Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
But even if the msq didn't exist you couldn't jump straight in to current content anyway. You still have to lvl up. You still have to gear up. The only times it blocks you is at 50 and 60, but you benefit greatly from the gear those quests give you so it's not as if it's actually a waste of time. Sure you could use vendor gear but it's not very good and you can feel it when a tank or healer is using it.

The only thing "absurd" about the msq is some of the utterly needless back and forth quests in the lvl 50 section. With that streamlined it would be fine. The 60 section is fine.
they can streamline leveling and gearing pretty easily, in fact they already have. Getting from 1-50 us faster than it used to be, and you can play with friends while doing it if you want. Playing MSQ with a friend is like, oh, ill wait 40 minutes until you get to the next dungeon. Meanwhile the person knowing their friend is waiting feels pressure to finish faster. The gates just dont work well for dealing with friends. It would work a lot better if you could do relevant content with friends and do story when you are alone.

If you and your friends got two hours to play together, that might only be 2 dungeons due to MSQ and lockouts.