Island Sanctuary should be 61+ feature

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Originally Posted by Iscah

And then she admits that actually Merlwyb was trying to start a settlement thingy anyway and she just applied for it, AKA dobbed you in for a whole lot of work that could have been done by other people.

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Yeah the whole thing is not really about being rewarded an island, it's about Merwyb, now that there's peace in the world and she can afford the time to take care of it, making those areas usable, and Tataru using you as workforce for it. Tataru is lovely but she's the meanest CEO. She sells you an unpaid job as a vacation.
Anyway the whole peace in the world status didn't happen before the end of EW. Hell, even peace in La Noscea didn't happen till the end of ShB, considering the beast tribes were still tempered and fighting before, and pirates were still kicking. It's not really about receving a reward, but about having the world in such a state were devoting your time to farm some island is not just a waste of time that would be better spent elsewhere.

It's also funny, when there's threads saying how long the msq is, asking for a second access point or a skip to get to endgame faster, everybody says story is all that matters in his game, how it's a journey and not a destination, and how you can just do endgame later and it doesn't matter. Now suddenly some secondary content, which is solo so it literally doesn't matter if you do it now or in a few years, unlike endgame, is more important than story, so much that people not only want it right away but also they want story to be bent/changed to accomodate them getting it asap. What about doing what you preach, and just enjoying the ride and you'll get there when you get there? Or suddenly it doesn't work?

Nope get levelling

Too late. The introductory quest related to the island is tied to post-EW story already.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

I believe prior to EW's release, Mr. Happy did a bit of a trial to see how long it would take him to progress the MSQ before AND after they condensed the ARR questline; so we'll just say one and three quarters around the track. I don't remember the exact amount of playtime it took, but he did it in less than a month, and under reasonable circumstances (not starting himself off with millions of gil, gear, etc.). And that is with everything else he has going on. I normally don't care for this dude, but I definitely respected that he put himself through that for his viewers.

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Google isn't giving me a lot of data on what he actually did. I've found some 2nd hand references that say it was only through HW. "Less than a month" doesn't jive with what it takes a dedicated player to get from level 1 to end of EW which is what your comment implies.

My own datapoint: Earlier this year I took an alt from the beginning of HW (right after the tour of the city) up until stepping into Old Sharlayan and that took me two solid months with all sorts of advantages: Free time, plenty of gil, pocket crafter, playing during prime time which gave me reasonable DPS queue times for the mandatory content, and seen some scenes enough times to skip (with prejudice in a few spots). I still get invested in the stories so I'm watching more often than not. /playtime had me about 12-24 hours short of losing my sprout.

IMO 250 hours from level 1 to end of EW is an aggressive estimate.

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Originally Posted by GeminiReed

Google isn't giving me a lot of data on what he actually did. I've found some 2nd hand references that say it was only through HW. "Less than a month" doesn't jive with what it takes a dedicated player to get from level 1 to end of EW which is what your comment implies.

My own datapoint: Earlier this year I took an alt from the beginning of HW (right after the tour of the city) up until stepping into Old Sharlayan and that took me two solid months with all sorts of advantages: Free time, plenty of gil, pocket crafter, playing during prime time which gave me reasonable DPS queue times for the mandatory content, and seen some scenes enough times to skip (with prejudice in a few spots). I still get invested in the stories so I'm watching more often than not. /playtime had me about 12-24 hours short of losing my sprout.

IMO 250 hours from level 1 to end of EW is an aggressive estimate.

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Well considering i finished Endwalker 6.0 in 28 hours (sleeping for 4).

Its fair to say you could complete the entire story in 1 month easily with patch content only being ~10 quests long each.
Add skipping cutscenes to that and yeah.. easily in a week going hard.

3-4 hours a day playing efficiently would get you though the story in no time, its all the side content and things that distract you that increase the playtime exponentially.

not like there is a reason to rush anyway
contents not going anywhere and its all solo progression so itll never really age badly.