Main scenario quest line...

You're over the hump I'd say, I thought 2.5 > 2.55 MSQ was actually interesting and pretty quick. enjoyed it more than snowcloak shiva. That felt like filler tbh to me. At least at 2.5 it starts actually feeling like progression towards Heavensward.

It's just the Charbydis(sp?) and steps of faith instances you have to clear.

I understand that it may be tedious to grind through 1yr plus of content in order to access the areas in the upcoming expansion. Unfortunatly for newer ppp, the game has been out a while and all this content was spread out in that time frame. As far as complaining about it, the Expansion, is just that, an expansion. Heavansward begins following the events that ended in 2.0

Being forced to do mainstory? Heavens forbid! a company forces me to do mainstory in their games i purchased to play. Sarcasm aside

Grin n bear it, its worth it. In my opinion at least.

Repie, I'd agree with you if it wasn't fully dependant on other players doing outdated content.

Those trials aren't going to pop when no one is doing them anymore.

Well from what was mentioned you will be able to run the lower level dungeons without a full 4 man party and in such case will be unsynced so should atleast reduce that wait down.

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LOL. I knew there'd be some who'd post a comment like this. Thanks for living up to my expectations. ;D

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You're welcome. My answer were rethorical as your question ;D

Unless you were serious about remake the game under your Point Of View. That's another thing, which I only can say I disagree.

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Well from what was mentioned you will be able to run the lower level dungeons without a full 4 man party and in such case will be unsynced so should atleast reduce that wait down.

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That doesn't count duty finder.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

I started a few weeks ago with a friend of mine. I'll have 0 problems being caught up by then, but he's currently 24 and has 3 hours a day tops to play. Between queue times and in general slowness because he likes to absorb the story before moving on, he's likely to not have it finished by the time the expansion hits.

When no one is doing those instances anymore.

Essentially preventing him from moving on to the main scenario in HW.

Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

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You're forgetting that there are 3 new jobs comming out that start at 30, I for one will be switching to Dark Knight ASAP once the expansh hits and i know quite a few other people will be switching to the new jobs as well..not only that but there are quite a few people who make alts (still don't understand why you would in ffxiv) that still need to finish the MQ.

Not to mention there are quite a few people who have bought the FFXIV + Heavensward bundle that won't get in game until the expansh actually launches (players who buy the bundle wont get the base game till heavensward launches).

So not only will there be a huge influx of tanks and healers, there are going to be quite a few people that are returning or starting the game brand new

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That doesn't count duty finder.

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If you can enter a dungeon without the required number of people...you won't need duty finder. Seeing as how you'll likely be 50 before he hits 30 you can enter a dungeon with him and more than likely wreck the place for him

All the quests are listed in the notes

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...patchnote_log/

"Back and Forth" is early on in patch 2.4

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...18d0d45bf52d59

Quests specifically say "use the duty finder" so unless that changes I can't just "go in and wreck it for him", and I'm less worried about the dungeon runs and more of the trials. Already spent an hour for westwind last night(half hour, then another half hour after the group lost a tank) without getting a pop and no one in their right mind is going to bother with cutscene hell trials (castum, praetorium) while leveling, much less at 60.

Actually you can: Heavensward will allow players to enter ARR dungeons(and pretty sure trials too) without (i)lvl sync, as well as with less than required players. So you could go in with your friend and wreck face, and even get gear! The only problem would be no exp from mobs (since even if they don't disable that a part diff of 10 or higher levels stops such), and possibly exp from completing the dungeon is also disabled, but there will still be plenty of fates and the like to do.

Also you technically have to use the duty finder to get into dungeons even if you are in a pre-formed group, so no worries there.