Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Valderen said:

The biggest issue for the story though to be honest is the 60 part which is gated behind gearscore. You need to grind for gear to be able to advance the story. The 1 to 60 doesn't have any gear requirement, or at least you get the gear just by doing the MSQ anyways and never have to grind for it.

I do agree though that heavensward has a pretty awesome story.

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With the new expansion though it's almost guaranteed that just like HW, you'll be able to buy white gear for cheap with way higher ilvl once you reach 60, which lets you skip the whole gearing process and just do your shit. Original vanilla story is the same, the moment you hit 50 you can grab a set of white NPC armor garbage from Ishgard and you're now more or less as geared as someone who was farming tomes at the end of 2.0 era.

Even if for some reason that's not the case, all the gear can now be bought with poetics, which you'll get truckloads of just running every 50-60 dungeon once+roulettes. It wouldn't be hard to buy full i260 gear just from that and get that needed ilvl really easily. That or just getting to 61 from MSQ xp which is guaranteed to be the level needed for the new crafting gear if it's not 60.

There is however the issue of doing the fights that require a group, especially shit like Steps. I think you can unsync it now so it should be a piece of cake but still that's the annoying part.

Anyway up to people, can always go back and do the story later on a new char or whatever, it's fine to skip to get to the current endgame right away. It's just, having played 2.0 and 3.0, the endgame in the new expansions tends to be pretty bare, there's just not that much stuff to do. The game gets better as they add more patches, adding various stuff to do like farming old content for weekly quests and glamour and what not while still doing the most current stuff. This is especially true if you rush, not so much as a casual, because there won't be true raid content until 4weeks later. Only thing to do for the next 4weeks is EX Susano and Lakshmi in terms of real endgame.

Yeah I still have a bunch of HW crafting/gathering quests to do. I was really disapointed with crafting back in 3.0 though so we'll see, not too sure how it was changed over time but if it's the same I'll just do leves to get them to 70 then forget about them, just need to be ready for 5.0 repairs.