A serious discussion about abridging the story quest 1-50 (discouraging new players)

[Edellis]

I can't agree with this for the simple fact that playing the game as a race to the finish line is playing specifically to ignore what I think is one of the defining traits of what makes XIV a good game and a unique MMORPG.

I just don't know what to tell these friends, except to offer to log in and grind through the story quest for them as an act of desperation to keep them playing (and when you've reached that point, you KNOW something is wrong... ).

I'm going to pull out the old line again and just suggest that they're seriously playing the wrong game. Them getting to Heavensward is not going to stop them from doing story missions, hell it's going to get even worse, EXP at 50 is scarcer than ever.


And what would they be discouraged for ANYWAY...

Leveling in ARR is extremely easy, there is no enemy grinding associated at all. The chance that you'll be cut off from story missions due to being underleveled is extremely low.

Partaking in literally anything (FATEs, Hunting Logs, Challenges, Dungeon Roulette, Rested EXP) is going to assure you're overleveled for your story quests, and EVERYTHING lv50 to Heavensward has been nerfed to hell and back.

If they've played any MMORPG in existance and are discouraged by XIV's grind to max level, they have to be exceedingly lazy.