Just a brain dump... maybe a little burnt out?

[Dreakon13]

From the sound of it, I'd wager you've spammed your roulettes more than necessary. Basically everything in the game is gated by story. MSQ is largely sufficient to keep you at-level to proceed with story quests. Running roulettes should mostly be unnecessary unless you're leveling multiple jobs. If you're wanting to main one, and trying to push into HW to get to what you actually want, yeah, roulettes may have been the wrong choice.

But, if you also feel the story is a slog, yet you still enjoy playing the game otherwise, probably your best option is to just buy the story and job boosts. Skip the story that you're not interested in, unlock many more options, jump past much of the leveling process, and get straight into... whatever it is you do.

I would agree that I did the roulette's more than necessary. Partially because I didn't really know what I wanted to do at first so being "gated" didn't effect me, partially because the story did/does feel like a bit of a slog (at least earlier on), partially because that felt like the most "fun" part of the game to me.

I'm pretty old fashioned with stuff, I don't necessarily want to skip the story outright (even moreso if I have to "buy" it). Though I do kind of wish expansion jobs weren't locked behind MSQ (though I understand it perhaps for story purposes). Because whether I avoided the roulette's or not, I'm still stuck leveling jobs I may not care about as much to get to the ones I think I will.

Though I am super indecisive with this stuff and DRK may not pan out when I get there anyways lol. So maybe I just roll with my PLD job through the rest of the story and see how it goes... since I do think the tank role could end up being the one thing I stick with, regardless of the specific job I main. /shrug

Still interested in the whole free company thing though, however I'd go about finding one for someone like me. I think the camaraderie could help the day to day story grind (among other things).