Extreme lack of quests

[Theodric]

I intentionally completed every quest I came across in order to soak up the game's lore during my journey across Eorzea. I also did a handful of dungeons along the way, completed my hunting log and dabbled in as many F.A.T.E events as I could whilst passing by them. I also did a few levequests to aid my income of experience. Despite all that I found that I struggled to keep up with the main story quests around level forty, which led me to indulge in the dreaded 'F.A.T.E grind' despite my aversion to it. I'm currently approaching level forty eight and have once again run out of quests to do.

So, how can we solve this? My suggestion would be to increase the experience rewarded from battle levequests in order to make them much more appealing and a viable alternative to F.A.T.E grinding. I'd also suggest that more one time only quests are sprinkled around the game world, especially in the level forty to fifty region. Dungeons should also be more rewarding, one solution I can think of is to provide a bigger experience bonus when experienced players tackle earlier dungeons which should have the added benefit of ensuring that there's a steady flow of players playing through the earlier dungeons.

[Chrysania]

Every single one of Theodric's suggestions are solid gold and should be implemented immediately. <3 Especially the enhanced rewards for lower level dungeons for higher level people. The story requirement of those is going to have a crisis of use when most folks are at top level and are not turning right back around to level a new class/alt. You set things up very nicely for the one square inch of right now. The thirty cubic feet of tomorrow are going to bring some crushing truths down upon thee however, I fear, because its clear that you didn't really think about tomorrow too much here.

We'll see people struggling to get anyone to help them go through them (low level required for story advancement + make it really hard to do = minorly invested people stop bothering, i.e: quit the game.)

Some people loved how 'hard' Everquest 1 was. Now? If you're cool with Everquest 1's tiny niche market, keep on keeping on. Change nothing. You too can join SWTOR in the F2P bin, 'cause man, if you think It can't happen to you SE...lawl. LAWL. EA/Bioware though that too when they made poor design decisions and banked on a name to keep people throwing money at them.

The sad part? You're not doing anything wrong; you just need to do more of the good stuff.

'Cause nobody cares if you didn't do anything wrong; its whether or not you did enough that was right. More quests and more rewarding leveling involvement'll do you right up. Drown people in quests. Give people so much to do that they can't kick a rock over without finding something to do under it. ENCOURAGE people to make multiple classes; make it fun! Make it exciting!

You could do so many wonderful and amazing things to make people WANT to throw money at you for years and years and years, and I hope you do them! Unlike certain others I could name, its not too late for you!

[OptimusPrime]

If you don't like grinding, don't play an FF MMO. Killing trash mobs and turning in items for a quest, or running from NPC to NPC does not teach you how to play a job. If everyone could get to 50 by killing mobs you can 2 or 3-shot, our player base would be worse off than it already is. This isn't WoW, people.

[Silverpr]

That is right, it isnt wow, and therefore its freetoplay in half a year

[OptimusPrime]

This game will never be free-to-play. You obviously never played FFXI. If you want a game that you can do completely solo, then why play an MMO? FF devs have always been big on team-work, which you don't need if you are quest spamming.

[Selyndria]

Yea you must have missed something, granted I've done fates in the area I'm questing in but no grinding, still have quests at 45.

[Mooserocka33]

I actually agree. I'm lv 50 and the lack of quests now is terrible. I think there should be other quests for if you level another class. I find the after content formaftermyour level 50 is just not good. I've donemeverynquestmumcsnngetmup to this point. I can't do fates cause I'm on ps3 and all fates are is a bunch of people attacking the air. Everyone says the game doesn't start til you hit 50 I think there is barely anything to do lol. Other then grind to get the best armor and weapon.

[Chrysania]

If you don't like grinding, don't play an FF MMO. Killing trash mobs and turning in items for a quest, or running from NPC to NPC does not teach you how to play a job. If everyone could get to 50 by killing mobs you can 2 or 3-shot, our player base would be worse off than it already is. This isn't WoW, people.

It helps to read a post before attempting to oppose it. You've successfully complained against something nobody on this thread was asking for our in any way implying, so while you're talking to yourself over there, consider this; if an individual cannot do what they want to do in the game because their schedule isn't fr time 24/7, they will be less likely to play, sub, stay or recommend the game to others.

Bash WoW all you like; g'head, all the supposedly cool kids are doing it.

[Pellegri]

Honestly what they should have done is just reset all non story quests when you switched classes, would fix a lot of the leveling an alt problems(would still need to do fates but not even close to as many) and it would go along way towards fixing the economy with all the gil it would put into it.

[Araye]

I just did the quests in Mor Dhona last night. There are only two. Both are lvl 44 I think. You get a combined total of 26k exp. That is not even 10% of a level. I am not counting Leves, just NPC quests. This is my first time through the game with my primary character. Now, it could be that I have failed to unlock some as I haven't completed Titan Easy. But as far a sidequests are concerned, there aren't many after level 40.