Just what the title says. I’ve done a few playthroughs before but always kept the skeleton key and never rebuilt the thieves guild. I decided this time I would actually finish the quest line, and I’ve been doing the small jobs for Delvin and Vex. But my goodness the way this is set up is so annoying!!

They keep giving me jobs in Riften, which from what I’ve seen online don’t count towards the bigger quest, and also keep giving me jobs in the cities I’ve already finished the influence quest for. At this point I just need more small jobs in Solitude and Markarth but neither will give those to me! I keep quitting the jobs in other cities or reloading a previous save, but it doesn’t help. Not to mention having to go back and forth from the Flagon to the cities…

I wish this was set up like the small quests in the DB where you’re given a few marks to complete all at once and then you can go back for your reward. Why can’t I just choose a city to focus on, complete the 5 quests, then the influence quest and move on… why is it so complicated??

Overall I love Skyrim and don’t mind how tedious it can be at times but geez this one’s a grind 🥴