Call me a masochist, but I just did the 2.0-2.x storyline to "refresh" myself on it. And yeah it was long as hell, but I could blitz through it in about..I dunno, a month casually. Skipping cutscenes on this second character it wasn't THAT bad, but there were a lot of time waster quests I felt.

I'm planning to do it again once the patch drops on a 3rd character to compare.

Currently, just if I had to throw ideas out there... I think it's going to just straight out cut or streamline a lot of the back and forth (Go back to walking sands, talk to 1 guy in blahblah, walking sands, kill mob over in blahblah, walking sands). Ideally using the linkpearls to just "radio in" to to get the next orders. I also think they might cut a lot of the "do 2-3 errands before actual progression", which seems to happen more in the 2.x before the later primals.

Ideally most of the bloat will just turn into optional sidequests.


BTW My goal is to get more private rooms in my FC house to do things like spa or whatnot..so I'm not just throwing myself at a wall here!