Reading all the quests dialog

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Hi everyone! Like a lot of people, when I started playing WoW, I didn’t know much about the lore and the first thing I cared about was becoming max level fast and being able to play with the “pros”. However, as I played, I became more curious about the lore and eventually, I started reading the novels and the comics.

Now that I know more about the lore, I decided to level a character while reading ALL the quests dialog. Of course, it make leveling way slower than before (I’m a really slow reader :tired_face:) and sometimes I just want to get over with some zones (Borean Tundra anyone?)

HOWEVER, I feel way more invested in this character than I did when I was just skipping everything and I love discovering new things about the lore in every zones. furthermore, I think it could be a nice thing to try for the numerous people that are getting bored with the game, since it lets you experiences low level zones in a whole new light.

So, I was wondering, how many of you guys actually read all the quests dialog? Do most players already do that? Do you guys think it makes the game more enjoyable?

P.s. For those who plan on trying it with a toon, it feels much less tedious if you use some addons (I personally use Immersion to make the dialog look like an actual game instead of having a wall of text)

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Welcome, Vallaustert! Have a “like.”

I’ve always enjoyed the quest dialogue, and I’ve tried to read it on regular basis since about MoP. Before that, I was more hit-and-miss about it.

Another way to learn about the lore is to find and read the readable books scattered about the world. We haven’t seen many of them in Legion and BfA, but they do still pop up occasionally. And they’re all over the place in the old world. You can get an achievement for reading a specific list (not sure if it’s all of them up through about WotLK, but it might be).

I haven’t tried Immersion, but it sounds cool. I’ll check it out.

P.S. Be warned, the board is fractious right now because this is a faction war expac. Lots of red-vs-blue arguing.

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I did find some books, but I didn’t know there were that many. I will definitely try looking for those when I have some time!

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I read the quests in the current expansion. If I get bored with the zone I will go do something else. As much as I like the desert ruins, the music in Vol’dun made me really want to get the hell out of there. So I will go do something else… a dungeon, do crafting, or whatever, for a bit.

The only issue with questing through lower levels is that your character will not have all their abilities until lvl. 80 or so, and it can get boring. I find myself wanting to just level so that I can get to the next ability.

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hello, i started reading quest dialog since i created this noble worgen
while i was leveling i was taking my time enjoying the adventure, just reading the quest and trying to understand what was going on.
and i do the same in every xpac. i take all the time in the world to level.

to find more about the lore i lurk a lot in these forums, i am always discovering new things that i didn’t know.
problem would be at leveling alts because is not the same doing the same quests multiple times. (even when most quest are so similar)
then i just look for the fastest way to level.

Luckily for me i was able to level 12 alts to level 100 with the legion invasions of the pre-patch with minimum effort. (i was literally afk the entire time) because it would be incredibly boring.

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I definitely read all quest dialogues because I’m the kind of person who needs to get into a story before I can really get into a game or else it just feels like I"m doing stuff for no apparent reason.

Heck, even on my new DH character, I’m still re-reading the Legion quests to immerse myself as that character (and maybe catch a few things I might have missed the first time).

Then again, I don’t really do alts at the moment (right now, my DH feels more like another main than an actual alt) so that’s probably why I can get away with this.

Immersion looks really cool and I may try it at some point. But presently I don’t mind the standard UI. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I meticulously read every quest on my first playthrough of a zone. If my memory is a bit hazy on a storyline, or I simply enjoy it, I’ll read the quest text again on subsequent playthroughs, but tend to skim over other parts for the sake of time.

I find it not just makes the game enjoyable, it’s necessary for me to actually play a game. The story gets me grounded in the world, and gives me a sense of purpose. There’s also a mild sense of that “see what happens next” you get from reading a book. But it’s absolutely essential, for me.

I ran into the issue with another game, way back when TERA was the next in a long line of supposed ‘WoW-killers’. I’m not sure if bits of the story were lost in translation (it was originally a Korean game, iirc), or what, but it was basically nonexistent. I remember getting a quest towards the end of the starting area that was literally “Kill 10 demons.” That’s it. I remember full on stopping to think “Why?.. Where do the demons come from? What are they doing here? How did they get here?.. For that matter, where and what even is here? That wasn’t explained to me either.”… I quit playing not long after.

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Immersion is absolutely amazing for doing this, great recommendation! I installed it recently and can’t imagine questing without it anymore.

I’ve never read every quest in the game, but I did make it a point a few years back to read through every draenei-related quest in the game (90% of my characters are draenei). It surprised me how nuanced they are and how misunderstood they can be by the community. There’s a lot of amazing flavor text in this game that tends to be forgotten with how much there is to do. This was back in BC, but I went back to do it during Cataclysm and again in WOD. You’re right about building a deeper connection to the character this way. I’ve had the same draenei since TBC because of how invested I got into learning the lore and doing so primarily through her.

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