World Remove Profession Requirements From Base Quests

Professions have no place in normal quests. They should not be forced upon the player. Professions should be completely optional, and not needed in normal quests. If they really feel it is needed, they can make professions give optional bonus rewards. Please please do not force them upon the player, as many people find them dull and uninteresting. I will see myself skipping the quests that require professions above level 2 in the future because I just cannot be bothered to do them for each class. Please remove them, they are not needed and only serve as a device to make quests worse. Professions take too much time to just use for one or two quests.

 

yes please this is dumb and just feels shoehorned in for no reason

 

You only need Lv. 20 maximum?
I get why it's annoying but it doesn't take that long to get to Lv. 20.

 

Level 20 is still too much, especially if I want to run multiple classes. Professions should be left as completely optional, bad mechanics should not be forced on the player.

 

The issue is that it's forcing people to grind for a mechanic that most players probably won't ever use. It's a waste of time, plain and simple. That 10-15 minute grind is basically a part of the quest gameplay if you don't care for professions, and having a 10-15 minute grind be a part of quest gameplay isn't acceptable gameplay. The only reason profession requirements in quests can be seen as "acceptable" is because the player *could* put the levels to use and jump into professions after completing the quest. But odds are that most players won't put those levels to use, and will have grinded that 10-15 minutes for nothing.

 

Yeah, I understand.
Having already levelled up a bit on some profs, I don't really care - I do get why people wouldn't like it though

 

As Mr Macaroni Cheese points out there's really no reason to have this, personally I don't mind professions - I wouldn't be against them being removed. But to have them as barriers to entry for quests is silly and just annoying

 

Here’s a good example:
Just last night me and my friend got into the range of the two quests that, together, require all gathering professions to be level 20. So we headed back to Wynn as to do them. We only got through two before we had to go to bed, but the entire time me and my friend were joking about how awful professions are, with him being unprompted to do so.

This is a feature that we will NEVER ever use after this, and only serves to hinder the experience. 1.20 should’ve removed most needless grinding from the game, at least that’s what was promised.

Having professions required for these quests makes them no better than a fetch quest. Absolutely nothing has changed about these quests that have professions attached to them, they are still boring and still fetch quests, however they are now boring before the quest even begins.

These are glorified fetch quests, and, according to promises essentially made by the CT to make Gavel quests better, they should be removed or fixed.

 

Btw multiple threads on this topic were made on hero beta forums section


One bad but fast solution would be to remove the profession requirements and keep the items. This is just rough idea, but it can be improved so it is good.

 

agree with this - if you have the prof level maybe the story could change a bit and allow you to use profs

 

what quests require professions now ?

 

I believe they are rise of quartron (mining lv 15), crop failure (farming lv 20), and shadow of the beast (woodcutting lv 20, mining 20, and fishing 20).
Also, you get mining xp from rise of quartron so you should probably wait until after you do that quest to see how much more mining you have to do.

 

i am not worried about prof reqs in quests in their current state, but i fear for the future. more prof reqs, higher prof reqs... please no.

 

I dislike them in their current state, as I feel professions and quests should remain secular. But I also worry for the future. If multiple high level quests start requiring high level professions I might quit.

 

personally as some who likes profs, i dont think theyre fit to be incorporated into the main gameplay. profs in their current state are fine as side content. (this also sets the precedent that profs will be needed later on, but theyre not, so...)

 

I'd rather run a dungeon twice and get the same amount of XP from the quest than do mundane tasks for an hour to even start it

 

Also this, killing mobs or doing dungeons for a bit in one spot is a lot better (for level gaps), because I’ll also use that XP I get forever.