Unsolved quests: a can of worms, but maybe not?

[Gandite]

Originally Posted by Reiker [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=65

Holy shit typing "Tome of Ages" into http://everquest.allakhazam.com was hard work.

No shit you mongoloid if you actually read that page you will discover it isn't solved. The reward at the bottom is a blank lore no drop item you get for turning in the book of scale. Useless.

[Vanech]

here... I stop by this forum from time to time, is a defunct message board aimed towards cracking old unsolved quests for EQ.

I would love to see the quests that were later 'fixed' or 'implemented' (later as in post Velious) reinstated in their proper form in a classic context.

the Guise of Horror Quest that is linked to the rogue 1.5 / 2.0 epic on live was a quest (ctrl+f n' search for shakey for the relevant part) that existed well before GoD / OoW but never worked... It would be great to see rogues (and bards) get the scarecrow illusion mask 'classically'. (that is, without the MUD-flated stats etc.)

This brings up a critical point, though. I'm fairly certain that all of the Iksar sub-epic quests (whistling fists, greenmist, etc.) Were badly broken and went unfixed for a fairly substantial period of time on Live, many of which weren't fixed until after the time frame this server aims to encapsulate... Does that mean that we'll never have working versions of these quests in game, or will they be implemented despite their 'out-of-time' status..?

[JayDee]

Originally Posted by doacleric [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There were 50+ page threads on Everlore about dozens of broken quests back in the day. I remember spending hours just reading about all the speculation about how to complete the "blued two handed hammer" quest. Everyone thought they were missing something obvious. Turns out, the quest was simply broken. It was eventually fixed a few years later, but IMO, not the way the original developers had intended.

Holy Shnikees (dru/shm) ... Are you putting this in ?

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I vote yes !

[Icecometus]

When this comes up I always mention the fact that the Glowing Black Stone is a quest item in a unsolved quest involving Varsoon and the various weird NPCs in qeynos hills.

[Humwawa]

Originally Posted by Icecometus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When this comes up I always mention the fact that the Glowing Black Stone is a quest item in a unsolved quest involving Varsoon and the various weird NPCs in qeynos hills.

Varsoon's Black Heart!

[Reiker]

Originally Posted by JayDee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Holy Shnikees (dru/shm) ... Are you putting this in ?

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I vote yes !

This quest has worked from the beginning on P99, unless it was recently removed. It was actually a lot easier than live, as the Staff of Slime wasn't nearly as rare of a drop.

Originally Posted by Gandite [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No shit you mongoloid if you actually read that page you will discover it isn't solved. The reward at the bottom is a blank lore no drop item you get for turning in the book of scale. Useless.

Then I guess it answered your question? His classic quest was always unfinished, you could either turn in the Unrest book for a Golden Torch, or the Book of Scale for the Paladin epic.

They also implemented this quest that involves the oracle: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...tml?quest=2652

[astarothel]

Terrorantula Heart >.>

[Rael]

Only if an ex-SOE/Verant employee was willing to spill the beans on the unfinished quests. There's plenty of custom content EQEmu servers already.

I wanna know what Cracktusk was really for, damnit!

[Sarkhan]

There are so many unsolved/broken/unfinished quests in Kunark that drive me nuts! There is an ornate tin box that drops off froglok outlander that has combine button that I have NO idea what it is used for, yet if you hail a certain trooper in the swamp of no hope, and ask him "What ornate tin box" he will say "I have no idea what you are talking about" or something along those lines... That means there IS something because otherwise he'd just ignore you...
Then the obsidian hilt that is found in Warslik woods that the iksar knight runs and digs up and leaves the "broken" one for you...
Then there is a trooper in FoB that goes on and on about a legendary weapon that can kill dragons and if only we had it the iksars could take back the land against the dragons or something like that...
Its been years since i was quest hunting in Kunark so i forget most of them or how they go :-/

[Virgis]

Rathe mountains is basically one giant unsolved content-y quagmire too, if memory serves. The weird scarabs, sphinxes, inexplicable factions, etc. Seems like so much could've been done with that zone.