Easy to miss quests

AntMan100673 · January 2017

So apart from Craglorn, which I've recently finished, I'd got all the 'do x number of quests' achievements a long time ago so I know there's not many / any quests I've missed.

Since 1 Tamriel I've been back to a few places I haven't been in a while and found 5 quests I'd previously missed.

Most of these I'd just put down to me missing them but I expect most other people found them:

(1) not on a route but not too far from a dolmen, the quest marker appeared when I started farming around the area the dolmen was in waiting for it to spawn.

(2) on a route into a city, impossible to miss... The only reasons I can think of that I missed this is (a) my quest log was full (b) there was a pre-requisite quest I hadn't done at the time so it wasn't there when I went past and as there's a wayshrine in the city I then didn't use the road (c) I think there was a blade of woe target in the city, the city is in the final zone of my cadwells gold so I deliberately left it as I hadn't got that far with cadwells gold at the time and again after that I just used the wayshrine.

(3) & (4) when going to find the location for a treasure map I discovered an icon on the map and there was another quest nearby, no idea how I missed that.

(5) there was no quest marker for this one, I'd just completed the dolmen in the south east of Rivenspire (which finally got me the last general I needed). I saw a glow at the cliffs nearby so figured I'd farm the nodes by the cliffs while making my way back to the wayshrine. It wasn't a node but a camp fire, the enemy was named and after killing him he dropped a journal that started the quest.

Numbers 1-4 were just me missing them but number 5 I think would get missed by quite a few people.

Does anyone else have examples of quests you think may get missed by people that would be worth checking out?

NB. I'm on console so I can't use add-ons

starkerealm · January 2017

Yeah, I remember finding #5, except it's actually the northern most dolmen. On the path between the lighthouse and the military encampment if you turn north towards the ocean, you can find a lone, named, vampire. Kill him, receive the journal. It's possible he has multiple spawn locations.

I also remember finding a quest in Shadowfen that required you wander around the quest zone and get hit by an environmental hazard. Without that, there's no way to know it's even there. I don't even think that one has a map marker, to indicate that you missed something. I kinda wonder if that's why a lot of people thought the Shadowfen Adventurer achievement was bugged back at launch.

Tryxus · January 2017

starkerealm wrote: »

Yeah, I remember finding #5, except it's actually the northern most dolmen. On the path between the lighthouse and the military encampment if you turn north towards the ocean, you can find a lone, named, vampire. Kill him, receive the journal. It's possible he has multiple spawn locations.

I also remember finding a quest in Shadowfen that required you wander around the quest zone and get hit by an environmental hazard. Without that, there's no way to know it's even there. I don't even think that one has a map marker, to indicate that you missed something. I kinda wonder if that's why a lot of people thought the Shadowfen Adventurer achievement was bugged back at launch.

Another hard quest in Shadowfen is that Nord mage way down south across the bridge (that might lead to a new zone in the future?) who wants you to find his partner and charge an item with Wamasu lightning

There's also one in Riften, between North Wind Mine and the Vernim Wood Wayshrine, where a bounty hunter wants you to kill a certain Reachman. It's possible to miss this one since there's a quest in North Wind Mine, and upon exiting the mine you're at Vernim Woods.

Lastly, the Secret Path in Bangkorai where you have to rescue Herminius Sophus. Upon rescueing him, he apparently relocates from the cave exit back to the middle of the cave.

starkerealm · January 2017

As I recall, there's three or four quests scattered around The Rift that can be very easy to miss. A couple of them are basically just stop a worm cult summoning. I think there's a wrapper quest for them, but I've never found it.

Never saw the Nord mage in Shadowfen, though, that one's new on me. To be fair, I think I actually ran Shadowfen once, back at launch, and was getting really tired of it about the time I cleared Alten Corimont, so there's probably a lot of stuff down there I missed.

AntMan100673 · January 2017

That Nord Mage in the south of Shadowfen was one of the ones I'd missed, glad it's not just me :-)

I'll be checking the other ones you've both mentioned to see if I've done those or not.