I was hoping that with the ARR overhaul and the addition of the mandatory Crystal Tower questline, they would've removed that silly, unneeded wall of Titan, Ifrit and Garuda HMs that hits you every time you're trying to get through the MSQ.
Alas, no, and I think that was a bad decision on their part. Even with flying it's still unnecessary running around and queuing up if you don't have friends to unsync it with, which was something I thought they were cutting away with this patch to make the progress between ARR and HW more streamlined. Now, instead of only one group content blockade we have two, since CT is now required as well.
There is no reason to force people to do those old Primal fights, even that forced Titan HM fight that suddenly comes up later could be removed and it would make the MSQ towards HW so much better.
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Alas, no, and I think that was a bad decision on their part. Even with flying it's still unnecessary running around and queuing up if you don't have friends to unsync it with, which was something I thought they were cutting away with this patch to make the progress between ARR and HW more streamlined. Now, instead of only one group content blockade we have two, since CT is now required as well.
There is no reason to force people to do those old Primal fights, even that forced Titan HM fight that suddenly comes up later could be removed and it would make the MSQ towards HW so much better.
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