Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
There are a lot of fillers in 2.x...quest that makes you back and forth between 2 NPC...or worse, quests where Minfilia contacts you by linkshell because she wants to see you, only to send you somewhere.
Filler quests are those that send you off to do something and when you return you're right back where you started without having progressed any other element of the plot or story. The only one that actually truly fits that criteria are the quests you do with Tataru (where she tries the different jobs/professions), and even those have some character development for her going forward, and also serve to create a sense of pacing and a calm moment before the storm at the end of 2.5 (so technically filler, but still useful as a story-telling element).

Fetch quests, talk-to quests, etc., are NOT filler IF they move the plot forward...and most of 2.x does exactly that. What keeps getting called filler is based on a misconception created by impatient players who want little more than to get to the next exciting action set piece and skip anything they find boring (what they find boring usually being labeled as filler).