What was the worst quest you've ran in ESO?

Misty · February 2021

I think we have all ran a quest at some time or other that afterwards that left us empty and unimpressed, or to put it plainly, hated it.

I ran one in Summerset called 'Untamed and unleashed'. That had to be the worst quest I have ever ran in ESO. The basics of the quest has you engaging continuously spawning animal's. for a hour. The SAME spawning animals in the SAME positions. To make things worse the quest line/story is really bad and is of zero interest.
I have ran similar but nothing quite so mind numbing.

zaria · February 2021

Can not remember that quest, not all the quests are very good so probably why I don't remember it.

Now the worst quest I did was probably the one with an female Argonian slave who won her freedom and wanted to become an Televani. Quest was long and intricate, its problem was that you was forced to do lots of things who was from evil to cowardly, forces as the other option was to drop the quest chain and you wanted to see how it ended.

Generally I say the quests in ESO is good but some are not so well thought off. One benefit of newer content is better delve quests.

kringled_1 · February 2021

zaria wrote: »

Can not remember that quest, not all the quests are very good so probably why I don't remember it.

Now the worst quest I did was probably the one with an female Argonian slave who won her freedom and wanted to become an Televani. Quest was long and intricate, its problem was that you was forced to do lots of things who was from evil to cowardly, forces as the other option was to drop the quest chain and you wanted to see how it ended.

Generally I say the quests in ESO is good but some are not so well thought off. One benefit of newer content is better delve quests.

That telvanni quest line is also what I had in mind and it seems unpopular with most of the people I've talked to about it.

kaisernick · February 2021

kringled_1 wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Can not remember that quest, not all the quests are very good so probably why I don't remember it.

Now the worst quest I did was probably the one with an female Argonian slave who won her freedom and wanted to become an Televani. Quest was long and intricate, its problem was that you was forced to do lots of things who was from evil to cowardly, forces as the other option was to drop the quest chain and you wanted to see how it ended.

Generally I say the quests in ESO is good but some are not so well thought off. One benefit of newer content is better delve quests.

That telvanni quest line is also what I had in mind and it seems unpopular with most of the people I've talked to about it.

i love that quest.

the worst one for me was the one in vos where the leader (again a Telvanni) makes you go all across the island to gtaher stones for such a boring and simple payoff with crap reward.

Mojmir · February 2021

The nerfed main quest line

Starlight_Whisper · February 2021

kringled_1 wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Can not remember that quest, not all the quests are very good so probably why I don't remember it.

Now the worst quest I did was probably the one with an female Argonian slave who won her freedom and wanted to become an Televani. Quest was long and intricate, its problem was that you was forced to do lots of things who was from evil to cowardly, forces as the other option was to drop the quest chain and you wanted to see how it ended.

Generally I say the quests in ESO is good but some are not so well thought off. One benefit of newer content is better delve quests.

That telvanni quest line is also what I had in mind and it seems unpopular with most of the people I've talked to about it.

I actually like that one

Starlight_Whisper · February 2021

I have no complains on quests even though it's my least favorite activity. The stories are decent

Goregrinder · February 2021

The main questline originally forced you to complete it before you could leave your faction's zone and hit VR1, and was the most annoying imo. So annoying that after I finished it and hit VR1, I pretty much quit the game for about a year and a half.

barney2525 · February 2021

Went in to solo a dungeon. Apparently it was a group dungeon. Got the quest.

Weebled my way through it fine up to a point. After clearing a room it said to trigger the pressure plates.

Went back and forth to the plates, but no interaction came up. Finally googled it and found out it Required 2 characters to stand on the plates simultaneously.

Left and dropped the quest.

VaranisArano · February 2021

I think the Slag Town dailies from Clockwork City take the cake for me. It's a lot of running around in tight corridors looking for limited resources, fighting clockwork creatures, and with a confusing map because there are two levels. If I'm on the bottom, it never fails that the quest marker spawns above, and vice versa.

And during the first Clockwork City event...let's just say that players competing over limited node spawns got nasty.

Starlock · February 2021

I never skip through dialogue for non-repeatable quests. Ever.

Then this quest was created with the Markarth DLC - https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Lost_in_the_Reach

Which is functionally identical to these quests from the base game:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:In_the_Doghouse
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Until_Death
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Lost_on_Bleakrock

In a DLC expansion that otherwise had decent questing content, this quest is just glaringly bad. Instead of a dog, it's a rabbit, but it is otherwise identical to these base game quests in terms of being uncompelling and boring. That it's a rabbit is even worse for me because I HATE RABBITS. I garden. Of course I hate rabbits. I wanted to kill the damn thing.

Sylvermynx · February 2021

Killing Kaalgrontiid. That was more than the most miserable prior quest event in any game I've played since my first CRPG in 1985.

KovalskyNestor · February 2021

kringled_1 wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Can not remember that quest, not all the quests are very good so probably why I don't remember it.

Now the worst quest I did was probably the one with an female Argonian slave who won her freedom and wanted to become an Televani. Quest was long and intricate, its problem was that you was forced to do lots of things who was from evil to cowardly, forces as the other option was to drop the quest chain and you wanted to see how it ended.

Generally I say the quests in ESO is good but some are not so well thought off. One benefit of newer content is better delve quests.

That telvanni quest line is also what I had in mind and it seems unpopular with most of the people I've talked to about it.

This! This is what came first to my mind. I got so annoyed traveling back and forward.

Athan1 · February 2021

Psijic grind is revolting. I'm sick of it.

The_Old_Goat · February 2021

Definitely the Psijic skill line.

AcadianPaladin · February 2021

There are two quests I will no longer do.

The first was mentioned by @zaria above and involves a former Argonian slave willing to throw anyone under the bus to become a telvanni mage. I can't stomach helping her and there is no option to thwart her.

The second is an Aldmeri Dominion quest where a little village of Green Pacters discovers that *gasp* someone picked a plant and used it to save a dying woman. Your job is to find the guilty party and help execute them. My character is a Bosmer but the tribes of her Clouddancer clan do not ascribe to the Green Pact - and this quest is a great example of why. 'Justice' without compassion is no justice. And again, there is no option to thwart the quest except to simply avoid it.

NotaDaedraWorshipper · February 2021

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

The second is an Aldmeri Dominion quest where a little village of Green Pacters discovers that *gasp* someone picked a plant and used it to save a dying woman. Your job is to find the guilty party and help execute them. My character is a Bosmer but the tribes of her Clouddancer clan do not ascribe to the Green Pact - and this quest is a great example of why. 'Justice' without compassion is no justice. And again, there is no option to thwart the quest except to simply avoid it.

I like that quest.

I think this whole discussion will be of one person saying this and that quest are the worst, and someone else will say they like it

Vevvev · February 2021

Wanted to say the Telvanni quest but it was already mentioned. Guess the next worse quest, at least in my eyes, is the one in Western Skyrim where the bad person revealed themselves. It was so cheesy and stupid it made me remember Murkmire's story which did the same thing.

LadyLethalla · February 2021

The one in Shadowfen that gives you the skeleton polymorph, because of the choice at the end.

SidraWillowsky · February 2021

Psijic. Shamefully, I've purchased the quest line on one or two of my characters because I can't stomach it again, especially to the point where you unlock Channeled Acceleration, which is what I need.

Moloch1514 · February 2021

The ones with a final big bad fight that is over in 2 hits.

MasterSpatula · February 2021

The Kerbol's Hollow quest line in Bangkorai actually offends me it's so badly written. It's a classic "Idiot Plot," a story where none of the events would occur if any of the characters (the PC included) had any sense at all. It's truly a shock to me that this team approved something so insultingly bad.

MasterSpatula · February 2021

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

The second is an Aldmeri Dominion quest where a little village of Green Pacters discovers that *gasp* someone picked a plant and used it to save a dying woman. Your job is to find the guilty party and help execute them. My character is a Bosmer but the tribes of her Clouddancer clan do not ascribe to the Green Pact - and this quest is a great example of why. 'Justice' without compassion is no justice. And again, there is no option to thwart the quest except to simply avoid it.

I like that quest.

I think this whole discussion will be of one person saying this and that quest are the worst, and someone else will say they like it

I agree, I also like this quest. The main reason the village is insisting on following the Green Pact without mercy here is that Y'ffre, through the aggression of the local wildlife, is insisting on merciless enforcement of the pact. This actually tracks really well with tales out of mythologies from all over the world where gods demand blind obedience and insist on calling that justice. Like much of mythology, this reflects a truth--in this case, that reality is often capricious and cruel.

UGotBenched91 · February 2021

zaria wrote: »

Can not remember that quest, not all the quests are very good so probably why I don't remember it.

Now the worst quest I did was probably the one with an female Argonian slave who won her freedom and wanted to become an Televani. Quest was long and intricate, its problem was that you was forced to do lots of things who was from evil to cowardly, forces as the other option was to drop the quest chain and you wanted to see how it ended.

Generally I say the quests in ESO is good but some are not so well thought off. One benefit of newer content is better delve quests.

I’ve never wanted to kill an NPC as much as I wanted to kill that Argonian

Sheezabeast · February 2021

I know everyone loves Lady Laurent....but any quest involving her makes me grit my teeth. I feel badly for Stibbons being manipulated by her. I get that it's his fetish, and he likes being dommed by her, but it's just....gross....she's so obnoxious and I hate helping her.

Nestor · February 2021

The Stitches.

Talked to an NPC on my way to something else, figure it is a quick fetch quest. 3 real evenings later, i finally finish that quest line. All the ups and downs that maze in the canyons. Have never repeated it on another character.

Then there is the two quests in Alikir that need a goat sacrifice to complete. All to learn some stupid lesson he could have just told me.

VaranisArano · February 2021

Sheezabeast wrote: »

I know everyone loves Lady Laurent....but any quest involving her makes me grit my teeth. I feel badly for Stibbons being manipulated by her. I get that it's his fetish, and he likes being dommed by her, but it's just....gross....she's so obnoxious and I hate helping her.

Definitely! I understand the sort of noble fop/competent servant dynamic they are parodying, but its not to my taste. In Orsinium, my Vestige was ready to throw Laurent off the mountain for her careless, glory-hound approach to another culture's history/archeology.

JamieAubrey · February 2021

zaria wrote: »

Can not remember that quest, not all the quests are very good so probably why I don't remember it.

Now the worst quest I did was probably the one with an female Argonian slave who won her freedom and wanted to become an Televani. Quest was long and intricate, its problem was that you was forced to do lots of things who was from evil to cowardly, forces as the other option was to drop the quest chain and you wanted to see how it ended.

Generally I say the quests in ESO is good but some are not so well thought off. One benefit of newer content is better delve quests.

YES

THIS GUY GETS IT

I wanted to kill her so baaaaaaad

NotaDaedraWorshipper · February 2021

I know there are some quests that has bothered me, but I can't remember which ones it was. They all have the same thing in common though, which is that the quest does something idioticly. Either the big bad is obvious, yet you are forced to behave like they aren't. Or you walk into an obvious trap, or some other thing neither I or my character would ever do etc.
Oh! I remember one quest was the main zone quests in Rivenspire.

TwinLamps · February 2021

Quest just outside of Cropsford.
You are expected to poison a goblin that is basically treated as pet by some Breton cook.
You cant even refuse to do so. And worst of all, quest is counted toward cropsford adventurer, so not completing it blocks several Cyrodiil related achievements.

This quest is not only bad for its lack of decision making by the player, but also degrades player to level of lowlife scum.
Same player that saves Nirn from Molag Bal, Dragons, Vampire lords, various other daedric plots...
And that player is expected to poison another man's pet like that.
Whoever made this quest isnt good writer in my book.

NotaDaedraWorshipper · February 2021

TwinLamps wrote: »

Quest just outside of Cropsford.
You are expected to poison a goblin that is basically treated as pet by some Breton cook.
You cant even refuse to do so. And worst of all, quest is counted toward cropsford adventurer, so not completing it blocks several Cyrodiil related achievements.

This quest is not only bad for its lack of decision making by the player, but also degrades player to level of lowlife scum.
Same player that saves Nirn from Molag Bal, Dragons, Vampire lords, various other daedric plots...
And that player is expected to poison another man's pet like that.
Whoever made this quest isnt good writer in my book.

Oh yes, that one.... That one was so annoying. Poor goblin.