I don't see the problem with having to do the quest for jobs. None of them are too difficult, and worst case scenario you go onto RMS (
http://ratemyserver.net/quest_db.php?type=60000 ) and look at their complete walkthrough to every single quest including the insanely difficult sage quiz. All in all, they're not that difficult, and trying to get the items and stuff required for the job quests are actually helpful for new players. If you're a veteran player, store stuff in Kafra, pull it out on your new account and skip the item gathering on your new character.
I don't get what the problem is with the quests, they're not that hard. What's so difficult about them? The part where you have to walk to 5 NPC's and spam enter as they talk to you? The part where you have to walk down a hallway without falling into a hole? Or the impossible quest of walking down a hallway and not accepting bribes from fake monsters? Maybe killing mushrooms, or the thought of delivering a package and remembering 4 numbers is just too much for you. If that's the case, then I can understand your argument, but if that's the case then I wish you the best of luck when trying to do any quest (especially the custom) in the game.??
As for rates, part of the reason that people play low rate servers is because of the low rates. If we wanted to play a higher rate server, we would move to that server. I like Albus' idea of raising up drop rates to exp rates, but that's about as crazy as I would get with playing with the rates of anything on the server.
