How did people do Endwalker in 2 days?

[AdamChattaway]

Me and my friend have played almost every day since launch for many hours and we are still not done with the story even now. my friend did the expansion in the first 2 days... every day we say to eachother how the did people do all this content in 2 days? seems impossible...

[Krotoan]

Skip cutscenes. The actual required time investment is pretty small.

[NishaSetsuya]

From my experience with friend, they literally skip eating and sleeping for those 2 day straight

[Wolwosh]

It took me just over 2 weeks playing in a really chill manner.
I think for example if you skip the cutscenes in ShB getting to the end takes you about 2 hours.

[SkyCake]

If you have a friend that did it in two days, why not just ask them how they did it if you're curious?

Edit: My post actually sounds antagonistic when I didn't mean it to be. I assumed the OP was meant to antagonize when maybe it wasn't. Hope you find the answers you're looking for. I still have a couple weeks at my current pace, so I can't even provide any potential insight anyways, lol.

[Yeol]

I finished it in 4 days.

Played daily from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM my time. I took days off work for this.

[Veliaire]

Lots of reasons. Maybe they don't have a job or took off, or work hours that allow them to log in without dealing with a long queue. Maybe they speed through the story, whereas you are taking your time to enjoy it? A lot of people don't care about the story and will just speed through to get to the end game content, whether it be raiding or crafting or whatever.

Either way, don't let it change the way YOU play. I just finished MSQ over the weekend and I made sure to enjoy every moment of it. I did not rush. I talked to all the NPCs, did a lot of the side quests. I enjoyed myself and the story.

[RobynDaBank]

Someone I know well finished the story in precisely 37 hours and 50 minutes of no skipping of anything. I saw them online throughout this time (and a while afterwards too), they said they didn't go to bed at all. Probably took days off. They still keep playing for long hours to level everything to 90 and keep their Mentor status.

Meanwhile I'm at the halfway point despite playing since launch (was still doing ShB during early access). I play with my partner in leveling dungeons for a bit so that breaks the flow often.

[TristanX]

Finished it in 2 days. Luckily its weekend. Just eat, play and sleep.

Full MSQ, no sidequests.
Ignore blue quests unless its on the way.
Only do Aether Currents if it is nearby.
DR at 87-88 because it was not enough to level.

[Missbone]

Honestly if you just focus the main quest you can finish the Endwalker MSQ in a Weekend, of course it depends a bit on luck with the que time for trials and dungeons and on the groups for trials. To be honest i think the trials should be placed outside the msq, because if you dont get a good group it can be like a stupid content blocker and take hours to finish. For my taste they take to long and are to hard for normal MSQ content and should be placed in savage mode.