Whatever happened to the FQ (Friendship Quest)?

Xanthir - Sanctuary
Xanthir - Sanctuary Posts: 100 Arc User
edited November 2009 in General Discussion
Just before I left PW about 10 months ago, everyone was doing FQ, but now I don't see anyone advertising that they need 2 people for FQ anymore.

I only realised this after a friendship crystal dropped for me from a mob lol.

So why don't people do FQ anymore?
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  • Kitsuneh - Lost City
    Kitsuneh - Lost City Posts: 336 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    People are doing BH (Bounty Hunter) nowadays..
  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Xanthir - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Just before I left PW about 10 months ago, everyone was doing FQ, but now I don't see anyone advertising that they need 2 people for FQ anymore.

    I only realised this after a friendship crystal dropped for me from a mob lol.

    So why don't people do FQ anymore?

    You right. Now I realize, that I didn't read it for long time too. Interesting. Also I for long time
    I didn't see in cat shops some bronze(copper) dragon or silver dragon badge. Does any1 do Dragon quest yet?
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  • WaffleChan - Sanctuary
    WaffleChan - Sanctuary Posts: 2,897 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    because its annoying as hell to see LF GROUP FOR FQ 24/7
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  • AlbireoTwo - Lost City
    AlbireoTwo - Lost City Posts: 2,056 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Cause people are unfriendly. Obvious.
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  • WaffleChan - Sanctuary
    WaffleChan - Sanctuary Posts: 2,897 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    AlbireoTwo - Lost City wrote: »
    Cause people are unfriendly. Obvious.
    i saw you in w dist a few hours ago while i was roaming LC for fun :o. tou were across from the jewel crafter dude.

    anyways, why do FQ when you can do CS/WQ/BH
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  • Xanthir - Sanctuary
    Xanthir - Sanctuary Posts: 100 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    well you can do BH, WQ, CS and FQ! I'm just surprised that it died out, that's all.
  • MagicHamsta - Lost City
    MagicHamsta - Lost City Posts: 10,466 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    me do FQ b:sad

    besides the answer real is because they don't want free exp....
    me explain they can just eat the dam orb and get 5k exp/1k spirit without having to actually do the quest. b:chuckle
    also it hasn't died out completely yet.
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    AlbireoTwo - Lost City Posts: 2,056 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    WaffleChan - Sanctuary wrote: »
    i saw you in w dist a few hours ago while i was roaming LC for fun :o. tou were across from the jewel crafter dude.

    anyways, why do FQ when you can do CS/WQ/BH
    I was bored, so I figured I'de do something. Bought 10 gold, 10 anni packs, and opened em. All tokens. So now I'm making some money near tele guy. I was probably afk when you saw me.

    As far as I know FQ gives low exp.
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  • VashtaNerada - Dreamweaver
    VashtaNerada - Dreamweaver Posts: 157 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    I've noticed the same on my server. Personally, I haven't jumped on it lately because I got tired of squading w/ players who wouldn't hand over the stone of friendship. The main reason I would like to do fq is to earn the 5 rep from the final part and finding out I squaded w/ a selfish player just ruins it. I really don't understand why some players do that; you can't use your own stone to combine w/ the flawed pendant of friendship.
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  • Aadi - Lost City
    Aadi - Lost City Posts: 4,449 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    AlbireoTwo - Lost City wrote: »
    As far as I know FQ gives low exp.

    15k exp if you get people to do it with you.

    5k exp if you just use the orb to get exp.

    It's never been worth the bit of work it is to get a squad together for that amount of exp, especially as I get higher level.
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  • Shadow_Katee - Heavens Tear
    Shadow_Katee - Heavens Tear Posts: 41 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    When i started WC was full factions advertising help for fbs, now good luck to see such adv and its true that i did not saw from a loooong time any FQ request in Archo...
    I personally think that introduction of BH quests derailed fbs and almost killed fqs.

    About DQ.
    I think to pwi comes recently rather unpatient generation and DQ take realy good part of the game <i started him on my first character but give up after fifth assigment but i wonder what is at the end of this quest... Tea party whit Jewel Scalen? b:chuckle
  • TehMage - Lost City
    TehMage - Lost City Posts: 209 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    I still do FQ, 15k is 15k no matter what level you are. I never had trouble finding 2 people for the quest either, just ask your friendsb:laugh
  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    TehMage - Lost City wrote: »
    I still do FQ, 15k is 15k no matter what level you are. I never had trouble finding 2 people for the quest either, just ask your friendsb:laugh

    Yep but 15K exp. in 10M exp. what I have now is not worth my time to find somebody.
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  • iceknave
    iceknave Posts: 236 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    You right. Now I realize, that I didn't read it for long time too. Interesting. Also I for long time
    I didn't see in cat shops some bronze(copper) dragon or silver dragon badge. Does any1 do Dragon quest yet?
    *Shrugs* Dunno, but I guess people do. I set up my catshop the other day 2 days in a row to buy some copper dragon orders (60 of them) and got them within a few hours, far faster than what some of my stuff takes to sell (for pretty cheap too, at least half the price or less that coppers were selling for on the auction house around that time).
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  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    iceknave wrote: »
    *Shrugs* Dunno, but I guess people do. I set up my catshop the other day 2 days in a row to buy some copper dragon orders (60 of them) and got them within a few hours, far faster than what some of my stuff takes to sell (for pretty cheap too, at least half the price or less that coppers were selling for on the auction house around that time).

    Maybe you are lucky. I looking for copper dragon orders and I rarely find some1. Every1 selling TT,Dragon items, token,shard etc, but dragon orders very rarely. I didn't see gold dragon order for very long time.
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  • Olba - Sanctuary
    Olba - Sanctuary Posts: 1,776 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    You right. Now I realize, that I didn't read it for long time too. Interesting. Also I for long time
    I didn't see in cat shops some bronze(copper) dragon or silver dragon badge. Does any1 do Dragon quest yet?

    Well, since the DQ horses are now in the Boutique, the only reason to do Dragon Quest is for the few molds, only few of which are actually useful, and even then they are a pain to get. A good example would be Bracers of Blood Moon, pretty much the best wristguards for Archers lvl 60-90. 25 Silver and 25 Copper ones make those rather expensive.

    And for the record, I have 5 Crystals in my stash.
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  • Waterboy - Lost City
    Waterboy - Lost City Posts: 405 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    because we all oracled to lvl 9x and realized 15k exp doesn't help when u need 10m+ exp to lvlb:cute
  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Waterboy - Lost City wrote: »
    because we all oracled to lvl 9x and realized 15k exp doesn't help when u need 10m+ exp to lvlb:cute

    I don't know how about you, but I used oracles very rarely just When I needed 1% and fast level to brake point. As lv. 89. Last 1% I used oracles. Never before. I'm playing almost a year. And 15K exp I can have in less, than 15 min just grinding.
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  • Magicsaber - Dreamweaver
    Magicsaber - Dreamweaver Posts: 727 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    I don't know how about you, but I used oracles very rarely just When I needed 1% and fast level to brake point. As lv. 89. Last 1% I used oracles. Never before. I'm playing almost a year. And 15K exp I can have in less, than 15 min just grinding.

    My hero just level 45 now, but to learn level 44 skills he had spent about 300k of spirit. To get this amount of spirit he accumulated about 1,000,000 of experience (even more if we will count 1/4 proportion).

    So, when I saw crystal of friendship, I ignored it today.
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  • Miss_Tika - Lost City
    Miss_Tika - Lost City Posts: 730 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    I'm SOOOOOOOOO GLAD People stopped ****ING SPAMMING for Friendship Quest. I blacklisted every person I read spamming West Arch for that ridiculous 5k exp. Obnoxious and monotonous.
  • WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary
    WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary Posts: 1,686 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Magicsaber - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    My hero just level 45 now, but to learn level 44 skills he had spent about 300k of spirit. To get this amount of spirit he accumulated about 1,000,000 of experience (even more if we will count 1/4 proportion).

    So, when I saw crystal of friendship, I ignored it today.
    Heh... I bet that's the same logic as people who don't bother to even pick up their DQ91 items.

    I agree that it isn't worth the time and effort to actually organize and DO a FQ once you get to a reasonably high level, but to just leave 5k EXP and 1k Spirit on the ground, because clicking "pick-up", then cashing it in to an NPC with just a couple more clicks is too much effort? That's kinda weird.
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  • Magicsaber - Dreamweaver
    Magicsaber - Dreamweaver Posts: 727 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Heh... I bet that's the same logic as people who don't bother to even pick up their DQ91 items.

    I agree that it isn't worth the time and effort to actually organize and DO a FQ once you get to a reasonably high level, but to just leave 5k EXP and 1k Spirit on the ground, because clicking "pick-up", then cashing it in to an NPC with just a couple more clicks is too much effort? That's kinda weird.

    Items in one slot in my inventory sometimes cost more than 50k of coins.

    10 killed mobs now will bring me about or more than 1k of spirit.

    To kill 1 (standard) mob my wizard cast 3-4 spells.

    Because of all above FQ is time consuming quest, which is not necessary for me.

    P.S.
    If necessary, anyone can do Crazy Stone quest, which, for example, at 45 level will award player with 36,000 of experience and 7,000 of spirit once per day.
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  • Alexeno - Sanctuary
    Alexeno - Sanctuary Posts: 1,006 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    the answer for FQ is simple:

    BH far outclasses FQ for exp, and is much easier to find a squad for


    the answer for DQ is also simple:

    PWE released the only good reward for DQ in the cashshop
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  • Mephistic - Dreamweaver
    Mephistic - Dreamweaver Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    It has simply become obselete... with all the Exp. dailies now offer, the 15k exp from an FQ just isn't that much anymore :(

    Although I'd probably do one if I was out of dailies and was like at 99% xD hehe.
  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Alexeno - Sanctuary wrote: »
    the answer for FQ is simple:

    BH far outclasses FQ for exp, and is much easier to find a squad for


    the answer for DQ is also simple:

    PWE released the only good reward for DQ in the cashshop
    True. First I wanted the mold for ring -6% channeling etc. This mold you can trade for 50 silver and 50 gold orders. It would cost at least 50M to get this mold. But now? It not worth it anymore, because you can get lunar ring, which is much better than this from mold. So DQ is useless to do now.b:shocked
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  • Dominatiger - Sanctuary
    Dominatiger - Sanctuary Posts: 1,066 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    I have donne 1 today.

    I also have more 7 friendship crystals, that means I will be spamming arch this entire week :)
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  • IceJazmin - Heavens Tear
    IceJazmin - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,206 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    True. First I wanted the mold for ring -6% channeling etc. This mold you can trade for 50 silver and 50 gold orders. It would cost at least 50M to get this mold. But now? It not worth it anymore, because you can get lunar ring, which is much better than this from mold. So DQ is useless to do now.b:shocked

    There is a 15 level difference on those rings...... The lunar better be better.

    However, I would had loved at level 80 to be able to get the Dragon Order ring mold... or two...
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    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    IceJazmin - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    There is a 15 level difference on those rings...... The lunar better be better.

    However, I would had loved at level 80 to be able to get the Dragon Order ring mold... or two...

    This ring from dragon order mold is from level 87. So there is just 8 level difference. Between lunar ring and this1.
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  • Ceshiari - Sanctuary
    Ceshiari - Sanctuary Posts: 757 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Did anyone ever get the rewards from the FQ's? I remember that if you collected 50 of whatever tokens from completing 50 full FQ's, you could turn it in for elite 90 gear or something....

    The approach is just entirely unrealistic. FQ is a waste, and not to mention, I notice a lot of mobs dont really drop them as much as they used to.

    They completely destroyed DQ. No sense in doing it, when you can get better gear for much cheaper, and easier.

    They need to revamp a few of the systems in this game, they are becoming outdated and pointless.
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  • truekossy
    truekossy Posts: 7,021 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    For those saying FQ is a waste of time, yet still do Justice Quests and Crazy Stone.... ever thought of doing FQ while waiting on the timers those quests have? You'd be getting your EXP instead of standing around and doing nothing for 10+ minutes.


    To OP: FQ died out when BH came along. Before, I was easily able to get my 20k exp and +10 rep (or 15k if I chose to save my token for the day) in under 10 minutes daily (as well as the many other regulars I would squad with). Now, though, finding a squad just for the first portion is tough enough. Finding squad willing to do a full cycle? Not a chance.


    ... Though if you have an active faction or enough people on your friends list there are ways to get around that...

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