Can I progress in storyline without doing dungeons?

[Ecosmith]

I saw the totle and tbh, I though there's be a 'if u no like playing with other people why u choose MMO?' Response immediately.

As for 'impossible to cater for all', well if the objection is that hardcore raiders will get miffed at others getting gear 'easily', the question of why the hardcore do whst they do crops up. Is it for the gear or for the challenge?

The storyline imo should be completable by everyone. It's a story. I dont care what other people do as ling as it doesnt impact my game. I dont need uber gear, myself. If I could do some sort of 'e-z mode' dungeon which would not drop anything except msybe an acheivement which didnt give any stat buffs etc, I'd do that.

Frodo didn't defeat Sauron because he was decked out like a God, did he? Still an epic journey.

[Ecosmith]

I'm still only lvl 20, and so far I've had no trouble getting into the forced grouping dungeons the storyline has made me do. They were all completed in about an hour or less, too, so they weren't too bad. The duty finder seems to work well at least at this early stage.

If that 90% stat is true then I'll probably just keep going until I've hot no more other quests to do and move on.

[Ecosmith]

Some other MMOs have dabbled with player-generated content, to various degrees of success. Coty of Heroes had a pretty amazing system for this. There were a lot of farming quests generated with it, sadly, but some awesome narrative focussed quests too. Sadly that game is no more. I believe Star Trek Online has something similar. It's a great way to extemd an MMOs conyent for people like myself who play for story, but it needs commitment from the devs to make it work.

[Urielparadox]

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I'm confused on a number of things

1) The majority player base has issues becasue the end level dungeons are to low of an ilvl requirement.

2) at 45 and 50 you get your class quest + GC weapon, master ring(hunt log), that leaves only a belt, 1 ring, earing, neck and wrist that aren't given to you at i50 or higher. With the gil you make doing quest,guildhesit,crafting, doing levequest, fates, ect... you can very cheaply by i70 rings, in fact I would say you could probably farm up enough gil to buy the i70 accessories faster then going from 49-50. (this is assuming you somehow don't already have more then enough gil) Which would allow you to do every current actual dungeon in the game. without slowing your progression by more then a day.

3) For low levels, as you leveling. you will gain an excess of gran company seals from fates, levequest, guildhiest, various other things, you can easily keep your characters ilvl decent buying the armor you can from there that benefit your class.

4) Without dungeons just by choosing your rewards well from all the quest you do you can keep you character a high enough ilvl for the dungeons you have to do.

5) Why can't you do a dungeon once? doing a dungeons once using DF or find a Free company(as there are tons that are for people just like you and don't want to df dungeons). Even just running each dungeon once you will keep you geared up and it's a huge chunk of xp/gil more then worth it.

[Axiom]

I'm fine with doing a few dungeons, but the fact that I am now forced to do them over and over and over again until I get enough mythology to get some gear to boost my stats bugs me.
That is not fun for me at all. That tedious 'grind' I believe to be one of the biggest problems with MMO's at the moment and this game forces you to do it, it's not even a choice.

[Estellios]

The item levels on dungeons are incredibly low, you will not have to spend long. Hell you will probably meet the item level requirement just by running through your newly-available dungeons once each and picking up gear and buying a new piece with the stones you get.

Storyline iL requirements currently cap out at 60 which is incredibly easy to get and you have many options of reaching that: Mythology stones, Dungeon Farming, Crystal Tower, and buying i70+ pieces off the boards.. Anything higher than i60 isn't storyline related.

The storyline imo should be completable by everyone. It's a story. I dont care what other people do as ling as it doesnt impact my game. I dont need uber gear, myself. If I could do some sort of 'e-z mode' dungeon which would not drop anything except msybe an acheivement which didnt give any stat buffs etc, I'd do that.

Also it is completable by everyone. Not only are these iL requirements really easy to get, as in maybe an afternoon at most to accomplish, the Post-game storyline primal fights are very low-stress and can be completed even with a few people dead.

[Ketsuyame]

You want things to be handed to you. Spoon fed if you will. The bread and butter of ALL MMO's I to grind dungeons for gear. If you can't get with that, I'm pretty sure there's a few copies of LR:FFXIII out there for you.

[Urielparadox]

I'm fine with doing a few dungeons...

But you aren't fine doing a few dungeons and if you read my response you would see that. The highest ilvl requirement for main scenario is i55. That's it you literally just need i70 accessories( even cheap non hq ones at a couple k) and you have it, esp when you combine it with other gear you that you're literally just handed. All those dungeons drop gear as well so when you do it once you get the myth, the soldiery, and after doing 2 different dungeons you should have got at least one i55+ piece of gear. and all the new dungeons(the i55 ones) drop i70 gear which you no longer have to farm seals for so they are in fact catering to you and giving you exactly what you want.

[Urielparadox]

IF you are referring to Coil well my dear that is a different thing. The binding Coil of bahamut which has an i70 requirement is endgame and you get a 15% echo boost in there now making it stupid easy. coil is ENDGAME not main story(though related and great story). Also there are 2 duty roulettes that you can do, hard mode and trials which give you an extra chunk of myth for just doing 1 dungeon/fight a day, Trials rarely take over 20min and dungeons rarely over 40. A lot of people don't grind dungeons repeatedly, and they get there myth slower, it's a trade off.

[Ecosmith]

You want things to be handed to you. Spoon fed if you will. The bread and butter of ALL MMO's I to grind dungeons for gear. If you can't get with that, I'm pretty sure there's a few copies of LR:FFXIII out there for you.

Once upon a time, the bread and butter of car manufacturing and purchase was the Model T Ford. Thankfully, we've moved beyond that now.