While this game has a lot of good story quests and it making improvements with simple hunting quests, the system needs an overhaul. Ideally they should completely rewrite the underlying quest system to properly support modern questing features. Unfortunately since that would probably require rewriting the entire server program, I highly doubt the devs will ever bother doing that. However, the quest system and window that exists is good, but only a small portion fully takes advantage of everything that the quest window has. Unfortunately some older quests don't even have basic quest window info, much less use the navigation system and quest markers, and quest listing that the current system allows for.
Someone needs to go through each and every quest in the game, including iRO custom ones, and make sure they all have fully functioning quest journal entries (some don't have entries and some have entries that bug). After that, go through and give all quests quest markers like the newest ones in the training area have. You get new players use to quests having markers and such, but once they get away from the starting area, no quests have markers and they usually have to rely on fan sites like iWiki to know where they are. Job npcs, Eden npcs, story quest npcs, and even the bounty boards should have the quest marker on them when appropriate. The new part of the quest window that shows a listing of quests for the episodes needs to be updated. Right now only the newest episode is supported and one of the newer culture towns. Every single episode, culture town, and other update that has quests related to it should have a page. Temporary event and iRO custom quests should also have a page.
Once this is done, it's time to perfect the quests themselves. First, make sure all quests don't bug out. Last I checked the Nid quest doesn't continue once you've killed Nid. After that, I would make sure each quest gives a reasonable amount of base and job exp. Doing a quest that takes an hr to complete should give exp similar to what the average person grinding could get.
The ability to completely remove a quest from the game like temporary event quests would be nice. My quest journal is filled with entries for uncompletable event quests that will just sit there forever. I know you can send in a ticket to get them removed which I have, but that's an inefficient way to do it. There also use to be an npc, but that's no longer there.
Don't treat timers as regular journal entries. either give them a separate place to show or make it so they naturally disappear when the expire. Timer entries cannot be removed by the gms either from what I've heard.
Edited by Talvis, 20 July 2014 - 12:34 PM.