Sidequests

[Miyumi_Nara]

Lets talk about the yellow sidequests that nobody likes to run you know the ones all over every map and expansion that you all skip over.

Lets talk about why nobody runs them? Is it a lack of rewards? There is triple triad locked behind some of these chains. There is thavnarian onions locked behind some of these. There is music and emotes locked behind some of these and last but not least there is gear to go through the msq locked behind some of these.

So material rewards don't seem to be the issue. The issue I'd say is the exp just isn't worth it. As someboody who has ran every yellow sidequest in the game in every expansion. Im going to say straight out running Fates rewards you better than running these limited amount of quests and Fates are infinite.

Now don't get me wrong Fates are a very good thing to have in the game. Great source of income or crafting materials from Shadowbringers onwards There fine but when we compare them to yellow sidequests you have almost no reason to do menial tasks to get such a low exp reward. Now im not saying make these quests give ridiculous amount of exp

Im saying that each expansion if you run every sidequest they should amount to getting 2-3 classes capped from the expansions levels. So lets say Dawntrail you could cap 2 classes from 90 to 100 by running every quest in the expansion.

As is running every yellow side quest in an expansion doesent even cap 1 class out so they really turn off the playerbase from running them unless there collectors Make them more rewarding to everyone and people may actually start running them.

Otherwise at this point you minus well just remove them and put class quests back in there stead

[Jojoya]

Lets talk about why nobody runs them?

Don't you mean "Lets talk about why I don't run them"?

I do them. I have several friends that do them (a couple complete them before they move onto the next zone in the MSQ). Other people complete them.

They are rewarding in their way. On top of XP, gil, accessory coffers and occasionally other items, they add additional lore to the game for those who like world building. Even the "go kill X monster" quests add lore with info about lives of the local people.

They are optional. If you don't like them don't do them. There's no need to increase the rewards for those who are simply looking for quick and easy ways to level.

They also didn't spring up out of nowhere to replace class/job quests. The side quests have been there all along.

[Wildheaven182]

I dont think two quests for onions and gear you replace in 2 hours justifies the thousand side quests no one runs.
An issue is the waste of development time and assets that dont pay off with the sub time they generate from people playing them. Enough people have to run them to compensate the cost of making them.

I dont think they give worthwhile gil and exp for the time they take, and that'd be an easy and effective way to encourage players to do them.
Otherwise, they will only appeal to people interested enough in the lore and stories.

[LilimoLimomo]

I do the side quests for the stories. Often I focus on the narrative chains and a handful of the others, but this expansion I'm aiming to do every last one. That's my story, that's my lore, especially in an expansion with an MSQ that I ended up feeling disappointed by; many of the side quests are giving me the narrative fulfillment that I didn't get elsewhere.

Do they give a meager amount of XP? Sure do, and that should be a big flashing hint that XP is not the reason they were created.

If CBU3's analytics showed them that nobody was doing these quests, they wouldn't waste the effort on making them. That suggests that a significant amount of players are doing the quests; you're just not one of them. And that's fine; different strokes for different folks.

[Elkanah]

I use all the side quests as a way to make quick money from all the gear drops. Get one or two classes going through the MSQ-- and then the rest of the classes through the quests in the zones (getting that third one to 100 over time) and getting coffers. Open all the coffers and sell the gear off. That's how I made a lot of gil quickly after the expansions release lol

[Minali]

I like them.

[Toutatis]

I run them. I have not finished them in DT but elsewhere there is not a single exclamation mark left in my game. I know several other people who run them too.