What is there to do at level 50?

[LloydShade]

Hello folks,

I am right now in a "critical" phase for FFXIV:ARR. I am soon to reach max level and now fear what can be considered a shortage of fun things to do.


To give some background, here's what I've done so far:
-Try levelling multiple classes/jobs to find the one I enjoy the most: Paladin lvl42, Bard lvl30, Conjurer lvl15, Pugilist lvl15. I prefer swordsman (it's annoying that it has the weakest story I've seen so far though and that goes for Gladiator and Paladin).
-Try to get promoted as much as possible in a grand company: I maxed out the promotions for sub-lvl44 (sergeant-major I believe). Awaiting level 44 to continue, but I most likely will not have to put much efforts to max out the currently available ranks.
-Try to level my chocobo companion: I'm at level 4. This is so long/boring/annoying/useless that I will maybe reach level 10 eventually, but I won't be actively working on it.
-Try to beat all available low level dungeons: done up to level 42 (next at level 44), including the few optional dungeons. Go to hell freaking timer! That's just useful to break up nice Duty Finder groups that tries to beat dungeons without relying on Internet (knowing that regrouping is impossible).
-Levelling a gathering (mining lvl46) and a crafting (armourer lvl40) class along my main class (Paladin). Gathering and crafting are actually the only features of the game I felt actually challenged outside a few dungeons.
-Fill the hunting log.

Here what I know is left:
-Complete the main story: so I have seen pure hack&slash games with better stories and story pacing than FFXIV:ARR. Now whatever the ending is, it can't be epic since there is so limited buildup for it.
-Complete the Gladiator/Paladin story: I have yet to see a story about a learning swordsmanship and people's protection that focus so little on learning sword fighting and protecting people. Yay for girly 16 years old mentally aged gladiator guild leader with boyfriend issues and Paladin leader that cares about nothing but reputation...
-Finish levelling my gathering and crafting classes: that and find out if mining and armourer have mirrored stories until the very end.
-Finish exploring Eorzea: I mean the high level sub-sections of territories I have already mostly explored and the very few high level territories.

Here's what I will be bound to do if I can find enough reasons to keep playing:
-Grind gear until I reach the current best gear before another set is released to grind again.
-Attempt to beat harder versions of dungeons I will have already beaten.
-Attempt to beat most difficult and very few level 50 exclusive dungeons using grinded gear from above.


Right now, I'm trying to find out if I'm missing something. I mean I have been playing from release except for 2 weeks, playing 12-15 hours per week and I'm about a week or two away from hitting level 50. That's a month and a half and about 90 hours (mostly grinding time though). Story is bad, pacing is worse, questing is not enough to level and follow the storyline and challenge is barely existent to make it worthwhile. Honestly, I don't mind having to work to get something, but I need something. I think my biggest hate for this game boils down to the game literally trolling me (so many quests ending with the game telling you it was all useless and a waste of time) and having the balls to troll me again and again punishing me to try to uncover the main story to the end.

I never thought I would say this, but I think I play too much... for a MMORPG. It feels like 12-15 hours per week is too much for the grand daddy of time sinks in video games: a MMORPG. Problem is, since most of my play time is allocated to grinding in this game, if I progress any slower, it will feel as it's all I do.


As such, I will try calling for help. Is there something fun available in the game that I'm missing, that I missed or that will become available to me soon? I think I'm so desperate that the Halloween event storyline felt like the best story with the best lore, context and pacing that I've seen in the past 20 levels I did.

Thanks you,
Lloyd Shade

[busta]

Troll. Trolling on the forums is great at lv50.

[LloydShade]

Troll. Trolling on the forums is great at lv50.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...17#post1015217

Level 1-14 Unable to create new threads Unable to make a post
Level 15-24 Unable to create new threads Can post up to three posts per day
Level 25-39 Can create one thread per day Can post up to five posts per day
Level 40-49 Can create up to three threads per day Can post up to 10 posts per day
Level 50 Can create up to five threads per day Can post up to 20 posts per day

Indeed, this forum has literally been designed so level 50 players can easily and efficiently troll the main sections of the forum.

[Livilda]

Have fun until you get bored and want to do something else.

I guarantee you there are lots of things to do, and not all of them involve playing FFXIV. Some of them don't even involve playing video games.

[TheMoonflow]

What do you mean? Now we can finally play the game

[Orophin]

Dunno what to tell you. You're apparently not enamored with the story nor do you sound particularly thrilled about grinding. (which is found in EVERY MMO) Maybe the game just isn't for you?

[jabbywocks]

I'm honestly bored at 50. Farming tomes in the only thing left to do and after the 100th run through Wanderer's Palace, I've just given up. Story isn't horrible to me, but it's not the best by FF standards. Pally story is lame but has the potential to be better. I would love some follow up in the corruption in the ranks or in Ul'dah as a whole. We get some many interesting stories but no follow up to them.

I'd really love if they added more quests. Even if it was a 4-5 daily quests. More hunting logs. Or something! I'm really into MMOs for the questing and without that, I just find myself making new chars on other servers and re-doing the same quests over and over.

Leveling other classes is boring with lack of quests to do. I'm not really into gathering or crafting so I can't find doing that for hours fun. I really don't want to play any other class. I'm happy being a pally and I miss gaining exp for that class. I guess I'll just always be bored at 50 until the level cap is raised.

[Shiyo]

I find it really weird endgame in Pokemon X has more varied content and much more to do that's more enjoyable and fun, while also keeping the entire pokemon world relevant so I go back and go to every zone with new stuff to explore and get that I missed or new events to do that happen after you beat the game. Wonder why a single player game has a much better end game and keeps the entire game world relevant while a MMO, a genre about creating a vast living virtual world can't make the entire world relevant and has much less and much less varied end game content that's just a gear grind of two dungeons? Kinda weird.

Also extremely weird I want to buy pokemon Y and beat the game again, and keep beating it in different ways like "only use pokemon I catch and if they die don't use them again" or with exp share off, or using different pokemon or playing differently, challenging myself differently, etc, but I would NEVER want to beat this games story again on another character because it was incredibly boring with infinite fetch/run across the world/errands/talk to NPC quests that weren't exciting or interesting in the slightest, and leveling in general in this game(outside of dungeons, dungeons are incredibly fun) is zero fun.

edit: On a MMO related note, I beat COP's story from FFXI 3 times on 3 different characters, read every cutscene on all 3 characters and absolutely loved it every single time. Would do again, too.

[TechBoyBen]

Well, there appears to be only one thing to do. Find a new game. I don't want to run anyone away from FFXIV, but the things you dislike about the game are the fundamental building blocks of most MMOs including this one.

People forget that MMOs are meant to be open ended. That's how they keep you paying your subscriptions. However, if you're not enjoying it don't keep paying and playing. There are MANY other games out there with more interesting storylines and more explicit goals to enjoy.

[Vurtney]

And you had to necro this from 2013 because?