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THINGS I WISH I'D KNOWN EARLIER - Questing

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* You can only have 50 quests active at any time, including collection quests. For the smaller collection quests (anything with less than about 6 items), it is a good idea to keep the items in your bank instead. When you collect them all, then you can activate the quest and do the turnin. That way you will not eat up too much space in your quest journal. Note that making elm strongboxes (as mentioned above) will give you more bank space to store your quest items. Also note that right clicking and examining collection quest items will tell you how many items are in that set. Don't forget to check the broker for items needed to complete your collection quests. Completing them as soon as possible will help keep your inventory/quest journal clearer.

* If you are not getting quest rewards, check to see if you have a green + in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. If so, you need to click it and choose your bonuses first. This is a bug that should be fixed in the future.

* If you do a quest that starts from a book, do not delete the book until you have finished the quest. Some quests have you read the book many times throughout the quest, and others have you reread the book at the end of the quest. If you've deleted the book, the quest will be uncompletable. Once you've finished the quest, it is generally safe to delete the original book. Many quests that start from books give a copy of the book as a quest reward. This copy is meant to be either sold, or placed in your in room on a piece of furniture.

* If you accidentally deleted/lost your "Welcome to Qeynos/Freeport, Citizen!" book, you can buy a new one from the sage who sells books in the mage tower. These towers reside in South Qeynos and North Freeport.

* Some quests are repeatable. When you complete a quest, you can find it in your completed quests journal, and it will say "repeatable" if it is. Unfortunately, most repeatable quests are not worth doing more than once.

* Hwal Rucksif is in the Keep of the Ardent Needle. To find it, exit North Qeynos to Antonica, follow the path to your left, and go under the aquaduct. He will be in the keep to your right that is surrounded by a moat.

* Some NPCs have level requirements on their quests. If you speak to an NPC and he has a dialog option that doesn't seem to do anything, you should return when you have leveled up and try again. Other NPCs require that you have completed a particular quest before they will give you a quest.

* You can find lots of purchasable quests from the sage in the mages tower in South Qeynos, or the mage school in North Freeport. These cost anywhere from 1s to 12s, with the more expensive ones generally being higher level quests. Many of these quests that require you to find "missing pages" by killing mobs want you to read the book after each set of mobs you kill, so you might want to bring the books adventuring with you rather than leaving them in the bank.

* If you are planning on doing the betrayal quests, you need to start them and get exiled BEFORE you hit level 18. It is generally recommended you start no earlier than level 14 or 15 and work on them during levels 15-17. Once you are exiled, your level will be capped at 19 + 220% until you complete the quest. When you hit level 18, you become a permanent member of the city you have citizenship with -- thus, if you hit level 18 and are not exiled yet, you will lose the opportunity to do this quest.

* You do not have to do the citizenship quest in the racial hamlet you started in -- you can do it in any of the starter hamlets by talking to the appropriate overseer/steward. If you do start with your default hamlet, you can still buy the inn room in another hamlet if you'd rather. Note that if you do this, the waypoints will still point to the inn in the zone you started in, not to the zone you bought your inn room in.

* Quests that start from (or are progressed by) items dropped in chests will be much harder to start (or complete) once you have leveled up too high and grey'd out the mobs that drop the chests. However, there are a few ways around this. First, although chests will only be dropped by non-grey mobs, they can be looted by anybody once the locking timer expires. So you can start or progress the quest if you can get somebody else (or an alt of yours) of appropriate level to get the chest to drop for you. Second, occasionally these quest pieces are tradeable -- you might look in the bazaar to see if you can find what you need.

* If you can, it is better to complete the last step of a quest after you have been logged out for a while and your exp debt has had time to dissipate. That way all the exp you get from the quest will be applied to your exp total, not shared with your exp debt.

* Heritage quests, hallmark quests, and any other quest you can not delete does not count towards your 50 quest limit.

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