Side quests reallly bad this expac/SB

[LalafellDown]

yep the side quest in this game are boring. Maybe make less side quest, but add more interesting elements to them. They all seem to be generic copies. Would be great if some of them were incorporated into dungeons. Like find x in this dungeon or kill x in that dungeon. Perhaps have a special enemy spawn in the dungeon while you're fighting adds. Like an assassin or a really powerful nemesis that stalks you and comes after you in random parts of the game, even in towns.

[KisaiTenshi]

I do not remember ARR or HW being this bad with side quests, do 1-3 MSQ and get flooded with 4-10 side quests. Please for the love of this game, on next expac cut back on the side quests and give MSQ and needed side quests (ones with aether winds or item rewards) more exp.

Edit: Oh and no more chained side quests. This is Final Fantasy NOT Everquest.

They are #1 optional, and #2 there to avoid having to grind one job to get to the next MSQ step. If you don't want to do them, don't do them. In fact I'd suggest not doing them until on a character that can use the experience or gear.

To that point, I wish the gear handed out was on the optional quests and not the MSQ, because you get offered gear for Tank/DPS, then you get offered gear for Casters, or materia. Unless you are leveling both at the same time, your inventory is just going to get filled with gear you can't use.

Also, chained side quests are better than the "fetch me 10 rat tails" WoW/every-korean-MMORPG where there is not even flavor text beyond the quest. In most other games, people just click past the flavor text because there is no storyline (and thus no point) other than experience.

[Neri]

Just do the one with a + sign, that one will give you aethwr current. Leave the rest for your other jobs. I don't see the problem?

[Felis]

Sidequests are optional
And don't do all of them with your first jobs. Save them up for the other jobs who can't do the MSQ anymore.

I do not remember ARR or HW being this bad with side quests, do 1-3 MSQ and get flooded with 4-10 side quests.

Have you forgot the Churning Mist moogles?

[LunaFaye]

I do not remember ARR or HW being this bad with side quests, do 1-3 MSQ and get flooded with 4-10 side quests. Please for the love of this game, on next expac cut back on the side quests and give MSQ and needed side quests (ones with aether winds or item rewards) more exp.

Edit: Oh and no more chained side quests. This is Final Fantasy NOT Everquest.

Actually HW was horrible. Not only were some of the side quests gated behind MSQ, you also had to do 5+ of them before even getting to the chain, that would unlock an aether current. On top of that the exp in the zone was so bad, as well as from MSQ that you needed to do the side quests, to just gain half a level. Then they finally "fixed" that and exp were increased, some of the chains were broken down, some necessary side quests were made available right from the start etc.

But in general I do agree with you, Side Quests shouldn't be mandatory, I don't mind doing them but only if I got nothing else to do, however now with SB it isn't mandatory to do them, and you can get the aether current quests right from the beginning as well, sure you need to do a couple MSQ but I mean, gotta get the exp from somewhere right. At least its not as bad as HW was at the start

[Maero]

Well as already guessed many of them are fetch quests, but i do not mind for extra exp since i do end up levelling all jobs to the max eventually.
I say just do not do them if you don't like them. Go swimming instead, that in itself is very fun underwater

[Nalfein]

I do not remember ARR or HW being this bad with side quests, do 1-3 MSQ and get flooded with 4-10 side quests. Please for the love of this game, on next expac cut back on the side quests and give MSQ and needed side quests (ones with aether winds or item rewards) more exp.

Edit: Oh and no more chained side quests. This is Final Fantasy NOT Everquest.

I enjoy the side quest especially in this last expansion. They were well implemented and there's even mini games in some so please don't request something to be taken out of other players, it's 100% optional as many other have stated. I like those quests for level up i would love even more.

[TaleraRistain]

Don't do them? It's not like the game requires them. I like how they have the aether current as the first quest and then you can choose to continue the story. I like the chained quests. And I'm not sure what EverQuest you played, but there was nothing like this there. The "quests" in that game were a scattered mess with obscure Say triggers to certain NPCs to kick them off. No handy map icons that you could just easily ignore, with different colors or icons for the ones you needed to pay attention to.

[Hasrat]

As someone who has recently reached the end of ARR, having done about all I can do, I can confirm that at specific level points, there was a fair flood of new side quests available. Basically any time the MSQ had you milling about in one area, there'd be a good handful of sidequests available as well.

[Spawnie]

I like it tbh.. gives alternative to fates/potd/dungeons an some sidequests have interesting stories