It appears that no one seems very happy with the task system. I think it is
because we are disillusioned from what SOE originally touted it as - a way
to gain xp for people who don't have very long to play and unable to find
groups. It's not like that at all. Tasks should be simple, quick, and
easy. They should not require hours of your time and the need of a full
group to accomplish. I've only done the one task, but it took me the better
part of 4 hours. Had it not been for several others in the zone working on
the same or similar quests, I never would have finished it. Another beef I
have is that not all the information is presented to you when you get the
task. When I accepted it, it said I must kill 10 reanimated creatures in
chardok and loot 4 bone chips. That's it, nothing more. Once I had
completed the task, I thought I was supposed to go turn the bone chips into
the same guy I had gotten the task from, but no, now new information was
showing, saying that I had to go find some guy in Burning Woods and hand the
bone chips to him! Why couldn't it have said that from the start and I
could have saved myself A LOT of time! Finding him was no easy task either
since BW is a big zone. So I think unless SOE revamps the task system to be
more commensurate to what they stated it would be, many people won't be
doing them.
Wulfric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Lyles" <dwlyles@...>
To: <EverQuest@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Task system
> The only task I could get was the dreadlands as well. It sent me to scout
> out a lava flow in skyfire. To get the ok message I had to get in the
lava
> and aggroed several mobs. Thank goodness for sow, I out ran them then
> ported out. The next task was to explore the first bridge in Veeshan's
> peak. It is locked and requires a key that is no small quest. This is
not
> soloable. Oh well, back to grinding. This is typical, SOE's idea of solo
> only requires a group of 5 or 6.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Talbot" <chris@...>
> To: <EverQuest@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 5:27 AM
> Subject: RE: [EverQuest] Task system
>
>
> > I've now got a couple of my characters working on tasks. My 49 ranger
was
> > advised by the task masters to go to Rathe Mountains for a task. I did,
> > and
> > everything was pointing me to Lower Guk. I've never really been through
> > Upper and Lower Guk, and going that far underground with a ranger just
> > makes
> > me concerned.
> >
> > I abandoned the task. The next thing I tried was getting a task from a
> > task
> > master in Overthere. It sent me into Burning Woods, where one of the
> > things
> > I had to do was enter the giant fort and scout it out. To accomplish
that,
> > I
> > discovered I had to run into the middle of the fort. I was invisible,
but
> > as
> > soon as I got within agrro range, I started wailed on by a giant.
> > Thankfully, a group was pulling giants from the fort, so it was somewhat
> > abandoned. I trained a giant or two out and ran for the zone line. The
> > next
> > step is to kill 10 skeletons (can't remember exactly what type, but I
know
> > they con dark blue -- not sure how well bow-kiting will work in such a
> > busy
> > zone).
> >
> > Frustrated with such difficult and dangerous tasks for my 49 ranger, I
> > tried
> > a task with 10 cleric. I was sent into Innothule Swamp from a PoK task
> > master and told to kill 10 bull alligators (most con white, some a
healthy
> > dark blue). I had to run for my life and died about 10 feet from the PoK
> > book. I didn't realize bull alligators helped each other out. I got
> > trounced
> > by two of them.
> >
> > I'm becoming increasingly convinced that tasks are not soloable. :(
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Thompson [mailto:poolsharkbc@...]
> >
> > The only place that would give me a task was in the
> > Dreadlands, and it sent me ( a 52 Druid) into Chardok
> > for a recon mission. Thought it couldn't be that bad,
> > but I had never been to Chardok before. The mission
> > was to enter the fort inside Chardok and explore the
> > area around the first bridge. Went in and found the
> > fort (was invised) opened the door, it squeaks and
> > every mob in Chardok seems to have heard it, and what
> > resulted can only be described as Woodelf paste.
> >
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