Quote Originally Posted by Dzian View Post
To be honest there's so much junk in the story it's not surprising it puts people off. Something like 40 odd quests between titan and garda for example but of those 40 how many are actually relevant to the main plot.
The entire story arc with the Ishgardians of the Coerthas Central Highlands takes place there, along with the whole part about Cid and his airship. It's an incredibly important section of the storyline. If anything it's a bit too truncated, since the whole business of dealing with the events that happened while you were off fighting Titan got cut off a bit abruptly in order to be able to fit the next story arc in.


About the closest that 2.0 comes to "filler" quests is at level 23 with "Druthers House Rules" which is there to introduce you to Buscarron, followed by "Never Forget", "Microbrewing", and "Like Fine Wine", which introduce you not just to Teteroon, but through him to the entire Qiqirn race. So those are important in themselves because of what you learn of Eorzea through them. They just seem "filler-ish" because it's a break from the rest of what's going on in the story with the Slyph elder. (And in any case it's only four simple quests before you're back to aiding the Slyphs.)