Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Raoabolic]

Level Skips should only go up to level 50 :P

I'll do you one better. Level/story skips should have never happened.

[Denji]

I'll do you one better. Level/story skips should have never happened.

Agreed.
Had a drk in copperbell hard who was level 80 admit they hadn't actually done any dungeons before and couldn't play in the slightest. When we offered suggestions on how to tank they told us to f*** off and "let me play how i want to play".

The only reason level boosts exist is because if they didn't then there would be a huge black market of selling accounts. Plain and simple. So as much as I hate it, it unfortunately needs to exist.

[MilkieTea]

I'll do you one better. Level/story skips should have never happened.

Yeah, but at least with level skips up to lvl 50, it gives the person who buys it 40 levels to experience the class, rather than 10. I'm getting so sick and tired of people who level skip, burst into shb/ew dungeons almost immediately, and run around like headless chickens because they couldnt be bothered to read their tooltips and practice their rota at a dummy for 30 mins.

[Denji]

i think the best option for the lvl/story skip thing would simply to just make it so that in order to do one story-required dungeon you have to complete the one before it.

so before copperbell you have to do sash, etc.

[zcrash970]

FFXIV isn't really the best MMO at any one thing in particular except maybe story. However it is perfectly competent at everything it does while avoiding cash grabs like most MMOs.

The red mage of MMOs if you will

[Poporito_Popoto]

Agreed.
Had a drk in copperbell hard who was level 80 admit they hadn't actually done any dungeons before and couldn't play in the slightest. When we offered suggestions on how to tank they told us to f*** off and "let me play how i want to play".

The only reason level boosts exist is because if they didn't then there would be a huge black market of selling accounts. Plain and simple. So as much as I hate it, it unfortunately needs to exist.

Don't you have to have done the normal one to open the hard one?

Also, there are other ways to get to 80 without knowing your job like deep dungeons, squadrons/trusts, MSQ, etc.

[MilkieTea]

Don't you have to have done the normal one to open the hard one?

Also, there are other ways to get to 80 without knowing your job like deep dungeons, squadrons/trusts, MSQ, etc.

Story skip gives you access to those dungeons

[Denji]

Don't you have to have done the normal one to open the hard one?

Also, there are other ways to get to 80 without knowing your job like deep dungeons, squadrons/trusts, MSQ, etc.

I am fairly certain it's unlocked and even if it weren't, that... doesn't mean they didn't go and unlock it themselves. Also, they had a sprout icon still which indicates they hadn't been playing that long since level 80 would imply they passed stormblood.

Not only that but copperbell hard -was- endgame at one point. No matter how new you are you should be reasonably confident in your ability to play at that point.

[Caurcas]

Story/job skips to 70/80 should be free and included in purchase of the game.

[aveyond-dreams]

Story/job skips to 70/80 should be free and included in purchase of the game.

Agreed. To my knowledge I believe WoW does this, and it would be especially helpful with season 2 coming in 7.0.