I hate playing as other characters

[Necrotica]

So how much of endwalker will be the horrible suffering of having to play as random scions?

I want to play the character I made. Not as the devs characters.

Now the ONE exception to this could be the scripted loss fights. If you are going to force me to lose no matter what I do (nevermind that should never be a thing, just make that nonsense a cutscene) then losing the fight as another scion would be okay. Enjoyable even.

[Vahlnir]

It's a bit of a thing with FF titles where you play as different characters sometimes but go back to playing your main character. Personally, I like how they do that with FF XIV.

[Cinno]

I've never understood this complaint, even though it pops up all the time. It's just a few duties. five or ten minutes of your life for said duties, and then it puts you back into your character.

You play as your character for hundreds to thousands of hours in this game... playing as another character for 10 minutes for a story related bit of content every now and then is not that big of a deal.

[Floortank]

I've never understood this complaint, even though it pops up all the time. It's just a few duties. five or ten minutes of your life for said duties, and then it puts you back into your character.

You play as your character for hundreds to thousands of hours in this game... playing as another character for 10 minutes for a story related bit of content every now and then is not that big of a deal.

You can win every duty in the game on your main character without reading a single tooltip, but often the duties where you play as another character want you to at least glance at your skill selection.

Particularly thinking about the one where you need to use Break, without being too story specific.

Personally, I love the RP duties.

[Wyssahtyn]

RP duties are such a drag. Stripped down toolkit, usually boring mechanics, a fight that just drags on. And some of them just have you lose in the cutscene afterwards anyway so it just feels like an even bigger waste of time.

[anguel]

but often the duties where you play as another character want you to at least glance at your skill selection.

thats totally me when taking control of alisaie, in shadowbringer, because i ve never ever played rdm i had absolutly no clue what or what was doing, legit waited to start the fight a good 4 min to read all skill xD

[TheMightyMollusk]

The only one I really can't stand is the one with Thancred in Ahm Araeng. It's boring and it takes way too long.

[Evergrey]

Only reason I don't like playing as other random characters is my lack of how to play certain jobs and that makes the experience annoying.
Luckily those are pretty easy and the occations have been few and far apart.
But I do expect at least one of those in Endwalker.

[Floortank]

thats totally me when taking control of alisaie, in shadowbringer, because i ve never ever played rdm i had absolutly no clue what or what was doing, legit waited to start the fight a good 4 min to read all skill xD

Alisaie's tooltips aren't that good tbh. It's not exactly clear, unless you already know how RDM works, what you are supposed to do with her from reading her tooltips. Fortunately that fight is pretty easy.

[Jeeqbit]

It's a good advertisement for other classes too because a lot of people who do the story have not tried these classes yet but might discover they like them.