New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[van_arn]

I'm not going to defend and say that the msq dungeons and trials are flawless, I am saying that its a good place to start getting basics down. It's like learning how to add, subtract, multiple etc before going to learn how to do algebra. Its a base to work off of. Of course there are people that fall through the cracks. Some people will catch on and pay attention others it will take longer, but to know mechanics does not mean you have to go learn all the primal exs and savage fights. Does clearing and doing these fights make a better player? Yes, because I am a much better player from doing them. But before I started doing ex/savage I understood mechs and cleared normal trials, normal raids, and dungeons just fine. I had a base to work from. And might I add, I do a lot of casual stuff atm, especially now that we're at the end of the expansion. Most parties are unremarkable others lead me straight to the Tales From the Duty Finder. My point is that it does teach and that that person is wrong to claim you need to do high end to know mechs. That's just asinine.

That's fair enough, but I suppose I don't see much of a difference in what these players would learn with or without a MSQ. I'm fine with a MSQ for the current expansion, to be sure-- but I'm not fine with five years of fedexing being required for a new player.

Like I said before, a new player already skips past the 1.0 story, so what's the harm in just skipping that new player to the gates of Heavensward instead. They'd have the option to NG+ the stuff we tell them to "just suffer through, it gets better in Heavensward." Heck, it would be literally impossible for a player to miss their job stone, too!

And I wouldn't have to keep telling sprouts wanting to play a DRK or AST that they have to suffer through 50 levels of a job they don't want to play.

(they never want to play a mch lol)