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Is questing optional?

rasereiamokrasereiamok Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 78
edited May 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
I plan on making a few characters and past my first character, I would rather level up through the foundry, PvP, skirmishes, and dungeons.

My questions:

1.) Are there any quests in the main world that are required to maybe unlock certain things?

2.) Will I just miss out on XP/coin/quest equipment?
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  • moodaymooday Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 54
    edited May 2013
    You could level up through foundry. It might be a little slower, but if you are here because you want storylines and such then you will love it
  • rasereiamokrasereiamok Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 78
    edited May 2013
    mooday wrote: »
    You could level up through foundry. It might be a little slower, but if you are here because you want storylines and such then you will love it

    I just don't like questing in general for some reason. For example, in WoW, I usually leveled through dungeons instead of doing quests. Questing feels grindy to me and the funny part is that killing monsters repeatedly doesn't feel grindy to me.
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  • mconosrepmconosrep Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    There are two quests (one at the end of a chain in the Neverwinter Cemetery) that give you an extra bag as an end reward and I would strongly suggest you do those as backpack space is really limited. Other than that you should be fine ;)
  • rapticorrapticor Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,078 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    About the only two quests you should do, but don't have to of course, are the two that grant the bags. However I know one comes at the end of the Neverdead chain so you'd have to do the ones before that first. Not sure when you can do the Blacklake one.

    Edit: mconosrep beat me to it!
  • rasereiamokrasereiamok Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 78
    edited May 2013
    Darn, already sent 40$ on my main character for 4 24 slot bags. Anyway to transfer them? Seems like it takes 30 minutes to clear my bags to mail them. Wish there was an easier way to unequip a bag.
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  • rapticorrapticor Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,078 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Well 24 slot bags will be roomier! You could always sell the ones from the quests or give to alts I guess. I think they might be tradeable but not sure.
  • azazel676azazel676 Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I can't seem open a new thread for god knows what reason. Can someone tell me why can't i find any more quests ? Im level 22 now and i've finished every quest that was given to me except some orc skirmish HAMSTER i couldn't even find. Every area on the traveling map is marked with red because the enemies there are much higher level than mine, and they don't have any quests for me anyway...

    So please help me, how do i get more quests...
  • rasereiamokrasereiamok Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 78
    edited May 2013
    rapticor wrote: »
    Well 24 slot bags will be roomier! You could always sell the ones from the quests or give to alts I guess. I think they might be tradeable but not sure.

    Quest bags are bound to character unfortunately.
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  • mconosrepmconosrep Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I think that two 24 slot bags per character should enough even at end-game. As for the other two you could sell them on the AH to recoup your expenditure or just keep to use on any alts.
  • mconosrepmconosrep Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    azazel676 wrote: »
    I can't seem open a new thread for god knows what reason. Can someone tell me why can't i find any more quests ? Im level 22 now and i've finished every quest that was given to me except some orc skirmish HAMSTER i couldn't even find. Every area on the traveling map is marked with red because the enemies there are much higher level than mine, and they don't have any quests for me anyway...

    So please help me, how do i get more quests...

    If you hit the 'K' or' L' key then a screen will come up which will have a link to potential quests of your level near the top.
  • astaziaastazia Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 51
    edited May 2013
    Blackdagger Ruins or whatever is the 20-25 zone. You can't finish it at 22, you have to be I believe 23 or 24 to get all the quests there. At 22 you can do the Storming the Keep skirmish a few times to go up another level if you need to, you never get a quest to do that skirmish so do it whenever you want.
  • azazel676azazel676 Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Alright, i checked again the three areas (Blacklake District, Tower District, Blackdagger Ruins) that aren't marked in red and none of the people there have any quests for me, i've finished them all. However, i spoke with a Well-Informed Harper and he gave me a quest that was in a different language (French i think) but i finished it anyway and gained a decent amount of experience for it. I always ignored these Harpers till now, i thought they were just there so we can read stories that people wrote about certain quests, or whatever. Now, i ask if these Well-Informed Harpers actually offer quests that we HAVE TO complete in order to continue leveling up and move to new areas... ? Are they necessary ?
  • astaziaastazia Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 51
    edited May 2013
    They just provide you with a random selection of player created Foundry missions, like billboards. They are not required to do.
  • tfangeltfangel Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    mconosrep wrote: »
    There are two quests (one at the end of a chain in the Neverwinter Cemetery) that give you an extra bag as an end reward and I would strongly suggest you do those as backpack space is really limited. Other than that you should be fine ;)

    This, and the free companion one, those are two things i think you would be crazy to skip. Questing is also a really good way to level, very fast, and also a good way to level companions. Have one at max? Then just pop out the one you want to level when you turn in the quest, and after that pull your regular one out.
  • clannamuirclannamuir Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 217 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    rasereiamok wrote: »
    I just don't like questing in general for some reason. For example, in WoW, I usually leveled through dungeons instead of doing quests. Questing feels grindy to me and the funny part is that killing monsters repeatedly doesn't feel grindy to me.

    Really??? I can sort of understand dungeons not feeling grindy, until I've run the same dungeon 10 times. The only kind of quests that I would call grindy are the ones that have you run from one end of the world to the other. I have not run into any of those in this game yet but, I'm only lvl 15.
  • azazel676azazel676 Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    astazia wrote: »
    They just provide you with a random selection of player created Foundry missions, like billboards. They are not required to do.

    I was afraid you were gonna say that. In that case i must have accidentally triggered some kind of a bug or something because i really don't know what else to do, im getting really tired of this.

    And what's really pissing me off is that you automatically get logged out if you're idle for 15 minutes, the quest i just started was supposed to take about 50 minutes according to the description, i got to about half and went to buy a pack of cigarets and i even put my cell phone on the mouse button to not be idle, and it still kicked me out. They could at least make it 30-60 minutes, sometimes it takes longer than 15 to take a dump, go to the store, have lunch, mastrubate, eat HAMSTER, OR WHATEVER THE FACK I WANNA DO !!!! JESUS FACKING CHRIST IM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW.
  • azazel676azazel676 Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    mconosrep wrote: »
    If you hit the 'K' or' L' key then a screen will come up which will have a link to potential quests of your level near the top.

    The quest journal is empty, i can only click 'show all' which shows all the quests i've completed (duh!)...
  • astaziaastazia Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 51
    edited May 2013
    That's not what they were talking about. The L screen "homepage" has 3 boxes on the top left recommending content for you. One of those boxes, the one on the right (always I believe) leads to an available quest for you, you can even get a quest from there that will lead you right to the NPC that has said quest.
  • azazel676azazel676 Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    astazia wrote: »
    That's not what they were talking about. The L screen "homepage" has 3 boxes on the top left recommending content for you. One of those boxes, the one on the right (always I believe) leads to an available quest for you, you can even get a quest from there that will lead you right to the NPC that has said quest.

    Alright i found it. The quest is called "The Hidden Mine", i went to the main city to activate it (only there i can do that), and it tells me i should go to Blackdagger Ruins, and when i travel there it just says Quest Complete and disappears like it's been completed, it doesn't tell me to do anything else... sigh, just when i thought i can play again, dafuq ?
  • astaziaastazia Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 51
    edited May 2013
    The Hidden Mine is given by a Dwarf women near a campfire in the northern section of the map. If she didn't have a quest for you, you might have to get a previous quest from the Dwarf inside the inn which leads to her. You should have a quest available there because if not the game will tell you on the L screen that there's no quests for you at your level (which is where my GF is ATM at level 24 after finishing Blackdagger Ruins).
  • direcrowdirecrow Banned Users, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    rasereiamok wrote: »
    I just don't like questing in general for some reason. For example, in WoW, I usually leveled through dungeons instead of doing quests. Questing feels grindy to me and the funny part is that killing monsters repeatedly doesn't feel grindy to me.

    and you decide to play RPGs...why?
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  • astaziaastazia Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 51
    edited May 2013
    RPGs are not really about "quests" and games like NWO are only one style of MMORPG, the kind on rails, opposed to sandbox RPGs. I very much miss the days when there were almost no quests in MMOs, when the sandbox kind was the norm. You didn't have 4 million NPCs telling you which direction to go and leading you by the hand the whole way. You ran out and made your own adventure, found things on your own, killed what you wanted to kill for your own reasons. No imposed direction or aim. You may think "this is D&D, it should be all about questing" but the MMO style of questing doesn't really do it justice, there's no options, no choice, no thinking outside the box to solve something differently, just follow the glowy line and kill everything in the way. It would have been better off as a sandbox IMO.
  • rapticorrapticor Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,078 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    You can turn the glowy trail off. Boom, free to make your own trail!
  • azazel676azazel676 Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    astazia wrote: »
    The Hidden Mine is given by a Dwarf women near a campfire in the northern section of the map. If she didn't have a quest for you, you might have to get a previous quest from the Dwarf inside the inn which leads to her. You should have a quest available there because if not the game will tell you on the L screen that there's no quests for you at your level (which is where my GF is ATM at level 24 after finishing Blackdagger Ruins).

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH I FOUND IT :) Looks like somehow i missed that one quest from her :)

    Hell Yeah \m/
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