Does this game get better later on?

[Heineker]

I come from TERA. It seems like early game is a huge ass ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slog and I don't think I can handle 10 hours of boredom before I can get on the main thang. Just wanna ask what game is like around endgame thx

[Cyiel]

Then stop and play something else.

[causality]

The overall experience pretty much stays the same regardless if you have 10 hours or 10k hours.

[Integrity]

It doesn't change much. If you don't enjoy the game now, you prob won't enjoy it at any point later.

[Obliss47]

Go to youtube and type "FFXIV endwalker raid". watch people at max level raid, there you go. It's tab targeting game, the gameplay as you progress won't change a thing in a fundamental way, it will just get a lot more flashy the higher level you are that's it.

[Pinkspring]

It doesnt get better. If you dont like it starting out, you probably wont like it later on.

[Havok]

Originally posted by Xenon_Blaze:

I don't think I can handle 10 hours

10 hours? ARR is easily 200-300 hours, and 0-90 just on MSQ can range from 500-1000 hours

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Endgame is different for everyone. For me (at present) its completing Eureka and Bozja to gear up for the savage raids to get the mounts. For others its savage/ultimate raiding, others its crafting and making money. Its a themepark MMO, you make your own endgame

[fracs]

Originally posted by Xenon_Blaze:

I come from TERA.

go back to TERA

[Axetwin]

This is a very narrative driven game. Everything you want to do ties back to story progression. If that's not your thing, then this game might not be for you.

[weiss]

ah good. the sale of the game is over. so, the topics switching from where is my cd key, registration is horrible, i dont have a one time password, i linked the wrong account etc. to when gets the story/game good

its very simple to explain.
the basegame aka A Realm Reborn is the patience filter. peoples which fail it leave usually.
if the story doesnt hooks you in heavensward, just simply quit. because then are story driven MMO jrpg´s not for you.
most classes start to get fun around lv 50+ you might say now "meh i have so less skills" but later at lv 70 and higher wish you, you would have lesser skills expecially for some classes which have multible combos.

TLDR; make it through the patience filter, look if the story of heavensward catches you, if not, play something else.

[xyz]

This game is nothing like Tera. Tera had way better combat and PvP.
The GCD on this ruins the opportunity for fast gameplay....

[weiss]

Originally posted by Derpy:

This game is nothing like Tera. Tera had way better combat and PvP.
The GCD on this ruins the opportunity for fast gameplay....

say that as a lv 90mch, samurai, monk and co.

[Izeyash]

Originally posted by weiss:

Originally posted by Derpy:

This game is nothing like Tera. Tera had way better combat and PvP.
The GCD on this ruins the opportunity for fast gameplay....

say that as a lv 90mch, samurai, monk and co.

Got every class 90. Tera does have better combat and better PvP.

[Jon]

Dont bother. Get gets a little better at level 90, but you still have to go through whole story and storytelling is absolute garbage.

[tap and die]

This game is deceptively fast paced because of noisy burst windows while looking for telegraphs.

[zefyris]

There's no need to be that defensive, folks...

OP, basic combat mechanics in Tera are way better than in FFXIV. That fact will never change. What will change is 1) the amount of things you'll have to do per minutes and how complex the rotations become as you get closer of max level and get more and more abilities and OGCDs, and 2) how complex the fight "choreography" becomes in PvE, with lots of overalaping more or less complex mechanics going on during the fights.

So there's two part of the answers here : yes; the fighting gets incredibly better than it is at the start as you progress, but no, it never becomes like Tera because the core gameplay in battle is too fundamentaly different. So if you really need that type of gameplay to enjoy the game, FFXIV just may not be for you.

Finally, just know that to reach max level content you'll have to go through the main story. The good thing is that you don't have to grind at all since the main story provides enough xp. The bad news in your case, is that it'll take you 2 to 3 hundred of hours of playtime to reach max level content if you mostly focus on the main story. So that lower level gameplay, you'll see it for a long while. if you can't continue after 10 hours of it, there's no way that game is for you.