River Pirates

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I just finished the river pirates quest and I must say, for 100 xp it doesn't seem worth it. It is probably the longest quest in the game (so far) and it has one of the lowest payoffs. Now I'm not sayin that this needs to render like 50000 xp (I mean they are still river pirates) but this definitely need to be upped some. Maybe like 800-1000?


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Ah I dunno. Ive been playin today, and I agree, it takes a long while to finish up the quest, but by the time Im gonna finish it up, Ill be getting more exp from the other war parties Im attacking. Deserters and Dark Hunters/Knights and the like. My character is lvl 18 I think and Ive still yet to finish that small task heheh :smile:.

Anywho, the experience is given on the battlefield, not some snob noble who only cares enough to give you a shield nothing more dont ya think?
 
Which is kind of the point I was trying to get across. I was about level 15 when I finished that quest so the 100 xp didn't do much for me. And, yea you should get most of your xp from the battlefield but, killing river pirates yields less xp than say resting at a tavern and getting xp from my trainer skill (or Marnid's or Borcha's since mine doesn't effect me i guess).

I guess to put it a different way, which reward sounds better (from a NEW character standpoint, since that's when you can get these quests):

Deliver this message to the next town over = 100xp
Do me a favor and kill 25 parties consisting of 8-23 pirates each = 100xp

I don't know maybe that's just my screwy thinking.


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I was surprised that you had to kill so many parties when I finally beat it. I thought it was going to be about 5 or so. It just needs some play balancing to make it more in line with the other quests as far as length of time to complete and reward.
 
I see your point. The quest is long and the real bounty is not finishing the quest itself, but rather selling the pirates as slaves and selling the loot to the merchants.

What I would like to see: more river pirates in each party, and fewer parties. Hell when you first start out, you can kill the first 10 parties of pirates with your bow only.
 
It is an intro quest. It is a way to lead you into the game and give you a bit of money and experience. Thus it woul be far better to have it just be much shorter, say 40% of what is is now. And perhaps increase the experience you get from completing it a bit, say 250.
 
And maybe afterwards the quest could extend to other factions, like sea raiders or mountain/forest/steppe bandits...
 
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