I know ARR was cut down but it really needs more done with it.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

It could some condensing definitely... But do you really want to cut out Trachtoum?

Maybe have the quests in general send you running across the entire world less... I would say the worst offender of that is the Garuda arc.

Oh, I just remembered that... I still don't see why "we" had to do the running. What were the Scions or our allies even doing? They could have done that stuff and met up with us.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Oh, I just remembered that... I still don't see why "we" had to do the running. What were the Scions or our allies even doing? They could have done that stuff and met up with us.

During the Garuda arc in particular? The Scions were still scattered after Livia's raid on the Waking Sands, and half of them were captured (not to mention all of the minor Scions that were killed off). We only had Alphinaud and Cid; Alphinaud was still in his stuck-up prissy rich kid phase and wouldn't lend a hand, and Cid was still amnesiac.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Oh, I just remembered that... I still don't see why "we" had to do the running. What were the Scions or our allies even doing? They could have done that stuff and met up with us.

Well, the Scions were busy being dead and/or captured... And so the WoL goes off to on two useless side quests because the people trying to help keep making us get the wrong element crystals because padding. Also fighting a Siren.