Nevermind

[SotiCoto]

Whatever.

[ninakoru]

Yeah, pretty much every side quest is worth it. Many give extra skill points, attribute points passive resistances, total damage... Even those that don't give anything permanent, they give a good chunk of experience, and sometimes you can get a unique/legendary from the rewards.

The game is pretty linear, these side quests are always in the path to the next act, with little detour if any. Absolutely worth it.

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Generally you might as well do nearly every side quest. Path is generally fairly linear, usually doesn't take too long and you get a nice chunk of experience for doing so.

[Lobo de hielo]

Do every quest and side quest even if rushing, they are the things that give you not only a lot of xp, as above was pointing out:
7 extra skill points
200+ health
6 attribute points
this is in Epic that I can remember and there are more that I cannot, I think.

[Lobo de hielo]

Originally posted by SotiCoto:

Originally posted by ninakoru:

Yeah, pretty much every side quest is worth it.

Stop.

I'm asking which have permanent stat boosts that improve the character in ways inaccessible anywhere else.

Side-quests mostly require side-tracking or pratting about in caves... so those which only give experience or random loot drops are pointless since I can get those anywhere. Ergo those ones are definitely not worth doing.

Side-quests wasted tons of time on my first run through the game, and I ended up throwing half the quest rewards away.

So remember which ones gave you something worth having and do them again. Simple.

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Originally posted by SotiCoto:

Originally posted by ninakoru:

Yeah, pretty much every side quest is worth it.

I'm asking which have permanent stat boosts that improve the character in ways inaccessible anywhere else.

This guide seems to list the quests that give extra rewards such as stats, attributes, skills, etc. - doesn't have Act 5 through
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1159810937

For Act 5, I remember you want to do trapped Nixie quest (+1 skill), get the two artifacts in Dark Lands for +2 skill, do the dvergr craftmans chain for random upgrade for rare/legendary. Might be a few others I'm not recalling atm.

[Lobo de hielo]

Originally posted by SotiCoto:

Originally posted by slayor3000:

So remember which ones gave you something worth having and do them again. Simple.

Alright. My mistake. I assumed someone here would know the side-quests better, but apparently that isn't the case. I don't look forward to mapping this all out via the wiki, but it should save me hassle on subsequent characters.

Why should I tell you all the quests and where to go? Obviously you can use the wiki.
I know every quest and what they give. If you need a wiki to play a "game" well..........

[MedeaFleecestealer]

I would say do the side quests simply because they give you the most XP in the game as well as other things like skill/attribute points, etc.

Rushing through you could find yourself underlevelled later on. There are also new bosses to fight in both Epic and Legendary difficulties and you may not be able to deal with them if your level isn't high enough for the gear/skills you need to tackle them.

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by SotiCoto:

I'm now on Epic... which just feels like a repeat of the same thing,

It is, harder difficulty with a few extra bosses, and Legendary will feel the same way just abit harder.

This is an old school game where all they did was repeat the levels just at a harder amount of difficulty. It's how they designed them back then.

As to the side quests:

The game is set up for you to kill all the monsters on a map and do all the side quests so you're at the correct level for the next map.

While you might have started out over leveled, eventually you won't be.

[ninakoru]

Originally posted by SotiCoto:

Originally posted by ninakoru:

Yeah, pretty much every side quest is worth it.

Stop.

I'm asking which have permanent stat boosts that improve the character in ways inaccessible anywhere else.

What an ugly individual. I was trying to help, you know.

You asked "Side-Quests always worth doing?" and that's the condensed answer.

Side quests are efficient despite the name. The ones that give permanent stuff and the ones that don't. I played through the whole game more than a dozen times, every time I did them and didn't "waste my time" into those.

A huge chunk of your experience comes from Main AND side quests, you could skip maybe the one at act 4 that involves some extra steps and backtracking (the one with the rogue demon), other than that, every other side quest is worth your time.

Maybe was a hassle in your first run, knowing how to complete them fast after a few runs, delivering several of them at once, or only when you TP into town for supplies and all those little tricks makes the thing efficient.

[Lobo de hielo]

@ninakoru
Chill it. He is what you say.
All you had to do was check him out.
All he wants is a game completion rate.
The game is unimportant, so who really cares to help him. Which is why may attitude went the way it did.