"A Source of Malediction" cheated me out of a diamond

[Bremer]

<p>I was on the step to talk to the NPC in Commonlands who wants an ulteran diamond or a drop from Befallen. I had an ulteran diamond in my shared bank and the NPC had a feather above his head. I wanted to get the update from Befallen, so I put the diamond in the guild bank (measure of precaution, you know the bugs, quests consuming stacks of rares, taking the rares if they could take the drop, etc).</p><p>Then I killed the boss in Befallen, looted the item, gave it to the npc. The quest was updated from "Give guy item" to "Listen, what guy has to say". But the dialog option from him didn't change, he still asked me too give him an item. So, then I had to walk to my bank, got the diamond, gave it to the NPC, quest didn't update, but now he had the correct dialog option to update the quest.</p><p>And at the quest step in Paineel afterwards I noticed that another diamond disappeared from my inventory, I guess the guy in Commonlands took another one from me after Befallen 3...</p>

[Oxie]

<p>I pretty much just did the same thing. I had read the walkthrough on the wiki, and purposefully left diamonds in my shared bank, so the quest wouldn't update. I had planned on going into Befallen to update the quest. I hail the NPC outside of Befallen, and after looking back in the chat logs, it looks like I handed 2 diamonds from my shared bank over to this guy.</p><p>The quest should require you to have the diamond ON your character, and not automatically update and pull the diamond out of your shared bank inventory slot! Then if you hail him again, it will take another diamond from the shared bank inventory.</p><p>Something is wonky with the mechanics on this quest. I petitioned to hopefully get back the diamonds and have my quest set back to where I need to go into Befallen to get the update that way.</p>

[Tyrus Dracofire]

<p>samething with Panda's Hua Mien quest, with fishing task, i saved seahorse roe in bank, and it just took and automatic updated.</p><p>it shouldnt pull items from bank vaults, i thought it was suppose to update when you have it in packs physically when gathered.</p>

[Oxie]

<p>A kind and super sweet GM helped me out tonight, and I ended up getting BOTH of the diamonds back. Yes, the quest NPC managed to try to weedle two diamonds out of me. I'm glad I was paying attention (for once.)</p>

[RingleToo]

<p><cite>Ruckus@Unrest wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I pretty much just did the same thing. I had read the walkthrough on the wiki, and purposefully left diamonds in my shared bank, so the quest wouldn't update. I had planned on going into Befallen to update the quest. I hail the NPC outside of Befallen, and after looking back in the chat logs, it looks like I handed 2 diamonds from my shared bank over to this guy.</p><p>The quest should require you to have the diamond ON your character, and not automatically update and pull the diamond out of your shared bank inventory slot! Then if you hail him again, it will take another diamond from the shared bank inventory.</p><p>Something is wonky with the mechanics on this quest. I petitioned to hopefully get back the diamonds and have my quest set back to where I need to go into Befallen to get the update that way.</p></blockquote><p>I wish now that I had read the walk thru'. Generally, I read those when I get stuck, can't find something, just don't know what to do, etc. I wasn't really paying attention when I talked to that npc and didn't understand that I was going to lose a diamond. Absolutely my fault but am still po'd.</p><p>After that I went back and read the walk thru', but it didn't say. Do we get that diamond back? Otherwise, considering the time, cost, difficulty of this quest, the reward sucks for wind. I just don't understand why they make rewards like this - especially for a long quest like Malediction.</p><p>A curse spell that could potentially be the straw that wipes your group??? That 5% drain might keep me alive and a fat lot of good that will do if that's the difference in the group getting killed off. No, not a likely scenario but neither is it an improbable one. Unless there is something I'm not understanding, I simply don't get it. I've seen rewards from simple quests with stats/bonuses similar to Paw of Opolla but without a penalty - which is what that curse really is.</p>

[Oxie]

<p><cite>RingleToo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Ruckus@Unrest wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I pretty much just did the same thing. I had read the walkthrough on the wiki, and purposefully left diamonds in my shared bank, so the quest wouldn't update. I had planned on going into Befallen to update the quest. I hail the NPC outside of Befallen, and after looking back in the chat logs, it looks like I handed 2 diamonds from my shared bank over to this guy.</p><p>The quest should require you to have the diamond ON your character, and not automatically update and pull the diamond out of your shared bank inventory slot! Then if you hail him again, it will take another diamond from the shared bank inventory.</p><p>Something is wonky with the mechanics on this quest. I petitioned to hopefully get back the diamonds and have my quest set back to where I need to go into Befallen to get the update that way.</p></blockquote><p>I wish now that I had read the walk thru'. Generally, I read those when I get stuck, can't find something, just don't know what to do, etc. I wasn't really paying attention when I talked to that npc and didn't understand that I was going to lose a diamond. Absolutely my fault but am still po'd.</p><p>After that I went back and read the walk thru', but it didn't say. Do we get that diamond back? Otherwise, considering the time, cost, difficulty of this quest, the reward sucks for wind. I just don't understand why they make rewards like this - especially for a long quest like Malediction.</p><p>A curse spell that could potentially be the straw that wipes your group??? That 5% drain might keep me alive and a fat lot of good that will do if that's the difference in the group getting killed off. No, not a likely scenario but neither is it an improbable one. Unless there is something I'm not understanding, I simply don't get it. I've seen rewards from simple quests with stats/bonuses similar to Paw of Opolla but without a penalty - which is what that curse really is.</p></blockquote><p>You do not get the diamond back (unlike the kaborite that you DO get back for the SF tradeskiller quest.)</p><p>With this Malediction quest, you can either give the NPC a diamond, or you can do one of the Befallen instances listed on the wiki and turn in something that drops off the named in that Befallen instance. I had intended to do the Befallen option, but was click happy with the text box from the NPC and the quest sucked not one...but two...diamonds from my shared bank!</p><p>The first screw up with this part of the quest, was that it took two rare diamonds, and the second screw up is that it pulled from the shared bank. But like I said in a previous post, a super nice GM tracked me down in game and gave me back both diamonds, and she then reset my journal back to where I need to go into Befallen to get the next update.</p>