In Heavensward, you help a nation that has become isolationist due to a war with dragons that has stretched on for a thousand years. If you plan on playing this content yourself, you might want to skip the next few paragraphs. Picking up the piecesįor example, I will delve into what happens between the end of Heavensward and the beginning of Stormblood. FF14 doesn’t do that: you see characters, what they were doing and the web of politics they are sometimes embroiled in.
Too often I complain that in other MMOs many of the movers and shakers are out of the picture until it is cinematic or big story time, not showing you what they have been up to the rest of the time. Take it or leave it is basically what they are saying about the main story beats, and while that elevation of importance might mean you take longer to get to an expansion, you will at least know why you are there for the expansion and the various moving parts. The way that the MSQ is handled made me think about what the story means to the developers if they chose to structure it this way. These quests will often unlock access to areas, quests in a zone, access to dungeons, trials and more and unless you log into your account in a browser and fork out some money, there is no way to skip the MSQ. You see, unlike other MMOs that let you just abandon what you are doing once you reach the required level and head into an expansion or a brand new area, FF14 has everything tied to a single cohesive chain of quests that runs through the entirety of the game. A quest with a sunburst around it falls under the Main Scenario Quest (MSQ).
FINAL FANTASY XIV MSQ PLUS
Quests that add new features are blue with a plus sign. There are a *lot* of quests in Final Fantasy XIV, and to help players keep track of things, they are split into different categories with different symbols and colours. But before I get there, let me make sure we are all on the same page: Main scenario what now? In the time since I stopped playing, the developers had added several patches worth of content to Heavensward, which included many Main Scenario Quests involving the fallout of events in Heavensward. I was an expansion behind and I needed to haul ass if I wanted to get something resembling a review done in any time period that was worth mentioning. I will admit that at first, I was trying to bash through things as quickly as possible, because a review for Shadowbringers had landed on my desk and the last time I played FF14, Heavensward was the latest expansion. Luckily, the game has two resources that help suggest what you should do next, and I got back on track with the Main Scenario Quest, wanting to dive into new content as quickly as possible.
FINAL FANTASY XIV MSQ HOW TO
I recently climbed back on the Final Fantasy XIV bicycle and it took me a short while to remember how the game worked, where I was and even how to get around the region without forking out gil for teleportation.