MSQ as a new player

[Moonlite]

They are planning on streamlining it.

1. You are progressing, you are still gaining exp and gil and unlocking content. Most importantly you are progressing the storyline, welcome to Final Fantasy! If you are so far beyond it you might consider leveling another job.

This is such a wonderful post. Becuase of the garbage gate system that lore purists defend. You can't do any class quests, because oh wait they are locked behind a msq. A person hits 50 and get garbage xp because those quests have garbage xp, unless they boosted them. But I recently did some lvl 50 quests I missed, xp was bad and did not scale at all.


Then the comment just pay to skip it. I just want to scream. It has almost been half a decade since we have known it was bad. So new people should just pay to skip it. Don't people feel ashamed even suggesting that.



The one good suggestion is tank or healer que. The other option which doesn't seem suggested much. If you just want to clear it and xp isn't that great anyways. Get a level 80 friend from FC to just speed run it unsynced. Unless it has a mechanic that requires multiple players. All that stuff just takes a few minutes.

[MsQi]

This is such a wonderful post. Becuase of the garbage gate system that lore purists defend. You can't do any class quests, because oh wait they are locked behind a msq. A person hits 50 and get garbage xp because those quests have garbage xp, unless they boosted them. But I recently did some lvl 50 quests I missed, xp was bad and did not scale at all.


Then the comment just pay to skip it. I just want to scream. It has almost been half a decade since we have known it was bad. So new people should just pay to skip it. Don't people feel ashamed even suggesting that.



The one good suggestion is tank or healer que. The other option which doesn't seem suggested much. If you just want to clear it and xp isn't that great anyways. Get a level 80 friend from FC to just speed run it unsynced. Unless it has a mechanic that requires multiple players. All that stuff just takes a few minutes.

I'm not sure what you are implying about me, but if I had my way they would make the MSQ optional rather than change it. There are a few kill quests and some "back and forthing" they could adjust or make separate. But this is Final Fantasy, if you don't like endless text boxes and cutscenes you're a "casual" . Raids and harder content are mostly side quests, they fill out the lore and the universe and it beats dodging 200 lightning bolts, but they are often not the main story.

[Moonlite]

I'm not sure what you are implying about me, but if I had my way they would make the MSQ optional rather than change it. There are a few kill quests and some "back and forthing" they could adjust or make separate. But this is Final Fantasy, if you don't like endless text boxes and cutscenes you're a "casual" . Raids and harder content are mostly side quests, they fill out the lore and the universe and it beats dodging 200 lightning bolts, but they are often not the main story.

Sorry I interpreted the original response as "you should be basking in the glow of the MSQ it is xp and oh such fine writing how could you not be enjoying this" slightly embellished to illustrate how it came across. Ignoring the fact that it scales horribly and locks you out of other aspects of leveling.



I have seen a few people, not you though. Say that almost none of those quests can be cut because some npc mentions one tiny thing that ties into some quest you will do weeks from now and who really remembers or cares. Or people who say just give SE more money. Or people who claim that gating MSQ has solved botting going forward. Or that its a FF game and it has lots of text. I am sure somewhere someone on the internet has counted, but it feels like I have trudged through at least 3 FF games worth of text. Maybe I am wrong and the rabid lore fan base just makes every mundane filler quest that mentions some tiny thing feel like ten.

[Krojack]

I recall them saying they are aiming for patch 5.3 to release the streamlined MSQ from 2.1 up to 3.0. They said they are already working on it now.