Role Quests are boring

[Voidmage]

I have yet to do the Caster role quest but so far... It's another instance of Hildibrand writting bleeding into the MSQ.
They're childish and felt like they were written for a 8 year old.

I felt like there was too much useless and non-canon information and my brain decided to filter all these stories.

Shadowbringers was amazing and led to lore, discovering a twist, establishing settings for the void.
Endwalker allowed to see how the different part of the world were dealing with the apocalypse.
I expected Dawntrail role quest to see more Turaal Vidraal and hunting them but nope, only silly people doing silly thing that doesn't expand on anything and will never be mentioned ever again.

Please, keep silly Hildibrand story writing in Hildibrand content.

At least the DT caster role quest gave me a reason for doing it as a caster (to have someone tank and me going full nuke).
EW said they needed a battlemage but not once was it needed.

I don't really have a problem with the comedy and would find it great normaly. With the forced Hildibrand quests in EW and the unfunny comedy in 6.x as well as in DT it's beginning to overstay it's welcome though.

[GrizzlyTank]

At least the DT caster role quest gave me a reason for doing it as a caster (to have someone tank and me going full nuke).
EW said they needed a battlemage but not once was it needed.

I don't really have a problem with the comedy and would find it great normaly. With the forced Hildibrand quests in EW and the unfunny comedy in 6.x as well as in DT it's beginning to overstay it's welcome though.

It's better to look at the EW roles quests as a brief intermission intended near the end of the campaign while we wait for the space-ship getting fixed. Like "go check out how city states are faring while we fix things up".

So it as less about the roles themselves and more about the city states.
But unlike ShB they didn't force us to do them.

[BakoolJaJa]

I don't really have a problem with the comedy and would find it great normaly. With the forced Hildibrand quests in EW and the unfunny comedy in 6.x as well as in DT it's beginning to overstay it's welcome though.

IMO, the problem is exactly that Hildibrand comedy is so great when it's in a separate bubble. Hildibrand quests and characters are tailored for Hildibrand comedy. When you do those quests, you are almost put in a parallel and absurd version of normal Eorzea, where usual laws of physics do not exist and logic is twisted backwards. And these quests can be a breath of fresh air when you step out of the normal MSQ, and step into something completely different.

None of this really works when you just start inserting that comedy into serious MSQ quests. The right characters aren't there. The absurdity feels out of place. Jokes do not land. And you can't get away from them either. You can't say "okay, I've had my fun, I'll take a break with Hildi and go do the main stuff now."

Now, with the role quests, I think it could work, seeing as they are more separate. But this might have been an issue of expectations. People probably didn't start the role quests expecting them to be Hildibrand. Previous expansions were different. And there's still an issue of people not considering them completely optional.