> The feature I dislike is Research. It amounts to no more than going
> to hundreds of vendors, over and over again to find a page, or words
> or rune, buy it and then have it fail when you try to make the
> spell. The idea is to have you kill mobs for it.....but the mobs
> are allways higher level, and rarely drop it when you want it. By
> the time you get the pages or runes you need for your 16th level
> spell......you're 32nd level. So you have to buy them, at inflated
> prices, and thats IF you can find them. Then after going thru all
> that....poof...it fails, and you have to start all over again. A
> stupid idea. Why not have the spells drop off certin mobs like a
> quest, so then peeps will camp them, oh my, don't have a good
> soultion, but current one is not fun.
>

I agree. I never did research with my wizard bc I started it and it was a
royal pain so I gave up. Maybe they could do it much like ethereal
parchments where you get a specific type of item and turn it in to an npc
for faction, xp, and either a spell or a particular page or something for
the research. Maybe you can say what page you need-- like when you tell the
guy near the muffin eating dwarf in Freeport that you want the wood bits or
something like that as part of the quest for the trueshot bow. Or maybe they
should have vendors that only buy things like pages and research items (like
the merchants in Morrowind that only buy certain types of items). What do
you think?
luv,
-Su