To Quest or Not To Quest. This is indeed the question.

When i first strarted my journey into the Splinterlands, it was complete with a Daily Quest (or in my case, nightly). It was awesome. It was a way for me to gain some Dec or some Cards without having to fork out any more money.
Then i learned (much to my disgust at how stupid i was), that you could buy these things called Quest Potions, that increased your reward chest by 5 when used. And you could buy them with credits. What? Holy Crap! that's awesome.
Needless to say i purchased a few, then a few more and then in batches of 10 which gave me 1 for free as well. It was soooooo sweet.
And then it happened.
The bots started purchasing quest potions by the thousands. I guess they did this way before i imagined, it just came to fore shortly after i discovered them.
So what did that mean. Isn't that good? Isn't selling more potions a good thing? Yeah. Maybe. but in the quantities that were being purchased, it meant that quest rewards were hitting at least 6 chests for every quest. Thousands of bots, doing thousands of quests, opening tens of thousands of chests.
This could lead to only one thing. A card shortage. And boy was there one of those.
Rewards began to dry up, legendary potions and alchemy potions became the standard reward from doing quests, which were worthless unless you were opening card packs, which had sold out ages ago.

So to put a stop to this, the devs scrapped the buying of Quest potions with credits and instead you could now only get them with Dec.
Dec had a few other use cases, so the price of that went up. The cost of buying a quest potion became a little out of most peoples league.
In fact, due the lack of rewards, buying them was pointless anyway. You would buy a potions for around $6 and get 5 legendary potions and 3 dec. Not a great return on investment.

Now i don't begrudge the devs for making that decision. It had to be done. Now that the new reward cards are out, your getting a little more return for your money if you have those quest potions. But this is not my point exactly.
My point here is: Why bother to do the quests anymore? Why have them there?
As the cost of Dec is rather high, This makes the cost of quest potions very high and the chance of getting anything good out of them a little better than it was before the new rewards cards. By itself i don't believe it to be worth it at the moment.
So don't do the quest, i hear you yelling from behind your screen.
Sure. Ok. Don't do the quest.
What if you're in a guild. What if you've spent a lot of dec to establish this guild. The only way to now get that bonus dec from winning and discounts in the shop is to complete the quests. But you have to upgrade the hall to upgrade the lodge to be able to have those quests worth something.

It's a never ending circle of spend with little return at the moment.
Once again. Not bitching. Just drawing attention to certain issues that i see.

I guess the long and the short of it is:
If there is no actual viable rewards for doing quests, why do them.
You can lose hundreds of rating points trying to complete a quests for your guild as you don't have the right cards for that quest and at the end of it all, you get an alchemy potion and 2 dec.
A quest, by definition is a journey with a reward upon complettion.
If all the hobits got was a half a pipe of longbottom weed for the completion of their quest to mordor, i'm guessing they would have stayed at home.

Maybe make the quest worth doing again?

Anyway. Just my thoughts and not the views of the general public.

Happy playing Spliterfiends

Jack Out.