Unlocking Content

[Dicejss]

Well if they streamline the story quests and gut out all the nonsense that has nothing to do with the main plot that would certainly help people to catch up. But considering they still require you to at least clear each dungeon/trial in order to do the roulettes it can still be a problem to progress. DF kind of works but if they have all the dungeons in one roulette I don't see how thats going solve all the content problems in there. Because you'll be basically splitting the population to the 29 dungeons in the game from 1-50. So let's say a player has to do Tam Tara they queue for it and their wait time could be something like 30mins or longer because the number of people queued in roulette are being spread out over more dungeons. Being as dungeons are really the fastest way to level with FATE groups mostly extinct it's going to make leveling for them that much slower because of queue times. I hope all that makes sense if you get what I mean.

As you guys have stated I may have been a bit hasty on my assumptions to bypass the quests but clearly you must also see they really stuck A LOT of filler quests in the main scenario that are really mundane. That's my biggest issue with the main scenario questline if they would gut those out to streamline it a bit that would be a step in the right direction imo.

[Ashkendor]

Being as dungeons are really the fastest way to level with FATE groups mostly extinct it's going to make leveling for them that much slower because of queue times.

This must be a server thing. I see fate parties for Costa, Quarrymill, Coerthas, and North Thanalan all the time. Being able to queue for dungeons in smaller parties should help, in any case. We might see a bit of a return to the days before DF when people congregated outside of the dungeon entrance itself looking for others to party up with.

[Allyrion]

This must be a server thing. I see fate parties for Costa, Quarrymill, Coerthas, and North Thanalan all the time. Being able to queue for dungeons in smaller parties should help, in any case. We might see a bit of a return to the days before DF when people congregated outside of the dungeon entrance itself looking for others to party up with.

It's not though. There's always people running FATEs in Costa, Coerthas and Northern Thanalan on Siren. Quarrymill is a bit a dead but Drybone isn't.
FATE grinding is still viable while waiting for a queue is still very efficient and viable. I did it just like 2 weeks ago on Siren as well.

My dungeon queues were also never usually that long as dps anyway.
Yoshida said in the last interview that instead of bypassing content, the team is thinking of more ways to encourage higher level players to help the lower level ones.
And after Heavensward, you can get a friend to run you through a lower level dungeon because there's an option to not be level synced. This would be good for people who just want to move on with the story.


No one's gonna deny there's filler to the story. There is.
It's only like that because they put enough in to help someone get to 50. And they've certainly got better at the quest pacing in the later patches, in my opinion.
They've already admitted to working on streamlining older content, so I don't think it's worth trying to predict issues that won't even pop up until after Heavensward.

I think that's as much as you should expect from a game that decidedly puts context to everything you do, through quests.

[Dicejss]

FATE parties used to be so much more common though they haven't been in a long time. The only areas that still have them barely are Coerthas and maybe Costa Del sol. Because before you would FATE in Aleport > Quarrymill > Costa > Coerthas > Bluefog or just stayed at Coerthas till 50. You can FATE while waiting on DF but you won't be in party then so you'll have bunch of people running around without much communication to which FATE or someone to heal tanks that are MTing the FATE bosses.