Thoughts on Isgard Lockout.

[SDaemon]

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A year's worth of story content. It equates to far far less than the total sum of content released since re-launch. So please try and not make it sound like some astronomical amount. A new player can level to 50 and complete the main story elements up to 2.55 in a very very respectable amount of time.

Also just wanted to add, the main story quests you linked, several upon several of them take less than a minute each to complete.

[Landonian]

This is a 4 million sub game

[citation needed]

[Ashkendor]

Same here. Just the other day I ended up in an ST run with a member of my friend's static.

I think my record is running into someone in DF three times.

Yesterday I ended up in Expert Roulette with someone I've tanked T13 with.

I've ended up with people from my own server frequently.

[Nutz]

I suppose it bothers some people a lot (it seems to by this thread anyway), but to me it just made sense. I probably didn't give it much thought though since I have already completed 2.55 and have no particular ambition to try out one of the new jobs. I might pick them up, but it's a very low priority. I haven't bothered unlocking rogue yet.

While all of the combat classes are fairly distinct I feel like there's an overall 'tone' to the game such that if you don't want to play any of the classes that are readily available right now, odds are you won't be a fan of anything this game throws at you anyway.

Also, I find it weird that there'd be very many people who feel 'punished' by having to go through all of that story content. I'm almost envious of the proposition to run through all of 2.0-2.55 (for the first time) without very long breaks in between. For players starting with Heavensward it's like there's a ~100 hour story campaign right away. That's gonna be one Hell of a wall when new players finish up all of 3.0's content, lol.

[Elmeron]

[citation needed]

Not to mention probably 1 million of those subs are gil spammers... *Cough.*

[Rendecrow]

I think the 2.55 lockout is both good and bad.

The good: Most current players will already have the quest chain done or at least finished up to 2.0. It won't be hard to finish the questline, and it is pretty cool that it will continue to follow you all the way to 60.

The bad There are a LOT of quests at level 50. A new player who is leveling would quickly hit a wall of quests and find that they will have to grind countless quests before they can continue to level past 50. Unless they are going to change the level requirements of some of the story quests or let people continue past level 50 without completing 2.55, this will become an issue.

[XgungraveX]

i rememer when wow WoL came out had to have 1 max level class to play death knight how is this any different?

[Dualblade]

The bad There are a LOT of quests at level 50. A new player who is leveling would quickly hit a wall of quests and find that they will have to grind countless quests before they can continue to level past 50. Unless they are going to change the level requirements of some of the story quests or let people continue past level 50 without completing 2.55, this will become an issue.

If I remember correctly there was something about non ilvl synced dungeons having a cut off of lvl 53. I myself have been assuming that players will continue to lvl even between 2.0-2.55 and 53 was where I was thinking ilvl 90 would be...so if its true I can see the future!

[Rendecrow]

If I remember correctly there was something about non ilvl synced dungeons having a cut off of lvl 53. I myself have been assuming that players will continue to lvl even between 2.0-2.55 and 53 was where I was thinking ilvl 90 would be...so if its true I can see the future!

In which case all will be good! They just need to make the leveling transition from 50 to 51 smooth. Right now about a third of the quests are at 50. They need to continue to allow people to level past 50, otherwise they will piss people off if they get stuck at 50 and have to do 30 more quests to continue to gain xp.

[seida]

I think locking Ishgard is fine, the story would be completely nonsensical and pointless if you could access it before doing the appropriate quests.

The jobs, eh. I understand why they did it, but I don't think it was necessary. The jobs could easily be in Coerthas or somewhere accessible from level 30, not sure what the harm would be in that.