[suggestion] Sidequests and Rewards

[Naylia]

Any time my adventurer heroically kills an enemy in battle - SP and EXP should be earned, since skill and experience are improved.

Side quests should provide the regular amount of SP for killing the enemies just as if I had killed a wandering marmot.

The lack of SP/EXP earned actually encourages bad gameplay. If you take a lower ranked quest when you have a higher ranked character - the system encourages you to switch to your highest ranked class and one shot everyone in sight - and victory! The quest reward is yours, and it took less than 60 seconds.

If SP/EXP was earned, I would at least switch to a rank appropriate class so that I would earn SP/EXP as I went on the lower ranked quests.

[Abriael]

Having SP rewarded at the end of the quest calls to question which class should that sp go to, your current, the one you accepted the quest on, etc... Xp would be easier, but not needed.

The game could simply assess which classes contributed to the quest completion and in which percentage, and award SPs in proportion to all of those.

Example: You killed 5 marmots with Gladiator and 3 marmots with conjurer -> 5/8 of the SP goes to gladiator and 3/8 to conjurer.

[Naylia]

So why wouldn't you just use the normal SP/EXP awarding system then.....

[God]

srsly it's not rocket science.

We've already been promised more quests all the time so great news unfortunately who cares you cant use them to advance your character.

All SE needs to do to fix quests is have the mobs drop SP. Everything else is gravy and can be added on later.

[Abriael]

So why wouldn't you just use the normal SP/EXP awarding system then.....

I'm fine with that (in fact it's included in the first post). But I'm also aware that the best way to provide suggestions to developers is to provide as many options possible to the same effect, so if one is not doable for any reason unfathomable to us, the others may be.

[Tivonna]

I also thought anima or gaurdians favor as a reward would be nice. Do good deeds and the gods smile at you or something. The prizes are pretty rotten though.

[Suzaku]

I'm still waiting for the gods to actually play a role in the game. Since they were advertised to be a huge part of the world and there were supposed to be some pretty hefty storylines dealing directly with each one.

[Nate_Strife]

I agree, I did my first side quest and got a bronze wristlet... I loved the side quest and want to do more but not if they're going to take 20 minutes to complete and all I get is a bronze wristlet.

[Munba]

Also i think the sidequest rewards should include some sp and experience as well, to incentivate ALL players to do them.

And i hope the future sidequests will include riddles and puzzles to solve too. That would be nice.

[Fiddle_Sticks]

I was very excited for this last patch and the addition of side quests, only to read the patch notes and be disappointed. ><
I then read some posts at BG forums about the patch only to find a post about someone doing a side quest, out grinding mobs for 30 min or so, with ZERO sp/exp/loot...... Really? What a shame to be let down yet again. So I guess I will continue to wait and hope that the next patch will be the miracle patch to get me to log back in (been a few months since I have even touched this game, and not sure how much longer I can continue to "wait and see")

Please SE, I have faith in you, but with additions like this, I'm starting to lose that faith.