ARR needs two simple fixes until an actual revamp

[lezard21]

It would be nice if Squarenix eventually stopped the MSQ circlejerk. Yes you tell story very nice good yes, congratulations Squarenix, but if I want to play as a merchant that just gathers and crafts I get roadblocked from going to Ishgard, Kugane and Novrandt till I pick up a weapon and cutscene skip through the critically acclaimed MSQ.

[DPZ2]

It would be nice if Squarenix eventually stopped the MSQ circlejerk. Yes you tell story very nice good yes, congratulations Squarenix, but if I want to play as a merchant that just gathers and crafts I get roadblocked from going to Ishgard, Kugane and Novrandt till I pick up a weapon and cutscene skip through the critically acclaimed MSQ.

Welcome to the World of MMOs.

And, if you do not find it to your liking, I'm sure you could find another game that will let you do exactly as you desire. Mostly. You'll still have to pick up a weapon and level up.

Or, you could go directly to every single one of those areas you mentioned by using a job skip to level 70 and a story skip through all of the SB content with no cut-scenes nor MSQ nor dungeon instances required.

Until you hit ShadowBringers content and, darn it, you have to take up a weapon and skip through 10 more levels of cut scenes to be able to get to Eulmore as a level 80 Warrior.

But then, if you don't want Story, why are you playing this particular game?

[Tlamila]

But then, if you don't want Story, why are you playing this particular game?

Are you really saying this game as nothing to offer apart from story?
Cause you know, there are plenty of people who couldn't care less about story and skip all cinematics but love the game for everything else.

[SilverObi]

It would be nice if Squarenix eventually stopped the MSQ circlejerk. Yes you tell story very nice good yes, congratulations Squarenix, but if I want to play as a merchant that just gathers and crafts I get roadblocked from going to Ishgard, Kugane and Novrandt till I pick up a weapon and cutscene skip through the critically acclaimed MSQ.

1.0 allowed players to do just that, but as we've seen they moved away from that concept. It would be interesting to see if they could tackle that idea again but considering how they neutered and phased out the Companion system that paired with it, I'm not sure they even want to at this point.