Editorial > Quests

Hey TNT! Okay, so I've always thought the site was great and contrary to some players beliefs, quite fair. One of my favorite things to do is Illusen's Glade quest. Now I've always gotten a little grrr when I have to find an item on the Trading Post and the person who has it isn't on and I'm put back at square one, but I know and respect that it's part of the game and if it was easy what would the point be. However I recently was asked for something that I was only able to find one in someone's gallery, no where else. Do you really think its fair for an item that's so rare that there may only be one to be asked for? I mean Trading Post items make the quest hard enough. ~sapphire1031

• Illusen's quests go by item rarity, not how available the item is (and yes, those are different). This often means she could ask for an item of fairly high rarity that was only released days ago, and therefore may not have even stocked at all yet. She could also ask for something of high rarity that happens to be obtained quite easily as a prize, for example. Illusen and Jhudora quests offer insane prizes at the highest levels so the difficulty of the quests must match the rewards.

• We also have no way of knowing how many of one item is out in the economy without doing HUGE queries across multiple database tables. (We'd have to check inventories, SDBs, galleries, shops, closets, etc., etc.) We do this very, very rarely since it is so resource intensive. There's no way we could do it on the fly every time someone attempted a new level in one of Illusen's quests. So, we have to go by the rarity number in the database and, if you're lucky, you'll get an item that isn't impossible to find. (Issue 321)