New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Penthea]

they dont have content unlocked because the main story gates most of the content. Your logic is circular.

Please tell me how a lvl 20 character would be able to do lvl 30+ dungeons synced with players of similar lvl. I'll say it again; WoW doesn't have a msq but it doesn't automatically mean all the content is unlocked or doable at low lvl. Your options are small at low lvl in every mmorpg.

At this point I think you're just deliberately trying to misunderstand me.

assuming msq wasnt gating content, you could level up together the whole time. start at level 1, get on your clas you havent played, do fates, kill monsters, explore until 15 do some dungeons, get 18 mix in some potd. Then when you log off, or they are alone they do all the story stuff they are interested in.

It appears the person who has a problem with the msq isn't your friend, it's you. You don't want to be around when your friend is doing it.

leveling is a group activity mostly

Ah, no. It's a mix of group and solo content. How much you do of one or the other is up to you, but it's always a mix. For example you can choose to only do msq, or you can choose to mix in roulettes, fates and leves with it.

leveling is a group activity mostly, story is not, so story gating leveling makes it pretty rough.

But it can be if you weren't so allergic to the msq that you cannot fathom the idea of starting an alt to play with your buddy.

You hate the msq, I get it. But what you want would change a major core aspect of the game. Everything is tied to the msq in some manner be it mechanically, by lore or both. It is central to the game.

I would be shocked if SE detached the msq from the lvling experience given that they would have to alter a gigantic amount of the game to facilitate this. They would have to change the prerequisites of an incredible amount of content. It wouldn't be just dungeons. It would also be other content like side quests, the gold saucer, the challenge log, Palace of the Dead, beast tribes...the list goes on and on. I doubt they would put in this much work for a minority. Especially when other things like new playable content, adding male viera and female hrothgar or fixing housing would be far better received.

And especially considering jump potions exist. SE at the end of the day are a business. They're not going to work on making the msq an entirely separate entity from the rest of the game when they know that if they don't they will sell more jump potions.