In a message dated 5/6/99 8:55:55 PM Mountain Daylight Time, MFerrulo@...
writes:

<< Is it just me, or do most people agree that the financial and item rewards
for quests are PITIFUL???? At least for the lower level quests this seems
to
be the case. As far as the experience points, jeez, I could get 3-4 times
the experience just killing easy mobs in a fraction of the time it takes to
complete just one quest!! Considering how hard it is just to FIND a quest
much less COMPLETE a quest, the typical reward of a few copper and maybe a
lantern or such is REDICULOUS.

>>

All questaholics should stand up and respond to this post. I, for one, find
the quests rather fulfilling (most of them anyway) but then I've been an
acknowledged questaholic for years now. Sure, experience and coin are not
what you would like but there is IMMENSE satisfaction in solving them. I
completed one recently where I had to find answers to the question of the
disappearance of the daughter of one of the guards in Qeynos. When i found
those answers i was genuinely heart broken but, as always, i experience a
major feeling of accomplishment at the completion of my task.

Many people who quest do it simply for the knowledge that they gain. The
pride of completing a job that, perhaps, no one else has completed yet.
There are more things in EQ than leveling and gaining items and money. That
sort of goes along with the recent complaints about how terrible the Magician
class is. Sometimes, it's not about the levels, its not about the power, its
not about the monetary gains, its not about how weak or strong we are, it IS
about the roleplay. Personally, I have found the Magician class to be one of
the most fruitful when it comes to RP. Quests are all a part of the RP.

In Light,

Mystyrain Silverlining