Dawntrail Diary: Role Quests

I realize a lot of people are complaining about a lack of things to do in Dawntrail. But I'm taking my now traditional first post-patch break from crafting and gathering to catch up on old content. During Endwalker's patch 6.1 I bought and decorated a cottage. Now during Dawntrail's patch 7.1 I'm catching up on role quests.

Role quests first came out in Shadowbringers as a substitute to the individual job quests we've had from A Realm Reborn through Stormblood. Role quests encourage completionists to level 5 jobs to the level cap as completing all the role quests for an expansion unlocks a special unifying questline. The mechanics are very similar to the alliance tribal quests made available in the last patch of an expansion.

The role quests, as the name implies, focus on roles. I only have four roles (if you count summoner and scholar as different roles) at the level cap of 100 and two additional roles at level 55 or above. The breakdown as of yesterday was:

• Tank: Warrior (level 98)
• Healer: White Mage, Scholar (both level 100)
• Melee DPS: Dragoon (level 57)
• Physical Ranged DPS: Dancer (level 100)
• Magical Ranged DPS: Summoner (level 100)

The people complaining about the lack of content probably look at the list and think I only started playing with Dawntrail. Actually I started on the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, which was July 20, 2019. I just get caught up doing things, like crafting, gathering, and decorating my apartment and cottage. I didn't catch up to current content until patch 5.4, which was around a year-and-a-half. I've passed up doing a lot of content trying to get to the end of the main story questline.

That out of the way, I'm learning completing all the role quests does unlock some things, although I've only unlocked the Shadowbringers content. Completing the final role master quest opened up the Void Quests. Well, it would if I had kept up to date. Here are the things I still need to do in order to start the first Void Quest:

Complete the quests The Diabolical Bismarck and Thok Around the Clock. The quests require clearing both Trial The Limitless Blue (Extreme) and Trial Thok ast Thok (Extreme). The wiki assures me I can complete the quests solo at level 80. I'm waiting until I complete the role quests for all expansions so I should have no problems running them with a well-geared level 100 warrior.

Complete the Warring Triad questline. The wiki indicates I don't have to complete the Warring Triad extreme trials in order to complete the three quests. I do wonder how a level 100 warrior would do with the trials.

I don't know what follows the Endwalker and Dawntrail role quests since I need to level a physical dps job up to the level cap in order to complete both sets. But the Shadowbringers one was done well enough I'm willing to level a physical dps class up to level cap. I know I could have started off with Endwalker's Reaper job but I figured I already had a level 53 dragoon so why not finish the job?

And really, once I get to Stormblood content at level 60, levelling isn't too bad. The alliance society quests (formerly tribal quests) offer decent xp (and great xp in Dawntrail), and doing the quests in Stormblood, Shadowbringers, and Endwalker produce 135 tomestones a day. Just by levelling my characters I'll get additional Manderville weapons. I should have my second Manderville weapon by the end of the weekend.

So that's what I'm currently working on in Final Fantasy XIV. Like I stated at the top, I'd like to have the content completed before the launch of patch 7.2 so I can go back to crafting and gathering full bore again feeling refreshed. After all, sometimes I need to take a break and do something different. Apparently I play slowly enough I can take that break inside the game.