Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
This is a pretty tough one TBH.

On one side of the coin, the ARR MSQ is pretty bad and highly protracted. There's little denying that it's quite the wall to get through. IMHO things get much better once you move into the HW era and beyond though.

On the flip side though, simply allowing people to skip the MSQ strikes me as a bad idea. The MSQ Duties and in world fluff at least force you to get somewhat used to your job and hotkeys. Allowing a player to jump straight into the end game with literally no clue what they are doing isn't something I'd relish for the good of DF. Things can get pretty bad as they are.

I do think that an MSQ squish is in order at least though, I think this is something that's been touched on in a couple of live letters?
They're aiming for an ARR squish for like 5.3 i want to say as that'll come out for when they give us the ARR NG+ part. That and there are so many people who either don't realize there are optional things or just don't care about it. I remember a thread back during the patch that came out around when Hells Lid got added and someone complaining about the ilv jump for I want to say the Tsukiyomi fight and they hadn't even unlocked Hells Lid which gives gear because they didn't even realize it existed even though the story was all hey Tataru you n Soroban go have some fun looking into Hells Lid while we go searching for Gosetsu.