Its 2026 Genshin should stop auto triggering world quests

Auto trigger is so annoying, just let me play the game.

No. The reason they do this is because the world is alive and just like on any adventure a quest can happen at any moment and that fits the theme of the game.

I kind of like that it does it when I’m in the middle of something, I start it so I have it in my “To-Do” Quests that I can do when I’m bored or have the time, focus mode doesn’t really help me focus, in fact it does the opposite, it only makes me want to be distracted 😅😅😅

((Can you like if you agree with me?? You can dislike if you want to or if you disagree, I don’t mind, I just wanted to make my opinion known and see if anyone feels the same 😅😅😅))

Just pray they don't copy WuWa because it's so freaking annoying in that game. Not only are you still dealing with auto-triggering quests but whenever a new quest gets added in some way, it auto-replaces the one you've currently got active, sets itself as the navigation point and in that game, the active quest causes it to ignore every other quest. So even if you're standing right next to an NPC that you need to speak to, unless that quest is specifically active and tracked, they won't respond. Same with objects, you can stand on top of a glowing pick-up spot but nothing will happen until you specifically activate that quest, then you can pick up the item.

But you're right, auto-triggering quests need banishing unless a quest tells you to go to an area instead of an NPC. In that case it's on the player for going into that specified area.

Some agree, some don't, I'll go with a compromise. Allow the player to activate it as a setting if they want world quests to auto-trigger.

i agree. it's always my answer at the end of every survey.

i'm focusing on one thing and suddenly a cutscene and LONG-***WINDED*** dialogue suddenly plays. it ruins the immersion on my current quest, and dumps a ton of info i'm not ready for.

in 2026 hoyoverse continues to say "no"


see you in 2027

I love world quests but I absolutely hate getting one triggered just by walking into the area. God knows how many I triggered in 6.0 alone all because I wanted to explore =.=

I probably wouldn't have hated the Aranara quest if it wasn't auto-triggered.

It dragged me out of the Archon Quest of all things.

Also quest locks for older quests. I've heard accidentally starting the natlan archon prevents you from completing the last act of fontaine which sucks A LOT.

It being 2026 is completely irrelevant

For those quests where you talk to someone to get going, yeah they shouldn't auto-trigger.

I never had a problem with this until Natlan where I feel like I ran into several auto play quests in the span of a few hours. Maybe it was because the NPC’s were literally chasing me down

My gripe with this is more on the proximity of triggering it, but overall the same 😅

Especially since you can't abandon quests. Why can't you at least abandon quests and do them when you want?
On one account I fell off the island in the sky in Ochkanatlan before there was a Teleport point there and couldn't even get back to the quest location until months later when a Teleport point was added. If I could have abandoned the quest I could have gotten back.

I love to trigger two different story quests and then something to do with Varesa while trying to go talk to Firstname Hat Lastname Guy, trying to complete the third or fourth day of a THIRD story quest that has been conveniently split up across five irl not in-game days for no other discernable reason other than "the devs hate the yaoi girlies/boyos who brought in their playerbase"

Idk why it is a thing

Like, Im here peacefully exploring without any worries and then a random ass 10min long cutscene starts talking random bs that I wasnt in the mood to hear or pay attention to.

WHY? Why did that became a thing? I like side quests and world quests but I will hate the game and the mother of all devs involved for breaking my vibe.

Ffs just add the quest to my quest log if I get near it so I can trigger it when I want.

I didnt already liked Natlan personally but then the region kept kidnapping every 5min for no reason like Im sorry but Im the player here, let me have agency to care or not about that quest so when I finally go for it I will actually pay attention to it and even like it.

If only genshin players would open their settings to check if Theres an option to turn something off before complaining about it on Reddit in the big 2026 🥀
(There is)

I'd miss lots of world quests if they did this. I just wish they'd put important details in the quest description, and highlighted.

One time i was just collecting chests and culi and suddenly a world quests triggered and it was a long one and i just quit the game.

I've complained about this on surveys many times. I was actually pretty incensed about how they did us dirty at the Nod-Krai adventurer's guild recently too. Ambushing us and taking away our ability to turn in for the newest country until we comply was a real dick move.

This is especially true when recent AQs have been so long between **obvious** stopping points that we have no clue how long we'll be waylaid for.

Omg yes!!!! I love doing the world quests and it actually kills my soul a little when I was in the middle of something am short on time and absolutely cannot stay in the Cut scene for long so I am forced to skip dialogue that I absolutely 100% wanted to read. I wish they had a toggle auto start world quests on and off button.

I agree with you so much. Sometimes I just want to explore an area freely, sometimes I just don't have the time to wait for the dialogue chain to end. And I really want to savor the story!

Auto triggering world quests is one of the weirdest hills this game's design team decided to die on when literally zero people like it and everyone actively despises it.

It ruins every single thing a system like this is theorized to enhance.

It ruins immersion, it ruins exploration, and it ruins story enjoyment because no one remembers what the inciting incident was when we go back to a quest weeks or months later.

I can only assume some bigshot's daughter or son in the team wants this in the game as an ego thing and everyone are scared to change it because there is no other possible way they are this tone deaf and out of touch with a cancerous feature that's one of the few in this game which has literally no redeeming qualities and only detriments.

If they insist on this, the traveller always needs a dialogue option WITHIN the first 2 lines that basically says "F off I'm busy" which pulls us out of the quest, on ALL quests. This single feature along with the "tHiS locAtIon/ChArAcTEr iS ocCuPIEd" that is still on all quests up till the middle of Fontaine are two of the main reasons why I don't recommend Genshin to anyone I know because I don't want to be embarrassed when this game decides to just be stupid.

Considering that they still haven't implemented this or a skip button after more than 5 years, I don't think it'll ever happen.

Mate, Genshin don't do Qol.

I remember the time before the focused mode, I was just going about my day collecting material and exploring in Sumeru. I had the game's audio muted so I could listen to my songs while doing so. Now during the time we are about to meet Kaeya and Dain in Sumeru in the AQ amd I was excited for their convo but held off doing the quest for a bit, only to teleport into the city near their spot (tracking quest was off so the AQ marker wasn't there), took literally 2 steps and boom pulled into the now manually muted AQ. I literally freaked out so bad while listening to Starships. Yes I could LISTEN back to their voices in the archive but I can't EXPERIENCE the actual immersion anymore. Honestly the one day this pixel game actually ruined my day lol.

But back on present, there should always be a "You're about to enter a quest area. Would you like to start the quest? Yes. No." Pop up with every quest whether it's an AQ or a normal world quest. One of the first thing I always did with new regions is unlock waypoints. Imagine the amount of random world quests I picked up in Sumeru, Chenyu, Fontaine and Natlan doing so?? Ruins immersion and just makes the quest uninteresting when now it suddenly blocks and tells you to do another quest becausr the needed npc/character is busy with another one you can't remember when you even started that quest. So inconvenient imo.

Remember when Paralogism introduced a quest trigger prompt for the archon quest?

Because Hoyo fucking doesn't.

They didn't use to back in 2020 when the game launched. Ironically the blue exclamation now available in Miliastra is a reminder of that, because back then you had to talk to the characters with blue exclamations over their heads to start a quest.

Auto-starting quests are something they *intentionally* implemented after the game's launch, not some thing they forgot to fix.

its not that deep

Also, please PLEASE HOYO add world quest list of some sort. A lot of them aren't marked in the reputation section of each nation and a lot of them are hidden behind npc interaction or item collection.

I got teleported across half of nod Krai once.
( The quest at the teleport at bottom of the first island, I was at the coast nowhere near it).

Still don't know what it's about.

100% agreed. This was actually the final straw that made me put the game down and switch to WW primarily. WW has some auto triggering world quests but it's nowhere near as frequent, and WW has a skip button which Genshin still doesn't have.

me when certain natlan world quests (with a baby saurus or smth??) or the tribal chronicles quests start while I try to open up a lot of teleport waypoint so that I have an easier time later on 😭😭😭 nowadays I barely open teleport waypoints (unless I need to) because some quests like these just trigger automatically like I just wanna chill and explore, now I gotta either do this quest or accept that I'm gonna forget it later on. Stuff like these make me want a skip button fr like now that I don't know the context just fuck the entire quest I guess either I'm never starting it or I'm skipping through it fuck you.

So I unlocked a bunch of story quests while I was taking a break so I didn’t have a story key bottleneck…my mistake. 

I couldn’t use focused mode on Neuvilette’s quest and I was on the part where we were walking down the main street of Fontaine (Neuvi walking slow, talking, me running around as my character). 

FIVE CUTSCENES TRIGGERED WALKING DOWN LA RUE DE FONTAINE. ALL while trying to do this one cutscene. Bonus, had to start over EACH TIME 💀💀💀✌️

By the last one it was actually comical. Neuvilette is trying to tell me this one story for the 4th time, we get 20 feet further than before, and BOOM - teleported into Clorinde’s dnd group, Chiori’s boutique, etc. I deepened the wrinkles in his forehead that day, I can feel it. 

Also the fact that you can’t see how long the cutscene is, if you skip it it starts over, you can’t go in that area without it starting, and there’s no autosave if you need to move on. 

Bonus, my biggest complaint about world quests: why can’t I trigger the quest associated with an exploration mechanic when I interact with it? Trying to figure out the necromicon that was Sumeru quest and exploration mechanic sequencing was so anti exploration it burned me out for 2 years after. I LOVE finding quest areas before the actual quest and finding out little details like a spy, but they hard nerfed it :(((( I miss Liyue exploration for that reason alone 

😂 I'm just looking for some mushrooms named after a dead Archon, now I'm stuck in a month long quest with green dwarfs and one seems to be stronger than me.

I’m a relatively new player, just starting Fontaine, and had to go to Natlan for mats since I pulled Varesa. Was not expecting to be forcefully exposed to magical volcano dinosaur lore 

this is SO REAL. when I was doing the Nod-Krai archon quest, world quests triggered for me TWICE without me noticing. it took me a while to realise this isn’t related to my current quest at all and opted out. it activated IN THE MIDDLE of the archon quest. I thought focused experience mode stops it but it didn’t. pure annoying.

and then it triggered again when I was just trying to unlock a waypoint. just skipped the entire dialogue. now if I were to come back to any of these 3 wqs, I don’t think I’d remember anything. the auto-trigger is just pure annoying tbh. like sure I can look up on youtube what the beginning actually was whenever I’m interested, so it’s maybe not too much of a problem storywise (that wastes my time unnecessarily though), but it triggering in the middle of doing another quest? really?

Also I would appreciate adding way to track which quests you finished, as not all were listed in the list at the reputation NPC...

And not all WQ have acheivements linked to them.

I honestly don't know whether I finished the one in Sumeru with unsealing all the ruin machines, I think I did, since I fought in that arena, but no idea whether I got it all.

Similarly the WQ with the puzzle gardens and then fetching the child to see all the sweet flowers... that is so not intuitive I'd be amazed if you can actually do it without looking it up.

Same for the quest that you get from defeating all those widgets in the Jungle at the ruined houses, where you need to do all the "trials" then visit specific one of those houses again.

Not to mention that some quests are not really triggered... Paimon usually just says something while you're fighting and there's no way to actually check what she said, so you know there is a quest nearby, but have no other clues.

It would be nice if the "Focused Experience Mode" in Archon Quests disabled World Quests entirely.

I was doing the AQ the other day where we had to go to the Frostmoon Scions for festival prep. I did the mistake of walking past the meeting point quest NPC in between the objectives, thinking that the """Focused Experience Mode""" would do its god damn job for once, and got fucking roped into an entirely unvoiced cutscene in the same area. Really pissed me off. Still pisses me off. I hate that I have to be taking the dumbest detours possible just so I don't get landmined into a random unvoiced quest in the middle of an AQ.

"Oh but you should have done that WQ already it's been out since 6.0" - I wanted to do it in my own time, on my own terms, and uninterrupted. I know it might be hard to fathom, but I care more about immersion than speedrunning for Primos.

Yeah the only time I skip dialougue is when this happen, and usually end up skipping the whole quest because I forgot the context when I'm actually reay to do it

The focus mode doesnt even work on this issue. Its so annoying when you're doing archon quest and you have to rope into a dialogue for a world quest

Nod-Krai pissed me off so much in the beginning because it felt like they were deliberately using the shiny collectibles to lure you into long, boring cutscenes you absolutely could not care less about.

They could even announce it in a special program like “you know that feeling when you’re farming ley lines for talent books/mora and suddenly you’re whisked away into a long world quest that you didn’t mean to trigger? With the next version, we’ve fixed that so Travelers can enjoy world quests and random quests at their own leisure, eliminating those instances that break the flow of adventuring”. Then fans will be happy to feel heard and hoyo can frame it like they’re good at listening

Agreed.

One of the more frustrating parts is when it cuts off access to a character like Katheryne.

The recent quest with Columbina being a prime example. If you don't want to go ahead with the story quest after triggering the start of it, the adventurer's guild in Nod-Krai is locked off to you. The only dialogue you get is wondering if Katheryne is going to tell on you.

Until you move the quest forward you're locked out.

Its 2026 Genshin should add a skip button

Yes. There were many times I needed to quickly check in with Katheryne or condense some resin fast before going to bed/work and was interrupted by a sudden random quest. It really ruined the experience.

am in focus mode for the welkin moon archon quest and am triggering these world quests still left and right while i just want to do that quest line and explore, not doing some other quest that i skip all the begining dialogue bc i want to do something else-.-