I'd rather have no MSQ and more dungeons and raids at this point . . .

[Kaurhz]

Yeah I also don't think it's a good idea to delete MSQ entirely. One of the issues with the current MSQ, is it's trying to be an Epic story, but without the setup.

There's plenty of people that can write better than me on this forum alone so I'm not suggesting my plot overview is better, just the idea of breaking the MSQ into small chunks of various stories leaving things open for further development and using more Solo Duties where the player gets to actually do stuff around the zones, would have been better than walk to the glowy circle and watch this for 5-10m

I think there's a thousand different things they could do if they wanted to make it interesting, to be honest. It is as you say it tried to be an epic story without the required build-up. So many former centerpiece characters were relegated to ther sideline, which is OK, but it is not OK when the character we're following doesn't get the needed growth to justify it. Like, we can say she got growth, but it wasn't in the right areas, it was largely underpinned by maintaining that which was already established; peace for 'her people'. Ultimately this only came at jeopardy for a small moment, which ultimately got watered down for her irrational care of trying to solve absolutely everything for everyone to the point where it came off as aggressive and forceful. (The whole scene in the final trial was absolutely unnecessary mid-trial.

This only ended up serving to keep her a fairly single-dimensional character, versus someone like Zoraal Ja and Bakool Ja to a lesser extent. I started off really hating both of them as characters, but ultimately came to actually enjoy where they were going. This is why I think this is a bad-take thread more than anything, because there were moments where they did actually show.

I am just hoping more than anything that it is only a temporary consequence of it being a new arc and them feeling out what directions they can take the story.