QUESTION OF QUESTS

If anything, the most checked screen in PW when you are playing should be the quest log. A Role can have a maximum of 20 ongoing quests at any one time. I tend to maximize the amount of available quests. Meaning, I constantly check if there are any quests available by clicking the Find Quest button in the window.

I found out later in the game that this is a great way of not having to go back and forth between the towns and cities and getting two birds with one stone. As usually the quests require you to a)become a delivery guy/gofer/stevedore b)kill a certain number of creatures and/or b)find items within or on the corpses of those same monsters. Many a time have I had just killed 20 foul Soulless only to be told by another townie "Oh, you wouldn't have on the off-chance killed a few gigantic, poisonous, Enhanced HP scorpions out there have you? No? Oh, you have? You wouldn't have saved some of their stingers have you? Because I'd be willing to part with this Yuan and this ton of XP points if you could get me 20 of those, right? You okay? You look pale."

At this point, I wish I could attack NPCs--but noooo! You can't. Poor me, poor you. So it is a great idea, no, you should write this on a piece of paper and stick it near your monitor: Check for crossed quests.

The best source of crossed quests as I like to call them can be had by the Lone Wolf Quests that are given by the town guards. These are the quests that ask you to kill 20 monsters of so-so type and level in exchange for an immortal stone fragment. Not much on the XP but at least you get something extra for your effort. Also finding quests that involve other Soulless in the same area makes wholesale slaughter more profitable.

This is a good thing because even the high level players will tell you that the quests given to you always involve Soulless that are very near your current level. So the amount of effort is always equal, if not harder as you go higher. It doesn't get any easier after those plants and bugs you start out with.

But then again if you are the type of player who likes to spend hours bashing the same monsters again and again for an infinitesimal amount of XP, then be my guest. It's your time.