[Formal Proposal] Quester's Ring

It's not a matter of whether you can reach that amount of quests, I'm just arguing that it would be unfair for the players that did not focus on quests early on in the game. Quests give exp rewards which are great for lower level players; people who chose the grinding route instead would be at a significant disadvantage since they'd have to do all those quests that they opted out of that will not provide them with good exp for their current levels.

Monster book ring doesn't seem to be significantly unfair considering that all players started at a even playing field; you could not collect cards before it was implemented.
In regards to the quest ring, people would not start at a even playing field since people who started the game focusing on completing quests would be at a significant advantage.
Of course some classes are capable of farming mobs faster than others, however that's something the player took into consideration upon making his character.

I'm not arguing that the quest ring idea is a bad idea per say, just seems like the pros and cons and potential alternatives should be considered.

 

I missed nearly every single missable quest and still got over 1k. I think there is just slightly more than 1k non-class, non-missable quests. Plus older players actually have an advantage because they have more past even quests available to them. I think those roughly cancel the old/new player advantage.

 

Taking into account the time and complexity of implementing this mechanic in contrast to the benefits it would provide, seems like this could be worth it if it was carefully balanced. The developers have to focus on several fixes on their to do list and on future content updates but, seems like having another hp washing alternative as a permanent feature, as slight as it may be, could make a significant difference for a lot of people. Not to mention it could serve as a differentiating factor from servers competing with legends and attract new players.
Seems to me like the payoff is pretty good, even though some people could find it custom or unbalanced. Hopefully more people chime in and give their feedback on what stats it could give.

 

Are custom content that taboo for a server's health to warrant mentionin' it?

 

okay so are we getting custom quest ring pendant?

edit : ilu sku my

 

estimate timing for this is 2025

 

I don't see how it would be "unfair" for characters who have already done quests before. If someone already has 900 quests done, then let them get the ring automatically (it's not even that big a boost, if what we're proposing here is to be implemented), because you know how much effort and grinding is needed to do those quests in the first place? Furthermore anyone can start working down their quest lists right now, there is nothing stopping them.

The potential advantages are amazing - imagine R> quest party smegas where players get together in oft-neglected areas of the maple world like deep ludi, kft, omega sector, ant tunnel dungeon and orbis for a round of questing. So much opportunity from a social point of view. Not to mention having another goal for players to achieve can lengthen an experienced player's interest in the game while also providing additional fun stuff to do when you're burnt out from grinding or bossing.

The only potential con I can foresee is that a new piece of nice equipment for all to have may contribute to power creep. But I don't consider that a major concern in this PvE game anyway

 

Cool idea but I don't see it happening.

 

Funny enough this would also unintentionally get people further along on the monster book ring and supply tons of scrolls.

 

Are there any progress on what each tier would look like? We have the NPC concepts and revision, what about the reward?

 

Prototype for Tier1 (the ring part would just be the same as MB)
Same idea for the other tiers with the plates. (I can make them if people want that)
This is basic, maybe someone who is an actual artist can make a polished version of this.

 

What if you had to complete some etc collection quest to upgrade the ring, like those useless boss etc.

 

Also another consideration is how easy it will be to "pay" for 900 quest completions and how that might affect the economy. On average every tier of the quest ring is 90 quests for ~75-100 wdef/mdef, which is about 50 hp. Currently monster book cards are being sold for 500k/card, or 2.5m per difficult set, and every tier gets you ~100 hp.

Currently, the main quest etcs commonly sold are the cursed dolls, NLC quests (lucky charms, soiled rags), Ellin Ring (kargo eye, etc), and NT (kacchuu fragment, toad oil, eru guns). Cursed dolls, kargo eyes, eru guns commonly sell for around 10-15k per. We can use this as a baseline for other hard etc heavy quests.

This would make most quests that require 100+ etcs to cost 1-3m, which seems reasonable. I don't think this ring could be easily bought. Might take 300-500m+ to do so, and still a boatload of walking time.

This would also give new players a lot more avenues to make money for their zhelm and train in fun places early (shanghai, ximending, orbis, aqua road).

 

I don't know why people are disliking your posts, beginner classes won't be able to do quests like Mr.Wetbottom's secret book and a lot more than just that one (its the only one that I know of theres a lot more I'm sure.)

 

Day 5762: Still waiting for any staff member to reply. :3

 

The job-specific quests are not a valid argument, as every job has a relatively equal number of job-specific quests. I think the Pirates are the only class that have 1 fewer.

Your argument on the Beginners, however, is likely valid. I'm basing this on memory from GMS, so I don't know if it's still true for MapleLegends, but Beginners were prevented from starting many quests. If this has been recoded by the GMs so that Beginners have access to all quests, then this issue is covered.

Also keep in mind that a lot of characters will never have true quest completion because every event since the time the server went online were once available and then made no longer available at the end of that event. As long as new events are introduced, you can continue to increase the number of quests completed.