Cadwell’s Silver and Gold

trackdemon5512

After seven years can we get this “quest” to count in a category outside of the 25 quest maximum? It just seems kinda ridiculous that it knocks our quest retention to 24 out of 25 spots on every toon we make.

Grega

trackdemon5512 wrote: »

After seven years can we get this “quest” to count in a category outside of the 25 quest maximum? It just seems kinda ridiculous that it knocks our quest retention to 24 out of 25 spots on every toon we make.

Or they just need to change it to allow to be abandoned like most other quests.

jle30303

Maybe you should finish more quests in other places instead of holding them in your journal perpetually?

rpa

Just do it. Cadwell's Silver + Gold required quests are pretty good source of skill points. I tend to play one or two character at time and have 0 quests on my current active one. Lately just cleaning up zones of any skill points left after Cadwell's.

trackdemon5512

jle30303 wrote: »

Maybe you should finish more quests in other places instead of holding them in your journal perpetually?

Maybe I pick up several quests to do simultaneously instead of running back and forth wasting time. Like for instance 3 zone dailies, 7 craft dailies, a delve quest, a fast overland quest, 3 daily dungeons which could pop up in the random I’m waiting for, Psijic, Mages, Fighters, Dark Brotherhood, Thieves Guild guild skill lines. Dailies that cross zones. Dailies that are shared at the last moment like a boss. Cyro dailies that aren’t immediately completed.

Stuff adds up quickly.

Best to get rid of one quest that’s separately tracked on its own by the system and really has no active progress.

Elusiin

jle30303 wrote: »

Maybe you should finish more quests in other places instead of holding them in your journal perpetually?

Yeah, but then the hoard (DLC quest starter NPCs in every major city) will find you, and if you're one of the few to survive their onslaught, you'll be the next uncle Leo.

Even though years have passed, hearing a party member, a friend, or even a loved one say they're looking for me, shock waves are sent through my body ripping the air from my lungs, as I'm sent into a frenzy, frantically smashing alt f4, ALT F4, AAAALLLTTT FFF44444!!!

Apologies, I still cannot control the flashbacks. My therapist has informed me that there is no cure, so please do what is right and help me call on @ZOS_GinaBruno to demand the development team address this dire situation! If not for I, do it for the children!

trackdemon5512

rpa wrote: »

Just do it. Cadwell's Silver + Gold required quests are pretty good source of skill points. I tend to play one or two character at time and have 0 quests on my current active one. Lately just cleaning up zones of any skill points left after Cadwell's.

Plenty of other skill points and skyshards that are easier to get elsewhere while getting daily rewards and drops like new motifs.

rpa

.I prefer to focus on few tasks at time, like finishing a guild questline (already done all guilds on my current char) instead of trying to do everything at once. Playing a MMO is a waste of time, no matter how efficient one is in it.

SeaGtGruff

Here's what I do if I've accepted too many quests and then find I can't accept my daily crafting writs:

(1) I check for any repeatable quests I can just drop. I almost always have some Undaunted quest I didn't complete, or several Cyrodiil missions I accepted during the last MYM event, or a zone daily that I never did, etc. Those sorts of repeatable quests can just be reacquired again later, so no loss.

(2) I look for any prologue quests or other zone quests I can drop. I can pick them up again when I'm ready to do them.

(3) If I don't want to drop any repeatable, prologue, or zone quests, I see if there are any I can complete really quickly, such as making a quick trip to Cyrodiil to do a scouting mission, or completing a World Boss job I'd previously given up on because no one was around to help, or anything else I can do quickly.

(4) If I still can't, or don't want to, free up enough quest journal slots to accept all of my crafting writs, I'll accept as many as I can, do those writs, then accept the rest and do them.

Phaedryn

Not counting the 7 daily writs I don't think I have ever had more than 8-10 quests in the log of any of my toons. And that's when doing the 3 pledges, usually it's less than 5. What are you holding on to?

trackdemon5512

@Phaedryn @SeaGtGruff

The point isn’t about freeing up quests by dropping or completing others.

Cadwell’s Gold/Silver takes up a quest spot for a task that is incredibly long, optional, and unnecessary. For one the game tracks the quests progress on its own with a specific journal entry once the main story is complete. Even after Cadwell’s Gold is achieved the game has it marked and tracked. Having it listed amongst the active scrollable quests is simply redundant.

Secondly, the quest with the Quest Tracker has no help whatsoever. It simply tells you to do the quest. Because the progress of the achievement is comprised of multiple unrelated quests it’s impossible for the game to track exactly where you in terms of completion in the Active Quest list versus the journal entries.

Third, the quest itself is not actually essential to overall progress of completing Cadwell’s Gold or Silver. The game tracks all progress and necessary quests towards it on its own. If you were to complete all of the requirements for Cadwell’s Silver prior to completing the main story you would find that upon saving Tamriel all of the journal requirements already marked as completed.

Because of all these reasons it’s a complete waste of a active quest spot. It makes more sense to separate it from the quest tracker than to simply manage your other quests in a game in which multitasking is easier than ever.