Confirmed: ARR campaign will be pruned

[Iscah]

I expect them to turn most of the quests that are not a critical part of the MSQ into sidequests that are optional. Easiest solution that requires no quest deletion, just updating which quests link to each other.

Post-ARR is in a difficult place because "less important parts of the MSQ" may still heavily involve characters who will not be available later, or need to move to a different location. It's why the hard mode trials are required rather than optional.

Even if you could turn MSQ quests into sidequests easily, they still need to be rewritten to remove the links that tie them to the quests before and after them, and those quests rewritten to ensure the join is seamless.

[Wanzzo]

My contributions as well:

- please, remove that time waster for a Roegadyn that make us loose time before the company of Heroes part. And adjust the quests from the members of the old Company of Heroes to fit 3 to 4 quests only (maybe one quest for each of them that involves a tough fight and not one billion quests for each of them as we have now) or erase all these quests.

- on the sylphs arc of quests they should consider reducing the meaninless ones to be erased as well. I think all the sylphs quests could be fit inside 8 to 10 quests only (including the end of Toto-rak). The quests like: "bring mushrooms for them in order to promote a good relation between us and them" is a waste of time, since we already danced to them and gave them a milkroot (or whatever is the right name). The same goes on that one after Toto-rak when we are invited to see the "touched ones" from afar.

- remove the necessity to do Aurum Vale and Dzemael Darkhold again on the GC company quests in order to progress through the GC ranks. Yes, i know this is not msq, but everyone do those dungeons twice loosing time. The first time is when we open them in DF.

- And would be nice if we be able to skip cutscenes inside Praetorium and Castrum Meridianum again. I know those are for immersion and represents the climax of the end of ARR. But, back when we was able to skip those cs, we had a lot of fun and watched them after in the Never End Journal or did it again with a bunch of people who didn't care to wait for the cs. We lost almost 1 1/2 hours everytime we enter those places...

[DynnDiablos]

My contributions as well:

- please, remove that time waster for a Roegadyn that make us loose time before the company of Heroes part. And adjust the quests from the members of the old Company of Heroes to fit 3 to 4 quests only (maybe one quest for each of them that involves a tough fight and not one billion quests for each of them as we have now) or erase all these quests.

- on the sylphs arc of quests they should consider reducing the meaninless ones to be erased as well. I think all the sylphs quests could be fit inside 8 to 10 quests only (including the end of Toto-rak). The quests like: "bring mushrooms for them in order to promote a good relation between us and them" is a waste of time, since we already danced to them and gave them a milkroot (or whatever is the right name). The same goes on that one after Toto-rak when we are invited to see the "touched ones" from afar.

- remove the necessity to do Aurum Vale and Dzemael Darkhold again on the GC company quests in order to progress through the GC ranks. Yes, i know this is not msq, but everyone do those dungeons twice loosing time. The first time is when we open them in DF.

- And would be nice if we be able to skip cutscenes inside Praetorium and Castrum Meridianum again. I know those are for immersion and represents the climax of the end of ARR. But, back when we was able to skip those cs, we had a lot of fun and watched them after in the Never End Journal or did it again with a bunch of people who didn't care to wait for the cs. We lost almost 1 1/2 hours everytime we enter those places...

If they did this they would remove the XP bonus and people would freak out. I personally love the getting anywhere from 9-15 million XP because it makes leveling jobs super quick.

[RokkuEkkusu]

As far as the 2.1-2.55 quests are concerned, they should at least keep the requirement of clearing Qarn (normal) and all hard mode primals (Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan Hard included) intact.

The first half of the 2.1 and 2.2 story quests might need quite a bit of pruning, but the Mog (Hard) and Leviathan (Hard) trials are still important enough to keep.

[Daniolaut]

I feel this is such a waste of resources.

They should spend their time:

-Separating SCH and SMN entirely so there are no more issues there.

-Adding GNB and DNC glamour.

Q54:
Do you have any plans to add crafted primal weapons for gunbreaker and dancer?
A54:
Sorry, we don't have the free resources to account for this at the moment. The character team might slowly work on it between patches, but I can’t say "we’ll do it."

-Fixing Castrum and Praetorium

-Making other things better like combining the 2 zones for Ul'dah, Limsa, and Gridana

before working on fixing something that isnt broken.

Its possible to complete the ARR quest line in 3 days with the road to x0 bonus.

Plus the story is fun and unique. Sure 5.0 was better, but there is no way they are making 2.0 as good as 5.0 just by "condensing" it.

[Hash_Browns]

I feel this is such a waste of resources.

They should spend their time:

-Separating SCH and SMN entirely so there are no more issues there.

-Adding GNB and DNC glamour.

Q54:
Do you have any plans to add crafted primal weapons for gunbreaker and dancer?
A54:
Sorry, we don't have the free resources to account for this at the moment. The character team might slowly work on it between patches, but I can’t say "we’ll do it."

-Fixing Castrum and Praetorium

-Making other things better like combining the 2 zones for Ul'dah, Limsa, and Gridana

before working on fixing something that isnt broken.

Its possible to complete the ARR quest line in 3 days with the road to x0 bonus.

Plus the story is fun and unique. Sure 5.0 was better, but there is no way they are making 2.0 as good as 5.0 just by "condensing" it.

I feel like you personally think it's a waste because you don't have to deal with it anymore.
Sad truth is that ARR quests are a damn mess. I'm surprised they didn't prune them sooner.

Everything leading up to the end of ARR needs to be pruned, as well as the post-ARR quests leading to HW. Honestly, I remember doing them, and it got to the point for me and several of my friends where when I had finished them & moved on I had to constantly tell them it got better after ARR because it was such a bad experience. One of the people I played with decided it wasn't worth it, and quit entirely. After leaving ARR my friends loved the story, loved the lore, and loved the quests, but we needed out of that blackhole that was ARR first.

[Avidria]

I feel this is such a waste of resources.

They should spend their time:

-Separating SCH and SMN entirely so there are no more issues there.

-Adding GNB and DNC glamour.

Q54:
Do you have any plans to add crafted primal weapons for gunbreaker and dancer?
A54:
Sorry, we don't have the free resources to account for this at the moment. The character team might slowly work on it between patches, but I can’t say "we’ll do it."

-Fixing Castrum and Praetorium

-Making other things better like combining the 2 zones for Ul'dah, Limsa, and Gridana

before working on fixing something that isnt broken.

Its possible to complete the ARR quest line in 3 days with the road to x0 bonus.

Plus the story is fun and unique. Sure 5.0 was better, but there is no way they are making 2.0 as good as 5.0 just by "condensing" it.

See, and I think a lot of those things wouldn't be a good use of resources - and some are in fact changes I wouldn't even want at all. The only one I definitely hope they add is DNC/GNB glamour, because I would love some Sophia chakrams.

Nobody is ever fully going to agree on what the devs should be focusing or spending time on, but this particular change is something that, imo, needs to happen if they don't want to scare off new players more and more often as the game gets bigger. Knowing there's a wall of 100+ quests between the first level 50 quest and the first expansion ALONE really freaking sucks. It sucked when I was a new player, and that was four years ago.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

ARR, except all those times that Minfilia asks you to return to the Waking Sands, she instead remembers that she gave you a linkpearl and just informs you of relevant details over the phone.

[MistakeNot]

ARR, except all those times that Minfilia asks you to return to the Waking Sands, she instead remembers that she gave you a linkpearl and just informs you of relevant details over the phone.

Keep in mind that it is possible to eavesdrop on linkpearl conversations, so one might want to avoid discussing sensitive subjects over linkpearls. Probably doesn't apply to all the times people use a linkpearl just to ask you to come talk to them, but still...

[Ruinfeild]

The only thing I can think of is post-ARR where for some reason you have to do the Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan on HM for no real reason.