It seems that all is not lost when it comes to our collection quests. There is a new one planned and to my surprise it will start tomorrow night at Silly o'Clock, sometime after midnight here in Europe. I was expecting a bit of a delay before we got this event, but I'm happy to see it. I knew a collection quest was coming because [VGM]Hawk asked my opinion about a few things last night during our experience event. If you recall, I asked in league chat for ideas about collection event rewards, and this is what came out of that discussion.
This collection quest comes with a bit of a twist. We're getting four lists all at once this week, and we'll have the whole week to collect all items. We can expect a couple of very difficult items in these lists, but I doubt there will be anything as stupid as Broken Arrows and hopefully everything in the lists will be stackable. In the past we've been asked to collect elixirs, and/or weapons but those items aren't all that practical because they don't stack. Those things must be quite the pain in the ass for the VGM's too.
Another thing that [VGM]Hawk and I discussed was the Tibet drops, and he has the same idea that I have. It's really not necessary to be taking items away from players when we don't know what the items are used for. Besides that, all the Tibet level players have lower level characters who can collect items. I think we can expect that the items on these 4 lists will be collectable by low to mid-level characters.
As a second small twist to the collection event idea, each of the lists will get a different reward for turning in items in.
The VGMs will give Special rewards to the players who turn in items.
- list 1 items will be rewarded with Dragon Herbs (hp recovery 200/3sec, duration 15sec) (1 DH/10 items)
- list 2 items will be rewarded with GT low lvl (1 gt/20 items)
- list 3 items will be rewarded with CC keys (1 cc key/20 items)
- list 4 items will be rewarded with BE (1 be/20 items)
Those Dragon Herbs are going to be popular with low level players. They are regular drops on the Tibet map, but you never see them for sale in Hefei. I have no doubt that the PvP bigshots eat these things like candy, and then keep on bragging about how incredible they are.
As usual there will be a public GoogleDoc where we can all track the progress of the collection quest.
If the lists really are designed for low to mid-level characters, a few smart players are going to be quite rich at the end of this week. I've said it before, I have no idea why players don't regularly pick up their drops while playing this game. And why don't the Masters and high level league members remind the lowbies about this too. The collection quests can make a player rich, so pick up your drops and wait to turn them in.
- SpearDriver
