Long-time players have expressed many wishes regarding how World of Warcraft could be better. One goal seems clear: The cap in the quest log should finally be lifted.
Just a few days ago, we reported that the big change in World of Warcraft has slowly but surely begun. Blizzard is ready to question and change the previously unshakable pillars of the game and outdated game systems. This makes players in the MMORPG’s subreddit dream and hope that another relic from the past will finally be retired:
The restriction in the quest log.
Limit for simultaneous quests has been the same for 15 years
What is it about? World of Warcraft has always had a maximum number of quests that can be accepted simultaneously per character. In the days of Vanilla, this maximum was 20, while “The Burning Crusade” (2007) increased this limit to 25 – and it has not been touched since.
What is the problem? Even though 25 quests are generally much more than players can take on in a single current area at once, this cap is increasingly being reached by more and more characters. Especially characters that also roam in old content often hit their limits.
Those who pursue current Shadowlands quests while also returning to old areas, perhaps for collecting transmog or achievements, are often confronted with the quest log limit.
This is particularly problematic with quests that must be completed over several weeks. Many raids have missions that require you to collect items over 4 weeks to later skip certain bosses. Here, players feel almost forced to keep the quest for weeks or months – because canceling the quest later would reset the progress completely.
What does Blizzard say about it? In the past, Blizzard has sometimes commented on the issue. Upon inquiries – such as during the BlizzCons – the response has been that the quest log serves the purpose of keeping players focused on certain tasks. When the quest log is full, you have to let go of some quests. It is simply a limitation to avoid overwhelming the player with too many tasks at once. Since then, there has been no new statement on this.
With more and more expansions and an increasing number of tasks that can last for days or weeks, this has become more and more of a problem.
This is how players react: In the WoW subreddit, a thread is currently heating up that has already gathered more than 3,200 upvotes within hours and is demanding the removal of the quest cap. With a proud 96% approval rate, this seems to be a topic behind which the part of the community present in the subreddit is almost united.
Captain_Saftey writes about it:
It’s pretty crazy that they increased the cap in Burning Crusade from 20 to 25 and then just never touched it again.
Donteatthedonuts explains his problems with the limit:
I hit the cap way too often, especially in old content that I want to complete. This means I often miss things and then wander around to find the one quest I couldn’t take anymore…
I think the problem is especially caused by the quests that stay in the quest log for many weeks while you work on completing them. I don’t know if the limit should disappear completely, but I would at least like to see an increase.
The general opinion seems to be: The game, with its tens of thousands of quests, many of which are repeatable, has simply become too large to justify a quest cap of 25.
What do you think about it? Do you see the matter in the same way?
