Please Consider Boosting Side-Quest EXP

[Superskull85]

What is the big deal with side quest XP? They are only one-off missions. They are useless for sustainable XP going into later levelling.

Side quests are, and have always been, for additional lore and story.

Why not go to FATE's for XP? Or dungeons? Daily hunts?

I don't get this obsession with giving one-off quests more XP. :/

[Padudu]

What is the big deal with side quest XP? They are only one-off missions. They are useless for sustainable XP going into later levelling.

Side quests are, and have always been, for additional lore and story.

Why not go to FATE's for XP? Or dungeons? Daily hunts?

I don't get this obsession with giving one-off quests more XP. :/

I mean.. why not? One-off quests can still be interesting and at least give you something slightly engaging instead of circling around a map for fates lol. It'd give people incentive to actually do the quests and be engaged with the additional lore. I mean when's the last time you've done a bunch of side quests for the lore?

[Superskull85]

I mean.. why not? One-off quests can still be interesting and at least give you something slightly engaging instead of circling around a map for fates lol. It'd give people incentive to actually do the quests and be engaged with the additional lore. I mean when's the last time you've done a bunch of side quests for the lore?

This past expansion, in fact.

I mean, the moment you are done with the sidequests you will be doing all of the other sources of XP for the other 18 or so jobs you didn't have side quests for. There is no way side quests will give more xp compared to MSQ's and MSQ's don't even compare to a single FATE. So what exactly are you hoping for? You will still largely do side quests for story and lore. That is their purpose. If you don't like that then ignore them and move on.

[Padudu]

This past expansion, in fact.

I mean, the moment you are done with the sidequests you will be doing all of the other sources of XP for the other 18 or so jobs you didn't have side quests for. There is no way side quests will give more xp compared to MSQ's and MSQ's don't even compare to a single FATE. So what exactly are you hoping for? You will still largely do side quests for story and lore. That is their purpose. If you don't like that then ignore them and move on.

You can say that for literally most things though? Most people complete content and then move onto something else to get exp, I don't think that's exactly a terrible thing as it gives more options and variety then.. idk, fates, roulettes, bozja? I don't think MSQ-esque exp is reasonable, maybe meet in the middle? shrug. I just don't get the argument against it, it's not like it'd impact much at this point of the game and just seems rather contrarian

[Shougun]

This past expansion, in fact.

I mean, the moment you are done with the sidequests you will be doing all of the other sources of XP for the other 18 or so jobs you didn't have side quests for. There is no way side quests will give more xp compared to MSQ's and MSQ's don't even compare to a single FATE. So what exactly are you hoping for? You will still largely do side quests for story and lore. That is their purpose. If you don't like that then ignore them and move on.

There is no reason they couldn't give more than an msq if it was done right, for example as an armory bonus or if they were associated with systems that were delayed (such that you didn't accidentally get launched forward in pacing inappropriately). Many things give more than an msq, it's not some sacred number that can't be gone above.

Also on the other post about obsession, the OP says it's not some deep dark issue that makes the game horrible- it's just silly feeling and makes them feel relatively unrewarding beyond /maybe/ some interesting lore. Some quests are lore interesting, some are not- the ones that are not and have poor exp feel like a waste of time.. at least in comparison to other opportunities, and this seems like an unnecessary situation given there are ways to amend that.

This change won't ruin balance and will make them feel better to some players (like myself and those chiming in agreement). There is naught much to lose and some extra appreciation to gain. I don't see any issue with asking and receiving if it was listened to feedback (assuming they take measures not to launch people forward in pacing when they shouldn't be).

As myself and a few have said a desire along the lines of taking one job to cap wouldn't require the quests to have absolutely absurd values, just more than they have currently.

[Besame]

This time around I leveled my main doing the msq and side/job quests as I went. Fairly painless with some guild hunts thrown in. Then I tackled my 2nd in command, a healer. I finished up incompleted side quests leftover from EW (about 1x level) and did guild hunts for a couple of weeks to get her from 81 to 90. Now faced with a smn and blm to get from 70 to 90, I ain't doin it. Done and done, they can sit there hehe. It is of note that I stopped doing dungeons after the forced ones in the msq. Got tired of the toxic behavior long ago and trusts usually don't cut it. Just not a dungeon runner for xp anymore.

[Shougun]

Just bumping for the sake of the upcoming expansion. Please consider some sort of system:

- armory bonus applied to exp
- perhaps capped exp converted into tomes or some other currency (bicolor, etc)
- side quests count as completing fates in the zone (for shared FATE level)
- etc, some ideas to help. In the last expansion unless the quest rewarded an item it was patently worse than a fate.. hopefully that can be addressed.

[Toutatis]

Just bumping for the sake of the upcoming expansion. Please consider some sort of system:

- armory bonus applied to exp
- perhaps capped exp converted into tomes or some other currency (bicolor, etc)
- side quests count as completing fates in the zone (for shared FATE level)
- etc, some ideas to help. In the last expansion unless the quest rewarded an item it was patently worse than a fate.. hopefully that can be addressed.

Please no. This game throws incredible quantities of XP at you nowadays. Add items that give bonus XP, fc/gc bonuses (gc bonuses can be used on other DCs/servers), food, rested XP, roulette, beast tribes, Wondrous Tails, etc. In EW, by the time I reached the lvl 87 quests, I had all my battle jobs at 90.

I’ve completed every single yellow quest in the game and they do add up in the end bit it’s more to enjoy the lore.

[Palladiamors]

I would really like to see a stacking bonus based on the number of jobs you have at max level. It'd be a nice way to reward people for grinding out multiple jobs.

[Jojoya]

I would really like to see a stacking bonus based on the number of jobs you have at max level. It'd be a nice way to reward people for grinding out multiple jobs.

Why should people be rewarded for leveling multiple jobs? Level a job because you want to learn the job, not because you're going to get extra rewards for it.