Endwalker speed run

[Phoenix118800]

Hi guys im new in this game, so if i complete the trial and then i buy the complete edition (with endwalker), it's possible to finish 100% of the story? in 30 days?
I mean i always heard that this mmorpg have a nice history but idk if grinding level is so hard or maybe i need more time to complete xD

[Skandi]

It's possible, but unless you're planning on skipping literally every cutscene (at which point, why even play through everything?) expect it to take basically all day every day for the next 30 days.

Stormblood and Shadowbringers especially are really long, cause you have to complete the post expansion patches before you move on to the next one.

[Horn]

In this game you do not need to grind levels, in order to progress through the story. The story campaign itself gives you more than enough experience points. About speedrun in 30 days - I doubt that's a good idea. The free version alone will take you a couple of hundred hours to complete, and that's just the main story.

[Unholy Eve]

If your watching cut scenes and only playing say 4 hours a day, I'd be very doubtful you'd do it, even less so if your a DPS player.

The expansions are not that long once you skip everything.

[Acoustic Stoner]

You can do it. But you'd have to skip alot of stuff to the point of why bother at all.

[Sigvuld]

The whole journey would be extremely pointless if you just mashed through it as fast as possible your first time, tbph. XIV isn't a game where everything but the single most recent content is filler you have zero reason to engage with - just enjoy your time with the game! It's built for that; there's a gargantuan amount of things to choose from to do.

Hope you join and take your time to see what the game has to offer, and welcome to Eorzea!

[Sunny]

The only reason to do the story is for the sake of the story; a speed run isn't feasible. Just buy a story skip and pass on it, if you're chomping at the bit to get to end game. You'll still have to do Endwalker, but you'll only have to skip one xpac's worth of cutscenes that way.

Keep in mind you'll be skipping the part of the game that gets the Big Budget, that is the dev's focus, and is thus like 90% of the game's content, to play a side-activity that's there to give the people who don't want to take a break between patches something to do.

ETA: A quick bit of research shows that pre-Endwalker, the MSQ required about 200 hours to complete without skipping cutscenes, with about a 20 hour variance depending on playstyle.

[Replicant Six]

It takes maybe 2 weeks of daily play to push through ARR with generous cutscene skipping.

Every expansion after should take roughly a week depending on how much time you put in daily.

This means skipping story which is one of the huge parts of a final fantasy game.

[The diddle mister]

The 30 day's also renews.

[Yextiny]

Don't bother; the story is not good. It is 95% filler delivered exclusively by standard anime trope characters. The story is vapid anime BS from start to finish & people who think it is "deep" or "interesting" have very low standards for fiction (as anime fans often do). There's a reason you have to spend money to skip the story - it's a slog.

I wasted hundreds of hours reading witless and exposition-heavy dialogue boxes and quest descriptions hoping it would "get better" as I was promised by the community. 800 hours later, at the end of Endwalker, it had still not gotten better.

The good story beats are unremarkable and forgettable when averaged out in the deluge of dry and uninteresting horsesh** delivered with rarely even hint of life, personality, or humor. Just skip everything while listening to podcasts for several months or pay the extra money so you can play with your friends.

[tathen]

i dont think it would be possible, would be interesting to see how fast people could speed runt he game though wonder what a world record would look like

[Hamshank cat]

Story quests, patch quests, job quests for skill unlocks, cutscenes will all make it tough to speedrun it in a month. That's assuming you're home all day long then its possible. Roughly it would take two to three months at best when doing all those. Expansion skips are another alternative too but either way, you'd feel less satisfaction if your goal is to be caught up.

I remember there was a streamer who bought expansion skips and complained the game was too hard/bad when mechanics got dumped on him. I forgot who it was

[Cuponoodle]

I guess it would largely depend on how much you play, if you actually care about the story, and what your goals are.

The story offers nothing if you've played another mmo or any game, other than if you enjoy it then it offers enjoyment. You could also buy a story skip but you'd still have to level.

[Xcogumelo]

I raided with a guy who finished from beginning to end in 2 weeks, playing 16 hours per/day. Took me about 6 months and 450 hours.

[lilac]

not if u want to enjoy it

[Unholy Eve]

Originally posted by tathen:

i dont think it would be possible, would be interesting to see how fast people could speed runt he game though wonder what a world record would look like

There's a couple of people who have done it. Their time back in May for MSQ was 70:28:58, sub 10 on Stormblood and Endwalker with 10 hours of sleep and 10-12 hours of maintenance.

https://www.speedrun.com/ffxiv/full_game#MSQ - for the rest of the runs.