3x Quest EXP

Quest XP directly corresponds to the XP rate right now if that's what you're trying to say. Or do you mean you want quest XP to be 3x (2x * 3x = 6x) on top of the current XP rate? Or are you suggesting the XP rate to be independent of the XP rate at 3x instead of what would be 2x in the post-release server?

 

I think the quest exp rate is independent of the actual exp rate (or at least I believe it is because of other servers rates)
I really like this proposal, as you said this will encourage people to do something else but grinding

 

Quite sure they're suggesting the quest exp reward rate to be 3x and grinding to be 2x.

As a quest whore, I somewhat support it but I've yet to see how that affects a server. So I wouldn't know if it's actually a good idea. I do agree that quests are severely neglected though. Need some kind of reason to do them more often. I also think that if quests would be a higher exp rate then PQ's should be too though.

 

I think quests are mainly meant to get items. The way I see it, you gain XP from killing the mobs for the quests, and then get an item and a little bonus XP as a reward. I don't think it's really meant as a way to level up.

 

This, and that people could buy some quest items and complete quests for easy instant xp.

There are still a few people who like doing quests despite its poor rewards. Do we need to buff quests and make everyone (or more people at least) do them? I don't know. I see them as optional side content. Most quests usually gets you to kill x mobs and/or collext x stuff, not that different from grinding anyway.

The real kind of quests I like to do are RuneScape quests, which are far from your daily grinding stuff that are actually interesting and fun to complete. Sadly most if not all MMOs don't have this feature.

 

I support this. Not really much incentive to do quests if quest exp rate is same as mob exp rate. Boosting quest exp to 3x with mob exp being 2x would make quests be more beneficial and make the game less grindstory.

 

I have to agree with you that OP training spots (looking at GS and BF/HH) are a bad addition to the game. They remove the variety and flexibility of grinding options and everyone pretty much follows a standard route.

 

the economy was fine when quests and grinding gave 1x exp in gms
it's already easy to get money at gs2
nobody played quests with friends because quests were fun, they played with friends because they liked their friends
there is literally no way this can stimulate the economy
people mingle already, i don't know where your idea of this not being a social game in v.62 came from
if quests were 3x people wouldn't do them more, they would just play the ones that already give good exp.

sorry, i don't see how any good could come from this.

 

Even at 3x, they wouldn't be worth doing.

If you took two players--one grinding from level 10 and one only doing quests--the quest rate would need to be ~7x for them to reach 120 at the same time.

 

I think he doesn't mean them to be as good exp as grinding, just more motivation to do quests?

Though personally 3x Quest Exp won't change anything for me. I'll still do quest if I feel like it, get bored of grinding, or for the item rewards etc.

 

i agree with you here
i can piss out of my tits as much as i like about it being a bad idea but the truth is we have no way of knowing until we actually test it.
but i stand by what i said, it does seem like a bad idea.

 

If the main purpose of this suggestion is to encourage more players to complete quests, I don't think raising the quest EXP to 3x will help much. @NSFW has already mentioned this, but most players just want the EXP reward at the end, so they'd obviously pick the quests well worth their time and effort (e.g. Strange Dish, Eliminate Golems/blahblah/blahblah). Of course there's some quest-exclusive rewards at the end that I know some people love (i.e. Pig Illustrated, Chief Stan's Hat and whatnot, but most of these items are eventually surpassed by drops from end-game bosses, etc...), but sadly, that's only a minority of the population that'll go out of their way to grab those kind of items (and for only aesthetic purposes, might I add).

If you're solely talking about the population wanting or being encouraged to do more quests, it'd probably be best (maybe not the best, but I can't think of anything else at the moment) to implement "# of quests completed so far" within some system like...http://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/achievement-system.2136/
It's pretty common with MMORPGs in that once you complete 25/50/.../... quests, you get a neat little reward or something. This way, more people will be enticed to complete quests and explore more of the world.

I think I've gone on a bit of a tangent, and I've probably over-thought this.