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    Hexceed's Avatar
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    Jun 2015
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    Sigyn Mooglehowl
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    Tonberry
    Main Class
    Ninja Lv 60

    Perspective of a Newer Player

    TLDR; Would love it if the game was new player friendly, less grindy quests and nerf ilvl requirements.

    I just wanted to voice my opinion on the game so far as someone who was invited to join FFXIV 2 weeks prior to Heavensward.

    I've originally played WoW for years and only recently decided to take my gaming career from the no content Blizzard Entertainment has chosen to provide the player base aka WoD. Much like the other 3 million subscribers who found mindless grinding of Apexis Crystal grind life disgusting, I've chosen to heed some of my old friends both from WoW and off it to try out FFXIV.

    Despite all these invitation what really sold it to me was the trailers of Heavensward and the fact that Dark Knights will be introduced as a playable class. As someone who played a Death Knight tank since WotLK I was pretty hyped to get into the game and start my exploration of Eorzea as a Dark Knight.

    Little did I know that there would be a ginormous quest grind I would need to tackle before I'm even allowed to set foot in the only city with the job trainer that will let you take on the mantle of a Dark Knight.

    As a new player who knew more or less nothing about the game I naturally thought if I bought the expansion I would get to play as one of the three new classes. Further I levelled I slowly began to realize that one of the requirements to enter Ishgard would be that I would need to reach Lv50 so I've grinded out my levels in any way I can find. Main story quests, dungeon grinding, fates, etc. When I finally got to Lv50 I then realized the content would be hidden away behind the many gates of further questing and by this stage I was almost convinced that maybe just maybe those Apexis Crystals might not be so bad afterall.

    Most of the main scenario cinematics? I've skipped more or less the whole lot of them. The story seemed too linear and forced you to become a hero of the light aka Minfillia's personal man slave who travels from A to B to C to A and then back to C then to D and then finally back to A to click on Minfilia your master. The whole time I felt like I was the Scion's instrumental bitch who took orders from first Minfilia and then from a elezen teenager who could easily pass off as a girl if you put him in a dress.

    That wasn't too bad though. What really frustrated me was when there were quests popping up every now and then, demanding you meet a greater ilvl than what you can find in dungeon grinding and questing.

    As a new player this can mean one of the two things, I can either go purchase gil from a gil farmer to afford some of the upgrades on auction for ridiculous prices just so I can finally queue up for the dungeons, or make gil in any way I can be it from crafting (take note I have not leveled any since grinding lv50 was my sole goal at this point) or hoping a rare drops from a dungeon grinding.

    I was frustrated that nowhere in that god damn main scenario quests did they offer you gear that will boosts up your ilvl necessary to set foot in these dungeons. It might be easier to understand all this if I'd been playing for months and amassed a small fortune to meet the gear requirements. Is FFXIV new player friendly? At this point I'm going to say no.

    The new expansion was clearly aimed at the older veteran players and as a new player starting out I found this game to be one of the grindiest game ever so far.

    If it wasn't for enormous helping hands from my friends who crafted me gear to meet the ilvl and their contributions towards helping me through some of the harder contents, I think I probably never would have made it to Ishgard.

    Heavensward was not designed with newer players interests in mind at all. If I didn't receive all the help I've gotten from my FC then I most likely would not have made it to Ishgard to start my Dark Knight. More than likely I would probably have gone back on the shit hole of a game WoW has become... hoping the next expansion they might implement "Fun" into their gameplay experience.

    EDIT:
    Regarding the ilvl requirement, so they have been implemented earlier. I personally didn't see this in effect because I was already Lv50 and grinded through halfway through Main Scenario Quest/Before The Fall by the time it was supposedly implemented. Kudos to SuddenStorm8 for informing the ignorant noob.
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    Last edited by Hexceed; 06-25-2015 at 05:50 PM.