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[Shougun]

Oh for sure. There are far fewer quests and many quests that are there also had the number of steps within them cut down. I can think of an example around level 25? There's a bartender in South Shroud that wants you to throw a bucket of cold water on one of the drunken patrons. Originally this quest involved going behind the bar, interacting with the bucket to pick it up, interacting with a point in the stream to put the bucket down, interacting with the bucket to fill it with water, interacting with it again to pick it up, then interacting with the patron to throw the water on him. Now, the bartender just gives you the bucket full of water to go throw on him.

The quest is still a bit filler-y in the "before I help you, I want you to help me" kind of way, but they cut down the time it took to do it dramatically.

Another one that really upset me was a 2.1 quest where you spent several quests helping F'lhaminn make a bottle of perfume before she'll agree to follow you to go see her daughter. Now when you find her, she mentions that she wants that perfume before going to see her, but then says that she doesn't need your help and will just pick it up on the way, cutting out all those quests where you were out gathering water and picking flowers, which was absolutely filler fluff. They maybe could do more... but I think they did a fine job so far and potentially they could look to other expansions now to see what can be cut back.

Then indeed, amazing. I've always held for those who know they're into story that it's well worth then to do the story, and basically gain ~230 movies worth of content for a small price- and this makes that better (concern still for the grand scope as we move into 7.0, that's a HUGE wall, but at least the story pacing is going to feel nice until we get there). Where logical continuing to do that could help too. There were a lot of great moments, but stuff like that .. was not as much so lol. It made a lot of sense at the time, they were really trying hard to remake the game and had to get in a lot of content and all this criteria. They've even said themselves one thing they've learned is that the length is not as important as if it's fun. Filler to be filled is not great. So there is a dinner in later expansions but the tone and use of that meeting is so different (good contrast vs 'filler contrast').

Also you're giving me delivery ptsd mentioning these quests lol. Everybody wants my hot body for it's inexhaustible teleporting anima stores @_@, deliver the cupcakes yourself!!!