Quote Originally Posted by StormDisciple View Post
It's not doing the hard mode Trials that was the problem. It was the "Oh by the by, go do this quest that ISN'T a MQ to unlock this stuff to DO the MQ" nature of it.
What do you mean by this? Are you refering to Qarn being added to the MQ? Because I really dont recall having to do HMs in order to unlock MQ - only in order to unlock coil, which isnt mainstory at all.

About getting tea leafes for Tataru... yes, we know thats a filler. We know it was only there to drag out the MQ-patch at the time it was relevant. Yes, we've heard how much it sucks that you have to play through the story with all those fillers when you only want to go to Ishgard and become a DRK.
And, here are the good news: The devs listend to complains like this and said they gonna change the requirements to play the 4.0 story.