Steamline the Newbie Experience!

[Schellering]

Yeah, the Development team already said they were going to make it so new players could "skip" patch quests and content, but they definitely didn't say anything about the 2.0 and 3.0 main storyline.

Well then that definitely is a nice step towards the streamlining. Clearly they know where they want to take the game and I just look like an idiot now XD

[BHGlobbd]

This is NGE, New Game Experience, this is what killed Star Wars Galaxies.

[Shougun]

I understand where you are coming from, and I agree that the suggestions all together would make leveling too fast. Not all of them are meant to be implemented together, thus separate suggestions. I talked with a few newbie friends of mine on another server, and the main issue they brought up was the patch progression, especially the 2.X between ARR and Heavensward

I'm not sure exactly what part of the patch progression you're talking about but I can agree at least for myself when new stuff was added was every time I had to go check online for what to do lol. That was especially evident when I came back and was like trying to play where is waldo for the next step in the MSQ haha.

I know at some point they'll have to level boost players or seriously and costly redesign old content, so I'm not terribly against level potions .. it just seems like something that will have to happen if not now sometime later.. But I am concerned if they don't have a better guiding system that new players will either be blessed with finding either a person who has a guide, finding the guide, or just wandering aimlessly around having no idea what is actually a "good" idea to do. Because every NPC and their grandmother will have a ! and something maybe useless maybe important to do and so you'll just ignore it all except the most obvious stuff. Like I've met people who had no idea the game had PvP, or the GS lol. Add a level skip and story skip and people will not realize big parts of the game, perhaps missing important things for progress or just really enjoyable content/world building experience.

Most people don't even know there are NMs inside of leve quests (which is pretty cool), because leve quests are sort of a pain to activate now and FATEs are so plentiful (which is a major reason why I think a system that helps you obtain them remotely/via stream and add adequate bonus reward for mixing up content would help revitalize a dying but not useless content).

So I think we agree haha

[Schellering]

Add a level skip and story skip and people will not realize big parts of the game, perhaps missing important things for progress or just really enjoyable content/world building experience.

I completely agree that the skips have their issues. Some of the go here and come back then go back out quests need to be looked at and those are the ones most people would look to skip. Possibly just streamline the main story by actually using the Scions Linkpearls they give you then hardly ever use. I mean, half the time that I was doing the main story, I remember thinking, why couldn't you have just told me that remotely? Why did I have to come here and then go back to where I just was?

[Shougun]

I completely agree that the skips have their issues. Some of the go here and come back then go back out quests need to be looked at and those are the ones most people would look to skip. Possibly just streamline the main story by actually using the Scions Linkpearls they give you then hardly ever use. I mean, half the time that I was doing the main story, I remember thinking, why couldn't you have just told me that remotely? Why did I have to come here and then go back to where I just was?

Yes... So much yes.. You did not need to have me come to you in person to tell me to leave five zones over to buy some soup to come back five zones - I could have just bought the damn soup and brought it to you! lol :P

That's not even a change just for new players, that's a change for my sanity lol.

Also I'd love to see NPC use the mail, I thought it was the coolest thing when I completed a quest for someone in WoW and then like 4 days later I received a follow up mail from that NPC and a reward or once it was another quest. That was just such a small detail moment for me.

[Schellering]

Also I'd love to see NPC use the mail.

Or better yet, allow us to mail turn ins!

[Adire]

If only they'd add a magical git gud potion for 100 bucks or so. We'll likely need it more than ever with all the people skipping the progressive learning experience offered by leveling properly.

[Belhi]

Yeah, the Development team already said they were going to make it so new players could "skip" patch quests and content, but they definitely didn't say anything about the 2.0 and 3.0 main storyline.

This isn't entirely true. The only thing they have said about this is they are looking at implementing a story jump potion that fast tracks you forward in the story to a later point or rather auto completes the MSQ to that point. They have said nothing about skipping only patches. Infact their quest systems sounds like it might not be able to do that on a technical side of things.

They have said that Stormblood will require people to have cleared the 3.X patches.

[Khemorex]

the fastest way to lvl is , if u dont actually look at ur xp and ur current lvl every 30 sec :P leave it be play the game and in no time ur be lvl60 :P

u know if u look at the clock to much , it will go slower and slower :P

[Riardon]

Buy potion, skip content and lvls.
Skip cutscenes.
Suddenly find yourself in Stormblood areas.
You don't understand a thing of what's happening and what those colored boxes do on your skill bar.
Skip 4.X cutscenes cause you don't understand a thing of what they talk about.
Be a terrible player in dungeons.
Complain that the community is toxic or that the game has no content.

I understand that some people want to pay money to just pew pew mobs but I'm afraid those skip potions will have some disastrous side effects.