Quest rewards need some SERIOUS love.

[Darkmoore]

After reaching lvl 18 yesterday on Erricc, (yay me!), I realized that there really needs to be a serious overhaul of the quest rewards. I would venture to say that once you leave the starting area, Halgarad for me, 90% of the quest rewards are monetary.
Now, that would be fine IF the amount of money you earned was proportional to what you needed to properly equip yourself. However, this is not so. If the monetary rewards are going to stay on the low side, then the quests need to be updated with equipment that the typical adventurer such as myself can use.
I realize that I could learn crafting and harvesting and create some of the stuff I need. However, I have absolutely no inclination or desire to do so. Crafting is something that I have never enjoyed. I am a pure adventurer. (Besides, if it weren't for folks like me, crafters wouldn't have as much business coming their way. )

Anyway, my point is that if it weren't for the FANTASTIC community that we have here on Test, I would not have been able to reach even the low level that I have so far. I simply would not have been able to deal out enough damage, nor would I have been able to absorb enough damage. Please Sigil, I really feel you need to take a good hard look at the rewards laid out for these quests. Thank you for your time.

[Darkmoore]

Uh oh. Nobody agrees with me. Now I must go sulk in the corner. J/K

[Ysharros]

Silly Darkmoore - people usually respond to disagree! Be a little more inflammatory and you'll see your thread take off!

I'm not certain what's intended for quest rewards - for the most part those I've had have been useless to me since I have better gear either crafted or from drops. Granted, I've not played past level 20, so I'm not sure if this changes. For the most part I've just preferred better cash rewards, though admittedly on test this isn't as useful -- that said, for a change I'm saving money!! - this is a novel experience for me.

[Darkmoore]

Originally Posted by Ysharros

Silly Darkmoore - people usually respond to disagree! Be a little more inflammatory and you'll see your thread take off!

Ok, ummm.....................QUEST REWARDS ARE TEH SUXORZZ!!!


How's that? Will that work? I'm not very good at this.

[Iendan]

i would like some reward upgrades for the longer quests, i did a quest to kill rootlings for sap, one type being ruby sap, i farmed those rootlings for like 4-5hrs and got 1.6sp 5% xp and a mask (+5int +30 power) I GOT 1.5LEVELS during that farming time (lvls 12-14) alittle more exp, money, or better items would be appreciated...i felt cheated

[Naiya]

Question - and something I just realized (so maybe I'm slow)

on test we are dealing with double XP, in short we are "screaming" (relatively) up levels, but the gear/rewards/etc is still at normal leveling rates.

I mean, when I think about that, I can't fault them much. We have the double XP so we can level and test things and as a draw to test... but to change the loot tables on the test enviro only to have them stripped out and reverted before it goes live seems like an AWFUL LOT of work

I'm not saying I don't agree that it seems like the rewards are disproportionate, I'm just saying that perhaps we are looking at it the wrong way. Perhaps we need to look at it as "If i were at the expected level - how would these drops work for me?"

my two copper - feel free to take it, leave it, pass it on

[Darkmoore]

I still have to wonder about the whole Double XP thing. There doesn't seem to be any diff between here and Live. Maybe it's me.

[Naiya]

Originally Posted by Darkmoore

I still have to wonder about the whole Double XP thing. There doesn't seem to be any diff between here and Live. Maybe it's me.

SO and I realized we leveled faster on test than we do on live. we were commenting on how spoiled we were though we are both level 12's

[kalston]

i agree with original poster i played on live at first. i leveled fairly high and most normal quest rewards are crap. nothing to do with double xp. there are some good ones in there and on live you group ,have broker, etc. so my advice to you is learn to accept the things that take long to change , plenty of hope and the belief you are helping to create a better game or maybe try live becuase a word to the wise is the quests continue to give mostly crap all the way up probably get even worse