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Resolved "Many a Pickle Makes a Mickle" Quest line not available

Discussion in 'Resolved' started by loboram, Mar 9, 2018.

  1. loboram

    loboram Respected Member Forum Legend

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    Got and completed mine a few days ago just fine so i dont think its broken or disabled.
     
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    Thanks for the update, I'll look into it again then perhaps there is a title that comes with that quest line so I can confirm not having gotten it or if I (hope not) just forgot due to old age :(

    Unfortunately there are no title or other way to confirm whether I have done these quests or not, so I am really hoping that the GamezBD Staff could weigh in on this matter and tell me what my account data says about the completion of this quest or if -as I think- I did not get it offered at all?
     
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    Kolka <Prison Officer> Staff Member Super Moderator

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    bdocodex.com here u can check all quest conditions, ig u click O in game u can check ur completed quests. This quest work fine. Moved to rejected.
     
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    loboram Respected Member Forum Legend

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    Thanks a bunch @Kolka that was very helpful and while it took a while to find because it is not part of the main quest line but an addition I did eventually find it completed all the Sharper Weapon, World of Enemies and Many Mickle Makes a Pickle as well.
    The reason I brought this topic up is only because I remember playing on the Official for a short time and the amount of Black Stones I had left for my third Character was well into around 200 of each as well as several Sharp and Hard Shards. Unfortunately my experience here so far has been a surprising lack of Black Stones as well as an immense demand for Shards and the Upgraded Stones meaning the competition for these on the Market Place is insane at the moment. I am fully aware of the fact that the level difference will undoubtedly affect how the drops are worked out by the games core's RNG (Random Number Generator) which is something that you might be unable to tweak but it means that my 5th Character doing the full Black Spirit Quest line and has reached Altinova does not have enough Black Stones to upgrade their gear for that area. I am also fully aware of a possible work around for the problem of the general lack of Upgrading Stones due to the lack of an increased Black Spirit Quest line reward system that matches the amount of Black Stones otherwise gathered on the "Official EU Server", the work around involves going slowly where you can get your best geared Character to aquire their Awakening Weapon and then go do all the Boss Scrolls you can get your hands on like the 5 items arranged to make one Boss Scroll since you can get those rather easily in this version alone where you will get both a few Black Stones as well as quite a few Tokens that you can exchange for Black Stones in Tarif, and the quicker way is to find a group doing them and join in as the more you are killing the Bosses the more rewards you get so a 5 player group gets about 20-50% more (due to RNG) loot than when you do it alone.
    The problem however remains with players not knowing how to Gather to get the Sharp and Hard Shards (which drop from anything you can Gather from in the world) or not bothering to do the Gathering in order to gain them making them the most valuable commodity on the Market Place other than Boss Gear of course. Now I have no idea on how to make a mandatory quest line where Characters have to Gather all sorts of different materials as well as a Sharp and Hard Shard that way all new players will fell like they have a firmer grasp of lifeskills and how to obtain what they most need, Yes I am fully aware that the current quest system has all of that in it perhaps with the exception of Gathering a Shard but it is under the other quest tabs which some new players may overlook therefore not about until they finally get to level 50 and get that irritating popup of "how to" where most of what I asked for already is included.
    What I actually wanted was just a balanced playing experience where things like not being able to upgrade your gear due to lack of materials even after you have done all the Black Spirit Quests aren't a big problem for new players because your clever and competent team of developers easily could add quests or change rewards from quests so that new players have a much better and bigger understanding of the game when it is time to do the next Character :)
    Well in any case this quest line -that I reported a nonexisting problem with- is an excellent example of how to boost the Black Stones income for the first Character since the quest lines of "For a Sharper Weapon/World of Enemies/Many a Mickle Makes a Pickle" certainly would be the best to tweak because they only appear to the first Character to complete the quest line (unknown if it is possible to start the quest line with multiple Characters without ending them) but the missing Black Stone income could be made up by increasing the amount rewarded from those three quest lines, perhaps every 3rd quest it can increase so 3 for the first three quests then 5 then 10 and for World of Enemies there are 2 quests more so up to 15 on the last two, and leave Many a Mickle as it is with the rewards as shown in the 3rd link below:
    Sharper Weapon(low rewards): https://bddatabase.net/us/quest/259/1/
    World of Enemies(low rewards): https://bddatabase.net/us/quest/232/1/
    Many a Mickle(good rewards): https://bddatabase.net/us/quest/324/1/
     
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    I did check the quest log and found that I had completed all the Black Spirit Quests which is why I found it so strange that I had so few Black Stones and Shards in total as I thought the drop rate would affect both of those items on this server :)

    In any case I have just experienced a significant lack of Black Stones to start up the fourth Character which has also completed all the Black Spirit Quest line all the way to Altinova.
    I know the previous message became a bit long I had not noticed until I just read it now, to sum up is it not something the Development team can do something about as in adding an extra quest line for more Lifeskill knowledge in the beginning of the game (around Velia) or if it is possible to change the rewards of existing quests? (as those three quests I linked at the bottom)
     

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