Quote Originally Posted by OhnoozeMyToes View Post
I’m a pretty new player so take this from my point of view but I have had some issues with leveling in the game.

Until you get to the final expansion there seems to be no reason at all to do any questing other than the msq. And yeah FFXIV seems to do a great job for story but the problem for me has been that you do very little gameplay or experiencing the world and spend most your time traveling and reading all the story text. So when I get home at night and have an hour or two to play, the last thing I want to do is read and travel around a map so I end up just playing a low lvl job and doing levees so that I can relax and get some game action.

Am I alone here?
While I can somewhat appreciate your complaint, this is more or less the nature of all MMOs. Only the current expansion is generally relevant when it comes to gameplay since all the content prior has been done to death by the playerbase. On the one hand, sure, the dev team could give us more incentives to do Alexander or Deltascape—which would be great for new players. I, myself, never got to experience Coil at its peak until Ultimate. In doing so, however, it forces a good portion of people to redo content they're likely tired of. For example, I'm done with Stormblood and have no real pressing desire to revisit it. Heavensward is a bit different, but that may be bias on my part because I adore Heavensward and the Ishgard setting as a whole.

Your best option is to level other jobs when you just feel like playing the game and return to the story when you have more time.