Level 50 quests, solution "softener"

[kaynide]

They've already cut most of the fluff from post-ARR MSQ. There are a couple of stray pieces that could probably go

(does the WoL really need to resort to bullying people for information about the refugee riot when that could have been done by a couple of Flames or Sultansworn?)

but there's really not that much that isn't needed. Just about everything left provides information related to something that happens later.

The last thing I want here is for it to end up like WoW where you don't know what the heck is going when a new expansion starts because the set up took place in a book or pre-patch event that was in the game only 2 weeks before being removed. Players shouldn't be forced into side content to understand what's happening in the main story. It's bad enough that Crystal Tower is now required.

The entire sequence leading up to Brayflox (essentially fetch quests to make a feast) could be neatly done in maybe 3 quests.. Maybe one with the imposter, 1 delivery and then the actual braflox dungeon.

Or in Coerthas, one place has us track down a mob, kill it, deliver it, then deliver 3 cooked steaks. This could just have been 1 quest with all of the same information storywise contained. We need not actually deliver steaks to people in the same room we got the quest.

..and that’s the general problem with a lot of the quest chains. You could get the gist of it and keep the actual story beats in maybe 1/3 of the quests. When the game is new it makes sense to pad it out to retain players, but we are at a point it should get another cull maybe by end of 6.x.