Quest Additions and Adjustments (03/02/2011)

[solracht]

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...e2288df20e2d8e

Patch 1.16, set to go live on Thursday, March 3, will introduce several new sidequests to Eorzea. To go along with this, there are also a number of changes to make the questing experience smoother, as well as adjustments to the degrees of difficulty for many local levequests.


Sidequests

Sidequests are a new category of quests that are being added to the game. These will be made available through various NPCs located in each of the three cities, given that a player first fulfills certain class/rank prerequisites. The content of these endeavors vary greatly from one another, and we will continue to add further sidequests in future patches.

NPCs offering sidequests are easily distinguishable by the presence of an exclamation point (!) icon above their heads. The same icon is also displayed at sidequest NPC locations on the map and minimap. In the future, we plan to extend this feature to other quest NPCs, such as those offering class quests.

http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...0ff24130671840

* The term "sidequests" is the new official designation for what were previously referred to as "miniquests" in several Letter from the Producer posts.
** Only sidequest NPCs within a certain distance of the player will have the ! icon displayed over their head.



Local Levequests

The objectives of certain local levequests are currently somewhat difficult to complete due to disparities between the synthesis rank of their requested items and the approximate rank needed to reach the associated aetheryte. To address this, patch 1.16 will contain adjustments to the recommended ranks, degrees of difficulty, and item types and amounts requested of these levequests.

* Levequests undertaken prior to version 1.16 will automatically be adjusted upon server restart following the patch.

[Hyan]

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[solracht]

In before people who just wiki'd their way through quests in XI complain about the !s and map markers.

EDIT: SORT OF, DAMN IT HYAN

[Hyan]

Well, at least it's classy enough.

My complaint would have more to do with the fact that they didn't put their own personal twist to it, but I guess they did in a way. ZAM should be hilarious for a while at least.

Now more interesting to see is how they will balance these kind of quests, quests with cutscenes (scenario/class) and guildleves.

[Alkar]

I'm pretty sure this is only in place to start a quest. In WoW you have "!" for any step of the quest so you simply have to run around and talk to anyone you see with one on their head. If these have cutscenes they'll be miles ahead of WoW anyway.

[millionsknives]

Sounds good. Would be nice if you could hover over the reward option to see its stats, but is that asking too much? (Haven't played in ages, so excuse me if that already happens)

[Groovebox]

I wouldn't be surprised if sidequests lacked cutscenes. I'm guessing you're just going to click on the NPC, and something that looks like the guildleve window is going to pop up... read the story, click accept. I wouldn't really care either way, at least it is something to do...

And yay @ rewards

[Shuichi]

+1 for the quest indicator icon only appearing if you're within certain distance of a NPC with a quest. Pleasant surprise that was.

[Hiroishime]

i hope some of the quests is at least engaging and requires party :D

[Rivian]

somehow i see these being nothing more than glorified leves with an npc or two to talk to.

and so much for actually getting local leves relevant to your rank, as many of my LS was hoping. Sounds like they are just making it so that rank 1 local leves don't appear at bluefog and shit like that.

[Corrderio]

Hopefully the quests are at least interesting. Since the information on locals is a bit underwhelming.

[Spira]

I like it.
Very FFXII, and FFIX but not for objects.

[Dakin]

So the conversion of the game into one that is starting to have some realizable content begins, let us rejoice I guess.

fixed

[Vuitton]

If they're similar to FFXI quests, then there will probably (eventually) be a huge diversity in quests. Some had no CSs. Some had some very awesome CSs (the mandy looking for paradise and its journey to find friends, anyone?). Some were long chains. Some were stand alone and short. I enjoyed them all really.

[jwang]

What really interested me was the second part. NO MORE CAMP IVIES RUNS, TYVM.

[xopher]

Why do I get the feeling that SE didn't get the idea that we wanted exp-giving quests and these are going to be just like FFXI quests with nothing but useless item rewards?

Also "several new quests" sounds like it won't be that many.

[Degenxerate]

We wont know until we see them! Hope for the best, expect the worst.

[Kurokikaze]

We wont know until we see them! Hope for the best, expect the worst.

My thoughts exactly. Really not expecting much from this hit it and quit it content.

[Jakson]

Scratch the tattered pants and just dole out shards so I don't have to unlazy.

[Sephiroth]

Why do I get the feeling that SE didn't get the idea that we wanted exp-giving quests and these are going to be just like FFXI quests with nothing but useless item rewards?

Also "several new quests" sounds like it won't be that many.

Isn't that what guild leves reward? A quest would have to give a tonne of SP for me to bother doing it for that considering a quest could involve an hour or two of getting from A to B to C and killing X or whatever. The reward shouldn't be an incentive to do a quest, the story in it should be enough.

I am disappointed that the local leves still won't be more tailored towards your rank. My CRP has been able to get 35 leves for like two weeks now and I never saw the 35 leve (yes only one exists WTF?) until today.