MSQ Needs Further Condensing

[Tranquilmelody7]

I still feel, at thevery least ARR definitely needs more trimming.
It's a step below the expansions in term of gameplay and storytelling complexity and yet still requires by far the longest time to get through.

After dwelling on it for a while I feel the Crystal Tower raid series is more engaging from a gameplay and plot standpoint than the several dozen quests that were removed, but it still takes several hours to complete.

In regards to the point amount of time saved by removing and trimming several dozen quests I feel SE failed to condense the ARR MSQ due to mandating the Crystal Tower series.

[DPZ2]

In regards to the point amount of time saved by removing and trimming several dozen quests I feel SE failed to condense the ARR MSQ due to mandating the Crystal Tower series.

Or, perhaps, they failed to 'condense' (your word, not theirs) the ARR MSQ further because it'd be a different story? They dropped the post 2.0 quests from 100 to 80. They dropped the 1-50 quests from 196 to 165. They removed 51 quests in total, and still maintained the essential storyline.

Here's an idea, we start Heavensward right after Praetorium. Just skip everything from 2.1 through the last patch of ARR, including dungeons and raids. I'd bet that'd cut out a lot of stuff we don't really care about anyway, right?

No Ramuh, no Iceheart, no Snowcloak, no Leviathan, no Thornmarch, no Keeper of the Lake, no Chrysalis, no Steps of Faith, no Crystal Tower or Turns. Nope, replace them all with a 15 minute 'while you were gone' and move along.

Better still, cut every post-50/60/70/80 dungeon/raid instance, as well as the post-2.0/3.0/4.0/5.0 quest lines from the game so we can move along quickly to the 6.0 content.

Pfui.