Congrats Alysena for completing the first "Epic Newbie Quest"

[Videri]

This is a really cool player-run quest: a challenging yet achievable task with a satisfying and forever-valuable legacy item as a reward. Good on you, OP.

OP is also dealing very well with the criticism. Good parries, blocks, and ripostes.

[workbench]

The dialogue in that last screenshot is so funny... "Really appreciate you letting me farm them for you" rofl...

"levels are more important... bc higher level = more income potential" you are taking belts from them that would help them level. Your advice seems to counter your actions... so leads me to believe this is more about a convenient way to flip boxes instead of epic newbie quests.

I really like the idea of player ran quests especially epic ones. I would say this is a "quest" not an "epic quest". For epic quests, you can string together a bunch of smaller quests (ex: go find a specific slaver key, buy a specific item from a vendor deep in kaladim, get a minotaur horn)... all of those steps could have lore attached to them, encourage tough newbie fights, exploration and provide a reward at the end (I'm sure you can tie in a social aspect here too). Make them find a no drop item and link it to you. Provide a reward at the end that reflects the story/lore and its not just a transaction.

[Fawqueue]

I think this is great fun, worthy of posting, and in the spirit of good community building. Everyone involved seemed to agree on the worthwhile value of the trade, nobody walked away upset, and it makes for a pleasant story amidst the barrage of unhappy merger posts.

Your next should be a mid-range chest piece (Flowing Black Robe or Bloodstained Tunic) for some nutty volume of useful but easy consumables. Like 10-15 stacks of batwings or bone chips.

[Visual]

Why would you make a thread about ripping newbs off. Boxes rot all day

[suptoofs]

At the end of the day both parted ways happy. Props to OP!

Honestly you people are the worst sometimes, try complaining less.

[Castle2.0]

Your next should be a mid-range chest piece (Flowing Black Robe or Bloodstained Tunic) for some nutty volume of useful but easy consumables. Like 10-15 stacks of batwings or bone chips.

Not sure if these are dropping yet http://wiki.project1999.com/Robe_of_Enshroudment since the quest isn't in for the robe, but that could be a nice one for a necro since it drops off 40 necro mob.

Might do something more along the lines of what you recommend since it'll be open to more people.

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To the person that said 100 is "excessive."

It's gotta be fun, but TBH, there has to be some pain involved. It is an EPIC quest. Think of when you did your epic. Any annoying, rare or painful parts? Absolutely. That's what made it epic and where we get the word "passion" and "patience."

[Nirgon]

I gave away tons of boxes of abukar to my guild and newbies in Grobb.

I'll take all the virtue signal and oo look at me points. Thank you.

More seriously, this is a good thing to do in the spirit of questing.

[thesoundofmerk]

I really do like the idea behind it, I think its really cool, and totally in the right direction, my point wasn't that it was excessive, its that its not only more then the value of said item on the market, its for an item that benefits you on an alt, that they could use to raise level. thats all, next time make it profitable for them and difficult for them without being self profitable so much. but its totally a really cool idea

[shovelquest]

Nice quest!

[AgentEpilot]

This is sheer marketing genius! Comcast could only dream to pull a stunt off like this!