How do you get to the GOOD PART in FFXIV? | Gaming Kinda
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ARR is "adequate" but it's definitely slow going, particularly in the part between Praetorium and Heavensward. It's a definite slog. That said, it builds incredibly important foundational material. So many things won't hit or matter to someone that skips it. The rest of the story won't have the weight. SO much happens late in ARR. Meeting Haurchefant, Ysayle, learning how the primals work, Nabriales/Moenbryda etc. One COULD have them skip if you were going to do an in depth catch up. What I would probably do though is start a new character myself and play through it with them to make the slower parts much more tolerable.
Well said! Looking at the question, and not just the knee-jerk answer. <3
its all good part
When my wife wanted to know what the game was like, i just had her make an alt on my account and go wild. I didn't tell her what to do, didn't tell her how to play. If she had questions, i answered. Took her forever to clear ARR cause she was engaging with all the facets of the game. She got to a point where she wanted her own account so we could play together, and she's been playing since. She cleared EW about 6 months after release and we've been enjoying the patches together since.
The whole story is pretty boring.
"The good part" eh… ARR isn't as bad as it used to be, I remember what it used to be because I started playing 5 years ago, a good couple of years before the rework. Back then ARR burned me out so badly (mostly the old 3 years worth of content between ARR and HW pre-shave down) I took a 6 month break from the game soon as I hit Heavensward and I regret that because I missed out on some of the best seasonal events the game ever had. So remember kids: Even if you take the same slow, never miss those limited seasonal events, they're still worth it if you love the game, same for PvP and side content you can do regardless of your MSQ progression; Doesn't take much to convince people in your FC or friends group to run palace of the dead etc with you, all you need do is ask. But yeah, The gap between HW and ARR was almost as long as the gap which happened between ShB and Endwalker; While the ShB/Endwalker gap was filled with Bozja and Restoration grind, both of which since have been in the case of Restoration grind made irrelevant thanks to the Fete events + moogle events and in the case of Bozjas now exists as a levelling zone; ARR's content on the other hand was entirely grindy intentionally because there was practically little else to do besides; All there was at the time was housing, dungeons, relic weapon, trials and beast tribes; ARR's raids only had Savage added for the final stage, PvP wasn't added till 3 months after release as a duelling system with PvP as actual battlegrounds were not added till a year later and Heaven on High wasn't added until just before HW released. So there was very little side content in the game, even the housing was very bare bones at the time too. So to keep people playing, everything was grindy. These days each patch MSQ can be completed in 5 hours if you don't skip any of the cutscenes, 5 and a half hours if you use TRUST instead of queueing with other players since the AI likes to fight dungeons one pack at a time… with no AoE, so it takes little over half a week to a week to get through the post expansion MSQ between each expansion now, so it takes roughly 3 to 4 months to get through the entire MSQ from start to finish. But before the shave down of the 2.X content – it took 2 weeks alone to get though 2.X with exactly 100 quests because back when it was current SE filled each patch with 20 to 30 quests on the MSQ so as it was something for people to do. Also, ARR Beastribes have 2 additional rep ranks you have to grind through because in the expansions you start at rank 3 "friendly" to begin with, so you already start with half the grind already done. But in ARR you have to start at zero, Neutral.
So yeah even though the MSQ for ARR is no longer a grind and the story has been vastly improved with the changes, they have not touched leves, or beast tribes at all, they are still just as nasty as they were in 2014 when SE last left them off. Also, although the ARR Relic weapon was made less of a hell to grind with nerfs which were done in Heavensward when the kettle quest was added. SE hasn't touched it since either; So it is another example of just a "taste" of what the game was like in 2013 to 2015. For the record Heavenward block of the game's lifespan was actually the shortest; Stormblood released only a year and 10 months after HW did. So it was very similar to WoW's Burning Crusade in a lot of ways, because just like in BC, hardcore raiders had barely finished farming the final hardest difficulty final raid released before the next expansion dropped (in the case of BC it was Sunwell, in the case of HW it was the final Alexander Savage) with casual raiders not even being given the chance to even clear it before release.
Great question and great answer! 😉
Wow haven't watched yet, but ffs don't skip ARR, its no where near as bad now as it was and half the fun of the game is story. Yeah let's rush people to endgame, where lots of people get bored so fast these days…
you either like it or you don't. yeah, shadowbringers is good, but it means nothing if you don't play the whole game.
Depends on what that friend values most in an MMO.
The good part can be finding a job they really enjoy or discovering FFXIV's amazing crafting system or even just making friends in-game to hang out with.
The good part doesn't have to be story related. Personally I was hooked when I found Palace of the Dead. (I'm weird I know @_@) I hope your friend finds that 'thing' that makes FFXIV special for them!
I don't play either wow or ff14 but wouldn't a game has to be good from the beginning to end? Like if a person gets bored from the start then the game fail to hook that player. Great games I like that do it well are ff13, ff7, ff10 ,elden ring , god of war and so on for MMOs my preference is ESO because you can go anywhere and start any area and story without waiting …. To the good part! Idk why there is a lot of fighting between wow and ff14 as I see it they are completely different MMOs, if I had to choose I think I will choose Wow since it has more western and more elements I prefer on a game.
Favourite Lore creator ? Why of course, it is Misshapen chair's MSFQ 😀