Time to re-distribute the loot

[Venar]

Some quests are populars. Others never get run.
Experience points have a role to play in this, of course. But loot is what draw people to quests.
There are quests in this game that contain great loot items.
Like Prison of the Planes. Surefoot Boots, Kardin's Eye, to name a few.
People flock to these quests. And it made me wonder: why do some quest have great named items, and others don't?

A single nice little item can make people run a quest.

Take Durk's Got a Secret and it's Muckbane. People run that every day.
STK for the Feather Ring.
Gwylan's Blade.
Redwillow's Giant Stalker Knife.
The Rez ring, the Electric Haze, the Golden Greaves, the Silver Bow, the Bloodstone.
All items that lure people to quests.

So, why do some quests hold so many named items, and others have none?

I think it would be a great move to make sure that every quest can hold a little something special. And not just the main quests. Here is how to proceed to add these loots.

1. Make sure the item is worth it
After 2 years, and a saturated market, the Syckle of Sypheros is not a good item. Or a +1 named leather armor.

2. Put it in a chest, or as a random end reward
Putting it there to be picked up, like the 3 Whisperdoom items or the HISP's bottle of water, is not a good idea, since players don't have an equal chance to pull it.

3. Make it special
A special item is something with an unusual bonus. Once again Muckbane is a great exemple: it has Ooze bane, but it is also undamaged by Oozes. So, sure, a named +1 Flaming Longsword of Puregood in Proof Against Poison would be worth it. But it would not be special. Make it an +1 Acid + Flaming Longsword, and it becomes special, because it has 2 pre-fixes.


In ending, here is a few exemple of what i mean. Items that would make people run quests. These are just exemples, to illustrate how a single nice little item can make people run quests:

- A Poison Proof + Feather Falling Ring in A cry for help
- A Stack of 100 Returning Silver Arrows somewhere in the Gianthold outdoors
- A protection +2 resistance +2 cloak in the Smuggler's Run
- A +4 Fearsome Darkweave Armor in the Coalescent Chamber
- A Superior Potency 5 staff of Spell Penetration 5 somewhere in Made to Order
- An Underwater Action trinket of Greater False Life in the Tomb of the blighted

You see where i'm going.

[Xalted_Vol]

Good thinking I agree.

[Sydril]

I have often thought the same thing. A great variety of named loot or appealing loot anyway would draw players to many of the rarely seen sights of stormreach.

[JFeenstra]

Redwillow's Giant Stalker Knife.

last time i checked, that dropped in gwylans stand, not redwillow

anyways, am i the only one who thinks a UA of greater false life trinket would be quite overpowered?

[Frodo_Lives]

I'm all for more useful named items, and have them spread around.

That being said Turbine would have to be very careful not to throw unbalanced loot out there. Good named loot is one thing, crazy overpowered named loot is another.

[Snoggy]

- A Stack of 100 Returning Silver Arrows somewhere in the Gianthold outdoors

Wouldn't you only need one of those kinds of arrows? What would the other 99 be for?

[Venar]

I meant returning in the 75% sense like the Threnal/Deneith arrows.
As for the UWA of GFL trinket, of course it would be strong. But, compare it to other named stuff out there.

People are drawn to loot. Just imagine a chest somewhere, where there would be a chance for a named Mnemonic Pots. You'd have people farm that all freaking day.

Also, named loot should be concentrated in out of the way chest. You know, optionnal.

[Invalid_86]

I'm all for more useful named items, and have them spread around.

That being said Turbine would have to be very careful not to throw unbalanced loot out there. Good named loot is one thing, crazy overpowered named loot is another.

Like crafting in the shroud?