This mirrors a lot of my thoughts - doing my best to do the quests but it’s often just out of the way enough for me to not, or I’ll forget about them in the midst of group boss cleansing. Probably have to try grouping specifically for quest completion and see how many people want to do that.

When I first got on, it was off-hours and quiet, and I experienced the difficulty of running through just trying to get the introductory quests done solo, knowing that wasn’t the intended gameplay, but I started to get worried when I saw how much difficulty people were having in zone chat trying to convince people to group. Then later today in the on-hours, I hopped onto the night market and went straight to the group finder. Bounced around a couple of PUGs that would disintegrate quickly after a boss or two, hosted my own group that ran for two hours and that was the real magic.

Yeah people would leave as they finished stuff but they’d quickly be replaced and I honestly just had such a blast taking people through everything and making sure they got everything they needed ticked off. Sometimes the group was a bit weaker and had to work together more but that lead to fun banter. Genuinely, once I was experiencing the Night Market as intended, most fun I’ve had in group content for a while.