What to do?

[TheWill]

Hello guys!

i just wanted to hear your recommendation about my case. the last time that i played FF14 was 2 years ago and since stormblood is coming it made me excited and now im looking forward to play again. I havent purchased heavensward yet and my character is a lvl 50 dragoon and i have completed all story quest for ARR. my question now is should i pick up heavensward now and play towards finishing it? or should i wait for stormblood to come out as it has heavensward as well?

and at this point at the status of my account is there anything meaningful to do if i dont buy HW?

thanks!

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

You will be required to complete heavensward story quests in order to access the stormblood areas. So it's worth getting that completed ahead of time if you want to play stormblood content when the expansion releases.

[dannykc83]

Hi The Will! I think you may as well wait and purchase Stormblood if you get Heavansward combined with it. Your going to have to complete 140 story quests which will take you a week of solid play to get through before you can start Stormblood. I came back to the game roughly 2 weeks ago at the same point you are now and have churned through nearly the first 90 quests. However this is playing a couple hours a night as I work! What I can tell you is that the story is really good this time so if you needed something to play for the next month before stormblood it might be worth picking up cheap. Regardless of your choice it will be money well spent and remember you've got like 2 years to get through stormblood as that's how often the expansions come along! Good luck with whatever you choose!

[Tsubaki75]

Regardless of your choice it will be money well spent and remember you've got like 2 years to get through stormblood as that's how often the expansions come along! Good luck with whatever you choose!

Heavensward came out 1 year ago

[Mholito]

Heavensward came out 1 year ago

June 23rd 2015 was one year ago?! Gotta be the longest year I've ever heard about then.

[DrWho2010]

just get going on HW quests now you're gonna need to complete them to play 4.0 stuffs so might as well get going on it now.

[DreamAngel-Ren]

You pretty much will be trapped in the Realm Reborn areas until you get the expansions HW then SB; yes, in order to get into SB, you have to complete HW MSQs.

[Lelila38]

I think Stormblood will require you to have completed the Heavensward storyline. However, don't worry, it's well worth playing. The story is really good
What might be worth checking out is the idea from dannykc83. If there's an option to buy HW+SB at the same time, that might save you some money.

And I just saw you're on my server, if you pick up HW and need help with anything, feel free to send me a /tell.

[LunaFaye]

While the new areas will be locked behind the last expansion, you'll be able to pick up the new jobs, once your regular character hits level 50 and finished the old ARR dungeon/msq aka praetorium and castrum.

That gives you two options since SB includes the HW expansion as well,

a) go ahead right now and sub, play the whole HW expansion, then all you've to do is level the new jobs once they are released without having to unlock everything (farming gear on the way etc) or

b) wait. If SB is anything like HW was, you'll need lots of fates and side quests and probably have to spam the new unlocked dungeons, to even get close but still not fully to 70.

With that in mind, if you would wait and take your level 50 throughout the already buffed HW area, you'll easily 64 by the time you reach the SB areas and could probably without frustration get to 70, compared to us people that can't wait and "love" the grind.

I personally if I would have taken a break, would chose option B. But since I didn't take a break and already being bored for the last 9 months, I'll take option A and kick myself in the ass for having even considered that route. Chose your path wisely

[Okamimaru]

With SB so close id just use this time to get reacquainted the game and buy SB when it's released since HW comes with it free.... that's saving 20 bucks.... meanwhile do things like Mandeville story quest, farm ex primals, do hunts... SB is less than a month away... if you can afford to buy HW now on its own go for it... to me it's not worth the cost vs just waiting