DdraigGwyn
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Which quest do you think has the best reward for the least effort, and which has the worst reward for the most work?
Best and worst Quest payoffs?
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Adam Warlock
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Those two quests for The White Phial involve a lot of dangerous work and distant travel for a very paltry prize in the end.
Captain Wayfinder will pay you mucho gold to get his Fine-cut Void Salts from Brood Cavern. Killing the bears there is ridiculously easy
Captain Wayfinder will pay you mucho gold to get his Fine-cut Void Salts from Brood Cavern. Killing the bears there is ridiculously easy
Chadonraz
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There are several mini-quests that have leveled rewards; do them at a high level, and you might get 5000 for finding an easily obtainable book (like "Night Falls on Sentinel"). Compare that to those bounty quests where killing a dragon earns you 500 no matter what level you or the dragon are. 
Lord Sevengraves
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Deathbrand quest lots of gold
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Lord Sevengraves
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I know it's dragonborn but most people have that dlc by now
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Lord Sevengraves
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Sorry about that, see if you can get legendary version of Skyrim for the holidays , it's well worth it, all dlcs included.
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I'm not a computer whiz, I just play on a PS 3
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ZPfor3
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I fell your pain man! I have Skyrim on my PC and Mac. I bought the copy for PC, guys. But I actually kind of like going back to purely vanilla Skyrim quickly by going over to the Mac
DdraigGwyn
Cymru
Are you using Bootcamp or an emulator?
I fell your pain man! I have Skyrim on my PC and Mac. I bought the copy for PC, guys. But I actually kind of like going back to purely vanilla Skyrim quickly by going over to the Mac
ZPfor3
Arch-Mage/Harbinger in Training
A cider wrapper. Which ever that is lol
Wildroses
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I find Berit's ashes one of the highest payoffs, especially if you do it when both Runil and Berit's friend are both hanging out at Dead Man's Drink, which they do every evening. I get about 1000 gold (or a levelled) for walking seven steps maximum.
As for worst payoff, it is quite specific for me. A female PC before Bethesda patched the quest: "Toying with the Dead" so Vekel the Man would actually give you a reward he acquired legally like he said he is instead of nothing. Before that bug was fixed, Vekel basically went: "Oh, thank you so much for going and letting yourself be mentally undressed by a necrophile who tried to kill you so he could have sex with your corpse and enslaved ghost. Have this item I acquired legally as payment...Oh wait, I'm in the Thieves Guild, there is nothing we acquire legally, so I guess you let yourself be mentally violated for nothing, sucker!" That bug pissed me off so much...
For a more vanilla and bug free example, I'd say Auriel's Bow, especially if you side with the Dawnguard. The only way of getting the damn bow is if you have done a hell of a lot of quests before that one, and during that process you spend ages walking back and forth between the Dawnguard HQ and Volkihar castle, not to mention hours walking around the Forgotten Vale and the Soul Cairn, and walking all over Skyrim on the trail of Moth Priests, Scrolls, and Scroll reading equipment. You have to go to Blackreach to get one of those scrolls! That's a hell of a lot of running all over Skyrim and three of the largest dungeons in the game for a bow which is nowhere near as powerful as something I can smith and enchant myself, even if it does have a pretty and mildly useful effect if you shoot the right arrows at the sun.
As for worst payoff, it is quite specific for me. A female PC before Bethesda patched the quest: "Toying with the Dead" so Vekel the Man would actually give you a reward he acquired legally like he said he is instead of nothing. Before that bug was fixed, Vekel basically went: "Oh, thank you so much for going and letting yourself be mentally undressed by a necrophile who tried to kill you so he could have sex with your corpse and enslaved ghost. Have this item I acquired legally as payment...Oh wait, I'm in the Thieves Guild, there is nothing we acquire legally, so I guess you let yourself be mentally violated for nothing, sucker!" That bug pissed me off so much...
For a more vanilla and bug free example, I'd say Auriel's Bow, especially if you side with the Dawnguard. The only way of getting the damn bow is if you have done a hell of a lot of quests before that one, and during that process you spend ages walking back and forth between the Dawnguard HQ and Volkihar castle, not to mention hours walking around the Forgotten Vale and the Soul Cairn, and walking all over Skyrim on the trail of Moth Priests, Scrolls, and Scroll reading equipment. You have to go to Blackreach to get one of those scrolls! That's a hell of a lot of running all over Skyrim and three of the largest dungeons in the game for a bow which is nowhere near as powerful as something I can smith and enchant myself, even if it does have a pretty and mildly useful effect if you shoot the right arrows at the sun.
Writes-Many-Posts
Champion of Grottos and Gremlins
Deathbrand is really cool, gives you a super OP armor and weapons (if you are into dual wielding) and so much loot you won't need to do another bounty hunting job again. (unless you want to, as IF! Those crooks of those stewards can go to...)
Still, the worst quest payoff, in my opinion, is Alduin's Wall. So after you save that old guy from that Thalmor and skeever (nearly same thing) infested sewer and risk getting eaten by a cannibal, get lost in there for ages, have to do Brynjolf's dirty work even if you want to play it honestly for information, you are forced to escort said old man to Riverwood. Somehow, that retard stayed in Riften in my first playthrough, and when I returned, I needed to go to the Ratway again, and guess what, the Thalmor respawned! Well, I get to Riverwood, Delphine looks at Esbern and literally gives me the finger by completely pretending I no longer exist, even after becoming her Nemesis' Nemesis and infiltrating their Embassy, and only paying attention to the whacky old Blade! So, my reward for doing two jobs in a row that were supposedly hers is: having to go to the Reach to fight forsworn that are lethal at low levels, break in an old temple, solve puzzles that those two dummies (even though Esbern's genius is often boasted by them both) couldn't, and be forced to watch them inspecting an old wall. And ding-ding-ding! We need (more) help!
My reward?
Abso-fluffing-lutely nothing!- Norman Jayden
Still, the worst quest payoff, in my opinion, is Alduin's Wall. So after you save that old guy from that Thalmor and skeever (nearly same thing) infested sewer and risk getting eaten by a cannibal, get lost in there for ages, have to do Brynjolf's dirty work even if you want to play it honestly for information, you are forced to escort said old man to Riverwood. Somehow, that retard stayed in Riften in my first playthrough, and when I returned, I needed to go to the Ratway again, and guess what, the Thalmor respawned! Well, I get to Riverwood, Delphine looks at Esbern and literally gives me the finger by completely pretending I no longer exist, even after becoming her Nemesis' Nemesis and infiltrating their Embassy, and only paying attention to the whacky old Blade! So, my reward for doing two jobs in a row that were supposedly hers is: having to go to the Reach to fight forsworn that are lethal at low levels, break in an old temple, solve puzzles that those two dummies (even though Esbern's genius is often boasted by them both) couldn't, and be forced to watch them inspecting an old wall. And ding-ding-ding! We need (more) help!
My reward?
Abso-fluffing-lutely nothing!- Norman Jayden
Crowley
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The worst payoff is killing Parthunaax. What do I get for that? Oh, the ability to recruit people into the Blades? Why thank you, Esbern, how very fluffing generous. I don't kill Parthunaax, besides that one time. The Blades were much more of a hindrance anyway.
The best payoff has to be the one mentioned earlier, where you wind up in this huge treasure room. Oh, how I love picking up all that shiny, wonderful stuff
In a way, another good payoff is Unbound. The payoff? Getting to do whatever the hell you want in one of the best games going.
The best payoff has to be the one mentioned earlier, where you wind up in this huge treasure room. Oh, how I love picking up all that shiny, wonderful stuff
In a way, another good payoff is Unbound. The payoff? Getting to do whatever the hell you want in one of the best games going.
Probably one of the best payoffs is getting the oghma infinium from dicserning the transmudane. Going through blackreach is a pain, but you already have to do that for the main quest line, and then all you have to do is kill a few different types of elves and then bam, level up time!
ColleenG
When in doubt, follow the fox.
Two of the worst:
Kolbjorn barrow for the prize Azidal's armor. It costs you 10k out of pocket to get that. You definitely lose on that deal. This armor, however, makes the female Dragonborn the hottest chick in Tamriel. So you got that going for you, which is nice.
Killing Lord Harkon in Dawnguard. The Dawnguard series of quests is not so bad, but what do you get for the final deal? Killing Lord Harkon is about like killing Alduin. And you get: NADA. NOTHING. ZILCH. Even the castle isn't worth looting after everything is dead!
One of the best is Mehrun's Razor and the Shrine of Mehrune Dagon respawning every 2 days! This is the best for smithees like me.
Kolbjorn barrow for the prize Azidal's armor. It costs you 10k out of pocket to get that. You definitely lose on that deal. This armor, however, makes the female Dragonborn the hottest chick in Tamriel. So you got that going for you, which is nice.
Killing Lord Harkon in Dawnguard. The Dawnguard series of quests is not so bad, but what do you get for the final deal? Killing Lord Harkon is about like killing Alduin. And you get: NADA. NOTHING. ZILCH. Even the castle isn't worth looting after everything is dead!
One of the best is Mehrun's Razor and the Shrine of Mehrune Dagon respawning every 2 days! This is the best for smithees like me.
ColleenG
When in doubt, follow the fox.
The worst payoff is killing Parthunaax. What do I get for that? Oh, the ability to recruit people into the Blades? Why thank you, Esbern, how very fluffing generous. I don't kill Parthunaax, besides that one time. The Blades were much more of a hindrance anyway.
The best payoff has to be the one mentioned earlier, where you wind up in this huge treasure room. Oh, how I love picking up all that shiny, wonderful stuff
In a way, another good payoff is Unbound. The payoff? Getting to do whatever the hell you want in one of the best games going.
Not to mention the first Blades quest is to kill the dragon at Mt. Anthor, who is never there! So the blades all run around behind me waiting for something to happen...but noooOOooOoOoooo...
