Comments on: Do you like class specific questlines?

By: Keredria

Keredria — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:01:36 +0000

Totally right on about Ban’Ethil Barrow Den. Just when I think I have that place figured out and that I know where I’m going, I find myself lost again.

By: Esri

Esri — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:07:41 +0000

Happy Birthday, Spinks!

Oh, and I love class quests too.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:18:23 +0000

Very true. Here’s to more of those, too, then.

It really is a good way to flesh out a character and make it feel like you’re doing something unique and interesting.

By: Kiryn

Kiryn — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:27:35 +0000

I was so disappointed by the lack of a cat form quest that I actually stopped playing that character. My memory of that day is incredibly sharp, despite being almost 5 years ago.

That druid was one of the first characters I ever made, and I LOVED the bear form quest. I got to 14, and I was sent on an epic quest to go learn how to cure poison. I got to 16, and I was sent all the way to the other continent to learn my aquatic form.

I was so excited about getting to level 20 on that character, because I had seen a level 20 druid who was in cat form, and my imagination was going wild with what kind of incredibly epic quest the game was going to send me on to get it. I specifically remember being in Wailing Caverns, dinging 20, and telling my group that I could finally go start my cat form quest!

I ran back to Thunder Bluff to talk to my trainer (he’s the one who gave me all the other quests), and what do I see? Cat Form. 20 silver. The weight of my disappointment crushed that character like a ton of bricks.

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:44:29 +0000

This sort of thing doesn’t have to be linked to class based design (although it could be a neat way to teach class skills). It could be linked to race, faction, alliance with some in game grouping, pet or mount, or anything really. Just it needs to be directly linked to choices you made at character creation, maybe even choices made afterwards, but definitely something to do with your character background.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:37:13 +0000

I love class quests. I’ll second Issy and wish for more, including some to teach the class mechanics. It might even be nice to see ones for teaching the different talent trees, complete with free respecs, to allow for players to get a stronger in-game feel for their class and how they want to play it.

(I know, I know, I’m not really a huge fan of class-based design, but if you’re going to do it, do it well.)

By: Tesh

Tesh — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:25:11 +0000

That’s exactly why I think they should go with a GW business plan…

By: Kring

Kring — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:07:49 +0000

I think the class quests in WoW, which you do while leveling up, are good. They add some flavor to the class but don’t tell important stories OF THE WORLD. They make you feel special, because you are class X, without making someone feel he misses something. As long as he doesn’t play a class without quests.

I didn’t raid on my priest and couldn’t do the Benediction quest chain, that was a big disappointment for me. It felt, to me, like it is part of a “complete priest”. I stopped playing him and not being able to do this quest was part of it. Max-level “class quests” should be accessible for everyone who wants to do it. The two mount quests could be done by everyone, the priest and hunter quest couldn’t.

But what I really dislike is if they implement a good quest chain with a story related to the WORLD (of Warcraft) and not related to your character and then reserve that quest chain for a minority. That’s what i dislike.

Examples:

- Priest/hunter level 60 epic quest.
- AQ gate quest chain.
- Quel’Delar
- Quel’Serrar (level 60)

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:36:43 +0000

I always enjoyed class quests in any MMO, and to a degree always wished the devs would spend even more time making those class quests race-dependent, where appropriate.

Not sure I buy the whole “small percentage of players see that content” argument though. It’s not the same as, say, building Naxx back in the days of Vanilla WoW then barely anyone could actually see it. It’s *just* a class quest, and while I’m no longer an altoholic myself, millions of other people are and separating those quests will give them a little something new to look forward to on an alt, when everything else will be repeated quests/content.

By: Fuubaar

Fuubaar — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:00:57 +0000

I loved my Paladin quests especially my mount quests. It gave me an appreciate & an attachement to my pony that all of my other mounts combined could ever give.

I’m still pretty sad that they did away with it but I can understand why they did it though. Who wants to go into Dire Maul to help someone else do a quest? Not many, so Blizzard didn’t want to discourage Paladins & Warlocks from getting these precious mounts so they just made them spells & the option was still there to try the almighty quests later on if you wanted to.

<3 Fuu