I am not sure where I am in the MSQ
Alright, so you forgot the story. There are a number of ways to remind yourself:
  • Re-watch patch trailers to remind yourself what happens prior to Endwalker at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoug...vBe3k&index=16
  • Re-watch the cutscenes at The Unending Journey at an Inn.
  • Re-read the quest journal by opening it and clicking "Complete" (but this takes ages).
  • Often things just come back to you vaguely when characters reference events, even if it's been years.
I seem to be running around saving babies and watch other people fight my fights.
I mean, sometimes. You do an awful lots of the chores (like the hero does in most games), but they want to make other characters seem a bit useful.
I seem to be delivering messages and watching people talk and talk and talk and talk.
Well it is a story-driven game. It's not just fight fight fight like some sort of tournament game.
There is no end.to mind numbing story.
Well there wouldn't be in a story-driven game, especially a Final Fantasy game, which has been known for being story-driven for decades.
There is no quest action not like wow or ESO.
Many single player games like to deliver the story as you're walking along and do voiced dialogue as you move and fight, but for this game that is mostly done in cutscenes, apart from the solo battles. Just how it is. The fights are either easy open world battles or eventually put you into dungeons and trials with other players.
There are freaking rabbits on the moon and the moon is a space ship.
That happens throughout the game really. They have a lighthearted thing such as an area full of moogles in Heavensward, an area full of Namazu and Turtles in Stormblood, an area full of Pixies and Dwarves in Shadowbringers. They setup for the (optional) beast tribe quests later.
Gear is non existent I have the 330 gear I wore at the end of shadowbringers all the way to 90
That's very strange.
  • The MSQ awards you coffers, which when redeemed, increase your item level to what is required for your next dungeon.
  • Obviously, you get dungeon loot sometimes, guaranteed from leveling dungeons too. You can equip the best gear automatically by clicking the "Recommended Gear" button on your character page.
  • You can get the best gear (400 or 530 gear) by spending Allagan Tomestones of Poetics from the blue bag icon at city states (Kugane and The Crystarium respectively).
  • You can buy low-quality vendor gear (385 and 515 from Kugane and The Crystarium respectively) but it's not as good as other gear of the same item level.
  • You can buy High-Quality versions of the vendor gear from the Market Board if anyone crafted it, or visit another server and check the market board there.
There are no new powers just additions to previous powers.
They don't want to overwhelm people's hotbars. They started to solve the excessive actions by "upgrading" the effects, animations and potencies of actions. Unused ones have been removed over the years as well, which is why lower levels can feel lackluster on some classes.
There is no sense in anyway that my character has grown in power .
Must be your chosen class, because most of them do feel like they grow for sure. Warrior is one of the few that kinda stays the same.
or your game will continue to die.
Statistically it has grown every single expansion, new data centers have had to be added to cope with congestion and Dawntrail set a record for pre-orders so... it ain't dying. On a pure statistical level, with no other context, your statement is objectively flawed.