In the Expansion Main Story..

[DragonFlyy]

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I see now, you have no problem with story, you have a problem with quest mechanics. This is how most games are. Are there better ways to handle it? Absolutely, but it has nothing to do with the story really. If you remove all those, the story would admittedly take about 30 minutes, but you would also be somewhere around level 30 when finished with the main story line. They had to add in something to do, otherwise they might as well make a movie.