Where is the quest in Everquest?

[astuce999]

My only gripe with classic quests in EQ was that so many of them were broken, you could spend hours if not days trying to figure out something only to get stuck in a dead end.

If only the EQ staff would have been more open in confirming quests and verifying if they were working or broken when people reported it, it would have really helped a lot.

One thing I would have really enjoyed would have been a once a week post by devs that show a quest that hasn't been solved. They could start by giving hints and then players would have tried to complete them and then post the rewards and such. The devs claimed there were thousands of unsolved quests so it should have been fairly easy to post one per week.

They could have taken suggestions from players on which quests they would want solved.

For example, my holy grail quest that was never solved or completed is the unkempt druids.

In surefall glades, Gerael Woodone talks of the leader of the unkempt druids Jale Phlintoes.

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You say, 'Who is Jale Phlintoes?'

Gerael Woodone says 'Jale Phlintoes was trained in the ways of the Jaggedpine Treefolk since his birth. He was only eight when his parents were killed by poachers. Young Jale would have had his throat slit also if he were not off fishing at the lake. Unfortunate. The now orphaned Jale was brought up by us druids. After many conflicts with our council, he ran off to start his own sect somewhere in the nearby lands. For his terrorist activities his head now brings a high price.'

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It took years on sony's part but they finally admitted there was a bug and Jale Phlintoes was not spawning in south karana when the trigger phrase was said to the hermit.

Now he spawns.... but he never drops his head when killed. It is likely that if the quest is actually working, you have to give him something so that he despawns and respawns as a new mob with his head as loot. But there's no way of telling if it's actually working.

Judging from the difficulty of the quest and its similarities with other quests, especially Stanos's Head, I've come to speculate that the reward for his head would have been the Troll Illusion Mask (bard/rog). The other reason I thought it would be that reward is because they had done all the player races, and were doing tons of non-player races but had yet to do a troll illusion mask/instrument.

But I'm now just rambling ;-p

thanks for indulging me.

cheers!