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I would offer a slightly different answer to Question #4:

Are all classes needed for raids/dungeons?

This is kinda a loaded question, and @Callinon provides a good answer, but I would take it a step further: No classes are needed for a dungeon/raid any more than any other class unless maybe you're going for the ultra-high end content.

What are needed, however, are roles. Each class has a set role, and a 4-man group needs 1 Tank, 1 Healer, 2 DPS while an 8-Man Group needs 2 Tanks, 2 Healers and 4 DPS. It really does not matter which Tank(s), Healer(s), and DPS(es) you bring to the fight in question, you are usually able to clear the content, as long as the players are competent and geared enough.

Now, this might change for the latest cutting-edge content, but for the average player just doing the 24-man raids, or MSQ instances, or roulettes... bring what you want, as Callinon said.

EDIT: Also #6...In-game, you can indeed see every quest available, but only in the same zone you are at any given time, by looking at the map. You can even see some that you almost meet the requirements for, but not quite (they appear as red icons with a key symbol meaning you've yet to unlock that particular quest). And the game will even tell you why if you attempt to accept the quest (such as, not high enough level, or missing some other requirement, or you're the wrong type of class at the time, etc).

And as far as #7, you can indeed complete Level 1 quests as a Lv50, 60, or even Lv70... but the reward is usually not worth it (unless it is a feature unlock quest which are conveniently marked different than normal quests). You're better off letting those quests go for lower-level DPS classes/jobs you have (since it takes longer to get roulettes with them).

Edited, May 16th 2017 10:38pm by Lyrailis

Thanks for the answers, however.
Regarding Achievements,
Are you guys talking about Seasonal Events?
Don't they occur once every year?
Meaning if you don't succeed this year, you could always go back next year?
If not, i guess theyre permanently unavailable which is a pity.
I'm a completionist and my goal is to eventually reach 100% in the total progress bar, and not get stuck at 94% only because there are unavailable achievements.
You guys sure they even count torwards the total progress bar?

Interesting, so its a not a fixed number, ( like 0/742 )

Its rather like guildwars 2 where newcomers wont be able to reach the same score as old veterans only because they started before them,

Gotta think about this.

Wow uses a fixed number.
Achievements that becomes unavailable converts into feats of strength and their score gets removed, and also stops counting torwards the total progress bar.
Because everyone are able to obtain all the achievements that scores and counts torwards the total progress bar.
In other words, everyone that starts at any time are able and have the same fair choice to eventually complete them all.

And as you described it, its the opposite here.
And even if it dosent interests you, other might value the feature, we all have different goals.
I gotta be honest, i was really considering trying this out but due to this, i wont.
I might not clear them all, its a heck of a challenge, but to just know that youre able to, even if it takes you 10 years, thats enough fuel to keep me going. But if you already know that you wont be able to only because some are unobtainable and therefore will keep you stuck at a certain percentage, well thats really bad. It takes away the joy for people that value achievements and their goals gets shutdown before even having a chance to succeed.

Edited, May 17th 2017 3:54pm by Arccai

Let me reiterate, there is no progress bar. There's no percentage value to track.

Limited-time achievements, which in WoW would have been feats of strength or legacy achievements have a point value but that value has no meaning whatsoever and there's nothing to track it against.

So for instance, in WoW during Mists of Pandaria I completed my legendary cloak. During MoP, the half dozen or so achievements that were attached to that quest line were part of the normal achievement list and had point values like everything else. Now they're legacy achievements (just checked) because they can't be obtained anymore. Would that be a reason not to start playing WoW? Because an achievement is unavailable now?

FFXIV still has a hojillion achievements that aren't going anywhere and make up the normal achievement set. Completing 100% of those is entirely possible, though mind numbingly time consuming to be sure.

Yeah. Only a few people are even close to getting them all, and even then the bar is about to move again when the expansion hits next month.

Well, let's see...

According to wiki, the best leve I can find that gives the most money per leve is a Lv58 Battlecraft Leve that gives 10,346 gil. to get 10,000,000 gil from that, you'd have to do it 966 times. Considering you get 3 Leve Allowances per 12 hours, or 6 per day, it would take you 161 days. Not mathematically impossible whatsoever. This is assuming that you started from 0 when the achievement was put in the game (which isn't likely, as a lot of people get at least some of it during the course of leveling up various classes, esp crafters and gatherers).

However, actually doing these leves would get incredibly tedious as you'd have lots of teleporting around to do. Said Leve starts in Foundation and is done in Hinterlands, lol.

Edited, May 17th 2017 11:29pm by Lyrailis

I'm not sure how many times ive gotta repeat myself here.

No, it would not be a reason to stop playing because those achievements dosen't count torwards the total progress.
Legacy/fos becomes scoreless and converts into a symbol of a memory.

Only obtainable achievements counts torwards the total progress, and those are the ones we value.
Tell me somthing, whats the logic in adding unavailable achievements to begin with?
They're there in the first place, offering us a challenge to complete, thats the entire point with it, isnt it ?
But whats this? Showing us its there, but you can only look, not touch?
If you're asking me, that makes absolutely no sense.

And im far from arguing, im trying to prove a point.

Edited, May 18th 2017 5:15am by Arccai

I made 8.5m back in 1.x - Since with the proper setup, you were gaining well over 300k gil with Levelinking in one round before they made adjustments.

In 2.x? I doubt it's in the realm of possibility, let alone anyone actually utilizing leves outside of DoH/DoL with Palace of the Dead being a thing.

I think it largely centered around ishgard because we have no access to the part of coerthas that you initially did leves in "for ishgard", like that's giving the benefit of the doubt. In 4.0 we see there's a few new FATE icons in the dats, but beyond that, I don't think it would be similar to HW simply because the theme of the areas this go around, but I have a suspicion instead of going to a city-state for it, you'll be going to the resistance base camp lol.

I don't like leves in 2.0 simply because it seems they went out of their way simply to change something that wasn't broken. Yeah you could get tons of gil and items (eventually) but I think they purposefully made this particular achievement what it is because it's near impossible..and there's no reward for it.

Honestly, I think XIV has the worst achievement system out of all MMOs I've played, I even like XI's pseudo achievements because it grants you actual benefits to gameplay. (Storyline based RoE's.) My favorite is still PSO2's because it gives you not only glamour, money, buff items, usable equipment, premium item passes (skill reset/room/makeover etc) and furniture, but it's laid out in a way that it's woven into your gameplay so you'll hit the pre-reqs without even realizing it since some are actually hidden but it gives you a hint.

Really?
Hmm how do you complete them if they're invisible before earning them?