There are lots of mobs you can kill outside of MSQ. I typically circumvent them as it is. There were some "fights" in this expansion that we watched rather than took part in. Lots of people complained about playing as another character or role in previous expansions so they seemed to reduce that, but I honestly enjoyed that content because I'm a "gamer". I wish they would have had more of that this expansion rather than having us watch on the sidelines.