Why can't you complete quests higher than your level?

[Moontide]

Most quests are burned through your first leveling-up trip already, plus if this would stretch ~3 levels beyond your own while turning the quests in I would not see any problem with it.

Or at least make it so that you can't even accept the quests before reaching that level. At the moment it seems like you can, as long as you have some class that's high enough in levels.

[Klutz64]

Or at least make it so that you can't even accept the quests before reaching that level. At the moment it seems like you can, as long as you have some class that's high enough in levels.

This part annoyed me too. You end up with a red exclamation mark dirtying up your map and a quest hogging space in your Duty List

[Thorauku]

Most quests are burned through your first leveling-up trip already

Nope, most optimal leveling for subclass is by doing FATEs and doing the SUB QUESTS as you don't have the main quest for it anymore, while in your first class, it's Main Quest + FATEs.

[Moontide]

Nope, most optimal leveling for subclass is by doing FATEs and doing the SUB QUESTS as you don't have the main quest for it anymore, while in your first class, it's Main Quest + FATEs.

That's sort of beside the point though, isn't it? I was talking about what was likely to be done, not what's optimal. I doubt all that many take the cookie cutter content-skipping route anyway. People usually need the gear from quests first time around.

[AlantoTirvada]

Or at least make it so that you can't even accept the quests before reaching that level. At the moment it seems like you can, as long as you have some class that's high enough in levels.

Yes, this is a problem. I'm surprised something like this made it through testing as it is incredibly frustrating to the player to accept a quest, fulfill the requirements, and not be able to turn it in. On my level 37 WHM I was able to accept some level 41 quests. I thought nothing of it because they were in the same zone (E. Thanalan I believe) as the quests near my level that I was doing. Once I completed them, I could not turn them in. Now this may have happened because I have a level 42 CRP, but my class was WHM at the time I accepted the quest. There's a simple fix - require you to be a DOM or DOW of the proper level to accept any quest that requires combat