So for the past month or so my girlfriend and I have been questing together and for the most part its been smooth sailing for us. However there is one major issue that causes unnecessary frustration and stress for us.

I have been through all of the quests several times on alts so I'm quick to click through the chat or collect items on the ground while she does her thing listening to stories and collecting/interacting with objects and I tend to do mine at a sprint and circle back to help her as needed because it is her first MMO she's played and shes determined to prove that she can stand on her own two feet.

So the issue comes in when sometimes a certain leg of a quest is separated where we each have to separately talk to and NPC or we each have to interact or collect our own set of items or kill x number of things ourselves then in the next leg of the quest its reversed and only one of us has to do it or talk to and NPC and that without warning advances the other person. It is then evident that the other person misses out on the story or we wanted to split up who did which part so we would each get a chance to say destroy something or hold up for the other that wanted to hear the story but now when they were in the middle of listening they are now having to fight some boss mob without the story that they wanted to hear.

TL;DR version: questing in its current form is seemingly arbitrarily split up into sparated/grouped legs without letting us know in some form whether we have to do a leg of a quest as a group or separately

If someone from ZOS reads this and wants additional info I can start keeping a list of a few quests that demonstrate more my point here.