Steamline the Newbie Experience!

[Riardon]

Buy potion, skip content and lvls.
Skip cutscenes.
Suddenly find yourself in Stormblood areas.
You don't understand a thing of what's happening and what those colored boxes do on your skill bar.
Skip 4.X cutscenes cause you don't understand a thing of what they talk about.
Be a terrible player in dungeons.
Complain that the community is toxic or that the game has no content.

I understand that some people want to pay money to just pew pew mobs but I'm afraid those skip potions will have some disastrous side effects.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Buy potion, skip content and lvls.
Skip cutscenes.
Suddenly find yourself in Stormblood areas.
You don't understand a thing of what's happening and what those colored boxes do on your skill bar.
Skip 4.X cutscenes cause you don't understand a thing of what they talk about.
Be a terrible player in dungeons.
Complain that the community is toxic or that the game has no content.

I understand that some people want to pay money to just pew pew mobs but I'm afraid those skip potions will have some disastrous side effects.

Where have you been? Potions aside since they are not a thing yet, that's what people do right now! People skip cutscenes because they don't want to bother with the story and you have veteran players telling newbies to skip cutscenes so that things can go faster. Despite the novice network and the novice hall, you STILL have people who don't know the basics of their job and then cry foul when people tell them why they are messing up.

Skip potions would not change anything. All those things you fear were happening for a long time.

[Adire]

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No one really cares if you skip cut scenes. However, players have to level right now. And getting one skill at a time every so often makes learning far easier and far better than getting 20 or 30 skills all at once with no prior practice.

The problem does already exist, but jump potions will amplify it. When I took a break from the game for a few months, I forgot some of my rotations for certain classes. Having to relearn them from scratch was rough, I still am not at the level I'd like to be at with them. So even if you have people who want to be good players but used a jump potion, chances are they'll be overwhelmed similarly.

And honestly, the novice network isn't really helpful for anyone except people wanting an extra chat room, a pegasus, or a crown.