Alternate Everquest

hand her the weapon and a water

Felwithe gives the "Lights Claymore" also.

There is a specific reason all of these towns all give the same newbie weapon, and an NPC in the Temple of Ro can elaborate:)

No, not really. That npc asks for the sk and pally newbie weapons. He doesn't care which ones he gets, as long as it is one of each type. The sk newbie weapons are different.. so why is the same pally weapon re-used between all the zones?

Quote from: Elizuth on February 12, 2019, 07:06:37 am

There is a specific reason all of these towns all give the same newbie weapon, and an NPC in the Temple of Ro can elaborate:)

No, not really. That npc asks for the sk and pally newbie weapons. He doesn't care which ones he gets, as long as it is one of each type. The sk newbie weapons are different.. so why is the same pally weapon re-used between all the zones?

tldr: The short answer is time.

It takes time to create new items and allocate stats, even if they are nearly identical.  Then we need to test it in the development environment to ensure the item exists and works.  Then merge the item into the live game. Then update the quest to reward the new item and re-test the quest scripts to ensure they weren't broken in the process.

Repeat that for each item and quest we touch, and it gets not only tedious, but time consuming.  Granted, some changes can be batched together to reduce some of the repetition, but again, time is required to do this.  I really do like the idea that each race gets its own weapon -- I just really don't have tons of time to spend rehashing newbie quests.

The last factor is that these are newbie weapons, and intended to be outgrown in 10-20 levels in most cases.  I got through doing SK ones, and just couldn't stomach doing all that again for Paladins.  In order to complete the quest in Sol Ro, all races (good and evil) have access to quests needed to complete it, so there's no real roadblock to anyone.

One thing I'm considering is putting in some checks so that it won't matter which version of the pally or sk newbie weapon you hand in for the Sol Ro quest, as long as it's one of each.  That's a little outside the scope of the thread, but since it's related and the quest was mentioned, I thought I'd share what I was thinking.  If anyone has opinions one way or the other, I'm happy to hear them.