Quote Originally Posted by Frizze View Post
Not progressing your character? Well they werent designed to. But if you dont think the patch line quests advanced the story then you clearly werent paying attention. The quest line starts out slowly, but from roughly patch 2.3 on through the end in 2.55(so about 70 of those 100 quests) everything is picking up steam and all the important pieces are getting put into the positions they need to be in. The fact that we're still paying off bits from those quests in the SB patchline 4 years later alone shows that they put a lot of important details into those 100 quests. And on top of that, they even listened to player feedback, as the HW patchline was only about 50 quests(and SB is shaping up to be about the same length) so that the same roadblocks werent as severe moving forward. Were these quests perfect? Oh god no, and theres certainly room to do a little trimming. But they arent as bad as people make them out to be either.
Slowly is too kind a description for those patch MSQ quests, it was ridiculously padded & paced, honestly as a newcomer to the game, I was enjoying everything up until the 7th Astral Quests, I did try and make my way through them, but I really didn't enjoy it, I grabbed a jump potion & spent less than an hour reading up on the story arc from the end of ARR to HW, it allowed me to get into content I actually enjoyed again & allowed me to progress my character.

Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
The patch-story MSQ is still the MSQ, and some really major events happen in it - like the actual climax of the Heavensward story, and a lot of important information. New characters are introduced. Others die or are farewelled or change dramatically. We've learned some incredibly important things in the recent patches.


Also, for keeping levels balanced, even without the Road to 60 benefit I found it was best to keep two active classes at a time to share EXP between them.
I wish I had kept two active classes, never mind !! I've got my SAM up to lv.70 through the MSQ, got my NIN up to lv.61 I think so far using the daily roulette's and beast tribe quests, along with some of the side quests I didn't complete.