Role Quests are boring

[DamianFatale]

Look. They're silly, and over the top, and keep preventing us from doing our job through the most ridiculous circumstances, but you know what? They're infinitely better than the MSQ, because there's no Wuk Lamat.

I'm not a Wuk hater. I think she was fine. Though I do agree she was way too saturated in the expansions script. She should have been a little more balanced out. I don't think she's a bad character though.

[LaylaTsarra]

I wish they were account wide hate having to do them multiple time. Personally glad they've not attached anything important to them.

[Asphhar]

Gotta be honest, man. The Role quests (at least the melee one, only one I've done so far) are infinitely more interesting than the MSQ.

[Asari5]

i actually liked the melee dps one a lot.

all the others feel too stupid though

[Gullis]

The healer and Magic one felt like a Hildibrand questline.

I liked the tank questline tho, haven't done pranged and melee yet

[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.

[Godzillaxpowerrangers]

I only have done the melee one. The person in it had some good deployment that it was a breath of fresh air compared to main story.

[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.