Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

I'm so glad that I got everything to 70 before this patch cause I'm not touching that again. >: I do still have some alts that will need it though... Maybe I'll buy a story skip when I hit that part, cause I love doing the story on characters, but I can't imagine sitting in those both for like an hour and some change.

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Originally Posted by Anarnee

I'm so glad that I got everything to 70 before this patch cause I'm not touching that again. >: I do still have some alts that will need it though... Maybe I'll buy a story skip when I hit that part, cause I love doing the story on characters, but I can't imagine sitting in those both for like an hour and some change.

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And thus SE's hidden agenda comes to light! Egads!

... I wish I could say I was only kidding, but there's a small, cynical voice in my head whispering that skip potion purchases were definitely factored into the plan.

But surely if you enjoy the story overall, a story skip would jump over way more than you’d want just for the sake of dodging these dungeons? Doesn’t it take you right over to Lv60 and miss all of Heavensward? Give it a go first, at least!

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Originally Posted by Iscah

But surely if you enjoy the story overall, a story skip would jump over way more than you’d want just for the sake of dodging these dungeons? Doesn’t it take you right over to Lv60 and miss all of Heavensward? Give it a go first, at least!

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I have 16 characters at the moment that I have put a good amount of work into (More than that but the others were just created for fun and I don't do much on them), Three caught up to the current MSQ, Two at the start of SB, three in HW, one just past praetorium and in the story after, and the last seven are still before Prae. I know what it takes to get characters leveled and through the msq, that hour plus that I will be wasting in there can be used for the VERY LONG string of quests that it takes to get into HW. The story line of ARR after Prae is already very long. That is over 7 hours potentially added to a very long quest grind as it is for me.


Luckily, I'm pretty sure the skip potion puts me at the start of HW. Though it is a shame because I like the story leading up to it as well.

I certainly don't -need- to work on them I guess, but I like leveling characters and experiencing things again. Specially after big patches, it's a good refresher on story that I've not gotten to do in years/months.

Don't need to give it a go to know how much of a waste of time it is, I've been playing since 2013.

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Originally Posted by Anarnee

I have 16 characters at the moment that I have put a good amount of work into Three caught up to the current MSQ, Two at the start of SB, three in HW, one just past praetorium and in the story after, and the last seven are still before Prae. I know what it takes to get characters leveled and through the msq, that hour plus that I will be wasting in there can be used for the VERY LONG string of quests that it takes to get into HW. The story line of ARR after Prae is already very long. That is over 7 hours potentially added to a very long quest grind as it is for me.

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Seriously if the cutscenes are what's making you buy a skip potion, rather than the fact that you were going to be doing the many hour grind between ARR and HW, as well as HW to get to SB... You have a very strange sense of time and time efficiency. And this is from someone who also has 5 characters that are at SB or finished with the story.

So from what I understand since I have all 70s. I would only get 200 poetics or 400 if a new player is in the duty.

I will not queue for this roulette anymore it needs to reward way more poetics and something else. It could be creation, the new tomestome or cracked crystals but as it stands I see no reason in me running this roulette ever again. If they even add more incentives after I get what I need.. It will be the same exact situation won't have a reason to run this.

Rip the free shroud soil in 13-15 minutes once a day.

the poetics are ok, but it needs to be at least double the xp if not flat out a half a lvl. Also needs to have new tomes for people queuing at 70 to incentivize "help" from lvl capped players.

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Originally Posted by Gumbercules

the poetics are ok, but it needs to be at least double the xp if not flat out a half a lvl. Also needs to have new tomes for people queuing at 70 to incentivize "help" from lvl capped players.

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Praetorium was literally half a level for me at level 62 :3 (not counting mob experience)

I just tried the MSQ roulette and we spent

47 min and 25 seconds in the roulette of that time, 31 min and 5 seconds was spent in cut scene. The experience (3M) was not worth the amount of time it took to complete the dungeon. I will not queue for that roulette again.

Square Enix should make the MSQ dungeons single player experiences and not try to inflict this experience on a group.

Fem

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Originally Posted by seraf

This is what I noticed as well when I ran MSQ Rou on launch day this week. The exp was pretty decent if you're still in the process of leveling and honestly the dungeon is still really easy to do and the cutscenes just give you time torest a bit between pulls. It's basically Prae and chill. lol

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Some people care about efficiency because they have other things to do. For those people, they will not touch the MSQ roulette. You have to understand having most jobs at max level or even all of them is really common sight this point, so how do you give intensives for those people leveling their last final few jobs? All they are going to do is beastribe for 10 mins a day or whatever then go about doing other things since to people like that, well.. there is a reason they are on their last few jobs right? (meaning it is very unlikely those people care about rush leveling those final jobs. They will just do something time efficient day to day for some exp so they can spend most of their time on what is important to them)

If you want experienced people to queue up for things to push down queue times, you need to make it WORTH DOING. If you don't, queue times will just get longer and longer, making it harder for new players to clear it. What happened to "just run unsync with 1 or 2 level 70 friends and enjoy the story that way? Why did SE have to ruin the roulettle?

Saying it "doesn't matter" is simply not living in the real world.