New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[HyoMinPark]

While I concede that ARR is incredibly boring, your friend has 2 months until Shadowbringers releases. Unless he doesn’t have a lot of time where he’s available to play, he should have no problem catching up to Patch 4.57 before Early Access/Launch hits. When I first did ARR, it took me a week of off-and-on playing to do 2.x, little over 2 weeks for HW because I was a bit busier with work, and I just recently did 3.x on an alt over the course of a week—this included Alexander and all side-dungeons in addition to the MSQ. And with my alt I actually go through things fairly slow because I’m just enjoying the story again (HW forward, anyways).

Am I only one, who actually enjoyed playing from level 1 to current point - exploring world, doing story content and all that completely new things?

Sure I started shortly before Heavensward dropped, but I didn't have any "gotta rush now" -feeling.

No, you aren’t. I have an alt that I use explicitly for story—and I take my time when I’m on her just enjoying the game, the areas, and the lore. Honestly, the most fun I’ve had in this game since clearing UwU was redoing HW on her.