I agree.

My ideal would be to have 1 location where you can start all the DLC and chapter prologue quests, maybe something like a Herald offering news on foreign events or a notice board, and accepting a quest from there adds the NPC to the world. They could give you a bit of background first, like you get at the end of the tutorial when choosing portals. This would fix the problem with things like Lyris and Abnur Tharn hanging around towns when the main quest says they're stuck in Coldharbour, as well as reducing the 'clutter' in cities and make it easy for players to know where to go to start a prologue or DLC quest.

Unique quest markers would be very helpful as well, especially if combining the quest givers isn't practical. I've been playing for years but I don't always remember which of the quests in starter cities is actually for that location and which is a DLC quest until I've picked them up and checked which section of the journal they go into, and it's hard to know if I've missed anything with all the arrows around. If they were a different shape or colour (or both) that would be a big help.

MaleAmazon wrote: »

Quest markers are a good help in seeing where the quest giver for a local side quest is. However, in the capitals quest givers for the story quests of DLCs and other regions have exactly the same quest marker which makes it difficult to see if the quest giver is one for a local side quest or for a DLC story quest.

Before and if that is done, you can follow the main story via the Zone Guide on the left side of the screen when you open the map. It tracks the Zone main questline and you can click on 'start questline' or 'continue questline' and it gives you a flare over the next quest giver. Helps when there are several quest givers around or you don´t know where the next one is.

I know that but my "issue" is with side quest markers. Zone main quests are easy to identify and easy to distinguish from local side quests or quests leading to story quests of different zones.

My point is that the quest marker allows no distinction between local side quests and quests leading to story quests of different zones.

My point is that the quest marker allows no distinction between local side quests and quests leading to story quests of different zones.

Ok, I think I know what you mean. The DLC story quests have the 'main quest' type icon and you can sort them with Zone Guide like I wrote. If you mean prologue quests, for now the workaround is to look in your quest journal, the DLC (non-zone) quests are sorted under 'prologue'.

I know it´s not the perfect solution and not what you asked for, but it is what you can do at the moment.

The problem isn't DLC main quest givers. It's DLC prologue quest givers in base-game zones.

A DLC main quest happens in its own zone. It's the prologue quests that happen in base-game zones, and look like Just Another Sidequest.