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foolm0r0n posted...

I always thought the game had a great content design where you could comfortably pick however much you wanted to play. You can skip all the time sinks if you want.

But now there's so much story content that it is overwhelming. There's lots of gates in the story too, so you have to grind through missions just to see the new stuff. I still haven't seen inazuma because of that. It also sucks to have to skip side missions because you don't have time.

Yeah as a new player this is the issue I have with trying to catch up. During the prologue you're fairly restricted while still having a lot of freedom to explore the initial map, so I didn't feel the FOMO. Yeah, you can't do the limited events but you also have no need to grind. That changes once your world and AR rank up and you get access to the second region, which not only feels MUCH bigger but gives you more and more systems you have to engage with to keep up with the scaling. You can reduce your world level to but that disincentivises exploration since the rewards also get reduced. Add in Inazuma and the limited events requiring story quests, also disincentivising exploratio, and the FOMO fully sets in. I got soooo many sidequests to do and have barely started on side stories because I don't have the time.

Still having a lot of fun with the game, it's just developed a weird set of priorities suddenly. I'm about to hit AR30 but I'm only on Act 2 of Liyue which is going to open up another tier of grind to do. I'm not sure if that's a normal rate of progression or not, but I feel like going through the story more slowly than I do dailies got me to this point.

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