QUESTS
If there was a single goal that I didn't want to bend, it was this one. Dozens of quests across the region, with wildly differing challenges and rewards, and I did every single quest I possibly could, aside from one (or two?). Every other one required stepping outside the region.
I won't bother listing every single one, but here are some highlights:
Den Magason, Lomarc, and Gnasher Furgutt were really nice for keeping my Circle of Unseen Hands rep high without much mental effort. I hated trying to chase down Trumpy to shove dozens of bottles of mead down his gullet, so just tossing the relevant package at the trio when I saw them was almost relaxing in comparison.
Most of the "Wait for a mob to show, and then turn in their drop" quests were rather chill, since I could just watch videos until they popped. Even if they did take hours, I only had to be actively playing for a few minutes total. There were only a few exceptions to this, which includes Cubert because they actually respawned far too quick to relax, while both the slime and the quest-giver refused to give me what I wanted.
Putrid Skeletons/Rabid Animals were my bread-and-butter during the Paladin run, but weren't nearly as helpful this time, since I couldn't use the equipment, and the potions turned out to be useless by the time I needed them. At least they paid well.
Hurrieta's Tunic completely saved this run. I had turned in too many Putrid Skeletons, and the Bloodsabers became hostile. I wound up doing this quest hundreds of times to fix it, to the point where I was doing the run down to the sewers and back solely in my peripheral vision. I did also kill enough Koalindls for Rodcet Nife to descend and punch me straight into the afterlife, but that was me being greedy for two sets of prayer beads.
Gnoll Fangs and Moonstones is as good as the hype says. I probably got a level or two solely from fang-exp The only issue was trying to keep the other side's rep from falling too quickly.
I could not determine if the Gnoll Paws quest in Surefall Glade actually existed or not, and the wiki did not help in that regard, so I ignored it. If it does exist, then that's my bad, but I don't think I would have gotten much from it regardless.
The Blackburrow Brewers were rather simple, since I had spent a long time in those caves already. Just adding that spawn to the loop of guardsmen I was already doing was simple. It still took several hours regardless, so not particularly worth it for a cloak I couldn't use.
Finally, the one quest I outright failed to complete: The Jaggedpine Crook. I killed so many gnolls in that specific spawn. I killed so many gnolls that I relearned how to use Blender in between kills. I killed so many gnolls that, after I finished playing with Blender, I started recording all the gnolls I killed in a spreadsheet. That spreadsheet says that I killed 325 gnolls in that spot since I started recorded, and only 3 were gnoll hunters. None of them dropped a staff piece, much less the one I needed. The only reason I stopped before reaching 400 recorded (when I would have been actually dry, according to the stats), was because the_fabled_bard on Reddit rightly asked me to. Even if I managed to complete it, I would have only gotten a stick that my character is too dumb to use. Screw this quest. I hope this quest drowns in the lake.
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