Please change 2.1 - 2.55 story and don't add a level potion or let people skip story

[kuma_aus]

Altering quest is a lot to work on though, to cut the fat of some quest and clean up the narrative. it would take a lot of work to balance it while also making sure they don't leave out anything important. The best way to actually "fix" the issue is adding in shortcuts based on the completed journal list.

Altering a huge number of quests might be quite a lot of work to do. But the 2.1 - 2.55 quests aren't that large amount of quests and when it effects how good of a product FFXIV is as a whole package, it's defiantly worth it. I don't think there is anyone who is new to the game that thinks the 2.1 - 2.55 MSQ quest line is that great because of how much useless stuff is in it. Most people I know only really enjoy the later parts of it since it picks up on the story and has minimal useless quests, most people seem to find it as some kind of chore to go through so that they can reach the expansion.

Why do you care if people skip the story? People skip the story now. I hope they make the story completely optional, it's boring anyway.

Then people can keep on skipping. Skip the story but still play the game. The people who do that right now reach Heavensward in a week or two. This lets them get used to their jobs and experience all the hard work spent on 2.X (thus making the game bigger compared to if they only do 4.X content). By letting people skip 2.X and 3.X, you'll have years of development time become useless to those people.