Anyone notice a real lack of quests at 45+?Follow

Ever since level 44-45 Ive been more and more having to do snoozer fates grinds or queue up for a dungeon (been doing fates since you cant queue while in a party.) And yes Ive done my hunt logs (like 99% done on it) and explored (like 95% done there). While there has been a few quests, you can count them on one hand. And there is no main story quests from 47-49. Anyone notice how much the game turns into a grindfest after 45? And while fate grinding is good xp it is so boring following the zerg and then running around mobs spamming miasma 2 so I can get gold. Is there a series of quests Im not seeing? Some super secret handshake area I dont know about? Or is there really not much to do 45-49?

As you get higher I believe there is added incentive to play with others. Running quests all the way to level cap was never how SE envisioned the game.

I haven't reached the levels that you speak of, but as a level 25 player I spend way more time running dungeons, fates, leves, heists, etc with my buddies from my FC than running quests. As such I'm falling behind on the main quest and I'm sure it will run me right to level cap.

On the other hand I imagine if you are aiming at capping asap then you probably should expect a bit of a grind.

Yes I did run mostly on quests all the way to 40's because yoshi stated there were enough quests to level one class to max. Im thinking he exagerated a bit on that, not that Im complaining. I just wanted to save "grinding" for additional classes.

this was a bad idea on your part.. the first job was ment to lvl off Main story not side quests.. now when you lvl another job from that city you will ahve zero to do other than huntlogs and fates.. you pretty much jacked your future self .

I just hit 41 WHM and I have not touched a side quest since lvl 12, and i only farmed fates to get over the lvl gaps for main story line.

This is Final Fantasy, can't make you repeat the same story more than once.

So for 3 lvls.. you can do old quests (which I ahve 100% of since I didnt need to use them yet) or Fate grind or run dungeons, or finish guildhests.




Edited, Sep 3rd 2013 6:44pm by silverhope

I started ignoring you at ilevel.

All my quests minus the other two starter area quests are done (well except the three I have for 47 right now waiting to be done). Ive done all the guildhests, they stop at lvl 40 and dont award any good xp after first run. You can either fate grind or dungeon run but not both as it wont let you queue in party. Thje xp is better fate running because it doesnt take an hour to get a group.

I started ignoring people who are obviously undergeared and ragequit midway. Seriously, please don't come to Aurum Vale with iLvl 40, no raise as a BRD and ragequit at Coincounter when it's everyone's first run. I can ignore the iLvl but at least spend time learning it like everyone else, or at least pay attention to what you do and don't draw 2 x more aggro into the fray and rage quit. Strangely enough, didn't have any problem running DF with JP even if they are undergeared and I can't talk to them.

And you can start ignoring iLvl all you want, the end-games are built around iLvl. There is a very clear gear progression.

Obtaining iLvl 55 isn't frigging hard either, Grand Company is all you need if you don't want to run dozens of dungeons to find your gears. There are whole lots of way to obtain seal and you only need to run certain dungeon ONCE to get 2nd Lieutenant after you finish your Main Story, which doesn't require iLvl yet. The Lieutenant weapons are also 1/3 the price it used to be, go QQ somewhere else.

At lvl 47 I could also find FOUR camps with at least 6 quests each. I don't know how could you even miss all those quests because you get the start quests running to those camps for free EXP right after Castrum Centril return cutscenes.

Edited, Sep 3rd 2013 7:09pm by Khornette

If you plan on leveling more than a couple of classes that high it isn't going to matter anyway. You can only do a quest once, so what happens to your third class after you spent your frugally saved quests for your second class? It's all going to come down to FATE parties, dungeons and Leves at some point regardless.

It's Item Level, which determine gear ability, besides rarity. Green/blue/purple gear typically has higher iLvl than the lvl required to wear. Purple (Relic) > Blue > Green in terms of ability/rarity. It's actually easy to achieve reasonable gears for end-game with either GC Officer clothes + Officer Weapons or AF + GC Office Weapons, both of which are really easy to get and doesn't require more than ONE run of some dungeon like Dzemael Darkhold + completing Company Hunting Log + Main story.You certainly don't need to run Wander Palace or the like dozens of time.

Yoshi-P has already stated several times that end-game is heavily gear progression, especially Bahamut Dungeon (there are 5 levels of Coil atm).

It's funny how people think iLvl check is taboo. No, extremities like you must have Relic to do Relic quest is dumb, but attempting something like Primal Hard with white is also unreasonable. Much less if you can't even bother to do AF quests since it's entirely solo.

Edited, Sep 3rd 2013 8:16pm by Khornette

again even if its a ilvl heavy game I still bring the Player > Gear. Much ratehr have somone who can move outta stuff and pay atention than someone with the right gear but cant do anything right.

I just hope they bring back the 8man parties from 1.0 (or 6man from XI). I know those aren't everyone's cup of tea, but I enjoyed them once in awhile, just find a camp and slaughter. It's probably do-able in the game, just not sure of which area.