With a Little Elbow Grease (purchase ornamental hammer and deliver it; Deleted)
You Can't Take It With You (Purchase two tools in Ul'dah changed to purchase in Drybone)
A Tall Drink of Aqua Del Sol (slay Sabtonder del Sol; Deleted)
Bringing Out the Dead (Unchanged)
The Warden Works in Mysterious Ways (Pray at the mark of Warden; Deleted)
Bury Me on the Lone Prairie (Unchanged)
Eyes on Me (Unchanged)
He Who Waited Behind (Unchanged)
Cold Reception (Unchanged)
The Unending War (Unchanged)
Men of Honor (Unchanged)
Three for Three (Unchanged)
The Rose and the Unicorn (Unchanged)
Feats of Strength (Defeat 3 Young Knights; Deleted)
The Talk of Coerthas (Unchanged)
Road to Redemption (Unchanged)
Following the Evidence (Unchanged)
In the Eyes of Gods and Men (Unchanged)
The Final Flight of the Enterprise (find the right astroscope volume removed from quest)
Ye of Little Faith (Unchanged)
Factual Folklore (Unchanged)
All by Ourselves (search for lost letter; Deleted)
Opportunity Knocks (slay 5 Feral Crocs; Deleted)
The Best Inventions (slay 6 ice sprites changed to 3 ice sprites)
Influencing Inquisitors (Unchanged)
By the Lights of Ishgard (Unchanged)
Blood for Blood (Unchanged)
The Heretic Among Us (Unchanged)
In Pursuit of the Past (Unchanged)
Amount of quests after the patch: 23
All in all, six quests this time were deleted, but the ones for Drybone are huge. The entire section feels more focused and doesn't feel like you are wasting time. You help out Marques but now one of his more annoying quests - sending you all the way Ul'dah for tools that are in separate locations - is now bought from a singular merchant in Drybone. It's condensed in the best way, the pacing while not perfect is far, far better.
It's also another case where teleporting to Vesper Bay is god send.
As for the Coerthas, overall, I found it not that different. The pacing is still kind of awkward with the knowledge Garuda is out there but I'm one of the people that likes it because it shows how hardheaded Ishgardians are. And you can feel the frustration of our character, Cid, and Alphinaud so it works for me. If you didn't like it before, I don't think you'll like it now though.
That said, they at least removed some annoyances - you don't have to run to the Observatorium again for a book, and two absolutely filler quests are completely gone. The story stays on task. Every quest you do involves the main plotline in some fashion and ice core part was at least reduced.
So, overall, Coerthas is only a little better while Drybone is much, much better.
Gridania changes:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/i86fga/comparison_of_gridania_115_quests_before_and/
Ifrit Arc changes:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/i8s26w/comparison_of_1520_ifrit_arc_before_and_after_the/
Sylph Arc changes:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/i9de7u/comparison_of_2024_sylph_arc_before_and_after/
Ascian Investigation Arc changes:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/i9syez/comparison_of_2428_ascian_investigation_arc/
Titan Arc changes:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/i9z9gx/comparison_of_3033_company_of_heroestitan_arc/
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