#espritberrance

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Hey I saw your tags on the FFXIV post but didn't wanna tag you directly incase you weren't comfortable with that. But I wanted to let you know that nearly all main story content including the 4 player group dungeons can be done by yourself using the "duty support" feature which will let you go into the dungeon with NPCs that are story relevant.

The only exceptions are the capstone fights called trials which are 8-player bossfights (though for a majority of the free trial expasions youll get enough experience through the main quests that you can solo them by queuing the fight unsynched at your highest level) & the raid stories which are separate from the main quests but related to the story (besides 1 that's required to have done by the end of the 2nd expansion because the story ties directly into the 3rd). So if it's anxiety at playing with others- it's rare that you have to! And you can turn off free company (guild) invites at any time ^^

If you have any questions about it I'd be happy to answer, or talk in general. If you'd rather not, that's okay too I just wanted to give you some info 😊

oh haha no problem!

oooh the duty support feature sounds like a thing i would absolutely use all the time. give me all the npcs, yes.

honestly? more than anything else it's the concept of random overworld messages that makes me back out. like in eso, i got approached in the opening area by a very nice person who was like "oh, i see you're new! would you like me to help out with anything or show you where some helpful stuff is?" and i said "no thank you actually! i'm just figuring things out and messing around!" and they went "okay cool! have fun! :)" and left... and i immediately thought oh god am i gonna get more messages like that? and just the idea of fielding genuine and friendly offers of help was enough to make me tap out. 😭

so uh. i think if there was a way to block all messaging and have it pop up a notice like "this user doesn't accept in-game communication" then that would fix the issue for me? but i feel like that's somewhat antithetical to the concept of mmos. 😅