Quote Originally Posted by Avoidy View Post
Black Desert Online had a lot of issues, but one thing it got right was in directing players to specific NPCs. For example, let's say you get an obscure item that can be traded to an NPC in idyllshire for something nice. In XIV you'd read the tooltip and gain nothing from that info. You'd likely google the item's name and then read from comments on the wiki page or on the wiki page itself that it can be handed to an npc. In BDO, all you had to do was right click the item and select the npc button. Then it'd show you exactly where the related NPC was. It was so easy to just figure things out purely in the game. We already kind of have this in crafting; they'd just need to take it one step further.

Anyway, I agree with you OP. I kinda wanted to unlock mentor roulette, but when I saw the list of dungeons I still needed to unlock and that it was literally a series of dungeons just called "????" I decided against it. Googling it a while later, I learned they were guildhests. I had... completely forgotten those were even a thing. I remembered doing one or two at the start of the game and then just ditching that content entirely. Now, the way I found out what I was missing? I googled it. Even the blue quest npc icons signifying an unlockable... that blue icon is so broad now. It could literally be something inconsequential like an orchestrion roll you never wanted, or as huge as a whole raid series. So most of the time I google those too, just so I'm not wasting time. Some unlockable quests need to actually be unlocked themselves; they'll be gated behind what look like standard sidequests. When I wanted to start doing the moogle beast tribes, I flew around that zone looking for the quest to unlock them and found out (again, after googling) that it was locked behind a regular looking series of yellow quests. There are ways to tweak this so it's more intuitive, but no let's dogpile OP for just wanting basic shit.
The only dog pound on him is this attitude. When somebody responds to him and he said "oh so it's getting expects you to know things and as a new player I should just leave" your attitude is that negative already maybe this isn't the game for you. But every MMO I have played from WoW, BDO, Rift, Tera and this one had part it didn't explain well at all and you had to figure out /google. Could they have done better yes but to get an attitude about it rubs me the wrong way.