Progression path: Grinding VS Questing

[Imoen]

i'd be scared if they tried to make levelling up via quests because the quest system in this game is so horrible and outdated that I can't see how many people would enjoy it.
This game's quests are
-meet npc in city
-run 40min
-talk to other npc
-kill things for 2mintues
-talk to npc in city again

Not exactly exciting or immersive.

While I think your over exaggerating the time spent running considering I ran from Gridania > Uldah > boat > Limsa > bloodshore in 1 hour and 6 min last night on my new character while picking up crystals. I get what your saying but its really no less "exciting" or "immersive" than doing leves and or grinding on mobs for 2 hours +. Then again that is more of a personal opinion that varies with each person.

While I agree that I think most of the quests are quite drab right now. There is no reason that could not change... but also kill mobs / get item / talk to npcs / escorts , pretty much describes every single quest I have played in mmos outside of main storyline / large event type things... And while I know you were not suggesting this what so ever, we can't expect to have awesome cutscenes and deep plot for every single little thing we do in this game its just not feasible at this point.

With that said I don't think its out of the realm of possibility that they could introduce more questing based leveling up... -although I think even this would require a ton of work...honestly I think the more ways to rank the better, I would really like to see the class missions expanded upon personally... but as stated previously I would continue to do a little of whatever fits my mood when I log in anyway. So just saying.

[Aion]

I would like to have quest like Suikoden, recruiting stars/companion,but without gamefaqs ruining the search (its impossible though)

[Tezz_Xivectro]

i'd be scared if they tried to make levelling up via quests because the quest system in this game is so horrible and outdated that I can't see how many people would enjoy it.
This game's quests are
-meet npc in city
-run 40min
-talk to other npc
-kill things for 2mintues
-talk to npc in city again

Not exactly exciting or immersive.

I'm glad i'm not the only one annoyed with this. If they are making us go back & forth i really wish the quest would just teleport us. It's such a waste of time (it's fun to read the quests though, since there's hardly anything else to do anyway).

[odette]

i'd be scared if they tried to make levelling up via quests because the quest system in this game is so horrible and outdated that I can't see how many people would enjoy it.
This game's quests are
-meet npc in city
-run 40min
-talk to other npc
-kill things for 2mintues
-talk to npc in city again

Not exactly exciting or immersive.

same case with grind pt
looooong time for find people for pt, low spawn and not immersive kill 1000 000 times kill same mobs
really i'm disagree with grinding for this reason is totally boring

[Nipa]

I am pretty sure I can find a lot of quests in Rift, WoW or EQ 2, that took less time to complete (accounting the fact you can do multiple quests at once) than completing a single teleport in FFXIV.

[Tezz_Xivectro]

it would be interesting if they increased the armor points the higher your EXP chain, once they get around to Materia.

[Onidemon]

i'd be scared if they tried to make levelling up via quests because the quest system in this game is so horrible and outdated that I can't see how many people would enjoy it.
This game's quests are
-meet npc in city
-run 40min
-talk to other npc
-kill things for 2mintues
-talk to npc in city again

Not exactly exciting or immersive.

Yes the quest system really sucks now. They need to rework them. They need to make them more enjoyable, put more veriety(not just go get this item or kill X amount of monsters) and they need to take you different places so that it pushes you to explore and gives you that feeling of progression.

[Betelgeuzah]

Leves being repeatable = "a tiny difference"?

I've heard enough.

They should work on making the gameplay entertaining and the content repeatable. Quests aren't entertaining, but they do have stories included- a poor story, a text box, which just doesn't cut it.

Guildleves, hamlet defense (dynamic), beastmen stronghold battles, chocobo escorts, party monster hunting, instances- these should make up the majority of progressive gameplay. They shouldn't be so story focused (because they're repeatable), but should provide entertaining gameplay.

You level many classes on the same character. One-time quests won't cut it.

[Imoen]

I am pretty sure I can find a lot of quests in Rift, WoW or EQ 2, that took less time to complete (accounting the fact you can do multiple quests at once) than completing a single teleport in FFXIV.

I agree, but part of you completing them in a timely manner is *Pick up 5 quests > run in one direction > do a circle completing them all> then return to quest givers and turn them all in.* (At least for WoW and Rift anyway, don't remeber EQ2 much.)

[syntaxlies]

i personally love to lvl off the side quest. Nothing like running around the whole city for 300 sp.