Rising Tide Preview: Public Quests

Hey Spoons anyway we could get a little example of a quest (even fake example) what would be killed, lvls participating, exp, drops, and distribution and those kind of things?

I might have an idea for a cool Public Quest: Wraith Wars!


Anyone taking the quest will be teleported to some city not on the map, and from time to time, let's say 6hrs, an army of wraiths attacks it, in different waves, each with different amounts and types of wraiths, the one stronger than the other.
In this you would really have to work together, in different squads or so, each having different positions, to prevent the wraiths from taking over the city.
Eventually, when everyone is dead or the attack is over (like, after a specific time the wraiths give up), the system would calculate the amount of waves the people survived, and the rewards will be based on the squads that killed the most mobs and the ones that survived longest. Then, the rewards in the squads will be distributed in a fair way, sorted by class (for example: magic based classes get more magic weapons, mp charms, mp pots, stuff like that, and tanks get more hp charms and heavy armor and things such).

That way, it would be a fun event, in which everyone would actually get what he or she deserves or what would come in handy for them.
Fair for the clerics and barbs, too.

b:victory VICTORY FOR ALL!!! b:victory

Might make Play 2 WIn alot more fun! :D:D


Yay my 60th Post Anniversary!! xD

Welcome back online Spoons! :P

Edit: You start working at 10am?? Wow I wish school started at that time... o_O

Not even when it's working on a superawesome game such as PWI?

Sun goes down early here in Holland this time of the year anyways...

eatwithspoons wrote: »

As you might have guessed, contribution means how much you have done in a quest. The contribution value is based on your monster kills, quest items collections, and damage inflicted to the boss, etc.

But what about clerics. That doesnt seem very fair because their main job is to heal. If they are busy healing the tank and other party members they will have a harder time causing damage in turn less likely to get a higher grade item.. b:shocked

or am I reading this wrong and these quests are only for tideborn?

Have noticed not many mentioned the Tideborn and how they will factor into this public quest system. Since so little is known about what they will be able to do and what kind of builds will work for them or even what they will add to the total mix of this new system. I'm still waiting to find out more on all of this b:pleased

Methinks the unintended consequence of this will be that the rich get richer and the poor, stay poor. The endgamers with over the top equipment will be able to do a lot more damage than 40 or 50 parties of level 40-80 characters. They will gain a lot of reward. In order to make it a truly public quest, there will have to be something for the lower level players to do. Since low level players and endgame players will be contributing, the endgamers will do a lot more damage to the mobs, and get a huge amount of the reward. Unless the developers institute socialism by stealing rewards from endgamers to give to the lower level players (call it progressive taxation)
then the endgamers will only become even more powerfull. If the "Endgamer tax" is too high, then they will not bother--after all, why join a public quest of 80% of your reward is given to someone else?
I do not see this working out to well. Either the rich will get way richer and the poor get llittle out of it, or the rich do all the work and the poor get all the reward. Maybe if you put out an absurdley powerfull boss like they have in another game that shall not be named that requires the entire server population working together to spend an hour killing one boss.......

Disappear - Lost City wrote: »

With the new territories, is there new WQ Stops?

That was a truly evil question.

Hell_cat_jay - Sanctuary wrote: »

wow input from a lvl 3 char on how to handle event quests. if thats an alt perhaps you should login as your main to get a lil more respect, as for now "not participating" tends to make people fall behind and be at a disadvantage against rivals, so ya of course im concerned with healing not being measured towards quest help.
if you want to post try to be useful.

p.s. i hope theres no new wq stops, takes forever without tele stones as is XD

wow input from an uncaring person i bet you make people want to be around you all the time. though i agree with healing needing to be measured i just kinda wish they make more wq stops so you can waste more money on tele stone

I think that the tideborn will be a hole new expirance for some people.

[I tiped this fast so there are some spelling mistackes]b:avoidb:embarrass

I think its designed so ppl will start asking for DDs more..

Or will they ask for them less now -.-.....am not really sure b:surrender

Guys, the devs aren't that shortsighted. I'm sure it will be remotely balanced between the classes. My best bet for clerics is healing and DDing for contribution

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Im gonna leave this here >:D
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Soul_Thunder - Sanctuary wrote: »

cleric for one, but what about barbs?! don't anyone think about us meat shields that draw all the aggro but have the lowest damage out put in game?

Hey! I thinks about you 'meat shields'! b:chuckle Even though you barbs like to come up to me and randomly eat me outta nowhere, or hump my face whenever I die and think it's funny... b:shocked