Are the sidequests worth doing?

[TITLEplayer]

I finished Prophecies and did sidequests as well during that campaign and then took a break. I just returned and after playing Factions a while, I feel like sidequests kind of bogs me down. So are they worth doing, especially for lore?

[kazerniel]

For lore I'd say yes, for rewards it depends on the campaign. Prophecies secondary quests have very low rewards, Factions have high, Nightfall medium-high.

Imho the sidequests' writing is often better than the main campaign, and there are a ton of funny quest descriptions and dialogues :)

Btw most sidequests can be done after finishing the campaign they belong to (with a few exceptions), so you don't necessarily need to do them simultaneously with the main storyline, even if that gives the most immersion.

[Battle Lamia]

I wouldn't say all the side quests are worth it but some give out free skills or other items that can be helpful.

[Ragnarök]

Not really. I did all of them on two characters back when I started playing (I was more of a completionist 10+ years ago.), but I soon abandoned the idea of ever doing it again past the second time.

There are better ways to make money in game, and the lore you'll miss is not going to blow your ass away.

As others have said, do the ones that give you free skills as that will save you cash, ignore the rest unless you really have nothing better to play/do.

[Oleaceae]

Was wondering this myself. Thank you for the replies.

[tracksone]

I will disagree, hte lore is 100% worth getting from side quests. I suspect the people that deny this are teh same people that skip all text in game to speed to the next thing to do.

If you like lore, well its all over the place, even rando npc's in the wild have unique text sometimes and if lore is what you like ,well its kinda great in the game