Rezzing a dead horse for further questioning

[Valdaglerion]

<p>Dear devs:</p><p>Have you reconsidered allowing all quest starters to be body drops instead of chest drops?</p><p>I for one, and do not think I am alone, would love to continue on my quest for quests that are item triggered but alas, in many of the older zones it is becoming increasingly difficult to find toons to mentor to much less ones that will stay in those zones long enough to hunt for quest starters. I am a book quester, what can I say but so many are chest drops <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>A way to find these quest triggers without needing conned mobs would be appreciated from my perspective any way.</p><p>Thoughts, feedback, anything, please <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Dasein]

<cite>Valdaglerion wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Dear devs:</p><p>Have you reconsidered allowing all quest starters to be body drops instead of chest drops?</p><p>I for one, and do not think I am alone, would love to continue on my quest for quests that are item triggered but alas, in many of the older zones it is becoming increasingly difficult to find toons to mentor to much less ones that will stay in those zones long enough to hunt for quest starters. I am a book quester, what can I say but so many are chest drops <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></p><p>A way to find these quest triggers without needing conned mobs would be appreciated from my perspective any way.</p><p>Thoughts, feedback, anything, please <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></p></blockquote>The devs have already said that quest starters will drop from grey mobs. I believe, but am not positive, that the change will be coming in LU38.

[Tyrus Dracofire]

i still do have 5 other missing books from Ruins of Varsoon, i only got 1 book. it really sux big time since mobs are heroics and other group members often won more than they need, i only won once for a book, and since SOE pull the book drops out of chest drops before those mobs turned greyed. took many months to take SOE to bring back in new book quest form, collect pages. i still got more than 35 books that got missing pages, and i check sticked post on where to find pages, but i rarely find any drops. i wouldn't mind doing old method of killing 10 of that and 10 of this, but killing heroics is the pain and book quests isnt designed for groupings in this current gameplay. but it works well once the game was new and everyone was sharing the kills. now look what happened? loot griefs is another game turn-offs.

[Webin]

Ugh.. this horse was dead, then undead, then redeadeninged, now we're talking about it again as if its ghost wasn't standing in the room?In just a few days... DAYS!!!... all quest starters that drop in chests will drop regardless of the mob con.  Grey mobs in Sunken City will drop the level 3 quest starter for level 70 players.    This was announced officially in the August 28th Test Update Notes here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=379496" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=379496</a> and the pro's and cons of this discussion should occur in the original dead horse thread here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=373113" target="_blank">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=373113</a>Thank you, and let's put this discussion to rest.  I've run out of zombie horse jokes.

[Gnobrin]

<p>Yes, they have and some developers design for that aspect.  Keep in mind though that there's MANY developers working on many differing zones, too.  Sure, some quests can be "body" started, but to make ALL of them that way would be boring.  Many developers try to switch it up, especially more now then in the past.</p><p>~Gnobrin!</p>