Hi

I'm planning finishing every single misc quest that I can find and exploring all areas, before I start finishing the main quest. Is that realistic, and how long do you think it could take me hour-wise?

Another question: is there an addon that highlights npcs that have a quest for me? If yes, what is the name of it?


Thanks in advance

Not sure what you mean by realistic, but if you mean real life realistic, well no, because you cannot complete everything in real life.

Floating map markers is what you refer to.

As for Misc Quests, with the Radiant System, those quests never end. Almost every town or settlement has NPCs that need things, you just have to talk to them. You can go through and work all the named misc and side quests in one play through, but there are so many of those, that I would not try myself to complete all of them with one character.

Then you have all other quests that are not given to you by any NPCs. Then there are the Collector Quests, the Book Quests, the quests you stumble upon while exploring. There is a reason why the strategy guide has more than 650 pages, and it is not the Beastiary.

Yes and no.

Not sure if it's been fixed in the latest patch, but if you go poke around in certain dungeons, you can break quests.

Those kinds of things are being fixed. The conditions that stopped those quests from activating are very easy to fix. You could print this list and just not go in the places until asked to by the game. Compared to all the places you can go, it is a small amount.

Note, there are spoilers in this link

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dungeon_Quests

Another thing is timing. There were a couple in Morthal I would not have known about if I did not have the guide.