Quote Originally Posted by Veritas-Ancora View Post
I've completed the entire MSQ, and I have an alt that's in ARR.

While I agree that the story was intriguing and exciting, I am stuck doing fetch quests, talking to people I don't care about, and beating up three random dogs. If I was a brand new player, I would be bored out of my freakin' mind. I know this because I am bored out of my freakin' mind.

The filler is the problem. It's 80% of ARR. Minfillia tells you to go here, you go there, you talk to someone, then that someone has something else for you to do, then you go do that thing, then another person tells you they need something done, and you do that something, and eventually you get to a point where Minfillia calls you back to repeat the process.

An entire expansion would be needed just to cut all of the fat.
Yeah. Endwalker and Dawntrail's watch cutscene, walk 1 mile then watch another cutscene - sometimes intersected with a non-threatening purple cloud encounter that ends before a full rotation - or talk to 3 npcs in every new location you visit then read dialogue with the Scions that takes 5 minutes to conclude something 3 npcs already told you is much betterer.