Things you want to see implemented in FFXIVFollow

Based on a friend's experience, I'd like to see alternative methods to gain experience points added. It would also be nice if they eased up on the level requirements for quests also.

I'm not subbed, but based on being around for a friend playing; her main gripe about the game is leveling. She was only really interested in PLD, but even with being that specialized she's gotta level several classes to the 30s for cross-class abilities. Doesn't seem like a tall order, but even following my advice she's having trouble.

Told her to take up marauder first so she'd get some experience tanking in groups since you have to finish the dungeons to advance the story and unlock all the necessary stuff for later. Don't take up any professions, don't spend money on teleports and only do normal quests and FATEs as well as killing anything within a reasonable level difference on the way. No sweat.

Her next class was conjurer. I told her to unlock the class and then do the starter quests for any professions she might want and even those she didn't. That was good for the first few levels and got her enough to get started, but after the level 10 class quest the gaps came much sooner than they did on her first class. I told her to go ahead and unlock the guildleves at camps as well as doing guildhests to bridge gaps. She's done OK with that, but still has pretty large gaps.

She's excited about the game and the jobs, but put off by the fact that it will always come down to the exact same leveling path every time after the first. She also pointed out that you can accept quests before you can actually turn them in. Doesn't really make sense to her(or myself either) that you can accept a level 25 quest at level 23 and complete the quest, yet you can't turn it in until you hit 25 and when you do all you get is the same reward despite the increased difficulty. FATEs are always available but unless you have AoE to spam, your contribution is almost always lower than it could/should be.

tl;dr

Need more quests, should allow quests to be turned in a few levels early and FATE frequency and contribution need to be adjusted.



Edited, Sep 29th 2013 4:22pm by FilthMcNasty

Job change? Seriously... for anyone who played FFXI in the past few years, it reminds me of WoE. Though I registered with my endgame LS as a COR, I was forced to come as a highly undergeared BLM because people took issue with me getting all the spoils.

For the FATEs that aren't a single large mob, all it takes is someone standing where mobs spawn and spamming AoE to tag them. I don't really care that FATEs are incredibly boring(at least, most of them are when leveling), but if you're inside the marked area and using abilities then you should get a guaranteed amount.

She just did the same FATE twice. First completion she got something like 1100 and the next one she did in a group... 11k

You realize you're talking to FFXI players, don't you? Just wanna make sure you understand that your questions are kinda redundant.

LOL, though this does remind me, I'll add a request straight from my wife (I swear) ... "Better mage clothes that show more skin" at least in some of the earlier levels.

I can understand how SE wants to avoid being like some MMO's that have gone overboard with cleavage and generally skimpy female outfits. But the main goal here should be choice. Most other MMO's don't provide church-lady armor. In FFXIV ARR that's pretty much all you get, at least up to the lvl 30-ish point my wife is at.

In short, I agree with him, but I doubt anyone who knows me here would be surprised by that sentiment. I played XI for a long time. It had a hell of a lot of flaws. Accessibility of content was one of its primary offenders. When content, in turn, manifests as a limited resource like (H)NMs, it offers incentive for people to cheat and pretty much creates tiers of haves and have-nots when RL time is involved. As an example, I've yet to see the Behemoth FATE and only seen Odin twice. You could probably call these 24 hour NMs, give or take. Sure, there's nothing super associated with them other than an achievement for each, but you can bet plenty are OCD about filling out that screen.

Those biceps will haunt my dreams.

Back to topic. . . Skill chains and magic bursts. Best or bestest?

Me too. So far I like the dungeons and some of the quests. It would be great to have a viable method of doing XP parties that isn't tied to dungeons. 4 DD and a healer doesn't work in dungeons, but could be a fun XP chain party.

I flat out refuse to fate grind.