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

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

Emote	Quest	Level	Quest type
Step Dance	‘Good for What Ales You’	14	Side quest
Ball Dance	‘Help Me, Lord of the Dance’	14	Side quest
Harvest Dance	‘Saw That One Coming’	14	Side quest
Throw	‘Toss Fit Workout’	36	Side quest
Imperial Salute	‘Acting the Part’	45	MSQ
Manderville Dance	‘The Hammer’	50	Side quest +
Most Gentlemanly	‘Her Last Vow’	50	Side quest +
Victory	‘A Spectacle for the Ages’	60	MSQ
Battle Stance	‘Causes and Costs’	60	MSQ
Spectacles	‘Letters from No One’	60	Side quest
Haurchefant	‘The Burdens We Bear’	60	Side quest
Eastern Bow	‘Confederate Consternation’	62	MSQ
Water Flip	‘In Soroban We Trust’	63	MSQ
Box	‘Arenvald’s Adventure’	70	MSQ
Manderville Mambo	‘Don’t Do the Dewprism’	70	Side quest +
Ponder	‘Emissary of the Dawn’	70	MSQ
Lali-ho	‘Learning to Lali-ho’	70	Side quest +
Endure	‘The Call’	70	MSQ
Hum	‘The Fire-bird Down Below’	70	Side quest +
Greeting	‘Tidings from the East’	70	MSQ
Shush	‘Death Unto Dawn’	80	MSQ

Emotes obtained through Allied Societies

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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. 

Emote	Allied Society	How to get
Lop Hop	Endwalker Allied Society	Complete the level 90 alliance quest ‘A Dream Worth Chasing’
Moonlift Dance	Heavensward Allied Society	Complete the level 60 alliance quest ‘Eternity, Loyalty, Honesty’
Gratuity	Stormblood Allied Society	Complete the level 70 allied quest ‘What a Wonder-full World’
Moogle Dance	Moogles	Complete the level 50 Moogle quest ‘Piecing Together the Past’
Sundrop Dance	Vanu Vanu	Complete the level 50 Vanu Vanu quest ‘Sundrop the Beat’
Ear Wiggle	Loporrits	Complete the level 90 Loporrit quest ‘Dreams Come True’ after reaching rank 8
Yol Dance	Namazu	Purchased for 8 Namazu Koban after reaching rank 6
Charmed	Ananta	Purchased for 5 Ananta Dreamstaves after reaching rank 5
Lali Hop	Dwarves	Purchased for 8 Hammered Frogments after reaching rank 8
Ritual Prayer	Kojin	Purchased for 8 Kojin Sango after reaching rank 8
Ohokaliy	Pelupelu	Complete the level 90 allied quest ‘An Intrepid New Enterprise’

Emotes purchased with MGP

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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

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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

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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:

Emote	How to get
Malevolence	50 Bozjan Clusters
Guard	50 Bozjan Clusters
Shiver	Cold-warped Lockbox – Eureka Pagos
Scheme	Heat-warped Lockbox – Eureka Pyros
Fist Pump	Moisture-warped Lockbox – Eureka Hydatos

Emotes obtained through squadrons or the GC

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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

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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.

Emote	How to get
Confirm	The Lost Canals of Uznair The Hidden Canals of Uznair The Shifting Altars of Uznair
Paint it Blue Paint it Yellow Paint it Red Paint it Black	The Shifting Oubliettes of Lyhe Ghiah

Emotes obtained through Variant Dungeons and Deep Dungeons

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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

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Emote	How to get
Embrace	Take part in a Ceremony of Eternal Bonding
Headache	Purchased for 400 Allied Seals after completing the level 60 Blue Mage quest ‘Blue Scream of Death’
Aback	Purchased for 5,000 Gil in the Gold Saucer
Fist Bump	Recruit a Friend Campaign reward
Tomestone	Register on the Companion App
Winded	Purchased with 6 Mythic Clan Mark Logs (The Hunt)
Tremble	Purchased with 6 Mythic Clan Mark Logs (The Hunt)

Emotes purchased from Jonathas in Old Gridania

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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

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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:

Emote	Original Source
Eat Pumpkin Cookie	All Saints’ Wake 2022
Frighten	Hatching-tide 2023
Songbird	Little Ladies’ Day 2017
Cheer Jump	Little Ladies’ Day 2018
Cheer Wave	Little Ladies’ Day 2018
Cheer On	Little Ladies’ Day 2018
Little Ladies’ Dance	Little Ladies’ Day 2023
Bomb Dance	Moonfire Faire 2014
Yellow Ranger Pose B	Moonfire Faire 2016
Yellow Ranger Pose A	Moonfire Faire 2016
Black Ranger Pose B	Moonfire Faire 2016
Black Ranger Pose A	Moonfire Faire 2016
Red Ranger Pose B	Moonfire Faire 2016
Red Ranger Pose A	Moonfire Faire 2016
Splash	Moonfire Faire 2018
Flame Dance	Moonfire Faire 2020
Eureka	Make it Rain Campaign 2016
Senor Sabotender	Make it Rain Campaign 2019
Consider	Make it Rain Campaign 2020
Vexed	Make it Rain Campaign 2021
Show Left	Make it Rain Campaign 2022
Show Right	Make it Rain Campaign 2022
Huzzah	The Rising 2014
Dote	Valentione’s Day 2017
Eat Chocolate	Valentione’s Day 2023

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

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