I think it was introduced with patch 9.5. Since then the the progress for (daily) quests respectively overall progress takes far too long, about a half minute or longer. For example:
Today, in the morning, I received the message for finishing a daily quest from yesterday. Then I had to wait a half minute to get a new daily quest (play 20 artefacts). I did so in the following two games. The reward points were increased but no update for the quest. So, I waited over two minutes, restarted the game: no progress. In the afternoon, when I restarted the game, I got the message for finishing the 20 artefacts quest...
It looks like these messages are in some kind of idle queue. Similarly here:
It would be good if the updates show faster.
Today, in the morning, I received the message for finishing a daily quest from yesterday. Then I had to wait a half minute to get a new daily quest (play 20 artefacts). I did so in the following two games. The reward points were increased but no update for the quest. So, I waited over two minutes, restarted the game: no progress. In the afternoon, when I restarted the game, I got the message for finishing the 20 artefacts quest...
It looks like these messages are in some kind of idle queue. Similarly here:
Reward Book Issue
The Nilfgaardian reward tree is stuck at this point and does not progress beyond it, although I've played a lot of ranking matches and restarted the game several times. The other four factions trees work fine.
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