Ashen Disciples Quest Line Completed - but no reward?

[Ixnay]

<DIV>Hey sorry for the interruption, I'm not a monk, but I figured this was the best place to ask before I submitted a petition.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I just finished the Ashen Disciples line of quests in PoF.  On the final step with Master Ko, I was awarded just "the Ebon Dragon" title - but nothing else.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Did I miss getting the final quest reward because of a bug, or is this some role play thing where since monks are not caught up in material possesions, they don't need loot either.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I spent about two weeks killing harpies and doing all the quests and faction work to get this done, it was not a trivial quest.  I like doing the long hard quests in game, and they usually have nice rewards.  For example, I did the quest that started in sinking sands, then required you do do sub quests for the Swiftrider mercenaries in PoF, then the Ortallians, and finally the Char'Gin, and the reward for that was a nice FT necklace.  I completed the Peacock series of quests and got the very nice Godking hammer, an upgrade from my prismatic.  Next I was going to do the Hero of Maj'Dul quest to get the Ring of Fate.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So I can't imagine the only reward for the Ashen quest series is a title.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for info.</DIV>

[Zoan]

<DIV>unfortunately...it is. ;(</DIV>

[Jezekie]

<span><blockquote><hr>Ixnay wrote:<div> </div> <div>Did I miss getting the final quest reward because of a bug, or is this some role play thing where since monks are not caught up in material possesions, they don't need loot either.</div><hr></blockquote>You're surprised? Heh. The decent loot available for brawlers is fairly limited.</span><div></div>

[Cwi]

<div></div><span><blockquote><hr>Ixnay wrote:...<div> </div> <div>I spent about two weeks killing harpies and doing all the quests and faction work to get this done, it was not a trivial quest.  I like doing the long hard quests in game, and they usually have nice rewards.  For example, I did the quest that started in sinking sands, then required you do do sub quests for the Swiftrider mercenaries in PoF, then the Ortallians, and finally the Char'Gin, and the reward for that was a nice FT necklace.  I completed the Peacock series of quests and got the very nice Godking hammer, an upgrade from my prismatic.  Next I was going to do the Hero of Maj'Dul quest to get the Ring of Fate.  </div> <div> </div> <div>So I can't imagine the only reward for the Ashen quest series is a title.</div> <div> </div> <div>...</div><hr></blockquote>The fact that this quest can be completed solo makes it trivial. Even if it takes a while its still something you can do without anyone else's help if you have enough free time. The Amulet of Ro, </span><span>the Ring of Fate </span><span>and the Peacock series all require the help of other players to complete. While I too would have liked some material rewards in addition to the title, I don't think this quest series compares with those others in terms of difficulty and thus it shouldn't reward the player as nicely. I was a little disappointed that we weren't given any material items upon completion as well but really, unless one of them had a unique graphic, I would have just sold it since it would have been just treasured. Edit: Upon further reflection, I'm actually -glad- the entire quest series gives you almost no material rewards, as this encourages only players that really want the title to do the quest series. If the material reward for the series was really nice then word would get around and everyone would do the series and earn a title... and to me that would cheapen the significance of the titles. </span><div></div><p>Message Edited by Cwiyk on <span class=date_text>12-26-2005</span> <span class=time_text>10:31 AM</span>

[Ixnay]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Cwiyk wrote:<BR> <SPAN><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>The fact that this quest can be completed solo makes it trivial. Even if it takes a while its still something you can do without anyone else's help if you have enough free time. The Amulet of Ro, </SPAN><SPAN>the Ring of Fate </SPAN><SPAN>and the Peacock series all require the help of other players to complete. While I too would have liked some material rewards in addition to the title, I don't think this quest series compares with those others in terms of difficulty and thus it shouldn't reward the player as nicely.<BR><BR></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I disagree.  </P> <P>I completed the entire Amulet of Ro quest solo, except for the final step in the cave, which I two boxed.  The Amulet of Ro series took me less time to complete than the Ashen series, and I consider the Amulet series to be much easier in total.</P> <P>I can solo the Peacock series up to the last several steps.  The second to last step, with the golem in the sea, requires a group of 3 or 4, and gaining access to the Fountain of Life and killing the Godking requires a guild, so I can appreciate why it deserves a nice reward.</P> <P>The majority of the Ring of Fate quest can be done solo, including the 3 court quests leading up to it, and having helped other players on the various parts of the quest after that, I'm pretty sure I can two box most of it up until the ending.  At most, the hardest parts of this quest would require a group.</P> <P>I believe that any quest requiring as much individual time to complete as the Ashen series should merit a decent reward, even if the reward is only brawler specific and I can't use it.  So in my opinion, you guys are getting gypped by this quest.  </P> <P>It seems to me that, like the other lengthy quests in DoF, extensive work was invested into the quests themselves, but little or virtually no effort was put into developing and itemizing the final quest rewards.  Just look at the final rewards for the other three quests named above:  each was recently upgraded based on complaints by those who completed the quests and then felt cheated by the reward.  Seems to me you guys have been left out because you haven't complained.</P> <P>Regarding your point about maintaining the uniqueness and scarcity of this quest title based on the fact the quest gives no other reward - perhaps I will be the only defiler in all of EQ2 that ever earns this title, but that doesn't change my very strong opinion that all hard quests deserve the respect of a quality, tangible final reward.  The Ring of Fate quest gives both a nice reward and a nice title.</P> <P><BR> </P> <p>Message Edited by Ixnay on <span class=date_text>12-26-2005</span> <span class=time_text>02:23 PM</span>