[2019] New Quest Reward Trend: General XP Lamps?

Originally posted by SexualHarassadar

It's definitely an interesting issue. Quest EXP has always been kinda wonky in terms of how much you get VS how hard the quest is (Waterfall Quest and The Knight's Sword are two big standouts there)

Personally, I like XP Lamps as a reward, but I also like it when the item that awards the XP after the quest is related to the quest itself, like an NPC giving you a tome that awards XP instead of everyone inexplicably carrying magic lamps. That bit of flavor might be enough to change perception towards them without having to bump up the XP rewards.

Originally posted by spiderbois

The thing I don't like about the lamps is the fact that they scale. Unfortunately it puts efficient minded players in a tough spot because if they're account isn't at the right level to truly take advantage of the xp scaling, it feels wasted. This same feeling is delivered to new players that might not understand (doing an entry level quest) and feel cheated out of that lamp as it gave miniscule xp on let's say a level 1 skill.

The problem to me is that as developers you said you want as many people engaging with new content and quests going forward and reducing barriers like quest and skill walls. If this is true than that means we'll never see juicy quest rewards ever again simply because of that decision.

I for one am a huge fan of quests that require high skill requirements and quests. It makes doing that quest have a lot of value and you know everyone else that has done that quest, deserved it and experienced everything up to that point. That's why I'm not super excited about recommended requirements personally (but 100% understand why you do it)

Originally posted by deltaslug

Tbh, I'm "ok" with it.

I don't have a problem with the size of the XP lamp scaling to the difficulty of the quest. That's no different than the previous era reward mechanics. Lvl 1-10 quests generally gave out a small amount of XP, Lvl 30-50 quests gave enough XP to be able to go like Level 50 to 51. Higher Level quests would give "more" XP. There was some balance, but one could never predict just how generous ya'll would be.

As a few have pointed out, it does avoid the weirdness of quests that are something you can do at Level 1, but give out 5-20k XP in a skill, thus letting you jump to Level 20 or 30+ in just 1 quest.

I can also appreciate those that have the "max efficiency" mindset as well and would prefer to hold off on the quest reward until they reach that next level.

Another route you can go is giving out BXP over fixed XP. You can use the XP if you want, and doesn't affect you if you're already 99/120/200m xp. In addition, you also have to do activities if you want the XP. Plus, BXP stars/rewards tend to give out a little more than their fixed XP counterparts. You can also do it so if the quest was F2P, even they wouldn't "miss out on the reward" since they would still have the BXP in their bank rather than having to discard or potentially forget about the reward XP.