XIV Heavensward Summed Up (very minor spoilers)Follow

Getting superb reviews so far. The only cons or negative opinions I have seen are:

1.Repetitive questing(someone in comments says all quest in mmos are repetitive, someone else points to the Witcher 3 for having good sidequest)
2.Heavensward access gating(some like it and some don't)
3.Don't like the old style combat
4.Too many moogle quests

During the live letter this morning, Yoshi P said they probably went overboard on the moogle quests.

I don't think the problem was that they were moogles, I think the problem was that the map was basically no help as it doesn't account for the Z-axis. Add to that the fact that moogles are small and hard to see from the air (especially since they were usually behind or under something) and the side quests in that zone just became an exercise in frustration.

Scavenger hunt quests can be cool if done right. These weren't.

The moogle poms glow at night, so they were easier to see when the zone was dark. That didn't help for some of the ones hiding in The Rookery or the castle just north of it, but it did help for ones scattered on the ground.

I think it's mostly about the abundance of "find the missing moogles" quests. They're somewhat annoying to begin with, and there are like twelve thousand of them. Holy crap man, find your own damn friends. I have better things to do.


In general I don't mind all the fetch quests. Play any MMO ever and most quests fall into the "kill mobs" or "bring me items" category. That's not new. I just wish the game gave better reasons for it all. The later WoW expansions, for example, have those same quests but it feels like there's a good reason for it. It feels like you're actively aiding the war effort instead of just helping random people because you're a nice guy. In FFXIV only the main story feels like that.

Warrior of Light! Thank the Twelve you're here! I have fetch quests and no one else wants to do them for me.

I actually thought that was the whole point of the exercise -- to drill in the fact that there is a Z axis factor going on now that you need to consider when locating your quest objectives. It first started to do that with the Anyx Trine tower just previously in Forelands, and it was just being continued here.

(It took me longer to find the ramp upward at the back of Moghome than I would have liked... but that's really the only complaint I had about the zone, and it had zero to do with the fact that the npcs were moogles)