Story pacing discussion (spoiler-tagged) — console side

Every guide I can find skips the part I am actually stuck on. The patch notes hinted at this but never actually spelled it out.

What confuses me is that it behaves differently depending on the order I do things in. Corrections welcome, especially if I got a detail wrong.

From experience, the community guide covers this better than I can, but the summary is to prioritise the basics first.

Depends on your setup, but broadly the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.