MSQ as a new player

[Goji1639]

My only problem with the MSQ is the forced grouping with other people. Experiencing a story dungeon as part of some rush-rush groups daily roulette is absolutely terrible. Nothing like playing with 3 other people who are bored to death, trying to get out of the dungeon as fast as possible, to completely take you out of the story.

Also, most of the time it makes no sense. "The echo protects you from Primal Influence, so you'll have to handle this fight. Oh, and here's 3 other echo users no ones ever mentioned you'll be randomly paired up with and then never see again.

[Ronduwil]

I wouldn't have minded taking a mini-tour of each zone, but it really didn't feel that way to me. It was lots of back and forth between Revenant's Toll and a bunch of random places that I'd already been through over the course of leveling my classes. I'm trying to get all my classes to level 50 before moving on, but apparently I have to finish the ARR MSQ in order to pick up various classes that start at level 30 (for some reason). I want to level everyone together to get the most out of my gear before desynthesizing/converting it. I'm a completionist by nature, so I like exploring areas and doing quests. The ARR MSQ, however, had too many gratuitous fed-ex quests and lengthy cut scenes with no plot development whatsoever. I don't want to be too spoilery, but there were many questionable decisions that I was forced to endure. I say endure because my character was given no opportunity to object, and I was forced to comply if I wanted to move the story forward. I can't emphasize enough how annoyed I was by the lengthy cut scenes. Every time I got a quest saying that Minfilia wanted to talk to me (and there were lots of those), I had to suppress a physical groan. I've heard more than enough speeches about the burden of carrying on Louisoix's legacy already. Let's just get the job done.