Just Beat Stormblood

[Barta]

Yeah....

But I really don't want to spend a month running around the same place watching Japanese Horatio Cane or picking up dogshite, or whatever unimportant and completely inane bullcack they thought was ABSOLUTELY necessary to force upon you.

Lile, ARR to HW was awful. Fucking unbearable. I know scores of people who quit and won't come back because of it.

And HW to StB wasn't all that great either, at least it was relevant and fit the plot?

But I'd rather not go from revolutionary war to picking out dresses with Tatarutu or whatever.

[DBriggs304]

Then, perhaps you just dont really want to play FF at all?

[Enla]

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If you don't like the story then skip it. You'll miss out on context for ShB which has one of the best FF stories in decades, not just MMO expansion, but if the story is so unbearable and you have the spare cash then skip. Just remember you're still going to have to level the hard way if you do, unless you buy a job skip in which case you're still going to have a lot of adjustments to make. That said SB to ShB is a pretty merciful grind compared to the other two and ESPECIALLY compared to ARR to HW. Plus the fights are generally pretty fun as well.

[PharisHanasaki]

There were 100 quests between ARR and HW, half of which were extremely long and boring fetch quests. There are 40 quests after SB main scenario quests, shorter and mostly story focused.

However if you're not at all interested in the story, feel free to skip it, but you will be a bit lost when starting ShB.