FFXIV: All obtainable emotes and how to get them

When it comes to communication in Final Fantasy XIV, you’ve got two in-game options: either use the in-game chat function, or use emotes to get your point across. While you get a lot of emotes as standard, there’s also a lot to unlock through various means. 

Emotes in Final Fantasy XIV allow you to express yourself without stopping to type, which can be especially useful to those playing on console or who otherwise don’t have the time to stop what they’re doing to type out their thoughts in a long-winded fashion. 

If you’re looking for new emotes to add to your collection, worry not, I’ve got the rundown of everything you can get. 

How to get every emote in Final Fantasy XIV

Emotes obtained through quests

There are a lot of emotes which are gained through either the MSQ or through various sidequests. 

Emotes obtained through Allied Societies

There are a lot of emotes locked behind Allied Societies. Some of these are unlocked simply through progressing through the Society’s ranks, while others need to be purchased once you reach a certain rank. 

Emotes purchased with MGP

If you’ve got a surplus of MGP, you can purchase the following emotes at the Gold Saucer:

• Sheathe Weapon (100,000 MGP)
• Draw Weapon (100,000 MGP)
• Big Grin (20,000 MGP)
• Bee’s Knees (80,000 MGP)
• Gold Dance (80,000 MGP)
• Thavnairian Dance (80,000 MGP)
• Shake Drink (50,000 MGP)

Emotes obtained in The Firmament

If you’re using The Diadem to level your gatherers, or The Firmament Restoration to level up your crafters, you might as well use those earned Skybuilders Scrips to buy the following emotes:

• Sweep Up (1,800 Scrips)
• High Five (1,800 Scrips)
• Eat Rice Ball (1,800 Scrips)
• Read (1,800 Scrips)
• Insist (1,800 Scrips)
• Lean (1,800 Scrips)
• Break Fast (900 Scrips)

And if you take part in Kupo of Fortune, you also stand a chance to win the Eat Apple emote. 

Emotes obtained through large-scale content

Both Eureka and The Bozjan Southern Front are rich sources of emotes. You’ll need to complete various activities inside of an instance to get your hands on the following emotes:

Emotes obtained through squadrons or the GC

Getting your hands on emotes through your squadron isn’t as tough as it sounds. All you need to do is run 10 dungeons with them and you’ll get the following emotes as a reward:

• Breath Control
• Sit-ups
• Push-ups
• Squats

You can also purchase the following emotes from your GCs Quartermaster:

• Reflect (10,000 Company Seals)
• At Ease (40,000 Company Seals)
• Attention (40,000 Company Seals)

Emotes obtained through Treasure Dungeons

Time to dust off those maps and go on a treasure hunt, because there’s a few different emotes locked inside those Treasure Dungeons just waiting to be found.

Emotes obtained through Variant Dungeons and Deep Dungeons

Each Variant Dungeon has an emote available, which can be purchased for nine of the corresponding Variant Dungeons potsherds:

• Humble Triumph (9 Aloalo Potsherds)
• Reference (9 Rokkon Potsherds)
• Wow (9 Sil’dihn Potsherds)

There is also one emote obtained through Heaven-on-High:

• Sweat (10 Empyrean Potsherds)

Emotes obtained through side content

Emotes purchased from Jonathas in Old Gridania

Jonathas is an NPC in Old Gridania (X:10.6, Y:6.2) who was added to FFXIV in patch 2.0, and was originally intended to give players new items in exchange for Achievement Certificates. However, it was relatively easy to purchase all of his wares very quickly and forget that he existed because he never had anything new added.

This changed in patch 7.1 when some new things were actually made available through Jonathas, including the “Water” emote, otherwise known as “Flowerbed Maintenance“, which can be purchased for just 2 Achievement Certificates.

Online store emotes

By far the biggest range of emotes is available through the FFXIV Online Store. While some of these have always been online exclusives, a lot of them have been released as part of a previous event and then moved onto the Online Store a year later for those who didn’t manage to do the event. 

Here’s all of the previous event emotes you can currently get through the Online Store, and where they came from originally:

Outside of previous event emotes, the following emotes (or sets of emotes) are available on the Online Store:

• Joyous Leaping
• Eat Pizza
• Magic Trick
• Advent of Light
• Fan-tastic Cheer Set 
• Deride
• Drink Tea
• Pantomime
• Snap
• Flower Shower
• Wasshoi
• Play Dead
• Toast
• Heel Toe
• Goobbue Do
• Get Fantasy
• Popoto Step
• Box Step
• The Side Step
• Crimson Lotus
• Megaflare
• Power Up
• Pretty Please
• Eastern Dance
• Eastern Stretch
• Backflip
• Eastern Greeting
• Fry Egg