The Ga Bu Npc and its questline miserably designed

[Courthenay]

Greetings would like to report miserable design of Ga Bu npc and questline which he's involved into ......
Developers didn't bother to make new kobold pup model but they just shrunk existing adult kobold model which is wasted potential considering Ga Bu pup could be pet reward for ending the questline .....
Also adding Titan Hardmode Trial as requirement to complete Heavensward questline causes distaste and lack of style .....
Generally disappointed how questline leading from Heavensward to Stormblood was designed ......
Every new player is going through this questline and there shouldn't be underdevelopments on main storylines and in fact anywhere in this game ;

[Enkidoh]

Big spoiler but lets just say Ga Bu's story is utimately resolved much much later in the game (and I won't spoil anything more). In regards to a Ga Bu minion, there is already a win-up kobold minion available so that is a fitting stand in.

As for requiring Titan Hard Mode to be done, at the time that quest was first implemented, it was still fairly recent content that a lot of players were ignoring, so SE added that requirement to ensure players continued to queue for it for the benefit of players just joining. Nowadays that's not a problem as a high level player can solo the battle rather easily (although Landslides can still cause headaches!), but back in 2015 that was a very big issue.

This is just like the first patch story for ARR also requiring the three hard Mode Primal fights to be done along with the Sunken Temple of Qarn, it was content players were ignoring and SE were trying to get players to do it so new players didn't get left out.

[Courthenay]

Honestly I don't mind adding Hardmode Trials and dungeons requierements to ARR main quest line as long they belong to same expansion but implementing ARR Trial requierement in Heavensward to Stormblood transition phase is more like teasing chore .....
Suggestion to developers in this case : Replace Ga Bu Npc model with kobold pup since shrinking adult mob models to make them act like cubs reminds me rubbish development practices from World of Warcraft where almost every pet in game was shrunk version of adult mob without any effort put into design ..... Please don't go this way ; Quality >> Quantity
Thanks ;