Share your quest ideas or what you would want to see in the game as far as questing goes!

I want to see what sort of cool quests everyone could come up with. It can be a general explanation or super detailed walkthrough, do whatever you feel like but I figured it would be fun for people to share their ideas or what they would want to see in AoC. It could also be some good reference for developers!

I for one want a new take on escort quests. Too often they are just irritating due to awful AI just sort of meandering along or the cliche "too injured or tired to move quickly". I am hoping for some dynamics where the escorts can be fully capable of fighting alongside of you as you attempt to fight your way out of situations alongside the objective and maybe even have several NPCs that can be saved. With different options along the escape that can lead to some dying while others can result in everyone living and getting out, perhaps resulting in a better reward or a positive outcome for the node.

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Ramirez

Just don´t make me walk between point A and B and C and D just to talk with npcs even if i don´t like gw2 in general, quest/event/jump puzzles system was great had some great time with random people, mixed with some pvp would be perfect, and i think this system fits well well in Aoc since people need to collaborate to evolve nodes

akabear

I would REALY like to see some strategic quests that become unique to individual, clan, node etc such that it is not possible to read and identify the quest as quest, X", then quick search online for walkthrough of said quest.

Saddened by the ever growing trend to document and put everything online so players only challenge themselves for about 2min before seeking out of game information.

Make some quests require knowledge of the game and effort, then the reward has meaning and rarity.

Asgerr

I think quests that have a bit of a puzzle element to them such as scavenger hunts or figuring out how to access a certain area or opening something, could be fun.

Especially if some of those requires perhaps creativity on the player's side by using specific class skills and or items. Perhaps this can force people to be social. For instance, imagine needing to run back to town to find a mage who can teleport across a ravine to then toss a rope across, that you may then cross in turn.

I fear stuff like this might demotivate some players and relying on other players is often... welll: unreliable, but it could force that social aspect and that element of soft friction that will eventually create good stories.

Very D&D/Pathfinder like

BigRamble

Scavenger hunts, maps and clues to research. It would be great to have the clues to other dungeons on the walls of a dungeon. Or secret doors.

Bounty hunting quests against NPCs that put you at risk of PVP against other hunters.

I'd kind of like a super dungeon with gates from all sorts of nodes that you can only leave the way you came in. Effectively an instanced PVE dungeon that is open for guilds from all over to fight over for the treasures.

Wants aside, I do hope that what quests they have don't lead players into regions of too higher power for them on route because of node changes.

daveywavey

The shneeky shneeky assassin missions.

Nagash

The quest for the bone

daveywavey

Nagash wrote: »

The quest for the bone

Bow chicka wow wow?

Yuyukoyay

Not escort quests. Caravans are already in the game and that is all the escorts I could probably deal with. xD

I don't care as long as it's not them. I enjoyed killing the 20 boars to running halfway across the world to deliver some assholes mail. There are reasons why those kinds of quests exist and it usually is to make the game better without the player realizing it. Escort quests do not do this for me. They are annoying all the way through the quest. I'm always thinking I'd rather be doing anything else. I don't like the feeling of skipping them either because of possible missed content so we should just eliminate them as I'm sure no one is going to miss escort quests. xD

I don't really like quests with npc interaction in general. Especially ones designed to make the slow ass npc a defense target for god knows how long and how far. I am significantly more accepting of it if it leads to a cutscene where I fight a boss or if it puts a mini quest on the field to where I have to return items or something. I absolutely despise escort quests though. xD

Bricktop

Nagash wrote: »

The quest for the bone

Are you gonna call your freehold "The bone zone"

Nagash

Bricktop wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

The quest for the bone

Are you gonna call your freehold "The bone zone"

I am now

McShave

I would like the have some named NPC character that is a constant presence throughout the leveling system. Having an interesting named character would allow us to make a relationship with the quests, making them more memorable. I'm not sure if Ashes will have a main quest line, but maybe this named character can be central to a node as it levels up? Or maybe this character will be the main protagonist against the spread of corruption?

FastLoaf

I would really like to see quests that encourage exploration. I see a problem with people not having a real reasons to go anywhere that does not serve the node they are a part of. Science nodes could offer quests that ask players to gather samples of something form far away, Devine could have pilgrimage quests(this could give more service value when compared to regular quests), Military could have mercenary quests to help out a far off node ether with attacking or defending(like a crusade type of thing), Economic nodes could have something like a trade expedition that brings in some extra wealth.

akabear

Seeding mobs

neuroguy

I'd like to see a rumor-based questing system where you have a journal that logs rumors you learn about by talking to NPCs. These rumors may be completely false (just auto-generate like madlibs) or correct and depend on the state of the world to explore. For example a rumor could inform you of a dungeon location in riddle format but it would only be available if a certain node reaches metro stage. So in some servers, that rumor will forever stay a rumor but in another, it may reveal a new dungeon. This would create a world where you want to talk to all NPCs, gather rumors and explore the world hunting them down (could be linked to treasure hunting profession) or if you stumble onto something that reminds you of a rumor, you could use it to help find the treasure or solve the in-game puzzle.

They suggested they would have imperfect information in the game a long time ago but the more recent node-specific building info they put out goes a bit contrary to that

clone63

Dygz wrote: »

In Ashes, I'd like to encounter quests that direct us to heal Corrupted areas without combat.
Clerics and Rangers should have plenty of quests to heal people and/or animals.
Mages and Summoners should have plenty of quests that involve enchanting/disenchanting and/or summoning that don't involve combat.
Rogues should have scouting, lockpicking and trap disarming quests that will fail if other people are killed.
I don't know much about Bards in Ashes, but I would hope Bards have plenty of quests that utilize their Bard abilities without requiring combat.

Yesss, quests that fit your class or capabilities. Not the same quest every other god damn person is given. The warrior is tasked to kill alligators so as a priest I must. .. kill alligators? I mean, I guess the quest givers probably don't care how their needs are met, but it would be great if there were things that only certain skillsets could accomplish, and let me do more things that fit the character/my enjoyment: Craft specific, gatherer specific, just deliver cause you like seeing the roads...

BigRamble

I think about facebook and other social media bragging in media about studies of users picking of likes on posts could rapidly give a psychological profile of the users behaviours that rivalled the knowledge of spouses.

Steven himself has spoken of quests like "choose your own adventure" books of the past in the early developer live chats, so is there any way to have at least an early quest with branches that let the player identify if they are PvP or PvE, or even what quadrants they favour of according to studies like Professor Richard Bartle.

So an early quest that puts challenges, exploration and npcs to kill or go down rabbit hole conversations with, which value judge the players responses then branch to quests of the type to forfil those wants and show the player what kinds of activites are good advancement paths for those kinds of players (Ie sending Acheivers towards developing nodes, Killers to Caravan/Seiges and advancing PvP, the socials off to taverns, billboards and guilds, and the explorers quickly shown how to identify areas appropriate to thier level and letting them explore.

Make the game feel tailored to a player.

Could probably get some cheap positions for psych majors studying this kind of interaction if they can present results for college credits.

akabear

Just a thought out loud, what if some quests had components that provided key information to various individual players and those players in turn became nominated in subsequent players quest lines.
In order to unravel requires discussion / interaction to discuss, interpret further the quest

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