth Balmung
Cactuar Excalibur Brynhildr
Faerie Exodus Coeurl
Gilgamesh Famfrit Diabolos
Jenova Hyperion Goblin
Midgardsormr Lamia Malboro
Sargatanas Leviathan Mateus
Siren Ultros Zalera

Japanese Data Heart

Elemental Gaia Mana
Custodianship Alexander Anima
Atomos Bahamut Asura
Carbuncle Durandal Belias
Garuda Fenrir Chocobo
Gungnir Ifrit Hades
Kujata Ridill Ixion
Ramuh Tiamat Mandragora
Tonberry Ultima Masamune
Typhon Valefor Pandaemonium
Unicorn Yojimbo Shinryu
Zeromus Titan

European Data Eye

Chaos Light
Cerberus Lich
Louisoix Odin
Moogle Phoenix
Omega Shiva
Ragnarok Twintania
Spriggan Zodiark

Changing Your Habitation World

Kugane in Final Fantasy XIV - An eastern aesthetic city

Changing your Home World is done through Final Fantasy 14's Account Direction site — Mog Station. After logging into your Square Enix account associated with your Final Fantasy 14 account, head to the Additional Services tab and click on the Submit Transfer Application push underneath the Habitation World Transfer Service entry.

After reading the Home Earth Transfer Service Guidelines, you are set to select your new Home Globe. Clicking the dropdown tab will reveal every available Dwelling house World. Just, remember, if you lot want to be in a specific Information Center, you lot must select ane of its many Habitation Worlds. Apply the tables above to see which Home World belongs to which Information Centre!

Transfer Service Fees

Jumping to a new Home World often means you will exist forking out some existent-world greenbacks to practise and so. However, a few caveats will permit you to switch to a new Server utterly gratis of charge if you meet the requirements, that is.

Every once in a while, an entirely new Home World will open up for players to join, and to entice players to do and then, transferring to the new world will be gratuitous. Additionally, if you are currently in a Home World that is considered Congested, you tin can move to a Recommended one for free. Below is a quick breakup of all current ways to transfer to a new Domicile Earth and their respective costs.

  • $18.00/£12.00 per transfer
  • New Globe transfer - Free
  • Transferring from a Congested World to a Recommended World - Free
Final Fantasy XIV Mameshiba Minion - A Shiba Inu minion getting a warm welcome from a shopkeeper.

As mentioned earlier, every once in a while, a New World opens upwardly every bit a way to help rebalance the game's population and distribution of players. To entice players to relocate to a new Dwelling World, Final Fantasy 14 grants unique bonuses to anyone who decides to make the jump.

Additionally, players moving from a Congested World to a Recommended World will likewise receive bonuses to help nudge them to leave an overcrowded server to help keep things stable and counterbalanced. Delight note that using either of these transfer methods will lock you to that Habitation World for 90 days. Below are the incentives for each situation.

Transferring To A New Earth

  • Transfer fee gets waved
  • x10 Gilded Chocobo Feathers
    • Redeemable for special rewards
  • Personal Housing
    • Receive full reimbursement and three,000,000 Gil for not-recoverable furnishings
  • Apartments
    • Reimbursement of 500,000 Gil and 3,000,000 Gil for non-recoverable furnishings

Creating A New Graphic symbol For A New World

  • Double EXP
    • Until the grapheme reaches Level lxx
  • x10 Aureate Chocobo Feathers
    • Redeemable for special rewards
  • 1,000,000 Gil
    • When reaching Level xxx in whatsoever grade
  • fifteen Days of gratuitous playtime
    • When reaching Level thirty in any class
  • Transfer fee gets waved.
  • x10 Gold Chocobo Feathers
    • Redeemable for special rewards
  • Personal Housing
    • Receive full reimbursement and iii,000,000 Gil for non-recoverable furnishings
  • Apartments
    • Reimbursement of 500,000 Gil and 3,000,000 Gil for not-recoverable effects
  • Double EXP
    • Until the character reaches Level 70
  • x10 Gold Chocobo Feathers
    • Redeemable for special rewards
  • 15 Days of complimentary playtime
    • When reaching Level 30 in any grade

Eligibility Requirements

Final Fantasy XIV Berserk - Players paying respects to Berserk creator Kentaro Miura.

Jumping to a new Home World in Concluding Fantasy fourteen tin can exist an incredibly complicated affair to practice as there are many requirements you must meet to be considered eligible. Many of the things that will hold you dorsum from transferring to a new Abode World are character-specific and easily avoidable.

Below is every single conflict that will prevent you from being eligible for transferring to a new Home World. Please notation that you must exist the possessor of the Square Enix business relationship using the transfer service and need to have an agile Last Fantasy Fourteen Service Account. You must also let three days pass before using the transfer service subsequently successfully moving to a new Dwelling house World. Additionally, transferring to a Recommended World from a Congested Earth or to a New Earth will accept a 90-day waiting menstruum before you can use the service again.

  • Free Trial Accounts are non eligible.
  • Free Login Campaign Accounts are not eligible.
  • Currently Suspended Accounts are non eligible.
  • Your character cannot be logged in to Final Fantasy XIV.
    • You must also be outside of any instanced areas.
  • The quest Close to Dwelling needs to be completed.
  • Your character cannot be part of a Costless Company.
  • Your character cannot be holding a Free Company Petition or signed to one.
  • Your grapheme cannot be in the process of applying to join a Costless Company.
  • Your character cannot take items listed for sale on the market.
  • Your graphic symbol's items cannot be entrusted to the Calamity Salvager NPC.
  • Any retainer carried over from version i.0 must be rehired.
  • Your character cannot have a reservation made for a Ceremony of Eternal Bonding.
    • Your character and servant must not accept a blank invitation for a Ceremony of Eternal Bonding either.
  • Your character cannot be conveying out the mission The Ties that Bind.
  • You cannot own land, estates, or flat housing.
    • Ownership needs to get relinquished before transferring to a new Dwelling World.
    • If you are transferring from a Congested World to a Recommended World, you will not take to relinquish your properties. The same rules utilise when moving to a New Earth.
  • Your estate can go automatically relinquished. In this instance, you must non have any housing items or Chocobos in the care of the Resident Caretaker and Housing Enthusiast NPCs.
  • Your character cannot be a Housemate of anyone on your Friends List/Free Company.
  • Any items purchased from the Terminal Fantasy Online Store must be claimed from the Deliver Moogle.
  • Your character must have free space in their inventory if they're transferring from a Congested World to a Recommended Earth or moving to a New World to receive additional items.
  • You cannot create a new graphic symbol, or move to Congested Habitation Worlds.

What Carries Over, What Does Not

Final Fantasy XIV Miqo'te Created Character - The cat-like race in FFXIV

When transferring your graphic symbol to a new Dwelling Globe, yous volition essentially maintain everything you had with a few exceptions. However, some of the things you lose may exist important to you, so be sure yous will not lose anything y'all will regret.

Please read the following list with careful consideration before making your final determination. Switching to a new Home World comes with some unfortunate circumstances, so take the time to decide if this is worth it for you.

What Carries Over

  • Character Level
    • And Job Levels
  • Friend Listing
    • Simply when transferring to a Home World in the same Data Center.
  • Items
    • If moving to a new Data Heart, your Anniversary invitations and Eternal Bonding Ceremonies volition get invalid.
  • Your Retainers and all of their items.
  • Moogle Letters
  • Gil
    • Gil transfer is limited to 999,999,999.
  • Your ranking/ratings in Doman Mahjong

What Doesn't Bear Over

  • Blacklists
  • Linkshells
  • Gratuitous Companies
  • Housing
  • Triple Triad tournament scores
  • Lord of Verminion tournament scores
  • Jumbo Cactpot Tickets
  • Restoration Ranking Points
  • Feast - Season Rankings
    • Ranked Solo Matches
    • Matches
    • Victories
    • PvP Rating
    • Tier
    • Promotion Qualifiers Progress
  • Deep Dungeon Scores
    • Personal High Scores
    • Political party High Scores

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