Quality of Life Improvements and MSQ Gating for New Players

[RiyahArp]

FFXI also punished you harshly for failing

...yeah this person must never have played it. Just getting utsusemi: ichi was far more tedious than anything this game has to offer. And SMN in general was effectively unlocked at 50 for most people, because trying to get all summons solo at 30 is far harder than any savage fight in this game, and was worse than maat imo because there is zero way to cheese it.

[SonKevin]

...yeah this person must never have played it. Just getting utsusemi: ichi was far more tedious than anything this game has to offer. And SMN in general was effectively unlocked at 50 for most people, because trying to get all summons solo at 30 is far harder than any savage fight in this game, and was worse than maat imo because there is zero way to cheese it.

Ugh, don't remind me. I was able to get all my summons outside of Leviathan. You needed to rely on money for the potions, could only do it every 2 hours because you needed your two hour, had to wait for the right in game day for the summon to be weakest, and had to get someone cast the highest level of Protect and Shell on you. It was a nightmare. I still wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night thinking about how many times it took me to just get Shiva.