Take your time with Dawntrail...

[EXOMAGE]

Yea hes awful

[Galvuu]

Have you never heard of being gripped to a story so tightly that you can't put the book down and end up reading until 6am because you just have to know what happens next?
If a story causes burnout that fast, that's usually a red flag... It also doesn't help so much content that many people want (combat content and even gathering from new zones) is gated behind the msq, so they have no choice but to push through to access the side content that they enjoy.

[Hycinthus]

I just arrived in Tural and suddenly feel burned out. Not sure if it’s burnout or maybe just overwhelmed, but I immediate get the urge to logoff and play another game. Maybe i should take a longer break.

[Lieri]

I dunno. As oppossed to EW I only do msq for 1 or 2 hours before I have to stop. And this is after months of not doing msqs. So I wont call it a burnout. DT msq is so boring. Im basically dragging myself to put 2 hrs each day to progress and so I can do dungeons with my friends. Thats it. Thats my reason. I just want Lamat to get the throne so I can be done with it and do other stories if they exist at all.

[GartredZW]

I think one of the problems people are facing is burnout.... They trying to burn through the dawntrail MSQ in one sitting, so now they irrate with Wuk and whatever.

Im Taking my sweet time. I take time off between MSQ by doing the side quests and simply logging off and doing other stuff in RL. My advice if you all not enjoying, maybe slow down a little, breath the fresh air.

I stop playing and take a break once I notice I'm skipping the text or scenes. I paid for this expansion... I'm making for damn well sure I'm reading through the story!

That wasn't really an issue with any other expansion story I've played. This was the only one where I was just so aggravated I had to take breaks to level gatherers.
Not even A Realm Reborn caused that kind of reaction in me. I took breaks to try new things, but it was mostly out of distraction, or mild boredom. Not the fact that I was just getting genuinely angry at everything going on, like it is in Dawntrail.
Hell, I even ran all of Shadowbringers and Endwalker almost immediately together instead of the usual pseudo-endgame stuff I do in between all the others, and I still had a great time.
I was completely ready for ten levels and six zones of pure story-going, and I was hoping to feel hungry for more afterwards. I'm trying to like it, but it's just not working for me.

[SwadTheFrog]

I think one of the problems people are facing is burnout.... They trying to burn through the dawntrail MSQ in one sitting, so now they irrate with Wuk and whatever.

Im Taking my sweet time. I take time off between MSQ by doing the side quests and simply logging off and doing other stuff in RL. My advice if you all not enjoying, maybe slow down a little, breath the fresh air.

I stop playing and take a break once I notice I'm skipping the text or scenes. I paid for this expansion... I'm making for damn well sure I'm reading through the story!

Yeah, nah. I've been taking it very slow. Because I can't handle this awful story more than one hour to one hour and a half or so per day. It's not burning out - you did not see people complaining about SHB or EW because they were "playing too much and got tired" - infact, people overplayed the hell out of those MSQs because they were gripping and good.

[Anarnee]

Nah, I like Wuk Lamat, but by the end I was like girl PLEASE let me talk to someone else PLEASE. It has nothing to do with burn out. I wanted to see the story to the end, and I finished it in 3 days like most of the launch stories.

[Mostly_Raxus]

as someone that is still in the 3rd zone (2nd not counting city)
who is taking my time,
I can tell you:

Nope it still sucks.

thank god for my breaks, its the only thing keeping me from deleting my account

[DBriggs304]

I don't hate Wuk Lamat, but they make her so stupid at times. Certainly not ready for the crux of the story and why we are helping her.

As I've said in another thread, there are WAY TOO MANY cut scenes now. I used to love when I saw that film icon after getting to a certain part of a quest. Now, it's annoying and pretty boring. Let us play the game, not listen to a cut scene for 5 minutes to tell us to pick 5 plants that aren't even hard to find, only to have another 3 minute long cut scene. I'm surprised Yoshi let this go out like this.

[Nitelancer]

I don't hate Wuk Lamat, but they make her so stupid at times. Certainly not ready for the crux of the story and why we are helping her.

As I've said in another thread, there are WAY TOO MANY cut scenes now. I used to love when I saw that film icon after getting to a certain part of a quest. Now, it's annoying and pretty boring. Let us play the game, not listen to a cut scene for 5 minutes to tell us to pick 5 plants that aren't even hard to find, only to have another 3 minute long cut scene. I'm surprised Yoshi let this go out like this.

I agree. The constant interruption by cut scenes is the main cause of boredom and frustration for me. And in between those scenes, we don't do anything very engaging either, except dungeons and trials.

I had a thought a while ago that the MSQ has become something that would only be enjoyable for someone playing 30 minutes a day. Like how someone might watch an episode or two of anime a day. They log on, watch their 30 minutes of cutscenes, log out. It's probably less frustrating that way. But this is speaking to the boring nature of the story telling/story delivery. When I play single player Final Fantasy games, I want to play for hours at a time. That's stopped being the case with XIV's MSQ. It's getting hard to stay engaged with it due to the unnecessary cut scenes and lack of gameplay.

I would honest appreciate it if one of the MSQ was to kill 100 of some enemy just so I could spent some time actually playing, actually doing something, not watching heads nod in agreement.