Quote Originally Posted by Vaer View Post
Shot in the dark here but did you buy a jump potion to 60? TBH the SB quests are rather tame compared to HW/2.0-2.55. Those were even more annoying. i.e Putting quest givers up on a cliff when you have no flying and having to go all the way around.

Though I will say the quests you are talking about aren't aimed at "gotta go fast" players. That's why they are sidequests, yellow ones are mostly optional if all you care about is getting to the end. You can skip a large portion of them if you don't care. You just have to do ones that advance the story. Just run a dungeon or roulettes to make up the exp loss if combat is more engaging, that is another option.
I did MSQ and side up to lvl 20 (pretty much 2 starting zones), then only MSQ. I finished ARR I was 60, so I only did MSQ in HW too. I was 64 at beginning of SB, so I burned through MSQ until far east, where I thought that only doing MSQ would leave me underlevelled due to lack of road-to-60 bonus. Which made side quests a necessity.

Thanks for the suggestion of alternative approaches, but the issue here is not what I can do now to sidestep the problem, but a suggestion to the devs to avoid it in future content.