Which Tasks do you think are important?

Broken Family - for some reason hearing the asari talk to her mom makes me cry every time
Messages to the Nexus - that one message that's like "I think you fled something terrible. I think it followed you here" gives me chills every time

I'm doomed to do all the tasks...I can't ignore any of them

Ha, Naming the Dead is the one I know I've never finished.  I'm sure there is a guide somewhere as to where to find the bodies, but I've been too lazy to look it up.

I think I've completed all of the others at least once, but I'm getting better and better at ignoring the task list.

Somehow I managed to find all the Remnant pieces on my first playthrough, but have yet to find them again. :/


I like Contagion, but I don't like that you have to travel through four systems to find her. The Firefighters has become one of my favorite side missions. the first time I did it I didn't cure Alain and also shot Knight, so he was angry, but the multiple outcomes of it are interesting.

Me too except for Voeld. I skip everything I can there except the one that gets you the Data Core, Subjugation I think it is.

What I have found is I am much better at waiting/planning to do some of these quests till I have multiple things to do in a place whereas first time through I was bouncing around planets like a pinball.

I feel super old-school doing it this way, but my second playthrough (and the first one where I wasn't stressed out trying to figure out how to pace myself through the game) I started writing down every mission on that planet. Tasks are their own thing, and sometimes things are in the Nexus or Tempest folder, but whatever step you're in actually needs to be done on Voeld or Elaaden or wherever, so writing them down helps, and makes me feel like I have less to do. I kind of like my game journal.  

I don't disagree, I make sure there is a robust to do list on each planet before going. It also helps that this is my 5th playthrough and I know all the dialog by heart, so i have the volume down and I am watching something in another monitor (I do a 4 monitor setup) - so all those load animations in travel and switching zones do not bother me nearly as much. I also use the hypermobility mod which cuts down on annoyances and time sinks.

But ultimately in the end I do what I feel is important. And maybe apply some of the (What would Alec do?) philosophy. If I am terraforming worlds and setting up outposts, the scientists can survey their own damn rocks and plants. Those turians can pick up their own debris (or leave it behind) after I saved them. I really don't see a true pathfinder performing these tasks. I do always do "what he would have wanted" because I figure the researcher already tried and gave his life to the task, so I can carry the torch. The quest also takes you to some key points on the map with Kett/Remnant encounters that can yield data towards "Ghost of Promise" and the "watchers".

I applied the same philosphy towards TW3. I would happily do a task or mission that involves Witcher's work, but ignore those that do not. So I might help Philippa kill Radovid, but I am not helping Dandelion set up his nightclub or help that dwarf (forgot his name) complete his card deck. So in MEA I will do Pathfinder work, but not what I consider to be menial or silly.

For Vetra and Addison loyalty quest there is no outcome I find satisfactory, so rather than be angry I just ignore them.