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

Nord_Raseri · February 2021

Any quest with dialog that makes our characters look like a lost child who left their home for the first time. So, most quests?

Lintashi · February 2021

I would say that JeeLar's quests are the worst for me, since you need to repeat them soo many times to get the achievement. Vomit into some cauldron every day for several months? Running through half of the zone because there are no wayshrines nearby, just to hear same thing every day? Gets really annoying, really fast.

Misty · February 2021

Oh, I forgot about the main profit quest line. I won't go near that one. If I have to listen to that old gaffer drool on once more, I'll go crazy.
I am making a note of all your named bad quests so I can avoid them. There is nothing more depressing than spending time going through one of those drawn out quests only to be left with a feeling were you want to give up gaming.

Lugaldu · February 2021

The answer is simple, all quests related to Almalexia.

Iccotak · February 2021

Mojmir wrote: »

The nerfed main quest line

My god it was paced perfectly before they changed it

vibeborn · February 2021

The Psijic quest. Man that was tedious. And I'm planning on doing it again.

colossalvoids · February 2021

The one you get from orc settlement in western Skyrim under the feet of Druadach mountains if I recall correctly. Probably the first time I engaged in a quest with zero options in dialogue given that also spits on all orc lore given previously to us.

Razzledazzle_dar · February 2021

I've done all overland quests with the exception of thieves, brotherhood, and Craglorn (and maybe a rare quest I haven't found but usually end up grabbing it on an alt). That being said, I think the most annoying that come to mind are...
1) The one in Wrothgar that's part of the main where you have to run the gauntlet timed while npc's try to fight you...I hate anything times
2) Southern Elsweyr...that questline where you have to attack the blocks to line them up and open doors and stuff. It was just ugh, I found myself frustrated and having no fun.

DreadDaedroth · February 2021

Argonian female slave quest in Morrowind expansion

tedious and pretty much no choices avaible.

rpa · February 2021

New Moon Rising. It was perfectly fine until I found out the floating island was crashing in Destroy aeonstone focal points part because Markath update. Just before final fight. So I tried after every maintenance for weeks until the actual fix dropped.

I don't remember big final fight being at all difficult or special when I finally got there in overland stealth harvesting gear armed with a wet noodle (I forgot to switch). But the way there killed any positive feelings I had about Dragonhold DLC.

Edit: the Argonian televanni *** quest was pretty miserable. But rather that than crashing.

Misty · February 2021

DreadDaedroth wrote: »

Argonian female slave quest in Morrowind expansion tedious and pretty much no choices avaible.

I think this one has been mentioned a few times. Must avoid like the plague

Misty · February 2021

I would say most of the quests are acceptable to really good fun, but when you get a bad one, doesn't it ruin your day?

Lady_Sleepless · February 2021

Misty wrote: »

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.

Same, that quest was awful. When I found out there was a zoo I thought it would be a fun or weird quest, but it was just so boring. The main quest giver, the high elf, was so annoying.

Pauwer · February 2021

There was another quest in vvardenfell, where you helped someone away from being slave. I played the area on my evil vampire dunmer nb and tried to make the npc remain a slave, but it was impossible. They got away in all cases. You can't evil in this game. And yes, i also let mannimarco freeeeee

Pauwer · February 2021

Also worsts quests are the ones where you have to get something for the npc and its like on the table right next to them. Get it yourself dude

priestnall.andrewrwb17_ESO · February 2021

The murkmire dailies for the achievement are rough af

RedMuse · February 2021

kaisernick wrote: »

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.

Yeah this one is one of my favorites in Morrowind.

The one quest line that bothers me is what I've taken to call the Wood Elf Trilogy, ie the three Bosmer zones in the AD quest line. They're a tedious slog, with no real variation and as I'm not a mindless Bosmer fan it's just too much. And I hate, hate, hate the Malabal Tor questline. It's just so yucky with the whole forced marriage story that you can't oppose. It's honestly keeping me from playing AD at all, I just hate that storyline so much.
This is the only quest (line) that is so appallingly bad imo that I still recall how much it bothered me.

DukeCybran · February 2021

Summerset dailies.

Iluvrien · February 2021

There are several quests where the player could obviously make different choices based on the information available to them but, due to the linear nature of that quest, can’t.

Those quests get right up my nose. I’ll try to track down the names.

EDIT - Here are three of my worst offenders (at least the ones freshest in my mind):
The Rift: Scouting the Mine
Bangkorai: A Marriage in Ruins
Bangkorai: The Charge of Evermore

All three of these should have alternate options available to what is provided. I ran one character through "Scouting the Mine" and have refused to do that quest on every one of my other 9 characters.

fizl101 · February 2021

Closing the time breaches for the Psijic line

LadyHeloise · 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.

This one. I hate quests where they make do horrible things, which my basically good guy would not do, and give you no choice. Done it once, never again, not veen for the achievement.

Varana · February 2021

To be fair, the Argonian Telvanni quest in Sadrith Mora is not a bad quest, by itself.
It has a deeply flawed character at its core who isn't very likable - and she was designed that way. (Except for her name - Sun-in-Shadow sounds cool.

) It is kind of the point of the quest line: the Telvanni are not a nice bunch of people.

Ideally, a "good" quest is not one that you would do with every character, in terms of role-playing, unless there are severely different outcomes pre-written into the game. Sun-in-Shadow is one of the more memorable characters in the game - almost everyone who read the vague allusion to this quest in this thread, knew who we were talking about. That makes that quest already stand out against many others.

DarcyMardin · February 2021

That quest in Cold Harbour where you have to chase invisible runners whom you can only see briefly after catching some blue floaty thing. Very annoying. Even after doing it several times (it’s part of the main story quest in that area), I keep losing the path and having to start over. I hate that quest!

Razzledazzle_dar · February 2021

DarcyMardin wrote: »

That quest in Cold Harbour where you have to chase invisible runners whom you can only see briefly after catching some blue floaty thing. Very annoying. Even after doing it several times (it’s part of the main story quest in that area), I keep losing the path and having to start over. I hate that quest!

Oh god yes...I listed a couple above that frustrated me but this one is right there with them.

pod88kk · February 2021

The one in Coldharbour where you have to follow the light but get attacked by adds and it keeps resetting

Nestor · February 2021

DarcyMardin wrote: »

That quest in Cold Harbour where you have to chase invisible runners whom you can only see briefly after catching some blue floaty thing. Very annoying. Even after doing it several times (it’s part of the main story quest in that area), I keep losing the path and having to start over. I hate that quest!

In the first year, those guys would not wait for you. So, if you aggro'd a mob along the way, then the quest would fail. So I would have to scout the path clearing the way before accepting the quest. Now, at least they wait.

Mauin · February 2021

I'd forgotten about that Coldharbour quest. That one frustrated me so much when I first did it, years ago. It's probably one of the reasons why I've never bothered to finish Coldharbour again, along with the fact that the entire zone is just awful. Otherwise, the entire Psijic questline is just plain terrible; doing that one is a drag, and probably one of the most boring things in the game. I've done it several times just for the skills, and I don't think I can stomach doing it again. On a similar note, I'm not likely to do the main quest for both Northern and Southern Elsweyr ever again. The forced mechanics in the dragon fights were just tedious and not even remotely enjoyable.

Massacre_Wurm · February 2021

RedMuse wrote: »

kaisernick wrote: »

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.

Yeah this one is one of my favorites in Morrowind.

The one quest line that bothers me is what I've taken to call the Wood Elf Trilogy, ie the three Bosmer zones in the AD quest line. They're a tedious slog, with no real variation and as I'm not a mindless Bosmer fan it's just too much. And I hate, hate, hate the Malabal Tor questline. It's just so yucky with the whole forced marriage story that you can't oppose. It's honestly keeping me from playing AD at all, I just hate that storyline so much.
This is the only quest (line) that is so appallingly bad imo that I still recall how much it bothered me.

Well its not that bad imo. But Malabor Tor is a worst AD story zone i agree.
I mean why we have only one 1 altmer zone and 3 for small dudes who drink fermented meat with bugs ( bleh) ? All that tree-hugging ( 3 zones ) is getting old really quick.

the1andonlyskwex · February 2021

barney2525 wrote: »

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.

That sounds like Direfrost Keep, and it's (one of) my least favorite quests for a different reason.

The pressure plates aren't a problem if you're in a group, but then the quest requires an extra boss battle that doesn't happen (or drop loot) if you don't have the quest. The result is that not only is the quest un-soloable, but it's also a huge inconvenience for your group if they don't also need the quest.

I've had cases where I needed the quest and my group was in too big a rush to finish the dungeon to help (I think one time I soloed the fight but missed another boss in the process because my group ran ahead, and another time I stuck with the group and had to do the dungeon twice to complete the quest), and other cases where I've just wanted to get through the dungeon and instead had to wait for a dawdler who was doing the quest and also stopped to loot every single piece of junk in the whole dungeon.

DreadDaedroth · February 2021

The one in stonefalls where you drink potion and transform in wisp to pass through wall breaches but the halls are full of ghosts aggroed by other players.