Allow MSQ Fast Track To Latest Expansion

[Lexia]

Like it or not, this game will eventually follow the model of others before it. Bundling boosts with the new expac is common for a reason on MMO's once they're so many years old.

Well this is the same company did made FFXI and don't think XI ever had/has any type of jump or insta-level potion. But even if they do I still say don't count it being part of the standard version, it most likely be with the expensive CE version you know the ones that come with the statue and cost $150+

[Makeda]

Unless your friends only play like one day a week they could come back now and easily have the MSQ finished by the time SB launches.

That's debatable.

I'm doing that - but I had a head start, I had finished 2.0 before I left the game some time back.

From 2.0 to 3.0 is a lot of quests and dungeons - about 100 quests. And they give enough gear to complete them.

But once you finish 3.0... from there to the end of 3.5.6 (or whatever the current number is), you must reach iLevel 230 before doing some dungeons, but you hit 60 and finish 3.0 at about 142-150 iLevel, IF you ALSO too the time to grind PotD for a kinna iLevel 255 weapon.

You will be blocked pretty quickly into the post-3.0 MSQs unless you do some side tasks to get gear. Hunts, roulette dungeons, etc... and PotD (which gives 60 lore, 30 script tomestones per 10 levels if you go as a level 60).
- That all slows down the ability to do the MSQ.

You need to be a very active player to do all of that quickly and get to iLevel 230 so you can finish the quests.
- And the roulettes... they are gated behind having completed lots of side-dungeons. I unlocked the level 50 roulette. It took me almost all of last weekend to do all of those dungeons that had not been a part of the 2.x MSQ... again doing 15+ dungeons in a day and a half is not something most players will do...
(particularly when half the dungeons are full of people who get rude when they realize you're new and aren't "doing it right". I've had a few cases of healers standing AFK waiting for me to wipe, and in one case the DPS as well, because I didn't do a mechanic the way "the community" does it... without offering any tips or explanations. I have a thick skin, I've been a tank since 2004... but a lot of players will give up when this kind of stuff occurs).
- If that happens in a dungeon needed for MSQ... people might give up 'on the way' through.

You can do it... but it's not easy or 'casual'... you need to sit down every session with a plan in mind for how to get as far through the MSQ as possible that day... including side quests/dungeons for gear to unlock the next MSQ step... If you're sending a friend in right now... help them with some good guides and websites like consolegameswiki or they won't make it by Stormblood launch.

[Lexia]

I have never understood the casual/don't want to spend time doing stuff when comes to a mmo I gave always viewed them as a time sink a BIG time sink. To many people impatient these days.

[Deceptus]

Nope.

This is a game built on the story and the story is IMPORTANT.

You can cut out lots of filler stuff, but not the main story line.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I understand it's a lot of catching up, I'm against the option of catching up. However I do like the idea having access to a story summary. What new expansions should do in the future is provide some content for lower levels to enjoy. I think FF11 did this pretty well. CoP's early missions required level 30. The new jobs in ToAU, WotG, and SoU all had extra jobs accessible to players without requiring story progression. Difficulty of unlocking those jobs varied, but all possible.