Main scenario quest line...

[Alisi]

I'm on the 'Back and Forth' main scenario quest. Is there any end to this horrible, long quest line? Am I close to the end of the main scenario line? Q____Q I just want it to end...

[Nutz]

Still a ways to go. A bit more talking then a dungeon, then more talking and Shiva battle, then more talking and such before another dungeon and another battle...then more talking and another 8-man fight. Then a couple of hours of cut scenes to wrap up the current story. Easily a couple of days I think.

EDIT: you're near the beginning of the MSQ added in 2.4. So there's all of that, 2.5's content (which was a bit short), and then 2.55 (which mostly consists of a now nerfed battle and tons of cut scenes -- they literally warn you ahead of time that it's going to be nonstop cut scenes for a very long time so get settled in)

[Rufalus]

There is no real end, because every major patch or expansion adds more quests, so it's pretty much something that will continue for the lifetime of the game.

I understand that people play for different reasons and not everybody likes questing and story, but a lot of content is gated behind it, so...

I guess some day when the main scenario has bloated to an extreme amount, they might need to open up content to people without going through it at the cost of the story making less sense?

[LalaRu]

I'm on the 'Back and Forth' main scenario quest. Is there any end to this horrible, long quest line? Am I close to the end of the main scenario line? Q____Q I just want it to end...

Nobody forces you to do it.

[Alisi]

SNIP!

I started a month or two ago. I have no problem waiting months between patches for new content but I heard they've gated the next expac behind everything so I've been trying to finish this up already. X_X I think I would've appreciated the story line way more if it wasn't done this way.

Nobody forces you to do it.

LOL. I knew there'd be some who'd post a comment like this. Thanks for living up to my expectations. ;D

[Nadirah]

Nobody forces you to do it.

No? SE kinda does.

You see, you have to do the main scenario in it's entirety to start HW from what I've seen from *everywhere* and with a month left to go, there's going to be people that aren't there yet.

I started a few weeks ago with a friend of mine. I'll have 0 problems being caught up by then, but he's currently 24 and has 3 hours a day tops to play. Between queue times and in general slowness because he likes to absorb the story before moving on, he's likely to not have it finished by the time the expansion hits.

When no one is doing those instances anymore.

Essentially preventing him from moving on to the main scenario in HW.

Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

[BroodingFicus]

Yeah, I was going to say. They most certainly do. New dungeons for roulette are locked inside story quest and now HW is as well. You need to complete Steps of Faith in order to access /any/ new content aside from I think (hopefully) the new race, which while being pretty, has no actual effect on the game aside from aesthetics. I'm in the same boat as your friend Nadirah. Granted at least I have alts who are up that high but it took me months to get there because the story is padded to heck with 'I know you are the warrior of light but can you please lift this box/find this necklace/talk to me because I'm lonely and have no friends' quests. In fact the characters themselves say things like 'Oh...they have /you/ doing this' a lot which does not make it any less a crap way to drag out what would otherwise be a more engaging story.

[Nadirah]

. I'm in the same boat as your friend Nadirah. Granted at least I have alts who are up that high but it took me months to get there because the story is padded to heck with 'I know you are the warrior of light but can you please lift this box/find this necklace/talk to me because I'm lonely and have no friends' quests. In fact the characters themselves say things like 'Oh...they have /you/ doing this' a lot which does not make it any less a crap way to drag out what would otherwise be a more engaging story.

I'm on disability and have all day to go with. He doesn't. He's going to be so far behind.. and I'm going ot have to beg people to do this stuff for him. I *hate* doing that.

[Demens]

I wouldn't stress getting story progression dungeons/trials at a later state. As with previous story requirements they will most likely add incentives for high levels to help out.

[Nadirah]

I wouldn't stress getting story progression dungeons/trials at a later state. As with previous story requirements they will most likely add incentives for high levels to help out.

I come from a long history of online games that don't give two shits about "old" content, so excuse me for being a little skeptical of that.

I've played almost every MMO on the market. Granted, none of them was FFXI, so no experience with SE, but everyone else.... ugh.