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THINGS I WISH I'D KNOWN EARLIER - Questing

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* You can only have 75 quests active at any time. Yes, that sounds like a lot when you start - it isn't. Collections do not count towards this total.

* You can find lots of purchasable quests from the sage in the mages tower in South Qeynos, the mage school in North Freeport, or next to the library in Kelethin. 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 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. The book for the opposing city can be bought from an NPC near the fence, though it will not offer the associated quest. Which quest you can do is apparently locked to your starting city, not your current one, so if you betrayed without doing this quest and want to do it now, you'll have to do some sneaking around in the city you left. At this point the "Welcome to Kelethin. Citizen!" book does not seem to have an associated quest.

* Books can be found in various locations about specific types of creatures.  When read/examined, the books will offer "Lore and Legend" quests. (For example, "The Precious Fairy Book" found in Nektropolos Castle gives the quest "Lore and Legend: Fairy.")  Completing these quests allows you to use a special Mastery attack, which does a large amount of damage, against that type of creature.  The more L&amp;L quests you complete, the more creatures the attack will work against.  Current L&amp;L mastery quests are available for: 

   - Aviak
   - Bixie
   - Brownie
   - Bugbear
   - Centaur
   - Clockwork
   - Cyclops
   - Djinn
   - Drakota
   - Droag
   - Efreeti
   - Elemental
   - Evil Eye
   - Fairy
   - Ghost
   - Giant
   - Gnoll
   - Goblin
   - Golem
   - Harpy
   - Kobold
   - Lizardman
   - Minotaur
   - Naga
   - Nightblood
   - Orc
   - Ravasect
   - Shadowed Man
   - Siren
   - Skeleton
   - Treat
   - Werewolf
   - Zombie

* You can double-click on the current quest (in the upper left corner) to open the quest journal to that quest (if you forgot the location or some other detail). Also, when you get a quest update for something other than your current quest and the quest helper changes to that quest for a few seconds, if you double click the quest helper during that time, the quest journal will open to that quest.

* 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.

* Some NPCs have level requirements on their quests. Other NPCs require that you have completed a particular quest before they will give you a quest, or advance a quest rather than giving one. If you have completed an NPC's prerequesits for their quest are within 10 levels either way of the quest level, a glowing quill will show over the NPC's head. They will also be marked on your map with a blinking yellow circle if you are close to their location.

* NPCs that will advance or finish a quest currently in your journal will have a glowing red book floating over their heads, no matter what the level of the quest. They will also be marked on your map with a blinking yellow dot if you are close to their location.

* 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 on the broker to see if you can find what you need. Third, through mentoring you can lower your level to that of a group member, possibly making a mob that was grey to you green.

* 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.

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