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    Angry Quest: IMPOSSIBLE/Useless

    Or at least painful to the point of not being worth it. I am talking for starters about the Parrot quest.

    First, how does it make any sort of sense to have a level 20- character be forced to travel to an area where you have the potential to encounter enemies as strong as level 70?

    Another quest is the fishing type quests offered by the fisherman near Kion. Those really should not be available to a dragon.

    There are other quests like this too, where your more or less forced to go to someplace very distant, and often, unexplored, to get what your looking for. Listing a recommended level for a particular quest would help for starters.

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    You are right about the Parrot quest. Unfortunately it is a very old quest and hasn't been updated to keep with the times. I've marked it down to update it (or at least temporarily disable it) for the next patch.

    You are also correct about the Fisherman quests from Thanthor. I'll make sure they aren't available for Dragons.

    If you know of others, please let us know and we'll try and get them fixed as soon as we can.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AmonGwareth View Post
    You are right about the Parrot quest. Unfortunately it is a very old quest and hasn't been updated to keep with the times. I've marked it down to update it (or at least temporarily disable it) for the next patch.
    PLEASE do NOT disable the quest just because one person is writing angry posts about it. Update it later, maybe, but don't hurt everyone that wants to do the quest now. So what if you have to go to a lvl 70+ area. That's what making friends is for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walkerglassmire View Post
    PLEASE do NOT disable the quest just because one person is writing angry posts about it. Update it later, maybe, but don't hurt everyone that wants to do the quest now.
    Also echoing this. Thantos's quest is one of my absolute favorites as a dragon. His quest line is one of the first ones I do for every character I make. Who doesn't want their own bucket of dragon popcorn? XD

    He's one of my favorite NPCs and was a darn good reason to be happy that dragon gathering fish was put in.
    Last edited by Shian; September 9th, 2011 at 12:25 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shian View Post
    Also echoing this. Thantos's quest is one of my absolute favorites as a dragon. His quest line is one of the first ones I do for every character I make. Who doesn't want their own bucket of dragon popcorn? XD

    He's one of my favorite NPCs and was a darn good reason to be happy that dragon gathering fish was put in.
    Dragons can fish?

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    Yes with ingenuity.

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    Another main irritation about that parrot quest is it is a naka quest. A dragon cant complete it without help from a Naka. If your going to have quests like that, you should have quests where a Naka must rely on a dragon to complete as well.

    The Sslanis supply quest is just slightly questionable, given it asks you for Salt rock, which a player probably has not seen naturally before.

    Outside of that, the level 10 dragon ascension type quests at times seems excessively hard (Level 19 mob [Ferocious Gurok] for a level 10 quest [Hardened Scales I]?) Or do those quests scale to your level? I might be missing something here however.

    Outside of that, as a new player, another severe problem that I often run into are the bosses on the main roads just outside of Kion. Getting flattened by a level 15 named undead as soon as you leave NT is not fun. I can understand bosses a little off the main track, but this is silly. That one is not the only one either.

    Finally, I found myself frustrated at some of the quests given to you by the dragons on NT, such as forcing you to go gather Bronze when you already have the item required in your inventory.

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    I agree with you on some of the quests that you've posted earlier. But the Hardened Scales quest, I'm going to have to disagree with you on. Ferocious Gruoks range in level from 11 to 20. If your character is only lvl 10, then you can work to pull the lower level ones. There are places where just the sows and younglings will spawn without the higher level "male gruoks".

    As for the boss mobs that wander the roads, I also have to disagree with you on whether they "should" or "should not" be there. In every MMO I've ever played there are those mobs, those places in the world that you simply know if you encounter them to soon, they're going to do a load of hurt on you... and then you come back 10 levels (or however many) later to exact your revenge. In fact, if memory serves me correctly, GUComics once did a panel that the text line was just that... "Revenge is a dish best served 10 levels later."

    I'll look at the Sslanis quest to see if a description of salt rock and it's point in the world could be better described. As Amon said, please let us know any others you encounter so that we can evaluate if they are in need of help.

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    The only Ferocious Guroks I found, where the quest pointed me to, were 16-19, with the sows being 14-15 (But they pull Grulets, meaning they are often harder then the Gurok males), and the Grulets (Which don't count, and pull with each other) at level 11-13. Quest specifically states that the Grulets don't count.

    The only boss in particular I have an issue with is the lvl 15 skeleton (Who is alone) near the quarry to the west of Kion. The others I have found placed rather reasonably, and often with other mobs of its type. (So you can expect them at least) Even the lvl 11 sand beetle boss inside Kion I think is well placed. Same with Tsunami in the crystal lakes, and Ingot with the bronze golems.

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    About the parrot quest, the bottom line is, I want a quest that a person of X level can get, to be reasonably possible to complete at said level. This is my honest opinion as a new player.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rtiger View Post
    @walkerglassmire

    About the parrot quest, the bottom line is, I want a quest that a person of X level can get, to be reasonably possible to complete at said level. This is my honest opinion as a new player.
    It's been a bit since I've done the quest, so I don't recall where you have to go for it... but unless you actually have to kill the monsters there, a bit of careful movement and analysis of the monsters, you should be able to do it, even with the 70+ monsters. I remember back in the early days, having to talk to Chardonnay. The quest line started at lvl 10. The Bone Golems surrounding him were in the 90s as I recall. You watched their movements, picked the right time, ran in, greeted as fast as you could, then died. heh Was fun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walkerglassmire View Post
    It's been a bit since I've done the quest, so I don't recall where you have to go for it... but unless you actually have to kill the monsters there, a bit of careful movement and analysis of the monsters, you should be able to do it, even with the 70+ monsters. I remember back in the early days, having to talk to Chardonnay. The quest line started at lvl 10. The Bone Golems surrounding him were in the 90s as I recall. You watched their movements, picked the right time, ran in, greeted as fast as you could, then died. heh Was fun.
    Exactly. In the "old" days it wasn't as stricly tiered as now and it made it more fun, more exiting and it teached you to be on the look out for danger. It wasn't a walk in the park. Groups of hostile skeletons roamed the roads and you had to be carefull and ready to run for safety.
    Apearantly with this "safe"tiering you get complains like from the TS.

    The parrot quest is one of the funniest quest in game imo. If you can't finnish it right now what's the harm in waiting till you have a higher level and finish it then? Quests, as far as I know, only have a minimum requirement, not a maximum.

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