Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

[dinnertime]

New players getting blocked by about 11-12 patches worth of the MSQ which might take hundreds of fetch quests and a few days or weeks (depending on the person's amount of free time) just to reach the expansions/end game would hurt this game of having more new players if anything because people are not going to like experiencing that, but oh well. It's how the MSQ is designed.

The real problem I see here is the 2.0-2.55 MSQ which have a LOT of stupid fetch quests that serves as filler to carry your character from level 1 to 50 in 2.0, but is a waste of time after it. They have to somehow condense that MSQ to just have it be only story-driven (and shorter) just like the Heavensward MSQ has been.

[Mazzoutlaw]

If this is true, I'm all for it. (Yes to gating; no to jump potions).

However, is there anything official on it?I haven't seen any press or dev releases that cite the expansion will be gated, or that Yoshi-P ever alluded to it. Just curious as I wanted to read it for myself. I feel if he did say it, it would be quite newsworthy and easy to find. Anyone find anything?

[Annah]

it really isnt that bad.

When i came back for heavansward I had A LOT of quests to catch up on. It only too me a few days to do (and i left fairly early after 2.0 lvl 50 ...only Haukke and Copperbell mines HM had been released).

it really wasn't as bad as folks make it sound to be.

[ADVSS]

The first day i played this game, and i got a sophie ex bird mount, and cleared alexander(savage)[lots of people wanted my bonus]Tomorrow im gonna go do those on Red Mage, and start doing the new raids after i get my second jump potion

[Derio]

I doubt the battle system is going to change so drastically that people who have been playing turn into bad players. And since it is changing they would be much better off learning the combat system from the ground up

[cammi]

How are you people leveling to 60 in a week on a fresh character. It STILL took me a month and I was doing nothing but the MSQ everyday. 3 weeks. What are you doing to take 2 weeks off that? Like seriously.

[Lambdafish]

it really isnt that bad.

When i came back for heavansward I had A LOT of quests to catch up on. It only too me a few days to do (and i left fairly early after 2.0 lvl 50 ...only Haukke and Copperbell mines HM had been released).

it really wasn't as bad as folks make it sound to be.

This! My friend left the game in 2.1 and came back in this patch, and really wanted to play DRK. It took him 2 weeks (casually) to not only get into heavensward but also level DRK to 54 and get past ravana in HW. This is including finishing all ARR ex primals, coil, hildibrand, and all the ARR dungeons.

[ckc22]

I think for the health of the game they have to do things a little differently. The main issue imo is the 2.xx quests. They're LONG. I quit in 3.05 and came back in 3.4 and was able to catch up on msq in a couple days.

I'm not expecting much though. It's a lot of work to benefit relatively few people.

[Zojha]

What are you doing to take 2 weeks off that? Like seriously.

Playing 8 hours a day and getting help from FCmates with the queues?

If you have a workload of 24 hours, you can work that off in a day by pulling an all-nighter, or you can do it in a month at a bit less than an hour a day.

[DamianWayne]

Other MMOs have made it where you can skip the original storyline and skip to the expansions with Level ?? passes.

Which puts them at like level 60 and completely done with the first few main story parts.

SWTOR for example. That would be cool honestly if FFXIV did it. Would be great for those that want to make multiple characters and can't be screwed doing the entire storyline again and again. It's takes a while.