Doubt about side quests.

Hello community!
Regarding the side quests, especially Stormblood... If I focus only on MSQ and rush to its end, saving side quests for other jobs, do I risk losing any quest?

I mean a secondary NPC quest giver may vanish due to MSQ story or changes in certain area, etc?

Being a completionist I would not want to miss any quest.

Thank you all in advance!

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Originally Posted by FMFCSoares

Hello community!
Regarding the side quests, especially Stormblood... If I focus only on MSQ and rush to its end, saving side quests for other jobs, do I risk losing any quest?

I mean a secondary NPC quest giver may vanish due to MSQ story or changes in certain area, etc?

Being a completionist I would not want to miss any quest.

Thank you all in advance!

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That is not a doubt, that is a question.
The answer is - no, quests generally do not disappear. You can always go back later and pick them up again.

Exceptions are quests for seasonal events, like the current Rising event or the Yokai event. Those quests disappear when the event ends.
On rare occasions older parts of the game also gets revamped such that some quests may be added, removed, or changed. This happened with the 2.x MSQ quests with the recent patch 5.3
But quests never disappear from your progress in the game.

Sidequests won't disappear.

Only the rare occasion that an NPC needs to leave their position and go elsewhere for story reasons, the game will either force you to do the sidequest before you can continue the MSQ, or the NPC will simply remain there as a sort of time anomaly, despite also being somewhere else.