This is sort of an interesting topic, because on one hand, you have quest which are unique and which technically have interesting, or at least unorthodox design--Tomb or the Tormented comes to mind. And yet, as far as I know, there are few quests which are as universally despised as that one.

On the other hand, you get quests like Warehouse District or Tear of Dhakaan, which are very vanilla quests, yet everyone always runs them due to great experience. I'd say those are "uninspired," but then by the same token, at least 50% of DDO's quests are equally "uninspired" or "bland." A lot of quests fall in the category of "they're bland, but people still run them anyways," while a lot of others fall in the category of "they're bland and nobody runs them because there's no incentive to do so." I have an inkling that the quests in the latter category, rather than the former, are typically what come to most people's minds first. 

There's also the issue that, after playing through any given quests so many dozens of times... the game just gets old. Certainly, you can vary it up by playing through with different builds, but even then, it gradually starts to get stale over time. By that token, I personally kind of feel that every quest is getting bland at this point. I've been trying to get back into DDO over the past week, but I just can't do it; I can play one or two quests but I'm simply too bored to continue. Maybe it's time for me to move on. 

If I had to pick any quest as "most bland," though, I would say that all the quests in Sschlindylryn take the cake for me. Not because the quests themselves are terribly boring, mind you, but because the requisite trek through the Underdark is so nightmarishly one-note and stale. Even if I have a somewhat better grasp of the area at this point, the whole are is just fucking depressing and more so than any other area in the game, makes me want to uninstall the game for good and play something else.

5 Foot Step wrote on Jan 6^th, 2018 at 10:18am:

Huh. I've still got 'em in stacks, or at least I did last time I logged in.

The days when CK was king, W/P rapiers... I love it.

Devil's Assault.

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The TR grind is one thing that makes you take the brilliance out of most of the low level quest design for granted. On one hand I agree with you but I will say that when I started playing Tear was one of the first quests I had done which truly showed the verticality that DDO can accommodate and not a lot of games really take that dimension into account to the  same degree. Now I will say at an earlier level STK shows it as well but initially I was a Free-To-Play player and didn't have that pack. Consider Redfang in the Marketplace, Its relatively moderate XP and in truth fairly bland and boring but I usually run it most lives I run simply because it reminds me more than nearly any other quest in the game of classic PnP from my days in High School playing on the Redbox basic rule set.

Lets face it just how many people low level players got hooked into staying from Searing Heights and in getting that explorer you have to jump from above and Feather Fall too managed to fall in love when you looked into the distance and see that Tower of the Twelve and wondered just WTF that was and can we see it? Korthos I am not much of a fan of but most of the low level content in this game is very well done but then it's from the original dev team and they are pretty much head and shoulders over the current batch for the most part.

I mean recently I ended up deleting my preference.ini file to reset a hardware sound issue and it forced me to re-watch that opening cinematic the game shipped with and Hell I still want to see that particular map the column with the Giantish architecture leading upwards etc is still no were actually in the game and Damnit I always wanted the rogue to get an attack to jump up and backstab the back of somethings head in a freaking flip. I mean that sort of thing was always something I loved about the game.

Another point to consider when you crank your settings on high and look at the new content I will say their Art department is doing a pretty damn fine job with a 10 year old graphic engine. They suck as systems but their artwork is still first rate.

Yep that's the one...

bob the builder wrote on Jan 16^th, 2018 at 5:50pm:

yep, the basic trash in this quest hits for like 1600 on LE before prr.

Y’all wrong as fuck on this one. The blandest quest in DDO is the giant cave

Now, most of y’all are probably thinking “Hey fuckwit, that’s not a quest” and you’re right. I don’t even know the actual name of this fucker, I just call it the giant cave. It’s a walkup in Threnal and it is the blandest shit imaginable. Go in a cave. Kill some giants. Done.

This quest is so bland, they couldn’t be fucked adding it to the quest list. There’s no god damn reason for Threnal to have a fucking walkup.

Some of you are probably nodding along, vague memories stirring in your empty skulls. Well guess what? Fuck you, there’s three of these fucking quests. That’s how fucking bland they are.

Fuckwit wrote on Jan 24^th, 2018 at 10:43pm:


They're so bland, I only remembered two of them until this comment.

You're right.... I completely fucking forgot those quests exist, mainly because they don't award favor. The weird thing is that in all the years after Threnal was released they never introduced a similair non favor super small quest again (or i'm blanking on them)

Fuckwit wrote on Jan 24^th, 2018 at 10:43pm:

Fuckwit wrote on Jan 24^th, 2018 at 10:43pm:


I'll have to agree there...
But initially it wasn't a bland quest... it was The Loot Run.

1 Minute - 1 Chest
some Xp ( unless you ran it too much and got the repeat xp decay to max on it )

rinse, repeat...