Job Potions on Mog Station, When?

[Macleod]

I dont mean to attack anyone, but I'm always a bit curious why people want to skip the story (I guess I can understand it with parts of ARR) when they know that there will just be MORE story with the next expansion. I mean... you want topay money to skip something you dont like, to get to play more content you dont like...?
Can someone explain this to me somehow? I'm sorry, I just cant wrap my head around this >.< I guess everyone enjoys different things about the game in the end and thats fine, but I just dont get this...

In OPs case for example: was it the setting you didnt like and you hope you'll like the SB one better? Or the characters?

Well for me, I am slightly considering using it so I can make a true alt character without having to do all that stuff again. Occasionally, I'd also like to play as a different race without having to buy a fantasia every time! ...which is why I'd like to make an alt, and one that doesn't have to do all that story stuff and the stuff gated behind it. I enjoy the story stuff, don't get me wrong, but that doesn't mean I want to do everything again just to have access to the same stuff as my main. /shrug

[Vidu]

Well for me, I am slightly considering using it so I can make a true alt character without having to do all that stuff again.

Not wanting to do the story again I can fully understand! (And again: I'm not judging anyone who wants to skip the story enterily, even on their first character - I'm just wondering how happy a person who doesnt want to see the story at all is going to be witha Final Fantasy game)

[Jadub2k]

Not wanting to do the story again I can fully understand! (And again: I'm not judging anyone who wants to skip the story enterily, even on their first character - I'm just wondering how happy a person who doesnt want to see the story at all is going to be witha Final Fantasy game)

yeah I know, It may sound weird but there are people out there that do enjoy mindless grinding with no context to what there doing

[HappyHubris]

I dont mean to attack anyone, but I'm always a bit curious why people want to skip the story (I guess I can understand it with parts of ARR) when they know that there will just be MORE story with the next expansion. I mean... you want topay money to skip something you dont like, to get to play more content you dont like...?
Can someone explain this to me somehow? I'm sorry, I just cant wrap my head around this >.< I guess everyone enjoys different things about the game in the end and thats fine, but I just dont get this...

In OPs case for example: was it the setting you didnt like and you hope you'll like the SB one better? Or the characters?

1) The sooner I get through old content the sooner I can play with the general community and friends on the new content.
2) There are way, way too many MSQs. I quit FFXIV when I completed the 100 MSQs of ARR (Zzzz) and saw that there were 100 MORE before STARTING HW. Without jump potion, I would never come back.
3) The MSQline is heavily padded, which may work all right if you're consuming content bit by bit but is tortuous back-to-back when catching up. All the ARR fetch quests and story padding (hey, we need you to provision a feast to fight a boss) ate away at time without adding much to the world.

[Aylis]

I'm hearing June 14'th from friends

I mean... you want to pay money to skip something you dont like, to get to play more content you dont like...?

I can only speak for myself because yes I fully intend to buy the story skip potion. My reason is because I'm behind my friends and to be honest they're the only reason why I'm even playing. One of them has valid health concerns and has a stress anxiety problem. Most of which has been triggered by players acting dumb in duty finder. It's gotten to the point where they've had to go to the hospital over it. I've begged them to quit and quit games all together, they won't and I'm torn on the subject because it is wrong of me to try and take away what enjoyment they have. They love FFXIV and the setting and story. I don't, but I do want to take away the stress of random healers from them and to spend time with them because frankly I don't know what tomorrow will ever bring. $25 and skipping through as fast as I can through SB just to give my friend an hour of stress free dungeons a day is a small price to pay and its worth the cost to me.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I'm hearing June 14'th from friends



I can only speak for myself because yes I fully intend to buy the story skip potion. My reason is because I'm behind my friends and to be honest they're the only reason why I'm even playing. One of them has valid health concerns and has a stress anxiety problem. Most of which has been triggered by players acting dumb in duty finder. It's gotten to the point where they've had to go to the hospital over it. I've begged them to quit and quit games all together, they won't and I'm torn on the subject because it is wrong of me to try and take away what enjoyment they have. They love FFXIV and the setting and story. I don't, but I do want to take away the stress of random healers from them and to spend time with them because frankly I don't know what tomorrow will ever bring. $25 and skipping through as fast as I can through SB just to give my friend an hour of stress free dungeons a day is a small price to pay and its worth the cost to me.

That is a fantastic gesture and good things should happen for you because of it.

[Galen_Malchome]

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Fates and Leve Quest xp blows, I have been waiting since HW launch for hopefully some re-balancing of XP gains from it, no go.

I would gladly pay to get a 60 that does require me to grind a crap-ton of stuff since there are not enough quests to get decent xp to level a second let alone 3rd job.

There are so many QoL updates that I have been hoping for and they did not materialize. I am willing to get Stormblood a go but yet again we have to complete the stupid story to get to a new zone in the expansion. It would be nice to start at an expansion and just play in the new content once you hit the level.

[OmegaFlare]

Fates and Leve Quest xp blows, I have been waiting since HW launch for hopefully some re-balancing of XP gains from it, no go.

I would gladly pay to get a 60 that does require me to grind a crap-ton of stuff since there are not enough quests to get decent xp to level a second let alone 3rd job.
There are so many QoL updates that I have been hoping for and they did not materialize. I am willing to get Stormblood a go but yet again we have to complete the stupid story to get to a new zone in the expansion. It would be nice to start at an expansion and just play in the new content once you hit the level.

Boost potions will be available next Friday, 6/16/2017. You could easily grind for levels through POTD. If you want to play in the new expansion right away, you could also purchase the MSQ boost potion which lets you completes all of HW and ARR msq and starts you off right where SB begins. So $25 for a job boost potion and $25 for a msq potion plus $40 for the expansion lets you enjoy the expansion from day 1.

[Vidu]

So what really bothered you wasnt the story but rather the leveling of classes?

I do understand your wish of a fresh start and I am fully aware that its your choice after all, but maybe you could consider buying the level jump potion instead of the story skip one and actually play through the HW-story?
If you actually enjoy seeing the story it would be a shame to miss out on it...

PotD is a fast way of leveling btw. Daily Beast Tribe quests give a very decent chunk of exp aswell - the weekly challenge log gives a certain amount of exp aswell.
And to be honest: at the end of the day after the story is done this game is one big grind - if you dont enjoy that, I'm not sure what this game can give you once the story is done...?
Again, in the end its your choice, but if you care about the story, I would reconsider skipping it, even though I understand your situation and wish for a fresh start.

[Rakiria]

I mean... you want topay money to skip something you dont like, to get to play more content you dont like...?

The game is not just story, and some people don't care about it at all, so they'd not skip it to get to more story but to get to the endgame, whatever that is for everyone. Raiding contains no story, RP contains no story (or no story quests), glamour contains no story, just playing with friends contains no story.

This is an mmo, so you should never think about things that affect the whole playerbase from a point of "i enjoyed that" and "i don't care about this", but rather as "do people enjoy this" and "do most people really want that" o/
while we're at it don't say stuff about game design because you know about network technology because you don't and too many people think that's all to it, not for the quote but peope on teh forum in general