Side Quests are all optional and only expands on the lore for the area. The ones you should do are the Blue! quests as they unlock things for your account. Crystal Tower Alliance Raids are now part of the story and required it is part of the MSQ later. Basically EVERYTHING is locked behind the MSQ (Main Story Quest) You need to complete the quest series, which involves running the three man raids once each to progress it. The whole thing takes perhaps hours, depending on queue So expect to see nothing but Crystal Tower for alliance roulette. That's pretty typical for these days, just easier to access due to the lower level requirement. And people were cheesing them (un-equipping gear to ensure that was what they got) for easy tomestones I think, 50 of the higher grade ones for the daily roulette at level 80
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Crystal Tower is both MSQ mandatory and the introduction to Alliance Raids as a whole so it really doesn't need to be harder. The real problem is that people can intentionally scew the Roulette by queuing with their gear off to basically force Crystal Tower 99% of the time For now, that's all you need to do! The Crystal Tower Raids (unlockable once you've finished the MSQ quest "The Ultimate Weapon" - the next one for you) are only a prerequisite for MSQ - for reference you're in right now. You've still got all of Heavensward and Stormblood, and most of Shadowbringers to go before those raids lock Did crystal tower quest line back in early Heavensward. I remembered the cat boy from crystal tower I just didn't remember his name and a quick google later it all came together. Going through CT when it first came out I completely forgot his name, but seeing the ShB trailer, I was like "That's that man!" and when his hood came off I screamed Crystal Tower series is only recently mandatory, dating to I think. So a lot of the people shittting on you for not liking it likely weren't forced to do it. They, like me, found it of their own volition. It has absolutely zero relevance to the story happening in ARR and the crystal fetch quests with it are dogshit to go through Experience and gear rewards for ARR main scenario quests have also been increased, so new players won’t have to do side quests to reach level 50 and move onward into Heavensward. That said, the Crystal Tower and “My Little Chocobo” quests are now required to progress the main scenario (which, without going into spoilers, makes sense) Dragonsong War Quests (Level 60) Successfully finishing the Heavensward MSQ will finally unlock the Dragonsong War Quests. This FFXIV MSQ list consists of 44 quests overall under Patches to from the Heavensward expansion. All of the quests under this category are made for level 60, unlike the previous section
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The number of quests looks more intimidating than it actually is, and the story really starts to ramp up in , which includes one of my favorite trials in the game. I was able to beat one patch a day when I had a free afternoon, which I made a point of doing because I was also dying to start Heavensward. Also, definitely do the Crystal Tower Try another data center, i finished the Crystal tower raids a few days ago and it only took 5 minutes a queue. Alliance raids are backwards on role queue times; Each group takes 3 tanks, 6 healers, and 15 dps. So Tanks tend to have the longest queues. the most run raid in all of the game shouldn't take that long to queue, especially if you are