(05-12-2015, 02:36 PM)Cogito Wrote: How likely is it that I need to grind ilevel 90 gear in advance to start Heavensward content?

It seems silly that new players coming to the game in the future will have to grind gear from tomes and duty finder at level 50 before being able to complete access expansion content.

Everyone keeps saying you will NEED to get i-level 90 gear in advance to finish the main story and play expansion content, but couldn't they give out basic i90 gear from newly added level 50 main story quests?

I don't know, it seems like a strange design choice, and as someone who came back to the game as a level 47, I hate the idea of buying the expansion, then having to grind for a few weeks to meet the gear requirement to play that content.

(05-12-2015, 02:41 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote:

(05-12-2015, 02:36 PM)Cogito Wrote: How likely is it that I need to grind ilevel 90 gear in advance to start Heavensward content?

It seems silly that new players coming to the game in the future will have to grind gear from tomes and duty finder at level 50 before being able to complete access expansion content.

Everyone keeps saying you will NEED to get i-level 90 gear in advance to finish the main story and play expansion content, but couldn't they give out basic i90 gear from newly added level 50 main story quests?

I don't know, it seems like a strange design choice, and as someone who came back to the game as a level 47, I hate the idea of buying the expansion, then having to grind for a few weeks to meet the gear requirement to play that content.

It's 100% true. A dungeon and a trial required to complete the msq for Heavensward requires ilevel 90.

I find it to be a bad choice but doubt SE will change it.

(05-12-2015, 03:30 PM)Blue Wrote: hoping to do the 2.0 MSQ with great sword

(05-12-2015, 03:30 PM)Blue Wrote: Yeah, to me the way Heavensward is not so much as an expansion as an extension, a glorified, bigger, not-free patch, not any different than 2.1-2.55.

Why? Because what few games that got expansions that I have played (The Sims 3, Final Fantasy XI) had always stories kept separated between the base game and the expansion. Sure, sometimes the expansions had ties to certain topics that you would learn of in the base game (the Zilarts in RoZ, for example), but more or less you were always free to choose which story you wanted to play first.

I would've preferred Heavensward to be slowly released patches that continued the MSQ rather than be an expansion per se, personally. Because with the requirement of completing the base game's storyline in order to access everything of it (exploration, jobs, story, sidequests), you do not quite expand the universe of Eorzea. You extend it. Gold Saucer followed the right definition of "expansion" more than Heavensward did, ironically.



I'm a little sad for my friend who is going to start playing (maybe, he could change his mind) in June, and who really likes great swords and was hoping to do the 2.0 MSQ with great swords, but oh well. Good for me that I'm already caught up, I guess.

(05-12-2015, 04:21 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote: Nope. There's no point to buying the expansion if you're not close to clearing the Steps of Faith since you won't have access to most (any?) of the content.