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    Hope Sunflame
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    Twintania
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    White Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Azuri View Post
    I really don't see how someone completing MSQ will help with it. It is quite literally designed to be as accessible as possible. Someone having "Endwalker" under completed quests doesn't have any correlation with their competence in the game.

    It's also worth noting that I'm talking exclusively about MSQ skip. It's an entirely separate item from level skip. I wouldn't advocate for instant-90 item. But the quests themselves? I really don't see the harm.
    A friend I have who is hardcore into any game he picks up, plays competitively and also has experienced several MMOs confided to me that after he boosted to 80 he died a crap ton to mechanics as he hadn't seen them or misunderstood different markers. He even unabashedly said he was doing roulettes, AND was the healer. I get it, hard to admit with how easy the MSQ is that the normal dungeons teach anything of value. But imagine if you were whisked into a big boss fight while not knowing:

    1. What stack markers look like

    2. What these weird arrows rotating around a boss before some mechanic mean

    3. What that big red eye on the boss means before a cast

    4. The fact that you're standing close to the front of a boss (even by accident or just thinking nothing is wrong) and then you're at 2% health

    5. What order to press your buttons in. Not talking optimal complex openers, really just cursorily reading tooltips and not knowing what a "buff window" or "combos" are.
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    Last edited by RobynDaBank; 12-23-2021 at 03:56 PM.
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