Quote Originally Posted by sf23 View Post
However after playing through the main story line and completing it for ARR. hitting 54, and finding after much research and confusion(couldn't find npcs as example) that I can't yet get to ishgard(even though NPC gate keeper to ishgard zone says "get heavensword expansion and do the before dawn quest and you are golden") to do the Heavensword expansion because I have 100 quests I have to do first, was demoralizing. As mentioned I can't get my new class spells (I'm already 54 now) because I Can't see the NPC that gives em. AND I have about 70 quests still to run before I can access "Before the dawn" quest is available to me. Its a bummer really. it wont stop me playing but IMO this should be fixed (or made more clear) for new players.
While I enjoy MSQ I remember the frustration of the preHW crawl: I bough HW because I wanted to fight dragons in the big elf castle like the pretty CGI trailer. ARR has some lulls every here and there, but those last 100 quests keeping me from the expansion (that I literally bought the game for for!) felt awful, especially when quite a few of them seemed especially menial (objective: sniff the chocobo). When I invite new friends to play the game 2.x is always the morale breaker. If they can make it to Ishgard its usually smooth sailing as around 3.0 devs realized quest quality > quest quantity.



Personally I wouldn't mind if they made MSQ optional. We're already getting NPC parties in dungeons for the people who don't want to play an MMO lol