being new and @ level 50 is killing my interest

[lololink]

You wiped at moogle mog XII ?

[OnpuSegawa]

You wiped at moogle mog XII ?

This is what happens when WHMs and BLMs can't contain themselves and a bunch of Flares/Holys go off within 4 seconds of one another, with the King right in the middle of it. It's pretty much an auto-enrage with that, since I've wiped from that before.

[Twilite]

This is what happens when WHMs and BLMs can't contain themselves and a bunch of Flares/Holys go off within 4 seconds of one another, with the King right in the middle of it. It's pretty much an auto-enrage with that, since I've wiped from that before.

At least it's not EX, where all have to die at the same time, and someone kills one of them too soon.

[Eisen-Zorn]

"with the King right in the middle of it."

Boot your tank because the King should never be right in the middle of anything going on.

[Raikou777]

You wiped at moogle mog XII ?

The entire party was new, so yeah. We were getting one shot by something.

[OnpuSegawa]

The entire party was new, so yeah. We were getting one shot by something.

If you deal too much damage to the King, he casts his ultimate attack, which deals damage proportionate to the number of chibi mogs left alive at the time. The intended strategy is to kill as many of them as possible as quickly as possible, because the move is also on a timer. Generally, they are killed in order based on their overall danger to the party. A group of gung-hos spamming AoEs on all of them right as the King spawns can trigger his ultimate, or if all the DPS are going after the King, that will trigger it too.

[FoxyAreku]

Wait, people wipe on thornmarch hard? O.o

Seriously though, while I don't agree with gating the ENTIRE EXPANSION behind a year's worth of story, it is what it is. Just be glad it's not hard and you can grind through it in a day.

[Sylve]

Wait, people wipe on thornmarch hard? O.o

Seriously though, while I don't agree with gating the ENTIRE EXPANSION behind a year's worth of story, it is what it is. Just be glad it's not hard and you can grind through it in a day.

Its only a years worth for existing players because of the 3 monthly wait between patches.
For a brand spanking new player, they'll power through the lot in a couple days at most.
In my opinion, Its better this way. The story is one straight arc from level 1 right up to level 60. For a truly new player who is just playing and enjoying the story, They will simply play through MSQs as they have done from 1 - 49, The only difference is that the MSQ fights get harder without increasing in level.

The real issue is not SE's (good) decision to have people complete all the MSQ of 2.x before moving onto heavensward, its people coming from WoW where there is no continuity between expansions. They probably also take the mindset from there that the destination (Level cap) is all that matters/is fun and all else is mindless time wasting drudgery.

TL;DR, HEavensward will be here for 2 freaking years people, what the hell is your rush?

[Underdog2204]

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God fobid people who pay for an MMO expansion would like to play the classes advertised on it. Or be able to have anything to do with it for an extended period of time... -_-

It's more like that is what other MMO's get right but SE got very wrong imo... Some gating is fine, total gating is not.

The rush is trying to get though all the boring (it is very boring... Especially all at once) and get to the point where you are allowed to start having fun again... Kinda makes sense if you ask me, or people just give up before which is not good for anyone.

Games are supposed to be fun, feeling like you are constantly behind all the time and not getting any closer to the end is not the definition of "fun" last I checked. Even the 50 dungeons/primals arn't fun anymore since it's just full of vastly overgeared people.

My bro did the post side quests and it took over 6 hours... He still had 3 more to do before he quit... This is just a side-quest chain he wanted to catch up on ffs.