Lotta people here ignoring the part he said ''optional''. I would have 100% have leveled through just spamming dungeons,fates,collecting bear asses etc like all other mmos. The msq made me quit in 2013 and nearly made me quit again, alot of us couldn't possibly care less about a story and just want to play an mmo. The rest of you would lose out on nothing. All I see is ''I want to force you to go through something you don't want to because I liked it and so should you.''

But as it's already been said they sell story skip potions so it won't ever be an option sadly. It's mere existence means there's enough people who don't want to do it and they figured they could cash out on it.