Into Ishgard

[RichardButte]

The texts are not the bad part, more the running around between the texts

The walking to one end of a zone only to talk to one NPC and then walk back definitely sucks, yes, but there's too little story scraped over too many fetch quests in that whole sequence, really...

Once you hit the HW quests it slows down again with a bunch of boring, fetch quests and mind numbing running until you get to 60, then the same in Stormblood from 60-70. It's only after you get past the introductory quests in an expac that the quests become less errand boy and more heroic. That's the nature of the FFXIV beast.

I dunno, I thought the story throughout HW was much more focused and interesting. Plus, Alphinaud and the crew actually start fighting alongside you instead of just sending you places to kill things and showing up all, "Oh noes! Did we miss the fight? Too bad!" afterwards.