My 2 cents on Side Quests

Not exactly a critical aspect of the game, but I just want to call out how tedious, boring and unrewarding the Side Quests have become.

I cannot remember the last time I enjoyed a side quest. The last two Chrono-verse (?) were particularly sub par and I think I only completed one path.

This month again is just awful:
> Earn points by using saga champs to get a key
> Use that key to do one quest with trash rewards to earn another key
> Use that second key to do another quest with more trash rewards

The Traders Outpost is just rubbish. Limited items that on a monthly basis, get you nothing worth shouting about. Just a small top up on items you are getting more of elsewhere.

Side Quests used to be simple and rewarding, with decent chase items per path that were also worth completing 100%.

Please have a look the design and rewards structure of side quests Kabam. They really need some love.

Comments

Bulmkt

100%

The side quest has become an orphan

Asher1_1

Enjoyed SQ ?? Not every content meant to be enjoyed like Arena - nobody enjoy doing it but it gives good value reward 🤷
Sq gives Mysterium - no other way to get

Cuchulainn

Enjoyed SQ ?? Not every content meant to be enjoyed like Arena - nobody enjoy doing it but it gives good value reward 🤷
Sq gives Mysterium - no other way to get

Yes, SQ used to just give decent rewards before mysterium was introduced. And yes, I used to enjoy doing them. But thank you for agreeing with me that SQ are not enjoyable.

OldManHop

PT_99

That mysterium shop is enough to kill any excitement in SQ

Thankfully we have war showcase and Thanos Necro thing to go by for a while.

Cuchulainn

That mysterium shop is enough to kill any excitement in SQ

Thankfully we have war showcase and Thanos Necro thing to go by for a while.

Absolutely, so much other fun content to do.

Amanda_Cruze

Since I returned to the game in October, after a break of 2 years, I haven't played a SQ yet..

You can see how bad SQ has become!

startropics

rewards can always be adjusted but the SQ should be kept as simple as possible imo. there's already enough in the game.

shield311

the only way to fix the rewards are separate the damn reward pools for paragons and valiants.

Cuchulainn

the only way to fix the rewards are separate the damn reward pools for paragons and valiants.

Do you mean in another format other than the Traders Outpost? Or is that the same for both?

MaxtheSilent

Agree 100% I went from almost always doing EQ and SQ to maybe doing 1 week or so of SQ if it fits into my schedule. It’s unexciting content with meh rewards. I mean if I need a little more of something to get the next crystal or rank up it’s nice it’s there but I’m not logging in just to do it and I used to.

No_Dollar_Bill

Well said. Especially for the tech/science showcases the fights are just deliberately long and boring, and with so many 7R3's around a 6* class rankup gem is pretty paltry of a reward for potentially several hours of my life locked away in tedium. So, I'm not going to do them, because the rewards aren't worth it and so this is clearly optional.

I'm reminded a lot of Genshin where the Hoyo devs started increasing "difficulty" by making everything a bullet sponge, mistaking big health bars for a "challenge" that would engage players. Instead it just bored people and more and more quit, because the content stopped being engaging. Additionally the AI continues to be quite terrible, which just means in those long fights there is a bigger chance for the AI to go off the rails and cost you revives that would be better used on Carina's challenges, which suffer from the same bullet sponge effect but at least the rewards make it easier to accept what is fundamentally still just a time and revive sink.

captaincush

the only way to fix the rewards are separate the damn reward pools for paragons and valiants.
Do you mean in another format other than the Traders Outpost? Or is that the same for both?

They are not the same for both. Paragons only can get 1/2 of a t6b or t3a in that top bundle, and everything else is fewer shards etc

The_beast123

> Earn points by using saga champs to get a key
> Use that key to do one quest with trash rewards to earn another key
> Use that second key to do another quest with more trash rewards

Thank you for this. I was wondering how to do the side quests this time. Back for my monthly dose of mediocre rewards, yay!

Bosley

This format is so dumb. KABAM clearly don't know what the word SIMPLE means...... sigh. 😑

More content that I won't be wasting my time with this month. Thanks for making my choice easy KABAM!!!!!

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Ourobøros

The only thing interesting is the 1k 7* shards. You have to do fights with saga champs to get kimoyo beads, them use the beads to enter mission to get mysterium and and a key, then use the key to open a path in another mission that only has 1k 7* shards which you can only claim once per week, besides that there's 1k (practically nothing) t4a shards, and on top of that, the Trader's Outpost is dead after you buy all the t6b, t4a, gold and 7* shards and it take a whole week to refresh

Tempest_024

I thought the mysterium concept was interesting when it was first introduced, but not a fan of the trader's outpost in its current state. If it was a store laid out similar to Battlegrounds store, I feel it would be better. But then we would have an additional store that I'm not sure we need. I believe Crashed said in a live stream a couple months ago to expect a drastic change to EQ coming the beginning of 2025. Hopefully that includes SQ.

shield311

the only way to fix the rewards are separate the damn reward pools for paragons and valiants.
Do you mean in another format other than the Traders Outpost? Or is that the same for both?
They are not the same for both. Paragons only can get 1/2 of a t6b or t3a in that top bundle, and everything else is fewer shards etc

I meant SQ rewards and solo event, not outpost.

its maxed at paragon.

PantherusNZ

What's so complicated about the Side Quests? You spin the Wheel of Mayhem to go up the Ladder of Chance. You go past the Mud Hut, through the Rainbow Ring to get to the Golden Monkey, you yank his tail and boom - you're in Paradise Pond!

Oh no...wait...that's Bamboozled!

Annatar

The worst part is that you cant be in main\event\daily quest and Side quest at the same time.
I have enough characters to make quick auto daily for potions while being stuck in the hard side or 5-energy event where manual battle is required

Fit_Fun9329

The worst part is that you cant be in main\event\daily quest and Side quest at the same time.
I have enough characters to make quick auto daily for potions while being stuck in the hard side or 5-energy event where manual battle is required

Didn’t they announce somewhere last year that they now have the engine to let us be in two quests simultaneously? What happened after that ?

captaincush

The worst part is that you cant be in main\event\daily quest and Side quest at the same time.
I have enough characters to make quick auto daily for potions while being stuck in the hard side or 5-energy event where manual battle is required
Didn’t they announce somewhere last year that they now have the engine to let us be in two quests simultaneously? What happened after that ?

Pretty sure that will be reserved for Everest type content. So far only been available for Crucible

MaxtheSilent

What's so complicated about the Side Quests? You spin the Wheel of Mayhem to go up the Ladder of Chance. You go past the Mud Hut, through the Rainbow Ring to get to the Golden Monkey, you yank his tail and boom - you're in Paradise Pond!

Oh no...wait...that's Bamboozled!

Oh you yank the tail. That’s where I messed up.