The most BORING quests EVER :-(

bathsheaba

Who ever thought about the 100 motes gathering must take players for utter morons. These quests are the most brain dead quests ever. If at least you got motes in every heroic encounter that would be OK. But to centralize it all on to one major heroic in each world, this is pure sadism. TRIPLE THUMBS DOWN.

looomis

And when you realize that every elemental set boni is stupid :P...

tornnomar

As with anything, you want it bad enough, you work for it.

While I agree with the OP that it is a bit tedious, it does represent a way for the player that isn't 2500 TIL to obtain an Artifact Weapons Set, or for the player that can't stomach anymore ridiculous Demo runs

wildfirede

got to 6/100 and decided that i have a little more respect to my time than doing this...

almondum

I understand that 100 is number of considerable size, but maybe some of you don't know about this. There is a way to obtain a mote with 100% chance from any banal encounter. It is a special item sold at the tarmalune bar store.

I'm not sure if the item can be traded, so if someone else knows about this, please complete my thought. If it is tradeble, than you can buy this item from the Auction house or use your own bars.

Thank you and good luck!

wylonus

wow, were you born with 3 thumbs? everyone got 2 thumbs, unless by birth defect or bad things happen by cit off being shorted.
i would give anything if i am rich, with 5 thumbs

100 motes, and then grind artifact levels, i prefer special weapon that grows with you with XPs. forget and let it grow until it need gem augmenation to customized and fusions.

if you are not that lucky with random HE and run around 300-500 sets of mobs, that would be overkill mind-numbing and become heavy drooling puppet.
requiring epic crab for updates, look at other weapon mote zones, they are dying out. that is most epic fail and no one likes it and they really dont want to repeat another 100s again in any future contents.
feel bad for any newer or late-comers wanting to finish, but cant, since no one there around the epic mobs.

wildfirede

it would be a joke with players who actually pull the grind and do it 100 times if they released those weapons in epic quality in a lockbox ... oh wait

juleadream

Could be worse... like using the Fetch Quest in WoD to "dig up" the motes (worst. quest. ever.)

greywynd

looomis said:

And when you realize that every elemental set boni is stupid :P...

Depends on the class. Drowned set is useful for the healing effect.

throsbi

These quests had me upset because I could not get motes to drop even from successful big heroic encounters. So i went thru all the posts I could find on the subject. I decided to try some things to fix it only after the new maze engine revamp/campaign was released.

I noticed that you could do 3 HE in each zone for the daily reward at the end of the EE campaign and a light bulb moment happened. Hey I could do those HE daily quests and work on motes. So after abandoning the previous quests and deleting the old hearts, I decided to try it again.

I picked up the 4 new quests and left the hearts in my bags and set off to do the daily HE quests in each zone. I do whatever HE is closest that I know I can do solo. If I pass by a larger one with others already in progress I jump in and help finish it. What I have noticed is even the smallest HE have a chance to drop them. I have not tried using the trade bar item yet but I have been getting motes.

Not the fastest way but at least it feels like I am getting something done.

greywynd

I have been chasing the Drowned set this week on my TR. Have roughly 40. I put in a few hours here and there chasing the Crab. When the crab isn't up and I can't get into the zone where it is up, I will do a few of the smaller until I can get back into rotation. Had several drops in the smaller. Just wish the smaller HE's were a guaranteed 1 and the Crab (or other zone equivalent) was 2.

urlord283

I agree with the Core of the OP's statements

To me the problem is the HEs and finding enough folks to run them

IMO you should be able get them from Solo events

Urlord

greywynd

You can. Just not guaranteed.

solbergx

they could put you to gather different things and not do the same thing 100 times.
Like 20 motes from crab then 10 items dropped from boss in CN and 10 more items dropped from another boss and make you fight many bosses in many dungeons.

throsbi

solbergx said:

they could put you to gather different things and not do the same thing 100 times.

Like 20 motes from crab then 10 items dropped from boss in CN and 10 more items dropped from another boss and make you fight many bosses in many dungeons.

would this not be an attempt to craft some other type of artifact item instead of one from the elements?

Also forgot in case it was missed is that tbar store item that basically grants a ward on any HE you do....dont quote me on this as i dont remember exactly how it works but its there in the tbar store.

lewstelamon01

almondum said:

I understand that 100 is number of considerable size, but maybe some of you don't know about this. There is a way to obtain a mote with 100% chance from any banal encounter. It is a special item sold at the tarmalune bar store.

I'm not sure if the item can be traded, so if someone else knows about this, please complete my thought. If it is tradeble, than you can buy this item from the Auction house or use your own bars.

Thank you and good luck!

The item is purchasable on the AH. It's sold from the TTB store for 45 bars (comes with 4 charges), or around 45k for one wand on the AH.

EDIT: I KNOW I've seen them on the AH before. I just can't find the blasted things. They're listed as BoE though. If anyone can provide the category or whatnot that they are sold under, it'd be appreciated :P

greywynd

Just do a search for "wand". There are several Air and at least one Earth wand there.