Having just finished going from 1-50 and finishing the ARR storyline I can safely say I've experienced far worse than what it took. Plus if you actually bother to read the quests those senseless fetch quests have reasons for existing. This game is very much so storyline oriented, I can see it becoming tedious if you skip through everything and just want to instantly hit up the highest level hardest raid but unfortunately there's a process to go through with this game if you're that kind of impatient. It could be condensed a bit sure but most of the fetch quests make sense so it's not really necessary. JM2C