FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
dankmemes9988 (Заблокирован) 28 янв. 2018 г. в 11:59
600 hours worth of mind-numbing "Main Scenario Quests"
This game would be good if they didn't force you to play through 600 hours worth of Main Scenario Quests that are literally just "fetch this, talk to that person, kill this enemy, etc" type of quests. The story is so boring as well and it just feels like filler. I have like 240 hours worth of playtime on this game and I finally quit and went back to World of Warcraft. At least WoW gets endgame content right and doesn't force you thru 600 hours of boring story.
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Автор сообщения: Terra Blade
You already get so much xp for doing the MSQ that you probably could hit 60+ on a class/job just from the ARR story quests.
Not really, you would need to do all side quests+roulette each day. I got stuck many times with MSQ only and Lv52-53 at the end of 2.55 quests.
Anyone who focuses entirely on the story alone would complete it in short order. It is, however, an MMORPG. You know, with distractions and other things to do. I've 2357hrs (as of today) put into this game and I'll hazard a guess only the 57(ish) remainder had anything to do with the story. I remember doing the odd brainless 'story-chat' quest then buggering off to do class-quests, FATES, dungeons, levelling gatherers and then discovering I was overlevelled for most of the MSQ 70% of the time.

Don't get me wrong - ARR is blatantly filled wall-to-wall with brain-dead filler that nobody will enjoy - but 600hrs? Nah.
Автор сообщения: Ralf
Автор сообщения: Terra Blade
You already get so much xp for doing the MSQ that you probably could hit 60+ on a class/job just from the ARR story quests.
Not really, you would need to do all side quests+roulette each day. I got stuck many times with MSQ only and Lv52-53 at the end of 2.55 quests.

While I did do some side stuff, I stopped doing side quests and only did main story quests after getting my job unlocked at 30. Unless they changed something, I was way over leveled with WHM before I even hit hevensward and switched to AST.

Keep in mind most of the side stuff though was done on other classes as this was back when you had to level THM and ARC to unlock all the cross-job skills you needed as a WHM. I also don't recall doing much of the roulette, but even so...I never have hit a barrier outside of completing a dungeon to progress the story, and did so mainly by focusing on the story.

I really began to push because as I have said, the ARR story does start to get old quickly since it's basically the same old fantasy orgin story you have heard before. Took about a week for the ARR, another for the epilogue, and three weeks for the hevensward and it's epilogue. Though again I did switch main jobs which set me back to 30 and paused the story until I got it caught back up.

If you take one job and stick with it, you should easily be in the 60 range by the time you complete ARR and it's epilogue, you should be at 70 before you even reach stormblood. Which together should take a persistant player an aveage of about a month to complete at a couple hours a day.
Отредактировано Terra Blade; 29 янв. 2018 г. в 3:03
It's better to hammer through the MSQ's the long way. You get geared for the tasks ahead. although it seems arduous, bit's n pieces of info regarding the overall storyline.

I say this about multiple titles tbh, it would be a bit daft to purchase a lvl-up potion unless you're doing an alt character. You get more out of it. That is assuming that it's a first character.

As you progress, the running about is slighty less arduous. So yep, there's that. for ur quick levelling, just do palace of the dead with a main class and you're MSQ's are a breeze, can beast through them.

Must admit the "running about" in ARR stuff was a little boring. It does get way better thuogh, much more fun to be had on HW/SB content.
Автор сообщения: Ryoda
I am not even at 100 hours yet and I am close to finishing the main quests till 50. Dunno how much more there is in the addons which I have yet to buy, but I can't imagine that there's 500 hours worth of mainstory quests there.

definitely not on main's, i did a lot of sidequests in between tbh. just seeing what different this and that's are all about. good learning. But i seem to prefer reading through everything and seeing what the jist is. rather than powering through to play with the big boi's.

Some people alike myself, prefer to examine a game in it's entirety, so that when somebody asks for some help. can give it instead of providing the good old "sorry, i'm not sure". Either way, it depends on how you do want to do it.

i think i was lvl 50 in 3 days. So that's about the size of it. but at the time, i lacked gil. hence needed to do story quests. because i had no idea where all the guilds were, let alone locations (didn't have access to all aetheryte's, so trundling about obvliviously was the thing. But again. didn't mind, cause i'm finding new quests for cash all over the place).

Getting levelled wasn't so harsh.
I focused solely on MSQ and finished it in ~ 200h, and for me after ARR MSQ, the lore got awesome.
Отредактировано c0ndu; 29 янв. 2018 г. в 11:43
Автор сообщения: Terra Blade
Автор сообщения: Gariored
its an ♥♥♥♥ move when they tell you to go back to a place you been to already, just to TALK to one rando only to just go back and talk to the original story quest giver...and thats a "quest" in this game....5 mins of warping reading text and warping back....too many AGLs for my tase....

tbh...they should have made less S.quests and give the main quests more/better EXP rewards...

You already get so much xp for doing the MSQ that you probably could hit 60+ on a class/job just from the ARR story quests. Plus remember you are playing though content that was meant to last for the time. I doubt it would feel so tedius if you had been playing when there was just ARR to get through.
About to finish the MSQ, with double exp it ends me at around 56-57 ish
Автор сообщения: Sl0th
Автор сообщения: Terra Blade

You already get so much xp for doing the MSQ that you probably could hit 60+ on a class/job just from the ARR story quests. Plus remember you are playing though content that was meant to last for the time. I doubt it would feel so tedius if you had been playing when there was just ARR to get through.
About to finish the MSQ, with double exp it ends me at around 56-57 ish

Where exactly are you putting the 'end' of the MSQ? With the actual first story, epilogue, or further? Mostly out of curiosity, as I recall with my WHM being just about the same by the end of the story before the beginning of the ARR's epilogue.
Автор сообщения: Morag Ladair
Have fun with your dumbed down easymode game.

Implying this game isn't easymode.
don't know exactly howmany hours i got into it, but my main issue with the FF14 story was that so often you just get stopped because you get 2-3 main story quests and only 1/3rd of the exp til next level.
also what other have said, the DPS queue's are horrible and it's stil not fixed (it's simply because of the over abbudance of DPS jobs and how people don't wanna be the Tank/Healer since they actually take a bit of effort compared to the easy alternative DPS)
If you go for a tank/healer job you'll breeze through the story simply because you queue up for a dungeon before continueing the story and as a healer/tank you gotta stop doing that otherwise you won't even finish a quest before you are ready with the queue (DPS can easely do dungeons while the main story because you got queue's for up to 20-30 minutes (average)
Автор сообщения: Koishi Komeiji
Автор сообщения: Morag Ladair
Have fun with your dumbed down easymode game.

Implying this game isn't easymode.

Regardless of how 'easy' ir is or not, ARR is a bit of a slog. It's well known that it starts slow, and the story is largely regarded as plain and uninspired. The whole story does get better and live up to the standards of Final Fantasy...but only if you can past the tedium of the initial story.

As a writer I can kinda understand why it is so bad. Part of the reason is having to redirect if not retcon the original release's story. The other half being that while they did remake FF14 after it's initial disasterious release, there was a limit to the effort they were going to put in in case it failed. Which is why the story suddenly gets better in the epilogue. Also why you see more and more voice acting for the main quiest as you go on.

So yeah, it may be easy but let's not gloss over that it's still a slog that really comes across as half-assed a large portion of it.
The story is slow at first, but definitely gets good. A lot of it is worldbuilding, character relationships and so on. If you just skim through it, hell yeah its going to be boring. All in all though, if you don't like what is presented to you storywise, just don't bother with the game. It's clearly not a game for you.
Just sip on that jump potion if the start is an issue with you. Look up a guide on your job and you'll be fine.
Автор сообщения: Tyler Durden
Just sip on that jump potion if the start is an issue with you. Look up a guide on your job and you'll be fine.
Paying an extra fee to skip the story...It's bad, but not worth almost two months of subscription time to skip. Better to use that two months game time to get money, xp, and train your chocobo by going through the story over just skiping everything.

My opinion of it at least.
Автор сообщения: Terra Blade
Автор сообщения: Tyler Durden
Just sip on that jump potion if the start is an issue with you. Look up a guide on your job and you'll be fine.
Paying an extra fee to skip the story...It's bad, but not worth almost two months of subscription time to skip. Better to use that two months game time to get money, xp, and train your chocobo by going through the story over just skiping everything.

My opinion of it at least.

I guess. I think it's a good alternative if one has the money and really doesn't like the MSQ, which OP seems to do. If I made an alt or had to start the game over, I surely would, haha.
Отредактировано Tyler Durden; 30 янв. 2018 г. в 15:56
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