Extreme lack of quests

[Chrysania]

I can see having to rely on the fate grind to level alternate battle classes, but you've failed to provided enough quests to get even one to 50. Why?

Fate/dungeon grinding should not be the leveling path. As it presently stands, the game seems to largely end at about 35, and you're just screwing with us to, in large portion, painfully grind out the last 15 levels if we want to see the end of the main story.

Not much of a game when you look at it that way, eh? And largely relying on mind-numbing, unforgivably boring grind to level meaningfully past 35?

Boring. Incidentally, that's the highest cardinal sin a game can commit.

Someone should be informed of that. It seems to be news 'round here.

[Shuon]

myself, and at least an overwhelming majority of the population managed to get to at least 46-48 with quests alone.

no idea what you are talking about.

and is quest grinding the best way to lvl? idk, i personally am not a fan. i lvled gld and mrd on dungeons only, and had so much more fun than questing, although it might be because queuing was easy....

[Chrysania]

The entire population of Balmung's Dragonhead zone disagreed with you on the /shout channel. Collective conclusion: there aren't nearly enough quests to level on past 40. There are some, and one person said that you get a whole bunch of them at 49, but the push from 40-49 is almost pure grind.

Also, DPS queues are bollocks. 30 minute-4 hour waits are the norm. As much as I enjoy doing dungeons, its really just boring to do the same dungeon repeatedly because the only XP alternative you have is doing the fate zergs.

At least quest grinding gives one something to read and a context of story to what's going on. This is a Final Fantasy game, right? RPG? All about story?

I want more story. I do not want to spend leel 46-49 forced into XP grinding, like some of these people are telling me to 'look forward' to.

Cheers.

[Shuon]

i recall, SOMETIMES, i was maybe 20 per cent short of lvling, so i did a few fates here and there and got my next lvl, and suddenly every npc had the quest exclaimation marks over their heads.

if you find urself, all of a SUDDEN, ran out of quests, its probably because u r just 1 lvl short of the quest hub. also, im quite sure the game is designed in such a way that we r meant to do all the dungeons, including the optional ones, at least once. if you skipped, say, temple of qarn and cutter's cry, you may have 1 to 3 lvls to catch up on.

tbh, quests dont really disappear until after stealing the magiteck armour, and thats only because dzemael and AV are unlocked.

[Chrysania]

I don't skip dungeons at all, personally. They've been most of what I've been doing since the quests went largely byebye. I'm not skipping hunt logs either. Its possible that I've somehow missed quests somewhere, but for how I've scoured...not likely.

Hurrumph. Hopefully we'll get more as the game matures. Right now, it feels like I'm back in vanilla WoW trash farming in BRD for xp and barely enough gold to pay for repairs.

[Hysterior]

I am lv 46 and I still have quests in mo dhorna.. (maybe last ones?)
I also run each dungeon twice
I have not joined a single FATE party so far...

So I am surprised when I hear there are is lack of mission past 40
have you checked everywhere because I literally never stopped...

[toker1975]

I agree with the OP. Just dinged 43, no quests, having to rely on fates, which I dislike having to do, and leves, again, only a few of the same thing a day. Doing said leves also leaves me struggling to level a profession too. Moar quests plz!

[DawnNoMoreRises]

I was LV46 when I did 1 LV of FATE running, after that i went back questing.
at LV47 I entered Mor Dhana and started questing there whilst my story chain was still on LV44.
eventually I made it to LV50 without too much of a hassle, though I did spot quests after I delivered my LV46 main story, those aren't enough to go from 46-49 (at 49 you get the last chain of story). so I see where you're coming from, but to lack more than 2 levels (in total) to hit 49, no. However, I did pick up all side quests along to way to 50.

[Jess_Spark]

Yes yes yes yes yes...I want more quests! It's how I like to play...I hate fates, I hate dungeons...I want quests...What is the big deal?

[Chrysania]

I don't hate fates or dungeons at all. But here's the thing; I can do quests by myself. I don't need a zerg or a team to do them. Fate zergs are uuuuusually easy to find...usually. I pity those trying to grind through these levels when majorities aren't new and aren't leveling briskly through the currently popular zones and next to nobody's doing older/lower level dungeons hardly ever if this doesn't get ameliorated one way or another.

Level design: not just about planning for the one square inch of 'right now', but future-proofing for the thirty cubic miles of 'tomorrow'.

Lesson unlearned. I'll get my XP grinding in while its still going hot and heavy during the new-game-is-new rush.