quests are too easy

[spymonkey]

The quest markers on the map are seriously ruining everything I like about questing in general.

I'd love to figure out a route to somewhere or ask me to find something without a timelimit so that I can have a true sense of discovery when a rare nm drops the quest item at a totally random location after years of playing.

Quest markers make all the dialogue useless too and I have no connection to the world as it all boils down to leve-like streamlined nothingness that makes me feel like a vegetable for playing it.

I agree with you, but in order for this to work we need noticeable landmarks/npcs. For example, putting npcs in the middle of nowhere will PITA to find, since everything looks almost identical. The same with npcs in cities, it's like finding a needle in a haystack. Also quest makers are teh evil (same with npc exclamation/question mark).