New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[MsMisato]

Ah yes the Level 50 content patch (i call it the 100 quest bridge to HW). That part needs to be consolidated the most. But Limsa boat to Versper or be lazy and horizon and chocobo porter (I still use them even to this day).

Quest/Expansion walls are not going to go away anytime soon. Right now ARR and HW are for free at this time anyway. They have not invested in one dime in the game. First month is free. This is SE's game in the end, money is money. People are paying for skip msq and level up pots (besides the MSQ pots gives feathers for gear and gil) though i can't justify spending money to skip a game I am paying for thats just me though, but that is what is SE is hoping people will do. Spend that cash on those pots. also it appears both the level up pot and msq skip pot are on sale lol.


Play with your friend. They are here because you want them to be here. Play a job you never played or roll a new character to play with them. it takes roughly a good 3 - 4 weeks to complete MSQ in its entirety. That is still a month left afterwards they can go back and unlock extremes, 24 mans, CT, BCoB, and all that jazz.

[Melorie]

Play with your friend. They are here because you want them to be here. Play a job you never played or roll a new character to play with them. it takes roughly a good 3 - 4 weeks to complete MSQ in its entirety. That is still a month left afterwards they can go back and unlock extremes, 24 mans, CT, BCoB, and all that jazz.

Even doing that, you can't really play with them besides doing a dungeon when it finally pops up or a roulette. In many other MMOS, if I make a new alt, I can just spam dungeons forever with my friend or do whatever to level - and I'm not saying that this should happen with ffxiv, I'm just saying that here you can't "play" with someone. If they made the MSQ duties something you can do in a party, then yes, that would be true, but it's hardly the case. The only thing I can do is stay in discord with them or wait till they unlock something and help them with queue times going as a healer or tank.

I think that they should at least trim ARR quests and make optional content (such as dungeons, trials and such that are not msq-related) level based, which means that once you get that level you can get the quest to unlock x dungeon/trial/raid, instead of needing to finish MSQ to complete it. Also let people buy their gear once they are on the level cap and have the required tomestone. But really, trim ARR would be the most important change atm. The only person that I know that got through ARR slog and got to stormblood only did it because they bought the jump potion, and that shouldn't be a permanent solution or fix for this problem.