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Tuulikki

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Thursday, April 24th 2014, 6:45pm

Item shop new item suggestion

I would like to suggest an Item shop item that allows a player to auto-complete any at-level or lower quest. This will help a lot of players who are or have been unable to find a group to complete their quests. As an example, I know there are a LOT of people who still cannot complete a particular quest that is stopping them from continuing on the epic quest line in the new zone. I believe there are many who would be very happy to have this as an option. Also, I would like to suggest that this be affordable if that's even possible anymore? Thanks. :)
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Thursday, April 24th 2014, 8:13pm

How would this work? Use the item and talk to the npc? What if you have taken more than 1 quest? They would have to price it high enough so big spenders don't just spam them to lvl up toons.

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Thursday, April 24th 2014, 10:02pm

A very good question. Basically the way I envisioned it was the player would buy the "token" from the IS. They would take the token to an NPC who would query the player's quest log and ask which quest they would like completed. The player would choose, the quest would complete and the item would be removed from the players inventory.

As far as pricing goes, I was thinking around 69-100 diamonds sounds about fair to me. We are only talking about a single quest. I can see this appealing to people in smaller guilds who lack the player resources to run some of the content more than yet another power level opportunity, though to be fair, if someone wants to pay to win at RoM they would most certainly not be the first to do so.
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Thursday, April 24th 2014, 10:04pm

I dont like this idea it would be too easy to exploit.
But something needs to be done to allow players to progress thru belathis to wf.
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Thursday, April 24th 2014, 10:10pm

But something needs to be done to allow players to progress thru belathis to wf.

agreed, i am also thinking making it a GM event would be nice to help players auto-complete it.
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Thursday, April 24th 2014, 10:51pm

GM event would be nice to help players auto-complete it.



GM quest events are nice, but they are not a real solution just a temp fix. every player that misses it or has not started the game still has the same problem. That being said, This instance has been made wayyy easier to complete. I ran through it with just me and a tank and a newer player that happened to be a druid to give us limited heals.

When running a tiny party like this you must learn the strat which has kinda been posted in different scattered threads. But the point is you will need help. Maybe gameforge should clarify their intentions. If they want to force players to group up to complete this then they should say so and we can shut up and deal with it. If they want everyone to easily complete it then they should change something.

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Thursday, April 24th 2014, 10:58pm

yes, an event would be temporary, but if there is something in the works, a temp fix may help people out while we wait.

that being said, if it's GF/RW's intention of forcing people together, than i really don't see anything that can be done to fix it except convince GF/RW otherwise.
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Friday, April 25th 2014, 12:15am

or why not just make the quest autocomplete like they did with Autopsy (for a while) and not require it to be an instance run anymore?

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Friday, April 25th 2014, 12:20am

or why not just make the quest autocomplete like they did with Autopsy (for a while) and not require it to be an instance run anymore?

thats another great idea. didn't think of that ;)
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Friday, April 25th 2014, 1:11am

I have always felt that shoulda been the solve and I remember when Autopsy was broken for what 9 months? Then they made it autocomplete... lol... after 9 months lol Yet last time I ran a new char through that zone, you had to do it again, and it worked ! :)

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Friday, April 25th 2014, 1:43am

That should just make that quest a cutscene... You enter Bela, and you see the allaince forces defeat Manderoth, quest done ;)
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Sunday, April 27th 2014, 8:07am

It never ceases to amaze me how these threads almost invariably stray off topic or skew the intended meaning towards someone else's topic agenda(s).

In this case I will have to take some of the blame for perhaps using a poor example. My original suggestion addressed no single quest issue but merely cited a current quest issue to create clarity. In reflection, that was a bad choice on my part.

That said, there are numerous quests where players may prefer the option to purchase a quest completion. At this point in the game, there are perhaps many that would like to finish any number of quests but have very little luck finding a party do run them because they are no longer considered relevant content. I know that personally I would like to get the last boss in GCH, alimus tomb, kbnh and more on my new alt without spending weeks if not months trying to find a party willing/able to run those instances.

Now to address some concerns. As to cost and abuse, as long as they cost more than a daily reset they are expensive/cheap enough. For that matter, why does it even bother anyone that someone else might be able to purchase their way through quests? How is this different from someone buying a daily reset ticket? for that matter how would anyone really exploit it?

As to the GM event and quest auto complete suggestions they are both fine, if someone short-sighted alternatives in my opinion. It's hard enough for people leveling now to complete some quests let alone someone trying to level 6-9 months from now.
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