"In from the Cold" Scenario, any way to skip it?

[Alleo]

Quest was fine, they needed you to experience powerless and being Zeno's chew toy. 30 minutes is plenty of time to find the items as well.

But why was it needed? Take this quest out and what would really change? IMO nothing. The tempered garlean people already proved to be quite the distraction. Even with the WoL there it should not have changed much. And after all was said and done this never was spoken of again. Nobody even mentioned it later and the WoL seemingly did not learn anything from it at all. They dont have flashbacks to show how horrible that was for them, nor does it unlock any new abilities.

And its not like Zenos would ever use that again, since he wants to fight us at our very best. Sure he thinks its a great experience to be in another body...but just because he thinks that does not mean that others will think so too and we do see that our character is not really fazed by this. (And we already had our scenes in Stormblood that showed us powerless to him.)

Also it opens up the question on why this was never used by the other Ascians. Why did someone like Elidibus, who wanted us death at the end, not simply portal kidnap us and throw us into the void or something. In ARR Minfilia got kidnapped because the protection in the headquarters were gone after the sealing of the blessing of light. I always just assumed that we did get some kind of protection towards such things but seemingly we dont and the others are just stupid.

[Miracle_Diva]

And its not like Zenos would ever use that again, since he wants to fight us at our very best. Sure he thinks its a great experience to be in another body...but just because he thinks that does not mean that others will think so too and we do see that our character is not really fazed by this. (And we already had our scenes in Stormblood that showed us powerless to him.)

Because he's trying to provoke us. And it's working. He's literally toying with us. There's no other great reason. His entire character after he got his ass wooped back in Stormblood is to get wooped again. But he wants us to come to him ourselves, otherwise it's not fun for him, he wants us to focus only on him and unleash everything we've got without any distractions.

[Lenalai]

On this quest rn and contemplating quitting too.. I dont want single player elements in my mmo.. I just wanna lvl up asap and be done with it so I can start doing dungeons and stuff.. if I wanted a stealth survival horror game, I would not be playing an mmo ;-; . I do not think I will bother finishing if the rest of the quests are like this...