Redo the beginning

[Venat]

When I say redo the beginning I mean redo the classes selection at the start of the game where you can only choose Warrior or magic classes. Remove the crafting and gather classes at the very start of the game. The beginning battle is a joke when your a crafter or gatherer.

Why I say this is because its confusing to new players that just started. What should happen is you get starting War/Mag weapon, 1 crafting main hand tool and 1 gathering tool in your invorty space, mainly right at the part where mission NPC gives you the map of the city and world.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

I agree, the main storyline should be for battle classes only, sorry crafters..

Instead of giving the players their crafting tool, they could make them into quests, like in order to be a miner or a blacksmith you have to go to their respective guilds and get a membership card. I think that would be cool.

EDIT: Also it gives people a reason to visit the other cities. Especially if they want to have all the crafting classes.

EDIT 2: I kinda changed my opinion about the main storyline being battle classes only, read my posts below if you wish.

[BelgianRofl]

Yes. Because of how awfully boring and frustrating crafting and gathering mini-games are, it's a bad idea for new players to be able to select DoH or DoL at the beginning. Either that, or make crafting and gathering fun!

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Yes. Because of how awfully boring and frustrating crafting and gathering mini-games are, it's a bad idea for new players to be able to select DoH or DoL at the beginning. Either that, or make crafting and gathering fun!

I think the minigames are fine, but having crafters take part in the main storyline really tones down the difficulty and action of the battles.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

You don't play ffxiv belgian. Go away with single player games '-'

[Sephr]

I agree with this. Implying that you can do everything in-game with a crafting-class is just unrealistic and stupid. I imagine that the amount of people who join a FF game with the intention of crafting some nice mittens for all their friends and not using said mittens to beat the crap into some bombs/flans/tonberries is minimal at best.

[Jinko]

I kind of agree, but in the sense that DOH and DOL classes should have a different beginning to DOM and DOW classes.

I don't think they should stop players choosing a crafting class from the start though.

[Mallicia]

originally(tanaka idia) DoL and DoH had fighting ability see official web site for more detail

[Eldaena]

DoL and DoH are both classes in this game. If someone does not wish to partake in battle, why not let them choose the class they want from the beginning? I can only imagine how this feature even effects any of you that are pro changing it. And also, several other things should be changed before ANYTHING of this nature. Seriously, this is a ridiculous request.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

DoL and DoH are both classes in this game. If someone does not wish to partake in battle, why not let them choose the class they want from the beginning? I can only imagine how this feature even effects any of you that are pro changing it. And also, several other things should be changed before ANYTHING of this nature. Seriously, this is a ridiculous request.

Sadly it does affect us, how you seen how easy the main storyline quests are? I have nothing against crafters being their own full class, but having a crafters take part in battle is ridiculous. Have them do separate quests like someone suggested earlier.