Make it so the Current Expac MSQ doesn't level you

[Malthir]

why remove the only rewarding thing about bad MSQ's?

not saying they are all bad or anything, but its... a story based game. you know that when you come into it. its a big selling point. so what is the incentive to remove exp from tthat?

it would be like selling a pvp game where you cant level through pvp.

Again not saying remove all exp. DT is written poorly which has made alot of player annoyed however if the MSQ was less of a slog of cutscenes and broken down by more player interaction in area's with smaller stories in each zone, even a poorly written story becomes less tedious. It doesn't make it good but less egregious. The problem the game has as a whole and this has been building since Shadowbringer, is a massive reduction in gameplay in favour of static dialogue cutscenes. That is fine as long as the writing is great, but the second the writing is bad it become unbearable. With it also being the main levelling route, it then becomes a massive barrier to entry for new players, which is going to be the issue DT has caused. They will feel a hit in subs from unhappy players now, but they will REALLY REALLY struggle to get new players with DT's MSQ hanging over people. In order to prevent things like this in the future, they need to look to bring gameplay back into the game.

My suggestion of fates and side quest was purely a suggestion I'm open to other ideas. Just then need to stop the MSQ being the only real aspect of the game, or they are going to run into problems.

Before someone says, they just need to write better. DT is an anomaly of poor writing quality in the same regard that shadowbringer was an anomaly in great writing. Most expacs are going to hover in between. It's a poor decision to keep the MSQ this large and heavily focused on cutscenes when you will have massively fluctuating opinions on the story.