Do I push through the main quest or complete a lot of sidequests in D4

I know it's most likely a beginner question but it's what I am I suppose.

For extra context, I generally have about 6-10 hours to spend to game per week and I find I do enjoy the main quest but after spending a couple days only doing that it feels like I'm missing out by ignoring some of the side quests.

I only have 1 charachter so far and it's lvl35 at around the start of ACT2.

Will I lose out on powerlevel if I just try to get through the main quest first for now and look into doing sidequests afterwards? Am I making my life harder if I do sidequests first?

Right now I think I would like to be able to participate in the seasonal with a new class to try out, since it is still an expensive game and I want to feel like I experience more than just one class.

majere,

The side quests aren’t going anywhere. There are way too many to do. Enjoy them for the lore – some of them make the game world feel more alive and fleshed out. Okay whatever part you enjoy the most. Even the story is structured so you can skip lore by powering through vs look at the side nooks and crannies for journals and paintings.

luffyuk,

I’m level 55 and just finished Act 2. I’ve basically 100 percented the first two map regions, except for the dungeons. I’ve personally enjoyed playing this way. However, I’m going to power through the story now.

Zanz,

Everything scales with you, and there are limited ways to get items/account rewards without finishing the story 1st. I like to do everything as I get it, but that put me way behind in gear.

DarkThoughts,

Depends on what you want. I did a lot of side quests on my first character, but I had to because I had the habit of just accepting everything - until I ran into the 20 sidequest cap… This forced me to do side quests when I wanted to continue the main quest, because I would at least want to be able to accept the side quests that are outside & harder to find, if I were to come across them.

On my second character I did exactly that. Just did the main quest and accepted all the side quests that were on my way but away from any waypoint. And I gotta say, the campaign boss fights were so much easier on a lower level. I'm not super sure whether I finish all side quests on that character though. The exp you get for them is typically pretty low and I don't have a need for the herbs or leather packs they give you at this stage anymore either.

So yeah, my recommendation is to focus on the main quests & just pick up stuff you find outside the towns. Do sidequests when your quest book gets too full but otherwise only afterwards.

CarlsIII,

@DV8. It doesn’t really matter what order you do things in. I mostly stopped doing side quests once I reached the point for each elates where they stop giving you renown rewards until world tier 3 and then picked them up again afterwords, although I did keep doing enough side quests to keep from having the max number of side quests so I could keep picking up new side quests as I came across them.

tunetardis,

I’ve been taking it kind of slow. I’m not exhaustively doing every side quest but it’s more like when my build sucks, I do non-main-arc stuff hoping to improve my gear ahead of the act boss.

And I just like exploring. I also do those class-specific dungeons whenever I see one. Presumably they’ll come in useful at some point?

Tolstoy,
@Tolstoy@lemmy.world avatar

Some of the sidequests are well written and some are whole questlines. So far I played only the main story with a mage ending it with about level 47. Mostly without sidequests but with a lot of exploration/events and so on. Since leveling up my alts was a little bit tedious befor the last patch, I switched to the sidequests from time to time.

It's more like a personal preference to take time and go grab something while the world is struggling for saviour. Levelwise it doesn't really matter.

_spiffy,
@_spiffy@lemmy.world avatar

I would blast through the main story and save the side quests for later.

DV8,

Ok, I guess I'll go that route, are there downside to doing this, even minor ones?

_spiffy,
@_spiffy@lemmy.world avatar

Not really, getting the story done faster gets you the horse which helps and the side quests can all be done after the fact.

Crackhappy,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

This right here is the answer. Getting the horse is extremely important at getting so many things done so much faster.

False,

I ended up under leveled for the campaign and had to go back and do some side quests. But not a big deal.

Thadrax,

You will be under levelled in the later acts and need to push a few levels to continue (if not for the story then to do the capstone dungeon to get to the higher difficulty level). Doing a few side quests to get those first few renown rewards at least in some regions will give a more balanced experience in my opinion (plus more potions/skills, which helps).

DV8,

What are capstone dungeons? And indeed, the renown I need to get to a base level for sure, and the Lilith statues I need to activate when I see them.

Thadrax,

Those are dungeons you need to complete to unlock new stuff. After the campaign there is a lvl 50 one unlocking wt3 (nightmare difficulty) which is where all the end game stuff starts and there is another one at lvl 70 for wt4 (hell?)

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