New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[van_arn]

Let me great this straight. New people have to run around 20 different dungeons where they show off different mechanics and new people just drool brain dead and never catch on? Do you hear yourself? Like if being able to do high end content is your standard of knowing mechanics then your argument is even more poor. Does doing high end content make you a better player and teach you to be more weary of mechanics. Yes. But you are being disingenuous if you think that people don't start learning before doing high end content.

Hurt feelings? No. Just poking holes in your argument likes its swiss cheese. But okay new players can't know mechs until they clear some high end content because that totally makes sense. ((most people don't do high end content, most of the game isn't on fire due to this... but okay, okay you clearly are a logical person full of wisdom))

I once knew a black mage that made it all the way to Stormblood, without a skip, only for them to give up on Stormblood and roll an alt because the open world mobs were "too hard."

Just about every time a solo instance fight is released in the MSQ there's a crowd of people on the forums complaining that a 4 button fight is too hard: see, the Burn/4.5 pt 2. Heck, I saw complaints from people with multiple 70s that the XV crossover event was too hard, and that had stuff in it anyone that's cleared Stormblood should know already.

Look, I find these failures absolutely hilarious-- but it really goes to show how bad the MSQ as a whole is at teaching players. If the MSQ did this job, these people would've hit a brick wall long before these issues arise. If the MSQ were intended to teach, then solo fights would not offer echo.

Heck, take any df group after 4.0 and you'll probably spot someone that ignored every lesson Stormblood attempted to teach, in dungeons or in solo fights.

PS- when I took that blm through FSOF they died 16 times in one run. Current witnessed high score.