Back after almost 2 years, re ding 50 but...

[Dubah]

The story quests are just getting out of hand. I wanted to buy the expac, but i gotta wait til tomorrow or monday, i was trying to work through the story quests to get to heavensward but jesus, these thing don't end... What is the deal with all these quests? I don't remember it being like this, last i remember you beat ultima weapon and the story was done after that, now I've completed at least 20 more story quests and still don't even feel like i am breaking the surface. Is there any way to skip all of these quests or are they seriously neccessary?

[Squigley]

There's about a zillion more quests including trials and dungeons between Ultima and Heavensward. No way to skip them because story.

[Khalithar]

The story quests are just getting out of hand. I wanted to buy the expac, but i gotta wait til tomorrow or monday, i was trying to work through the story quests to get to heavensward but jesus, these thing don't end... What is the deal with all these quests? I don't remember it being like this, last i remember you beat ultima weapon and the story was done after that, now I've completed at least 20 more story quests and still don't even feel like i am breaking the surface. Is there any way to skip all of these quests or are they seriously neccessary?

Yes they are necessary. The storyline is what leads you to ishgard, storyline wise ishgard still has it's borders closed to foreigners entirely, it doesn't make sense for your character to suddenly be allowed there without completing the main story quest completion that explains your entire reason for being there in the first place. It's fairly grindy I agree and I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to give up.

Here's the full list of the story quests after ultima weapon and that chain you need to complete to get to ishgard. Dunno if it makes you feel any better, but this will give you a visual to know how far along you are.

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...ral_Era_Quests

[Dubah]

Here's the full list of the story quests after ultima weapon and that chain you need to complete to get to ishgard. Dunno if it makes you feel any better, but this will give you a visual to know how far along you are.

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...ral_Era_Quests

hey thanks for that link it's awesome. I got bored of the story til about 44, then finally started paying attention again, but after 50 i got bored again lol. It just feels like no point to what I am doing... My attention span sucks lol. Especially with all the reading, anyways, thanks for that link it was really helpful and shows that i have barely scatched the surface...

[Dement]

Keep in mind that you're playing through about 2 years worth of patch content with new story quests added every 3 months after the initial release. They also padded the 2.0 series patch story quests with excessive fetch quests to try to keep everyone happy. Fortunately, they seem to have moved away from this in the 3.0 series.

[Dubah]

Well, according to the link above i have 39 quests to go til i can see heavansward... this is just becoming too much. I've never heard of a game requiring story to advance

[Powe]

Um campaign modes does that right?

[Khalithar]

Well, according to the link above i have 39 quests to go til i can see heavansward... this is just becoming too much. I've never heard of a game requiring story to advance

Yeah I was glad to have that link when I was grinding through the story when I started the game last may, I powered from 1-50 and got all the main story quest stuff done in about 3 weeks, just in time to pre-order HW and continue from there. Though I did have to stop to grind tomestones to get my ilevel high enough since this was before they rewarded the gear that pushed your ilevel high enough.

[Dubah]

Um campaign modes does that right?

Really? I meant a MMO... Sorry, i assumed this forum had people smart enough to pick up on that part.

[Cnidarian]

Really? I meant a MMO... Sorry, i assumed this forum had people smart enough to pick up on that part.

This is a story driven MMO, and you are surprised that it requires you to complete the story to advance?