Friends of mine, new to the game, becoming discouraged by STORY QUESTS

[Snugglebutt]

If spent less time complaining and more time doing you would probably be done by now. Took me a day or two to get through the 50 set of MSQ quests and into Ishgard and that was around half dozen hours a day too. Pre-50 the quests do not take long in between leveling, the person you are talking about with 4 days and 9 hours play time includes leveling but in terms of quests within that leveling period it does not equal 4 days and 9 hours of doing MSQ. MSQ's don't take long within themselves, few minutes normally each and between 15-30 minutes for dungeons/trials. When in queue for those your still doing other things including leveling so your not wasting your time unless you choose to do so. Truth is if you wanted it done quickly you would do it quickly, if your taking your time with it and dragging it out but complaining it's taking too long then that is substantially a problem you are making for yourself.