I agree with the story jump. The 0-50 MSQ slog is good, its part of levelling your first character, but gating HW/expac content behind the 2.x story? That seems like a terrible idea from a business and gameplay standpoint. I'm watching my wife go through that right now and its killing my desire to play through it all to get to HW. There are 100 quests and most of them are just teleport fetch quests with tons and tons of pointless text.