Forced to finish Before the Fall, dumb design.

[qqmoarploxify]

It's pretty next level stupid of SE to force players to complete the original story quests up to and including before the fall in order to step foot into Heavensward. Got a few friends that bought the game and pre-ordered Heavensward but it looks like we wont be able to start the expansion right away since they dont have the time to finish all of the long and tedious quests leading up to it. I'm sure I'm not the only one having a problem with this. A new expansion should mean a new start and an equalization between the player base and gear. Everyone should be on equal footing.

[Deifact]

It's the continuation of a linear story. Sure they should probably cut out the filler missions (like the rediculously tedious fetch quest) but it's way too late now anyway.
The reality is you have to finish the MSQ or don't play the expansion.

[qqmoarploxify]

It's just a damn shame, sure this is a story driven game but the fact is, it has difficult endgame progression content for hardcore raiders as well. Most of which, at least the ones I've raided with, don't care for story.

[Whiteroom]

Joins thread to suggest putting tired complain in tired threads that are the same qq. Sees name, sees number of posts, backs away slowly...

[qqmoarploxify]

Got a problem with the fact that I've just started posting? My opinion is still the same.

[karateorangutang]

Maybe i'm off base here, but if you have expert roulette unlocked it's only a skip and a jump to finish out the main storyline....with almost no content that is difficult anymore. How come we are ok with tiers of coil being blocked off my progression, but not mainline content.

At the end of the day the only people readily affected by this are new players, and they need to play through quests to help them attain that first lvl 50 anyway. If your complaint is one that concerns not wanting to do story missions then I think that you need to look at the success in this game. Alot of that success is attributed to its visual style and the story that it is crafted around. SE knows that the market loves this aspect of the game and is pushing people to experience the world that they have painstakingly crafted.

Is that so horrible?

[Velox]

Not to sound overly blunt, but if you are someone who "doesn't really care for story," then you should probably stay away from a story-centric MMORPG. There are countless MMO titles out there that all cater to different player preferences. Some are raid-centric, some are PvP-centric, some are RP-centric, whilst others are sandbox-centric. FFXIV caters to the story-loving player. If this is not your forte, you're just going to suffer more and more with each expansion.

[Dante_V]

I mean you wouldn't really be able to do any content with these friends had they not completed the 2.0 story either way. So there has always been a wall between new players and endgame. It's like complaining you can't do garuda with your friends because they aren't level 44 yet and have to go thru the story to unlock garuda. HW is really not any different. It's a story centric rpg. It's pretty par for the course.

[Kumabear76]

So it's pretty next level stupid that you have to finish a storyline in order to continue the storyline? Sorry buddy, you can't simply skip chapters here.

[Socomlord]

I keep seeing these posts pop up. Srry about your friends luck it is the way it is. It isn't thrown in as a surprise, they told us months ago the requirements to access the expansion. Don't like the story? You can run through the whole thing in a few hours of you skip scene's... Deal with it.