I am level 40 and just jamming along to the Battle of Azeroth quest line and I just found out that you can only have so many quests at one time. This is a pretty big disappointment honestly. I didn’t really have any quests that I was willing to abandon to continue this quest line, but I had no choice. Please please let us carry more quests. It will make us all happy and it won’t be bothering anyone. Thank you! 
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Fun fact. The 25 quest limit is entirely arbitrary and was decided to be the “optimum” amount. No one knows why. I’m pretty sure the guy who decided it has since left blizz so…
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Why hang on to a dozen quests you will never go back and do.
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I guess I see where you are coming from, but why don’t you think that you would ever go back and do them? I like to think I would.
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Maybe go finish a few of them…?
Im not sure how people can have 2 dozen quests in their log collecting dust. Or were you starting zones and just not finishing them?
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Well when you decide that you want to finish the quests just go pick them up again.
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It was 10 at launch. Expanding it to 25 was revolutionary.
I like to hang on to quests so I don’t have to look up the breadcrumb when I go back to it. BfA was especially tough, with the campaign quests, the pet battle quests, zone quests, and profession quests (herbalism)… it got to be a lot.
It would be nice to up the limit.
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Yes but when they upped it you know who said 25 should be sufficient. People thought there were game engine issues with increasing it beyond 25 but this has since been debunked by blizz themselves.
I think people just have a bad habit of wanting to hold on to things. The hoarder mentality. Same thing with some people’s bags / vault always filled to the brim. Wowhead allows you to look up your character and the quests you have completed or quests that you haven’t completed. Just drop the quests. If you were going to do them, you would have done them. Go look it up later if you want to hunt it down again.
or finish the questlines you’re on?
I’m not at all opposed to increasing the quest limit, since there is no technical reason holding them back from doing so.
But I also struggle to understand what people who hit the cap are thinking. When I grab a quest, I do the quest and move on to the next quest and so on. Even if I grab a cluster of them at a hub, there’ll be like 5 and I’ll turn them all in in about 10 minutes.
There are exceptions, of course. Raid Skip quests take 4 weeks to finish. The Call for Allies quest repeatedly pops up and I end up just un-tracking it because I don’t care enough to go deal with it since I already know what it’s for and have done it on my main. The Shadowlands Anima Weekly does in fact take me most of the week if I’m not active about doing a few extra WQs for the anima. But ultimately, we’re talking about maybe 3 or 4 long-form quests that will take up space for any notable amount of time.
So what’s filling yours? Why aren’t you doing those quests? Why are you moving on without finishing them first? If you didn’t do them when they were actually relevant to your leveling (seeing as how you’re level 40), what makes you think you’ll care to go back for them when you’re not leveling anymore?
Nope hes lead dev now. 
bfa is terrrrible for this.
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We had a 50 quest limit before the change in wrath.
who are you to decide if they will go back and do them?
pretty sure the quest limit was 20 and was upped to 25 in wrath.
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Somebody who sees through your fake outrage.
20 was wrath only and extra 30 was pre wrath they dropped the limit to universal 25.I remember having to purge quests just to be able to pick up quests.
Almost every answer circles back to “I like to do everything” and/or “there’s an achievement”.
-Profession quests. Particularly in Legion, these were needed to get all the recipes.
-The quests sending me to do epic pet battles around Azeroth. I want those achievements
-Intros to Argus, because that started when I was on hiatus, but I want to do it for achievements, see the story
-Side quests I run into along the way while out doing OTHER quests. With the main story being so on the rails, it feels better to finish what I’m working on and then go back to do side quests. But they pile up in the meantime.
-Group content/lengthy content I won’t have time to complete before I have to make dinner/go to a meeting/some other commitment, but want to do when I have time and when I’m in the mood for it (specifically PvP and raiding)
-Some quests aren’t meant to be done all at once, and need to stay in your log for a while. The “collect 12 Tortollan scrolls” and “20 Platinum Chunks” quests are good examples. BfA had a LOT of these quests, where the intent was to find the items through game play, and trying to do it all at once would result in hours of farming/hunting.
I save them for later because my character is invested in the story and wants to finish, and it feels better to do primary content while it’s relevant. Doing profession and pet battle quests later doesn’t feel as weird as “working” to save a village where everything is 8 levels below me. I save them because I’m not necessarily in the mood to pet battle RIGHT NOW (or I need to level more pets to complete the challenge) or to PvP right now, or whatever, so I’ll have the quest there for later.
And I save them knowing I won’t get back to it for 5-6 months because having the intro quest to an are like Argus, all ready to go is WAY easier than finding the bread crumb when you out level the content by 20 levels. I’d rather just have it than have to root around on WoWhead to find it.
I played a lot at that time and have no recollection of a quest limit over 25 or them ever reducing the number of quests you could carry. I’d be really interested to see the patch notes where those changes were made…
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ya not supposed to be collecting them, finish and hand them in then get more.