What kinds of quests do you dislike the most?

I have always disliked escort quests, not so much when they follow your but when you have to follow them. Especially the " Let me take you on a tour of the city " quests. I also don't like to have too many quests that make you get into machines or in someone elses body ect. and you can't use your class abilities. Some of those are ok but I feel like in some games (WoW) its every other quest. One more for the pet peeve list, the " You will do a crafting or battleground tutorial whether you want to or not or this NPC will never leave you alone" quests.

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Ravudha

Quest chains that are an incremental progression of 'kill x things'.

Quests where you do things that would normally require specialised expertise: "hey random adventurer, fix this piece of complex machinery for me".

Varkun

Daily quests that offer rewards that are too good to ignore so you line up all of your alts to do them each day because its the best way to make gold. Looking at you ESO daily crafting quests.
Daily quests that are the main means of progression either game wise or for advancing your gear. IMO daily quests are just a repetitive game destroying grind that show how little imagination some supposed game developers have.

Wandering Mist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw197U1etmk

This demonstrates my hatred of escort quests quite well I think.

Then from a lore standpoint you have the quests that require you to save just one person when there are literally hundreds of people that need saving, but you can only save one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2cYMia-NrI

Noaani

Hydrilla wrote: »

escort quests
get into machines
tutorial

Ravudha wrote: »

incremental progression of 'kill x things'.
normally require specialised expertise

Varkun wrote: »

Daily quests

Yes.

George_Black

I dislike:
1)Daily Quests
2)Lv up/item chain quests
3)Anything to do with crafting after the tutorial Quests

I like:
1) Quests that change your generic fighter/mage to a specific class (forever).
2) I like quests that reward you with new high lv abilities.
3) Quests that reward you with, let's say a high level gear blueprint
4) Quests that after completion allow you to farm in a certain location a high lv, let's say high lv steel, used for crafting a high lv armor (used along with the other 70% materials you need)
5) I like quests that once completed let you reach the 13th Floor of Cursed Tower, and kill the World Boss there.
6) I like quests that once completed you get a Nobility (or Legend) allowing you to fight in 1v1 championships and become the Champion or Hero of your Class, let's say.

I like quests that if solo will take you a good couple of hours to complete, or that require you to ask for a full party of your guild, to assist you.

Noaani

George Black wrote: »

I dislike:
1)Daily Quests
2)Lv up/item chain quests
3)Anything to do with crafting after the tutorial Quests

I like:
1) Quests that change your generic fighter/mage to a specific class (forever).
2) I like quests that reward you with new high lv abilities.
3) Quests that reward you with, let's say a high level gear blueprint
4) Quests that after completion allow you to farm in a certain location a high lv, let's say high lv steel, used for crafting a high lv armor (used along with the other 70% materials you need)
5) I like quests that once completed let you reach the 13th Floor of Cursed Tower, and kill the World Boss there.
6) I like quests that once completed you get a Nobility (or Legend) allowing you to fight in 1v1 championships and become the Champion or Hero of your Class, let's say.

I like quests that if solo will take you a good couple of hours to complete, or that require you to ask for a full party of your guild, to assist you.

Sounds more like a list of quest rewards you like, rather than quests you like.

Damokles

Quests that I dont like:
-Escort quests, where the to be escorted npc walks slower than your own standard running speed

Amist

I just generally prefer quests that feel connected to the lore/story of the content that I'm doing. I often tend to dislike questlines where every quest is the same i.e. kill and collect, kill and collect, kill and collect. I do tend to find escort quests alright if the NPC I'm escorting is not moving waaay too slow for my character to follow - some games have this really annoyting thing where NPC's move somewhere inbetween walking and running speed.

Overall I just really want quests that make sense, as well as some that can be done to just fill out some time if I have nothing to do anyways.

Nagash

I despise fetch quests

Hydrilla

I forgot to mention I also hate anything to do with a fair/circus/festival/ceremony that you have to help them get ready for and usually involves running around within a city and fetching things.

Ishka

What I dislike are the quests events related to IRL celebrations like Christmas for exemple. It breaks all immersion. It needs to be implanted smartly into the game, like it's from the actual lore and not ******* Santa Claus coming for us to give some weird looking cosmetics.

Also quests with no interests (lore wise) that requires talking to a bunch of NpCs running around endlessly to grab a little bit of exp.

And finally everything people said about escorting quests above.

xlangatangx

Loooong dropoff quests. NPC A tell you to take something to NPC B, then to C, D, E, until eventually you have touched every corner of a region. Can't stand those. Let me find things by exploring on my own or by socializing with people in game.

Basically this

Ishka wrote: »

Also quests with no interests (lore wise) that requires talking to a bunch of NpCs running around endlessly to grab a little bit of exp.

Edit: Also quests where 1,000 people all save the same drowning NPC in a pool or something like that. Makes no sense to me. If the NPC hasn't learned its lesson after being saved 5 times, maybe it's better to abandon the quest and let it drown...

Plateau

I really hate quests that are like "Hey there's this chore I could totally do, but I'm obviously too busy, so can you go spend 2 minutes clicking on things on the ground for me?" I mean, it's okay if there's things in the way that I gotta fight first, but when I'm literally just picking up mushrooms for a lazy farmer or whatever... Like no one would ever ask a stranger to do their chores for them, unless they are desperate for some reason. What happened to all the usual farmhands? What's so important that I, a random adventurer that happened to be walking by, have to fill in, but only for 10 minutes of work??

That's why I was really happy to hear that AoC will try to have fewer quests but with more substance in each. And that all the piddling tasks will be optional and streamlined; just a way to make a few bucks quickly without any inane NPC beggaring.

...Wow I got kinda worked up about that...

Ravudha

Grimthar

I like quests to involve travel through great distances to discover strange people or lands and face great danger.

George_Black

noaani wrote: »

George Black wrote: »

I dislike:
1)Daily Quests
2)Lv up/item chain quests
3)Anything to do with crafting after the tutorial Quests

I like:
1) Quests that change your generic fighter/mage to a specific class (forever).
2) I like quests that reward you with new high lv abilities.
3) Quests that reward you with, let's say a high level gear blueprint
4) Quests that after completion allow you to farm in a certain location a high lv, let's say high lv steel, used for crafting a high lv armor (used along with the other 70% materials you need)
5) I like quests that once completed let you reach the 13th Floor of Cursed Tower, and kill the World Boss there.
6) I like quests that once completed you get a Nobility (or Legend) allowing you to fight in 1v1 championships and become the Champion or Hero of your Class, let's say.

I like quests that if solo will take you a good couple of hours to complete, or that require you to ask for a full party of your guild, to assist you.

Sounds more like a list of quest rewards you like, rather than quests you like.

No.
What a described are real Quests.
What we have in mmorpgs currently are errands that give you a bit xp gold and some small item
The "rewards" and the difficulty of them make the difference as a concept. You, or you and your party, are on a path to accomplish something meaningful for the development of your character.
Not kill 10 bandits that robbed a cart.

Noaani

George Black wrote: »

noaani wrote: »

George Black wrote: »

I dislike:
1)Daily Quests
2)Lv up/item chain quests
3)Anything to do with crafting after the tutorial Quests

I like:
1) Quests that change your generic fighter/mage to a specific class (forever).
2) I like quests that reward you with new high lv abilities.
3) Quests that reward you with, let's say a high level gear blueprint
4) Quests that after completion allow you to farm in a certain location a high lv, let's say high lv steel, used for crafting a high lv armor (used along with the other 70% materials you need)
5) I like quests that once completed let you reach the 13th Floor of Cursed Tower, and kill the World Boss there.
6) I like quests that once completed you get a Nobility (or Legend) allowing you to fight in 1v1 championships and become the Champion or Hero of your Class, let's say.

I like quests that if solo will take you a good couple of hours to complete, or that require you to ask for a full party of your guild, to assist you.

Sounds more like a list of quest rewards you like, rather than quests you like.

No.
What a described are real Quests.
What we have in mmorpgs currently are errands that give you a bit xp gold and some small item
The "rewards" and the difficulty of them make the difference as a concept. You, or you and your party, are on a path to accomplish something meaningful for the development of your character.
Not kill 10 bandits that robbed a cart.

I mean, I agree with you here, but lets look at it...

1) Quests that change your generic fighter/mage to a specific class (forever).