25 quests is just too few. The log should be per zone or have like at least 50. I’m begging you, Blizz.
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Imagine still having quests in your quest log.
I got a better idea. Why not infinite? (or 99999)
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Classic had 20 quests max.
Remove the limit! I am trying to complete some older stuff and a lot of it has quest attached. Yet every time I go to Mechagon or Nazjatar, I find myself unable to grab all the quests at once because my log is full. So I have to do some, turn them in, grab the others, I’m repeat, until I’m done. I’m not removing old quest progress from my log for the sake of a daily that gives 75 rep and resources.
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I don’t mind the idea of them making the cap larger, but at the same time, I don’t understand how people can end up capping their logs. Finish things you start, not that hard.
Some of these quests take months to finish. The Blackrock Foundry attunement, the Legion attunements, they all take at least a month. Halfhill quests, they take a day. You can’t speed them up.
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I’ve got an even better idea: Move quests out of the log and onto the world map.
Have a big ‘!’ on each quest hub with available quests, and have the “stages” of quests pop up when you mouseover like how Bonus areas work.
So if you’ve never been there, you’ll see:
Stage 1:
-Check in with Sally, Dispenser of Quests
-Talk to Bob Questgiver about the Fuzzy infestation
-Rapport with Zal’Xik, Master of Missions
Bonus:
-Bring 4 stinky mushrooms to Creepy Ted (1/4)
After you talk to Bob, it looks like this:
Stage 2:
-Kill 13 fuzzy lump thingies for Bob (3/13)
Stage 1:
-Check in with Sally, Dispenser of Quests
-Rapport with Zal’Xik, Master of Missions
Bonus:
-Bring 4 stinky mushrooms to Creepy Ted (1/4)
Now instead of a dozen quests in your quest log, there’s one icon on your map that shows you all the tasks you need to do in an area. Put a check box on the right for each item so you can easily and quickly track and untrack things. Use the quest log solely for tracked quests and non-localized or account-wide quests, like “complete 3 Time-Walking dungeons” or Battle-Pet quests.
Now, there’s a reason Bob and Ted’s progress were not 0. The great thing about this kind of system is that you could get progress on quests you didn’t even know were available. Bob is worried about fuzzy thingies infesting the area. If you’ve been killing fuzzy things for some reason, why shouldn’t Bob be happy with you? You shouldn’t ONLY get credit for some quests AFTER you talk to the person.
If there is a quest where the devs only want you to get credit after accepting it, say there’s a “Kill infected bears” quest, then a “Find out what the infection is” quest, then a “Collect infected bear livers so we can make a cure” quest, have an item the NPC gives you that makes infected livers start dropping.
Anyway, that’s just details. The point is, putting quests in a quest log is old technology that needs to be replaced, not increased.
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So basically Guild Wars 2’s questing system?
my biggest offender here is legion profession and order hall and artifact appearances linger.
Had the time yesterday to at least have a power close out session with a solo Emerald dream run. 3/4 quests killed with extreme prejudice. Finally got to MAW and Black rook so finally all of alchemy legion questing done iirc.
Was a let down too…was expecting more for that quest end. Go get a recipe! You mean the final one I need legion alchemy 100 I don’t have. Oooh, so generous.
I don’t want to abandon them to go back and get them why I just collect them. With my memory I might go where the hell did I get them? later on.
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Never played GW2. But if it’s kinda like Bonus Objectives and kinda like WQ’s, but with a slightly more robust interface, then yes, exactly like that.
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If I could heart this 25 times I would.
Most of the stuff sitting in my logs are long-winded efforts that require raids and such, not something I can just finish on a dime, but I can’t abandon them either because good luck picking back up where I left off.
TBH I’d be fine with the current 25 quest limit if I could just have some thing like a “bank” for quests that I can put long-term stuff into and keep my main log for open for day-to-day short term stuff.
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What kind of long term stuff is there?
Raid Skips were mentioned, but there’s only so many of those, and it’s unlikely you’re doing literally all of them at the same time, and once they’re done they’re done.
Halfhill stuff apparently takes a day. How many of those are active at once, and what do you get out of it? Are they repeatable or one-time things? If they’re repeatable, is there any real purpose to people continuing to do them at this point, or is it just habit?
There’s THOUSANDS of quests in the game, there’s 120 levels, I cap out ALL the time.
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I’ve got a couple old (Outland and Legion) quests I haven’t gotten around to. I’ve got completing Mechagon, which I’ll need a raid group for. I have that Island Expedition quest, for 2 more map things. And, I have the quests from the anniversary AV event - which is 6 quests or so.
Timewalking often adds quests to the log, some of which you can do, and others, well, good luck finding a group willing to slow down so you can do them. You have to be hyper vigilant in cleaning them out.
25 can add up, even at max level.
Now imagine if you’re still leveling.
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And we have several expansions of content (including legendary quest chains, profession quest chains, etc.) filling it all up.
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People play the game in different ways. But there are leveling quests, pvp quests, profession quests, legendary weapon quests, quests to pick up to do Nazjatar or Mechagon, quests for dungeons (which they don’t offer just inside the entrance anymore - thanks Blizz, for once again breaking something that WORKED). There are warfront quests, war campaign quests, seasonal holiday quests, IE turn in quests that you might not get around to traveling all over hell for. And then you might just be trying to do old content for one reason or another.
So yeah, 25 quest slots, and we’re going on what, our eighth expac. It’s not enough.
With all the time blizz is saving with no new classes or races or professions, maybe they could at least get off their buns and fix the quest log, which people have been begging to have increased for a decade.
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