ARR: new player perspective

[wereotter]

I just finished the ARR story again last night and gotta say there's a LOT of setup on those quests for things you'll see in future expansions as well as important characters are getting set up (though there could be an argument that the developers only used those threats in later stories because the characters already exist)

I'll agree with you on the section in Coerthas. I felt like it was both too vague and too long. My original play through I felt like I didn't understand what they were talking about enough for it to prepare me for the story when that became relevant, so maybe a rewrite on that dialogue would help. There is also a LOT of fluff in that part of the story with no one in Coerthas being willing to talk to you at all until you get new letters of introduction that you have to get by doing other people's chores for them (if you hate that, then I have bad news for you about the Moogles)

But the worst parts to me were things like constantly being pulled back to Vesper Bay, yet the town didn't have an aetheryte, so it was just a waste of time to go to Horizon to get to the Waking Sands. They also could cut a little of the fluff before fighting Titan, and as they already said they're going to fix, there's that spot near the end where they have you at level 46 quests then jump you to level 49 the very next one, and if you weren't over-leveled, you have to go grind out three more levels on your job.

[Elladie]

But the worst parts to me were things like constantly being pulled back to Vesper Bay, yet the town didn't have an aetheryte, so it was just a waste of time to go to Horizon to get to the Waking Sands. They also could cut a little of the fluff before fighting Titan, and as they already said they're going to fix, there's that spot near the end where they have you at level 46 quests then jump you to level 49 the very next one, and if you weren't over-leveled, you have to go grind out three more levels on your job.

Just a heads up, if you're going to Vesper Bay, don't go via Horizon. Port to Limsa, use the aetheryte shard to go to Arcanist Guild, hop on ferry to Vesper Bay. MUCH faster