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Oh wow, doing this stuff seems like an age for me. Honestly if you have the time to play the DLC's, the story is so worth it. Like some people say Stormblood was 'the worst DLC' in terms of story but it actually has tonnes of great story, it's just comparatively not as good as the others. A lot of people knock Endwalker too, but to be honest this is from people who play this game like a second job, for those of us who just play it casually or for the story Endwalker was a great DLC, it was just lacking for people who play the game every single day like people play WoW everyday. Honestly I've been playing for a few years now since near the start of the pandemic, taken a few breaks, and I've still got tonnes to unlock and do, haven't even played all the raids yet.
I also started in Gridania and the first time I went to Limsa Lominsa was so awesome, great theme and aesthetic.
Its addictive until you get to the 300000th main scenario quest (MSQ) and just think "Kill me." I didn't like how most of the game's content and mechanic's are 'gated' behind doing MSQ missions. To me its not a true MMORPG, there is little freedom.. its like most modern MMO's though that are just theme parks like you have to stay on the rollercoaster rails before it lets you do anything. FFXIV is just a single player game + some multiplayer instances where there are clones and clones of warrior of lights also doing the same thing (which makes little sense to me). The story was good for some of the expansions though. I liked Heavensward, but after that it became abit of a bore to me to keep doing endless MSQ's.
The thing about lancer/dragoon is, they have some of the flashiest and highest damage moves out of the melee classes, but their animations for some of those abilities cause them to jump all over the place. And inexperienced players typically jump into massive attacks and get wrecked immediately.
But the good dragoons deal a lot of damage and look amazing while doing so.
It's always so cringey to me folks following streamers around that are starting a new mmo so they can show off all their endgame gear
Was worried you were not going to enjoy FFXIV because of the speed and the way you are playing. Normally people despise the first 50 levels of content because they want to get to the endgame now and the first 50 lvls of content is calm and slow.
I'm glad to see that you enjoy absorbing the world, atmosphere and lore just like me. I played this game for 10 years. Stopped after finishing Endwalker because it was the end of the 10 year long story. Wonderful conclusion and I felt done with the game. A couple of months ago I have felt like I need to desperately relax and going to spas, onsens etc does not relax me. I need to leave reality and FFXIV is really good at that.
I may just jump back in FFXIV, not to care and bother with any future story content, because the story is done from my point of view. But to just relax. I want to go back to all the lower lvl zones and do all the side-quests I haven't done and fully immerse myself into the world and the NPCs. When Heavensward launched, I did literally every single quest in that entire expansion. I'm in that mood again.
Edit: May not be ideal to jump back in now that I checked the ping. I moved country. Literally to the other side of the world and the data center my characters are in gives me 240ms after pinging the server. Compared to 5ms when pinging the data center located in my new country. 100+ms I can deal with but 240ms is crazy high. I will have to consider getting it transferred if my friends back in my first country never intend to play the game again.