The main quest feel like a burden now with the EXP increase

[MsMisato]

Hi' I've finally managed to get my brother to try FF online but now he is getting discouraged.

Playing a white mage (or any FF healer) solo is not really the funniest experience you can have in an MMO. Using 1 DoT and spamming 1 single DD to kill mobs slowly is a bit of a chore.

Back in the days the pace of the main quest was healthy. You would do a few quest then you could run some dungeons in groups and got back to soloing the main quest.

But now, simply doing the main quest you just out level it so fast that it get trivia and meaning less. He is now lvl 30 but only up to the lvl 20 main quest.

In this game you need to do the main quest in order unlock stuff so taking a break from it when your already 10 level ahead feel like your punishing yourself.

Also you can't mentor down while in the open world so basically we can only play together when his quest tell me to do group content.

The main quest can be fun if you don't have to grind trough it I'd say. especially if you play a healer.

I mean you can always play another job or maybe roll another character in the meantime. Your brother could also play arcanist>scholar to bring up the healing class or another job as well. Its what I did with my friends it simply makes the game more enjoyable to play something at their level or quest with them. That's me though.

5.3 will bring a slew of changes to the MSQ for ARR but that's been pushed back so I imagine your friend will be done by then with the MSQ.

Worst case, your brother could shell out money for the MSQ boost.