A serious discussion about abridging the story quest 1-50 (discouraging new players)

[Treaniebeanie]

As a new player to the game I do have to say that the story is frustratingly long, and very tedious. It's really ridiculous to travel halfway across a country to activate a cutscene just to have to run back to where you were initially to finish the quest. If there was someway to fast travel(aside from teleport which only allows you to travel to the crystals) that brings you back to the initial point at least would be lovely. Honestly it feels like half my playtime is just from me running back and forth trying to finish story quests!!!!

[Luvbunny]

As a new player to the game I do have to say that the story is frustratingly long, and very tedious. It's really ridiculous to travel halfway across a country to activate a cutscene just to have to run back to where you were initially to finish the quest. Honestly it feels like half my playtime is just from me running back and forth trying to finish story quests!!!!

Newsflash!!! Thats Heavensward for you!!! If you hate MSQ 2.0-2.55, Heavenward is just the same thing, bigger, longer, further, more fetching, with a big dash of hide and seek, running back and forth, again and again, and again, and again. The sheer frustration will amplified with aether flow quest, which can take hours to complete doing nothing but running around the map, and getting frustrated cuz you cannot reach the area, unless you really explore... It is absolutely atrocious way forcing players to explore and do all the tedious quests after quests after quests. You cannot even fly until you find all aether flows, on every single zone.

So yeah half your playtime would be doing quests, since aether quests are buried under other chain quests that you must complete before they show up... It makes MSQ 2.0-2.55 pale in comparison on how fast and easy it is to complete.

[Tuathaa]

Newsflash!!! Thats Heavensward for you!!! If you hate MSQ 2.0-2.55,

Actually the MSQ in HW is no where near as tedious as you describe and it actually flows rather well compared to 2.0-2.55. All the optional quests are the tedious ones.

Now if all the optional ones were part of the MSQ then you would have a fair comparison.