On reading quest text

[Xinner-moon-guard]

@Klerilka-moon-guard

i skip and look at objectives.

That’s what I do. I only read quest texts if I’ve never done them before, but most of the time I skip and look at the objectives if I am in a rush.

[Fairlight-emerald-dream]

@Sendryn-sentinels

Dialogue UI

Is that the name of the addon, or are you referring to any UI interface addon that changes the quest text? If you can recommend one, I’d like to check it out.

[Sinelius-area-52]

No, its too long and boring. A huge wall of text is a HORRIBLE way to deliver good story. People will get bored after reading non stop essays just to understand lore. I play video games for animated storytelling - NPC voices - cutscenes, etc - not to read a book.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Fairlight-emerald-dream

Is that the name of the addon

It’s the addon! I love it. This changes the way the quest window looks and includes a TON of options like hiding your surrounding UI, zooming into the NPC, a dark and light mode, adjustable font size and window size, mark highest sell price for a quest reward, show quest type (like weekly, pvp, etc), simplify currency rewards, accessibility settings, camera settings, and more! If you have any gripes with the quest frame… this solves them ALL!

[Fairlight-emerald-dream]

Oh love the screen shots too. Thank you!

[Tiffany-ravencrest]

I read the quests first time through, maybe first alt also. But after that I just look at what I have to do and that’s if I don’t already know.

[Weathervane-windrunner (Weathervane)]

I use the Immersion addon. I only pay attention to the highlights of the quest through it… unless its a particularly interesting questline, or involves one of my favorite NPCs, then I will click/read the whole thing.

Great addon

[Magnarok-amanthul (Magnarok)]

I always read quest text the first time through. After that, it’s random. Maybe I’m interested and want to remember the details of what happened. But usually I just want to get the leveling done.

[Faroda-moonrunner]

I’m a very slow quester. I always read the quests unless it’s something I’ve already played recently. Sometimes I read it 2 or 3 times to make sure I get everything.

[Landusk-eonar (Landusk)]

@Springrunner-shadow-council

Blizz made a poll on youtube I saw recently about whether we read quest text or not, and that compiles with a recent interview, so I wanted to come here and give my PoV, how I interface with quest text. Others feel free to add your own.

For me, normally it depends about what the quest is about. I like elves, specially BEs, I like magic (mainly arcane), and I like things that bring up the RTS games’ stuff, the core concepts so to speak. So quests that involve these I’m more likely to read in detail. (Among other things, but mainly these). If it involve characters I care about I’m also more likely to pay a lot of attention. I also pay a lot of attention if actual lore is being explained. Or if it’s the payoff of a long story.

The quests I pay the least attention to are those where they just expand on things we’re doing. For instance, say we’re mid questline, we were sent to steal some bombs, and the goblin quest giver is like “Now, you need to get in there and put these bombs on the bridge to blow it up.” Where it’s like an expanded version of the quest objective, but we already were told about the bombs several quests ago and why we wanted them. I typically skip it in these cases.

So these are the extremes. But most quests fall somewhere in between. If the quest is about some farmer who lost their prized pig, generally it doesn’t interest me, because I don’t really care about the farmer or the pig, and it seems like small potatos compared to say, the legion invasion. However, these kind of quests often have amusing text, or some kind of twist end, or they stealthily feed you important stuff about the main story of the zone, so while I may not care about the pig (for now), I still pay some attention, enough to understand and remember, because sometimes they really pay off by the end.

Finally, what I pay attention to tends to change depending on which character I’m playing. Some degree of role play, I suppose. While playing say, my troll, I may pay attention to a quest about trolls, which I only skimmed though on my blood elf. Also I pay more attention to smaller quests while leveling subsquent alts. On my first go I ruh towards that which interests me the most, ignoring that which is less interesting to me, but on alts, already knowing the main quest, will pay attention to the smaller stuff.

i ain’t reading all that

i’m happy for u tho

or Sorry that happened

[Springrunner-shadow-council (Springrunner)]

Paragraph 1: Why I made the post.

Paragraph 2: When I pay attention.

Paragraph 3: When I don’t.

Paragraph 4: typical quest

Paragraph 5: extras.

[Landusk-eonar (Landusk)]

So many words… And folk say I bad at english.

[Greymarc-amanthul]

I generally read them the first-time round, at least.

[Springrunner-shadow-council (Springrunner)]

I think I read most quest text, question is how much attention I pay.

[Vulkova-illidan]

I only read the quest text way back in wrath and then again in legion. The current lore isn’t worth wasting time on.

[Arrowlad-aerie-peak]

@Doness-kargath

do you care about the setting?

It’s a given that many players are only here for the gameplay part of the game, not the RPG setting.

[Kimlyn-sargeras]

One things I’ve noticed from quests and therefore the story in DF is that the men are weak, apologizing cry babies but the woman are strong , brave and determined. What’s up with that? Kind of turns me off from caring about quests or lore.

[Dollfacê-area-52]

I don’t understand people who play an RPG but don’t read anything lol

[Khaleid-proudmoore]

To each their own, but the gameplay is a pointless activity without the story, isn’t it? One can see lights and colored pixels in hundreds of ways.

“I don’t even care. I have no idea what the lore is. I just enjoy the gameplay of mindlessly traveling from one point to other, pointlessly making lights and sounds and colors happen for reasons unknown.”

Whatever. Lol.

[Sorelai-wyrmrest-accord (Sorelai)]

I always read the quest text. At least the first time through. It isn’t that much anyway and only takes a short time to do so.