New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

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now, a new player buying shadowbringers because they like dancer and this warrior of darkness in a light world, would have to do like, 700 quests, thats a lot. Your new friend asks when he can play gunbreaker, and you tell him, you just have to do 700 quests to unlock it. Even if he did 10 quests a day, thats like 2 months.

I do wish SE would have made all the jobs available @ 30 for this reason, so I agree with you on that point.

Now everyone is saying this is a MMORPG but what does that even mean? MMO is basically a game you play with other people in an open environment. RPG is a game where you do some kind of story, mainly through quest. Both WoW and FFXIV check those boxes. Now I played WoW a little prior to and after BFA launch and guess what, I had to grind through main story quest to get to the end, gasp. Yes, i had boost that let me skip to the relative content on one character, but then had to grind through story on other jobs. The difference with FFXIV is, you only have to do the MSQ once with all jobs. ARR is the only really roadblock here because it does have a ton of MSQ. HW and SB will walk new players all the way to max level without much need for side quest. I still have tons of side quest in SB that Dancer and Gunblade will be doing.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the grass isn't greener on the WoW side of the house, if you think MSQ is bad trying unlock new races on WoW. I had to grind for a month just to get Void and Nightborne Elf. And of course you have to level that new race from level 1 wi6th no boost if you already used your free ones.