Gating the whole expansion

[Alexia89]

Like I said in an earlier post, queuetime for trials right now is over an hour long. There's not much you can do when you have to do some trials to progress main quest. He might be in a queue while making the post.
If they removed trials the main quest could be done in a day.

And of course SE is gonna force us to do ifrit again at level 60 or so because of their silly gating behind quest idea.
If you don't play when content is relevant progressing is gonna be sooo slow, but I feel like a lot of people don't consider that when they make their posts

"main quest is easy you can do it in 3 hours"

You feel like people don't consider when making posts?
Consider this. OP has stated they want to go to the new areas to do mining. Safe assumption this is because they enjoy mining, so what have they probably been doing before EA? MINING. OP treated this game like WoW and ignored the story quests as 'irrelevant' and has paid the price for that.
The information on how to access Heavensward content has been available for months. According to achievements OP hit 50 over a month ago. What did they do? Mining. Got their Atma weapon.

Yeah, trying to do a trial RIGHT NOW is gonna be a friggen chore because of queue times- but I personally went from 2.1 through 2.55 MSQ on my second char last week and it took me at most 5-6 hours total spread over the course of a few days- and that was with rewatching some of the older cutscenes that I couldn't remember. Seeing as OP has no interest in story they could shave a good portion of that through skipping cutscenes. Don't really think it would have been all that much of a struggle to complete even doing a few quests a day.

Yeah- if you don't play when content is relevant progress will be slow. But whose fault is it they didn't do it whilst relevant? SqEnix's????? No. I'M certainly not going to feel any pity.

Maybe you should have put more 'consideration' into your post.