Well I can't speak to how the fresh lvl50 up to 2.55 is since I'm almost level 40 but I will say that so far, main story quests have become kind of a chore as there's a lot of "hey, go talk to this npc in gridania - so you teleport - "hm, sorry don't know what you mean, go talk to that npc in camp drybone" - so you teleport there - "maybe go talk to a dude in costa del sol? maybe he knows?". It's unnecessary busywork.

Also where I'm at is that it takes you at best 300 k xp to level but you get what, 4-5 main story quests per level? I'd like to see something like Old Republic - huge XP boost for story quests only. We'd still have to do FATE's/hunting logs on secondary jobs anyway but least the initial playthrough is sped up a bit.