Breakfast Topic: Quest Questions
Love 'em or hate 'em, quests are an integral
part of life in Azeroth. However, they come in many different types -- from the "mindless quota killing" sort
to the "cross your fingers and hope for a drop" variety. When I'm levelling, I always try to incorporate
quests -- travelling from place to place to turn them in might reduce my XP per hour, but it ultimately makes the game
more interesting for me and drives me to seek out new places.What's your preferred play style? Do you try to stack up as many quests as possible for efficiency? Sprinkle collection quests in with some errand-running and challenging higher level quests? Or do you grind the night away, staking out rare mobs and good drop areas?
I tend to think the different characters I play drive my questing behaviour. My druid always seeks out new adventures and gets bored when in the same area for too long, my rogue tries to do quests that are way above her level by stealthing past most of the mobs, and my warrior just charges in and kills things for fun. It's interesting to push the limits of the different classes, and quests are one way to measure yourself against the game's idea of your skill -- having an addon that shows the quest levels is invaluable for this
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jason Apr 4th 2006 12:20PM
I tend to do the following (and after playing 10+ characters past 40, I've got the flow down):
> Enter new area for the first time with character.
> Walk to major area (flight path), grab all available quests.
> Remove dungeon quests and red elite quests.
> Run in a somewhat logical path to complete all quests in level order.
- for kill X monster quests, I usually kill 3-5 more, plus anything that annoys me in the area (either agro mobs or ones that drop things I like (or humanoids for cannibalize or cloth).
- for get X number of Item A quests, I farm until I get X items, and if it took forever, I'm done. If it only took X number of kills, I hang around and kill 3-5 more for good measure.
- for "go here and find this 1 item" fetch quests, I go and get it done, then scope the area and kill accordingly (ie. lots of casters: farm with rogue/shaman, 1-2 levels below me: farm with warrior/warlock, etc...)
> then I go and do all the "holy crap, walk to this point and talk to/escort this person back" quests last (un'goro is annoying for this, due to there being 2 escort quests there... throws my groove off).
> turn in quests, and depending on level, grab the elite quests I dropped earlier.
Naturally, this is coupled with plenty of the following:
- run for your life from annoying mob in the area (devilsaurs, Mor'ladim, Son of Arugal, etc...)
- "ooh, [insert herb name here]!" pit stops.
- Leather heaven spots (apes in STV/un'goro or yetis in feralas/outside TM)
- avoid stupid insects/bugs because of crappy drops.
- humanoid farming with rogue/warrior (pirates in STV & Tanaris)
Nuno Apr 4th 2006 5:11PM
I usually arrange my quests in such a way that I have a minimum of travel time. For example, Duskwood:
- Do a "kill werewolves" quest
- Go to Sven and do a "kill skeletons" quest (and turn it in)
- Go to Jitters and pick up a delivery quest
- Head back to Darkshire and turn in the werewolves quest --- pick up a new werewolf slaughter quest and grab what Jitters needs too
- head out, kill more wolves.
- go back to Jitters.
And in between I do all the misc stuff like send stuff to my AH character, repair armor, check mail, etc.
forzaq8 Apr 4th 2006 5:18PM
i try not to travel too much , for example i didn't leave booty bay till i reached around 45 , i didn't do any cenarion circle because it was far and i didn't feel like traveling there while i have quests in scholo / BRD / strat