Questing and Experience Rewards

As many players might know, there are a bunch of quests already that hand out experience points already, such as Fields of Valor pages, Dominion Ops, and BCNM fights like "The Mothercrystals" currently. These however, have all been pretty battle related.

Then there are quests that aren't strictly battle related, like the Tutorial NPC and the new Seekers of Aldouin prequesting.

The SoA prequesting brings out the thought, is Seekers going to hand out experience for certain quests as well? This conclusion seems to be a reasonable one, and would be a nice outcome.

Quests giving out experience points rewards tend to favor helping new players in my opinion - old players have many of the quests already done, and getting higher levels seems to require much more experience points then quests could possibly give, slanting the benefit towards newer players with low level jobs.

On that note, I'd like to formally request this going forward:

1. Seekers of Aldouin should have many quests that have an experience points reward component.
2. Older quests that are non-repeatable should have an experience points reward applied to them when appropriate.

Older quests tend to be a bit low on the reward side except for a handful with high fame requirements that players usually spam a repeatable quest for reputation so they can do the worthwhile quests. Wouldn't it be nice if certain quests with a low value reward also got a small experience points reward to boost their value to new players?

I realize the second of these two suggestions would take a lot of valuable dev time and work. Most of that time would be spend identifying quests that should give out experience, and possibly how much it should give out. As such, I think we should identify as many quests as possible that could use a retroactive change.

Doing my best to compile a list of non-repeatable quests that aren't for a scroll, map, or artifact armor piece.

San d'Oria Quests

• Father and Son
• Gates to Paradise
• The Medicine Woman
• The Setting Sun
• The Trader in the Forest
• The Vicasque's Sermon
• Trouble at the Sluice
• Undying Flames
• Unexpected Treasure
• Waters of the Cheval
• A Purchase of Arms
• A Sentry's Peril
• A Timely Visit
• Black Tiger Skins
• Distant Loyalties
• Grave Concerns
• Grimy Signposts
• Rosel the Armorer
• Signed in Blood
• Sleepless Nights
• Tea with a Tonberry?
• To Cure a Cough
• A Taste For Meat
• Flyers for Regine
• The Brugaire Consortium
• The Dismayed Customer
• The Pickpocket
• The General's Secret
• Introduction To Teamwork
• Intermediate Teamwork
• Advanced Teamwork

Bastok Quests

• A Proper Burial
• Brygid the Stylist
• Father Figure
• Mom, the Adventurer?
• Stamp Hunt
• The Curse Collector
• The Elvaan Goldsmith
• The Return of the Adventurer
• The Signpost Marks the Spot
• Wish Upon a Star
• Drachenfall
• Hearts of Mythril
• Rivals
• The Eleventh's Hour
• A Question of Faith
• Beadeaux Smog
• Cid's Secret
• Hyper Active
• Message on the Wind
• Out of the Depths
• Return to the Depths
• Teak Me to the Stars
• The Gustaberg Tour
• Too Many Chefs
• A Test of True Love
• Beauty and the Galka
• Fear of Flying
• Forever to Hold
• Guest of Hauteur
• Love and Ice
• Lovers in the Dusk
• Out of One's Shell
• Past Perfect
• The Quadav's Curse
• The Stars of Ifrit
• The Usual
• The Wisdom of Elders
• Till Death Do Us Part
• Welcome to Bastok

Windurst Quests

• All at Sea
• Crying Over Onions
• Inspector's Gadget!
• Making Amends
• Making Amens!
• Onion Rings
• The Promise
• To Catch a Falling Star
• Truth, Justice, and the Onion Way!
• Wonder Wands
• Blast from the Past
• Curses, Foiled Again!
• Curses, Foiled...Again!?
• Nothing Matters
• Star Struck
• To Bee or Not to Bee?
• A Pose by Any Other Name
• Babban Ny Mheillea
• Blue Ribbon Blues
• Chasing Tales
• Early Bird Catches the Bookworm
• Food for Thought
• Heaven Cent
• Hoist the Jelly, Roger
• Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
• Making Headlines
• Overnight Delivery
• Scooped!
• Tuning In
• Tuning Out
• Water Way to Go
• Wild Card
• Wondering Minstrel
• A Greeting Cardian
• Can Cardians Cry?
• Chocobilious
• Legendary Plan B
• Rock Racketeer
• The All-New C-2000
• The Kind Cardian

I agree with all of the above. Well, all that I actually read, which is about 75% of it. Dunno about the rest :D

i dont consider FoV or GoV a quest, its just a boring repetitive timesink

It's a stripped down repeatable kill quest.

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Originally Posted by vienne

i dont consider FoV or GoV a quest, its just a boring repetitive timesink

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Collecting 10 vials of Satan's spinal fluid is the same as killing 5 rabbits and sacrificing a duck.

This would be pretty awesome.

Some of the quests are just "I want to eat these, bring me three of three of these," and it feels like those should have the typical fetch-quest reward of experience and gil. Others are based on exploration, and I'd like those to be more rewarding just because it might provide more encouragement to do them and see some corner of Vana'diel a player would never otherwise venture into.