Quality of Life Improvements and MSQ Gating for New Players

[bass9020]

Yes, because The Company of Heroes questline was integral to defending Titan. And collecting flowers for Minfilia's mother nearly saved the world! Let's be honest, when people complain about the MSQ, it's primarily on the boring fetch quests which litter ARR. I wager quite strongly, you'd see far less complaints if the game began at Heavensward due to how much better paced everything is. Jump potions were implemented simply to make a quick buck over players leveling their alts and not wanting to spam through the story again. Even WoW offered one for free with their latest expansion.

I also said in another post if they could trim down the main quest line without butchering it then they totally should. I know you played BDO since we have both discussed it before but im not sure if you have recently. They attempted to redo the whole beginning story line and it turned into a huge mess. Now I know they are a different company with different goals and views but maybe its something SE does not want to screw up.

If SE was to do anything I think it should be:

• Removing HW jobs from being strictly locked behind 3.0 and allow you to start them when you get lvl 30 and reach Coerthas area, they could have the guild NPCs stationed in those areas until you get to Ishgard
  
• Turn some of the fetch quests into side quests this way they are still there but optional
  
• Maybe rework the Grand Company quests to be flagged when you reach that level and you can do it when you want.
  
• Allow access to all non city regions, have NPCs speak to you differently or flat out ignore you. We already have text differences ingame so I dont see this as an issue.
  
• As much as I hate this idea but give an option to teleport directly to the end quest NPC to turn the quest in. Each expansion they can add to the previous one before it.