Quests are far too generic and boring

[Raymeo]

And I'm not saying that I want story progression handed to me on a silver platter. I don't mind investing time into a game. I wouldn't be playing an MMO if I did. I'd simply like that time to be spent doing something more fun than riding a chocobo back and forth between zones in order to deliver a dozen messages for two hours between each the story's few challenging fights. I've been logged in through all of Beta 4 and all of early access with only a few hours of sleep during those periods, and yet even as the quests approach level 30 I'm still spending more time gathering items from sparkly checkpoints on the ground in the middle of towns than I'm spending actually fighting or doing something that feels meaningful. I overlooked things feeling introductory during beta because it was low level. Beginning quests are supposed to be that way. But this far in? The gameplay really needs to pick up at some point.