2010-06-19, 03:41 AM
FrozNlite Wrote:Hearing that quests might actually be the way to TRAIN from time to time is SO great to hear as a Quest King. When I started playing this game I treated it like any other RPG, telling myself that "100% completion or bust" was the only path to follow. I essentially "grew up" on quests, and didn't mind leveling ridiculously slowly while doing them so long as I could hear a cool story and have some kind of variety in what I was doing in-game. I think a game that places a much greater emphasis on questing, while still maintaining a strong mob grinding element, is fantastic. I look forward to seeing how this all pans out.
Yeah, I support this idea, but I think as it stands in those servers right now, questing it TOO good. As in, to the point where following a quest chain exclusively gets you levels to the point you out-level the very quest chain you are working on. That is simply poor design. With the mobs modified as they are, I have hopes that the quests will not all be isolated in 1-40 with a few nice ones around 7X as it stands now, and instead be well spread out and give exp enough to level at a respectable rate (even if it doesn't beat grinding).
However, as a fellow quest king (thread needs a revival, yet I see no way of equalizing it now), I'm afraid that they'll just wipe the quest results cleanas they recreate each of the very same quests there already were.
On the topic of Bishops, there's obviously going to be a large amount of protests for those accustomed to the system as it stands now; but I think if they give new playstyles a shot, it may not be so bad. I believe that leeching was an unintended result of the way 4th jobs were designed, but to not deal with it until now where it is engrained into the system and leave the player base with the genuine belief that it was intended was a bit harsh. If they were to do anything, they should have done it right away. At this point, they're only going to loose players with the adjustment.
I'm ok with the adjustment, but I don't think people should be "in your face, got what you deserved" on the subject. HP washing is the same sort of thing. It wasn't intended with the original design, but it was the result engrained into today's gameplay. Heck, SE says it does something completely different from what it actuall does, so who knows even there. Just be careful when those of you shoving this in the faces of Bishops have the same sort of adjustment made on that.