Quests

[Sebryn]

Ashtes -

There's no prerequisite time period for playing AR in which you learn every single quest. It's not as if you play a character to 300 hours and the Immortals transfer you and say "Oh, THANK YOU SO MUCH for playing AR!! Here's a cheat sheet to all of the quests!! Don't tell anyone, okay?"

The reason that people have so many quests on their low-rank characters is that they remember where they are from previous characters. However, as has been stated time and time again, the quests don't have THAT large of a bearing on practicing skills, so you're not "at an unfair disadvantage" like you think. It'll take you near the same amount of time mastering defenses and other skills whether you have 10 quests or 100... they toned down the quests' impact on learning a long time ago.

As for descriptions, you'll find that once you've ranked a character to 50, there's a lot more roleplay in the game. People will definitely look at your description a lot more often than you think... it's more than just the "hack and slash" gameplay that you're experiencing right now. You can get "hack and slash" from any game out there, mud or not; AR strives to bring RP and PKing together into one environment that (hopefully) doesn't get old for the players.

I'm pretty sure that if you play the game a bit more and flesh out your roleplaying, you'll find out that I'm not just trying to blow smoke up your ass, and that it really is true.

[theobserver]

[Davairus]

Learning rate boosts won't be in the new quest system as that provides an unfair advantage for "vets" who already know how to complete all the quests on repeat characters. New quest system is also a departure from the "difficult to find, easy to complete" model.