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Quests or Grind?
Gravespin
Member Posts: 66
I am a former Anarchy-Online player, and im wondering how Funcom want people to lvl in Age of Conan.
A; Picking up a group in nowhere or maybe a camp, and hunt the nearby animals/creatuers for EXP and loot, and you will only pick up very few quests doing your leveling, to be able to wield greater weapons etc.
B; Thounds of quests, where you will spend your first 10 levels on runing from camp to camp with letters & food, and when it's time, your going to hunt boars and kill 50 bears for 5 bear pelts.
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Tryed: SWG, Planetside, AA, EQ2, Rappelz, Matrix, DAoC, Ryzom.
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Comments
*I hate levels*
In AoC i want a healthy mix of grind and "quests".
If you dont feel for running around and follow directions from NPCs, you should be able to just track down mobs and kill for xp.
But the mobs should just be 50 meters out from a city, or be respawning every 5th second. You should have to work for it.
Spawns should be dymanic, from what I've read. If there are 20 people hunting mob A, then 20 x more mob A's will spawn, and despawn proportionaly. That would make me think that hunting mobs should be very effective, due to the lack of needing to search extensively.
Why can't it be something a little more dynamic with a story line?
I think WoW has tainted your mindset of quests. There are lots of games out there that have thousands of quests that are very unique and well-thought out.
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I live to fight, and fight to live.
I'm hoping for a healthy variety of well thought-out quests as well as some good old fashioned hunting. I see no reason to limit the experience gain to one style or the other. Diversity is a strength!
Grinding is fun if it is with a guild or good friends. I LOATHE games with a rediculous amount of quests (ie Vanguard), however i do like accomplishing quests that have a story of sorts, a point and are a fair challenge with a decent reward that will not 99% of the time be sold of the the vendor. Above all I love exploring, and dungeon crawling. As long as the game is balanced and does not focus too strong on one aspect, like grinding or questing, then that is all that I ask
It does seem as if AoC is doing a mix, but mainly focusing on questing. It seems to me, the mix comes from the fact that they have NPCs so clumped up. Like, for instance, you go to kill the bandit leader, then it's going to be a slaughter-fest wading through the bandit minions. They've put a big focus on plowing through a lot of creatures at a fast pace.
The few quests they've described and "shown", that I've seen, have sounded pretty good. I don't know if it's considered an actual quest or not, but the Conall's Valley raids sound really sweet. In-game events and fun little occurrences like that are far more important than a one-time quest here and there.
That being said, in the modern MMO era, I by far prefer questing to grinding. If the games were more like EQ where you just had dungeon camps, then I think grinding would be much more viable. But, with the way things are in newer MMOs, NPCs are spread out more, spawn in less fixed positions(i.o.w. random spawn points).
But, back to my original comment, they've mentioned things like escorting caravans, raiding camps(killing chieftains and the like, as Fion said.), collecting(and actually carrying it in your arms! how cool is that for a step up?) lumber, etc.
I really look forward to the AoC quests, because of their story abilities from games like Dreamfall(if you haven't played those games, you should
) So, as long as they make some fun and deep quests, then I'm glad they plan to take the quest route.
I can grind, I played EQ for over 5 years, but I'd much rather have interesting dialogue/quest-lines, that make it feel like I'm accomplishing something... or at least, give me something interesting to read. I really enjoy quests that delve into world lore, or are just unique, in general.(I really enjoyed many of the TBC quests in WoW when I played through it... turning into a bird and flying around, airborne bombing missions, etc.)