Very interesting...

[weeble]

seif why are you here? those are not getting changed any time soon. plus what ffxi mission are you refering to? as i recall getting an axe from an orc had really no story to it. Or hunt down a crack mana orb, or runing throught a mine for a report. Same for quest in ffxi. Like hunting bat wing, or yagado neckleses. How much story did those have.

ffxi had shit loads of story to them, u probably just didn't do enough of them and only remember the first 5. every city had lots of interesting stories to them, some at some point ended up connecting to expansion missions like a sandy lady that can make healing remedies.

i'd say i like the ffxiv stories as well and they probably will only get better, problem is the actual quests are garbage nothing at all as close to ffxi(from nm/bosses and many other type of quests they had).

[Vix]

11s launch was painful

A fact that so many seem to forget. XI wasnt really any good till Zilart, a year post launch.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

ffxi had shit loads of story to them, u probably just didn't do enough of them and only remember the first 5. every city had lots of interesting stories to them, some at some point ended up connecting to expansion missions like a sandy lady that can make healing remedies.

i'd say i like the ffxiv stories as well and they probably will only get better, problem is the actual quests are garbage nothing at all as close to ffxi(from nm/bosses and many other type of quests they had).

ya...........................................

sandy

1 get an orc axe
2 hunt for evidence of a break in at the tomb
3 save a kid from orcs.
4 take part in a rescue dril
(skipbable)
go to the other cities and take part missions one involving a cs which clearly states the eye demon was the "new" leader but once he died he revealed the shadow lord was going to revive.

windy
run around windy getting info about an experiment go to ruin locate broken mana orb

[CeeKay]

Very good find, I'm reading this now.

Here is a real good one.

"- Serklets Earth Powder no longer hits the Party members who are in the first floor (this was horrendous. Before Shiia, my character named Xenno an elvaan mage were exping in there, and all of a sudden, BAM all party member dead. Why? Seklet's aoe affected even on the first floor...)."

Serket ftw!

[Kilta_Firelotus]

(continued)
run around windy to get info to revive 6 mana orbs when you do 4 ace cardians steal them
run around windy and give yags peace offering.
get coral from maze of shakrmi trade to nanna find her hide out get attacked again by the 4 aces
skibable dragon fight
the head mithra of the star sybal guard asks you to tail Arijo-majiro (sp his name is hard to spell)

bastok
report from the mines
experiment for cid involving a acid test
i forget
another experiment from cid involving a crystal
get a lizard egg
dragon fight
kill copper quadev.

sandy story line is about light bringer (high rank was rank 8 sandy)
story fully gets fleshed out after some of the jeuno quests with magicite.
windy story lines is about really what happen around windy same as above
bastok story is who end up as the tale keeper same as above.

the first few ranks of each nation are just intro to the city and current events. not much story apart from basic hints here or there.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

also the first 5 are between levels 1-25. after rank 4 you start getting into part of the zilart stuff with fighting the shadow lord after that the city stories take shape which ended up at levels 60+. Zilart starts @ 50/55. And you get sky @ 60.

Never question my memory of ffxi. I rerolled on that game over 50 times. and played it till last mnth.
Also only quests with cs are ones linked to the story of the city, expansion packs and class quests for AF. Other the that not much. They did have story though but not much only hints of lore here or there. Nothing extremely epic. Think only quests with epic story line was S.O.B quests and only because it was linked with windies story line since the joker they turn back on was spirit linked with the "hero of windy" who linked with fen to save windy.