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

[SovereignAegis]

The storyline is tons of experience points now.

They may be unhappy at present but in reality they will hit level 60 without having to grind a single dungeon I'd reckon.

Pick your poison. I am currently queued for yet more Aerie, the level 55 dungeon. Quests that are diverse or mindless dungeon grind because you didn't get all that exp. In that sense, new players are spared a lot.

I am also happily ignoring the fact for everyone's benefit that hitting level 50 is trivially easy now, I leveled machinist from 30-50 under 24 hours of playing it. In an MMO that is alarmingly fast, this generation has no idea how RF Online or Silkroad was... you did not hit cap easily if ever.


Also "I hate the fact I can't be the class I want"... with the minimum 50% exp buff you get from a higher level character + the cross class skills you will appreciate fully having done other classes. Plus these 3 introduced classes are not easy at all, if you don't know mechanics then you will outright fail to play them properly. WHM is far easier and reliable than AST, Bard is better than MCH (period, the MCH is weak as hell) and Dark Knight ... 80% of the players even now have no idea how to play it and feel squishy like a ninja for real- no exaggeration here. (I am a Scholar, so healer, and they are squishy as a ninja).