why not have repeatable version of the story quests?

Honestly I would like to be able to do the entire story over completely. Even if they only made certain storylines redoable I would be fine with that. The gated instances would be auto cleared or have an option to not auto clear them.

But most importantly I think the job quest need to be repeatable especially since there are 2+ year gaps in between them. Honestly I would like to do all the HW main story quests again without having to create a new character.

I would pay money for it.

Create new character, buy level boost, now you can do the story at your leisure without worrying about levels.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

The point isnt to do the story over, the point is to do specific quests again because of the story those quests are telling - may it be part of the mainstory, Hilli or a job-quest. I'd like them all.

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They have already said they can't reset individual quests due to how their flag system works, they can only reset the whole thing, resetting all flags, which I imagine would probably end up locking duties or zones in the process. At that point might as well just start a new character.

To do what you're asking they would have to completely redesign their quest and quest flag system.

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Originally Posted by alimdia

To do what you're asking they would have to completely redesign their quest and quest flag system.

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I would be fine with something I'd call "memory-quests" - granted, I'm not sure how easy this would be to implement, but the idea would be that once you accept the quest, all NPCs that are needed for that are generated in the spot they need to be. Just as a memory-version - I'd be perfectly fine with a Memory-Lyse in rubysea while knowing that the real Lyse is standing around in Rhalgrs Reach.
I dont want them to reset the quests. I want them to give me an option to replay them.

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Create new character, buy level boost, now you can do the story at your leisure without worrying about levels.



They have already said they can't reset individual quests due to how their flag system works, they can only reset the whole thing, resetting all flags, which I imagine would probably end up locking duties or zones in the process. At that point might as well just start a new character.

To do what you're asking they would have to completely redesign their quest and quest flag system.

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I would love being able to totally reset MSQ and lock everything, then go through it all again on a different job. Yes, even the 2.xx filler content.

When asked about how resources are being reallocated following the reduction of number of dungeons per patch, Yoshida mentioned enriching the quality of main scenario battles. I liked the patch 4.1 msq battle, but it's a little bit odd for an mmo to focus a lot of resources on non-repeatable single-player battles. As much as I like the story, I kinda feel like it would be more beneficial for the health of the game if patches had no msq at all, instead focusing on increasing the amount of repeatable multiplayer content like PotD or putting full-party trials back into hildibrand questline. If the msq has to take a dominant slice of the budget then I agree that they should make that stuff repeatable. Wouldn't necessarily need a big system overhaul, they could just do more stuff like The Crysalis and The Steps of Faith instead of single-player battles that you only see once ever.

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Crysalis, yes. That's a pretty good fight.

Steps of Faith? No...never another fight like this ever again. I'd much rather have Shinryu Ex as the 4.0 final boss with ilvl set at 310 than to have another Steps of Faith-like fight in MSQ.

They already have a repeatable system in-place, it's called levequest. Since MSQ is meant to be continuous story, I don't mind if Unending Journey bills me a leve allowance to repeat one.

I would welcome this. I would love to play some of the solo quests over again. I already have a second character and replaying all of those quests over again sucks the fun out of trying to replay a few short quests. I'm sorry but if they can take the time to make the new Bard music interaction then they could invest time in this.

I would love to be able to re-do all the story without starting a new character just because some of the scenes are different apparently if you have certain other quests completed(Coils being completed changes one scene near the end of HW I'm told). So would love that option to see all the alternate scenes.