EQ2U Quests Beta is now Open to All!
Dethdlr and I are happy to announce that Quests are now available as an Open Beta on EQ2U! Here’s what we’ve added:
- Quests now appears under the Search menu
- A Quests tab has been added to the EQ2U Quick Search box on the homepage
- View your Active Quest Journal for any of your EQ2 characters
- View a Checklist of all 11,564 quests in EQ2 and see your character’s progress on those quests (Active, Complete, or Never Started)
- Items which offer a quest when examined now show the quest name and link to it
- Items which are required by a quest show the quest name and link to it
How do I access Beta? Do I have to sign up?
All you have to do is load up the EQ2U Dev site. You do not need to sign up or apply for beta as everyone will have access this weekend.
Known Issues
There are over 5,000 “duplicate” quests which have the same names but different details. For now, we are hiding these, but for quest completionists, we provide a button “Show Duplicate Quests”. We will be working to try to pare down some of these dupes.
There is no way for the EQ2 team to provide us data on which quests have been “removed from the game” because of how many different places you can get quests from (an NPC, a spawncamp, an item, just walking into an area, etc.). We will be looking at ways to crowdsource this data from the EQ2 player community.
What happened to Collection (shinies) data?
The EQ2 team is always looking at game performance both at the server and client end. Most of the work on Collections is done, but it’s on hold until later this year. Here’s Endymion‘s comment on the subject:
Collection data will be made available at some point, but the next major census task will be to resolve some inefficiencies in the export process. I can’t give an estimate on when that will be unfortunately, as I have a lot of non-census tasks that require my attention.
Special Thanks
Thanks to EQ2 Developer Endymion at SOE for working tirelessly on adding Quest data and making sure it exports all the goodies we asked for. Thanks to Dellmon (Unrest), Jeehi (Everfrost), Faelen (Butcherblock) and Leaha (Permafrost) for their feedback and bug reports!
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Endymion
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Thanks for your team’s hard work on this as well. Hopefully players will get a lot of use out of the great stuff you’ve put together. 🙂
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Pipsissiwa
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Awesome! TY for all the work!
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Naudi
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OMG is this going to be fun!
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Betony
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This is amazing! Only gripe is the number of quests that show level 100. I’m assuming this is how the data comes from SOE as Zam shows the same, to me, irritating feature. For example, there are very few, if any, quests for level 100 in Neriak. Not all Heritage quests start at level 90 is another irritant )) Will this be part of the crowd sourcing you want us to help out entering?
Seriously this is amazing and wonderful. I need to get cracking on my alts. I didn’t realize they were such slackers on quests lol
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Finora
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Just giving it a quick look before I head out.
Wow, this is going to be awesome. I’ll try to give some better feedback later when I can play with it more thoroughly :).
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Finora
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Quick question, in the checklist are quests I’ve completed supposed to be marked through & have a yellow background?
I ask because there are some quests I have completed that are not showing up in that fashion. The one I’m looking at right now is Anaphylaxis.
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Armageddoux
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Thinks to work nice, especially list of quests by zone 🙂
sadly it’s not translated will it be ?
The elft part ot th e list quest is somewhat big, not sure it’s a good idea to have clic on hyoerlink showing the detail of the quest on the right part.
a bit confused when you are clicking on the bottom of the left part no ? May be force to scroll screen up by the way
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Faelen
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Finora: I’m thinking that might be because it’s a Duplicate quest in the census, so that might be a bug!
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Nubek
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Awesome awesome work!
Any chance of an in-game UI component that ties in with this like the old Fluffy.dk journal questtracker?
In any case I’ll definitely help out flagging quests that are no longer available, just let me know how 🙂
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GodsKid
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I spent over 2 months creating spread sheets for all of the quests. I am so very thankful that this was in someone else’s head to track all quests too.
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Tiadrop
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This has got to be the best idea ever in terms of keeping track on quests. For those of us who love to make notes and can’t live without our notebooks this feature is an absolute godsend. No more countless notebooks for each alt, pure heaven. Stuff beta when is it going live lol?
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Rosebelle
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I am very grateful for what Feldon & Crew do for us players 🙂
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Mod
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Good job to everyone involved!
Can I go back to the Isle of Refuge and complete all of those quests now please? 😀
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Endymion
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Mwahaha; hope you don’t have OCD over those…
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Faelen
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Even if they don’t, I do! >_<
I remeber doing them when my character was created back when EQ II launched, but somehow I'm missing most of them still =(
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Endymion
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Welp let me know how that whole “haunted for the rest of your life” thing goes.
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Faelen
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Will do! =D
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Iadien
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I’ve had a character stuck on the Isle of Refuge for a long time, but a year or two ago they disabled the zone or something, because I cannot log in on the character anymore. 😥
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Striinger
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If you must have everything finished then
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Ohnix
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I don’t know if this is the best way to give you feedback on the Quest Tracker but here goes:
having the scalable quests showing up at the max level they can reach is useful for planning – someone looking at them in their actual quest journal may be surprised though 🙂
Many quest categories for the old quests from the old Qeynos/Freeport surrounding cities are no longer available … since they cannot be picked up any longer, or able to be started, are they useful for anyone besides folks who never completed them in the first place? same goes for original starting isle 🙂
that’s it for now
Great Idea – Excellent implementation – Thanks much for a another extremely useful addition to the EQ2 UI{nformation} library 🙂
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Pipsissiwa
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That’s my only teensy gripe – it shows quests that are no longer in the game, and not just the starter isle and cities – some in other zones like Commonlands too. I absolutetly love it – found enough unfinished quests just yesterday to go from needing 437 more to go until i reached 6000 unique quests completed, to needing under 400, so I am a happy rat!
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Charn
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In regards to your color coding you said (in your other thread):
Is that still the case? Because that is not what is happening.
Some of my quests are dark blue and completed, some are dark blue not even started. Some are light blue and may be either completed or not . . . and some are yellow with a line through them.
What do the colors mean? I know this is a beta, but if you do use colors, can you have a key somewhere to show what each color means? Or a key for whatever method you decide on?
So far, though, pretty darn awesome!
P.S. Does this include any “undiscovered” quests that may be out there? ARE there any quests out there that no one has started because it hasn’t been found yet? Would you even know through the feed or do you only get the feeds on things as people discover them? Just curious . . .
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Charn
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Oh, and wouldn’t that mean everything in the active quest list should be green? I don’t see any green, currently.
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Feldon
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• Reversed out dark blue and white = active
• Crossed out and yellow = complete
• Medium blue = never picked up
Duplicate quests are currently bugged.
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Feldon
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Duplicate quests fixed!
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Feldon
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I’ll add a color key.
We should be getting completion dates on every quest anyone completes so we can find undiscovered quests. Most likely though, they’re quests that aren’t wired to anything and you can’t pick them up from any item or npc.
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Feldon
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I have completely rewritten the handling of Duplicate quests.
Now, if you have completed or started working on a quest, it will always appear in the list. If you have never started a quest, and it has the same name as another quest you have completed or are actively working on, then its name will be hidden until you click the “Show Duplicate Quests” button.
I will be changing the pulldown Filter menu into a series of buttons that you can toggle on and off, allowing any combination you want.
Things still to come:
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Feldon
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Quests now “slide” into position, eliminating the need to scroll back to the top to read a quest detail.
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Kaufman
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Is it at all possible, if there is some flag in the system, to denote a quest that can be started or given based on faction/alignment. i.e. if you are an evil player and want to try to complete every possible quest an evil player can do but don’t plan to betray?
Maybe a check-box filter? Maybe it is better to pose it as a problem and let the experts find the best solution. I don’t plan to betray but I want to try to get every possible quest done I can – and using a master list, going zone by zone, it gets frustrating to go to a far corner of a zone to hail a guy and realize I can’t get the quest because the quest gives tells me to bugger off. If there was some way to filter out quests to those that ONLY evil can get or ONLY good can get, that could be very helpful.
Fantastic system and thank you for taking this on – really appreciate it.
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Feldon
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There is rarely “data” for what quest can be started by what class, alignment, faction, etc. It’s more often programmatic and such that branch based on different properties. Not something that SOE can really export, so we’d have to hand-tag on our end.
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Kaufman
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Ah, ok – thank you for the info. Will just have to go try to get every quest and see if the quest giver will talk to me.
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Endymion
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That’s not true, it’s handled design-side but not at the quest level itself, nor is it something that would be easily accessible from there.
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Feldon
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Pppppplease, Endymion!
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Antonia Bayles Bit on the side
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Fantastic Job Feldon and everyone else who’s helped, as a member of the 5k+ OCD quester club, this is going to prove extremely useful down in tracking down some of those quests I’ve missed, a lot of them being drop related I suppose.
You’ve done a grand job with EQ2W / U down the years, keep up the good work, and hope you come up with something as good for EQN in the years ahead.
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