When to Quest

[Chris]

yes my first pirate i did the quest to fast (and now im paying in time ) my second pirate is noto 10 and he hasnt even done the first tast to go see jack sparrow LOL

[Samantha Wildhound]

i do not enjoy the quests either, and am at 1% (only did a few in the hopes itd somehow add the grenade quest by completing the ones i had already)

i satrted about 2 weeks ago, and am level 29,
all weapons at 20, with the exceptions of grenades and sailing, first of which i dont have, just been leveling while my friends have been questing, and we started out evenly, but now i am almost 10 levels ahead of them (been fighting gypsies mainly for a good 400 rep or so per.) and the sailing..im not fond of right now because i have no friends list, so ill wait till im farther along to work on it,

so right now trying to level my weapons some more to hit 30 (would be so much EASIER if i had grenades, disney) and pray i get the staff quest, or im outta luck on 2 weapons to use for rep gaining.

so i guess its besically the grasshopper n the ant sorta thing. they visit me and tell me im being boring and leave to go sail or quest..while i stay and earn alot of rep, so in the long run its backfiring on them to go the "easy rep" route.

my other character has 80% done, and i dont intend to finish because i wont get no rep, and i heard john smith is the worst. plus im in no big hurry for the boss battle, so i dont even log in on it no more.

[Twisted]

I guess I made the big mistake on finishing the pearl too fast. But, I am having alot of fun levelling up weapons now. I finished it at level 25, and I am now 34, halfway to 35 just levelling stuff. Still haven't mastered anything, but the doll will be soon as well as cannon. One thing I really hate is sailing, that is soooo boring to me. So in turn, I am lvl 10 sailing, maybe 11 I havent looked...

I guess to each his/her own. I don't mind the level grind. And I am not so upset the boss battle is not available, because when I started playing this game 2.5 months ago it wasn't anyway! lol

So to all you guys/girls that made the same mistake I did, I say just have some fun with your friends and enjoy what ya can if you don't feel like starting another pirate.

[Steely Jim]

I've been sticking with my original plan, which is essentially to keep my skill levels, my overall notoriety, and my quest completion percentage all at around the same point.

I've definitely been the weakest at keeping all my skills in range, but I was pretty near an average of 12.5 in skills, at 20 notoriety, with about 50% of the Black Pearl quest complete.

I assume that Disney assumes I'll be somewhere between 35-40 when I complete the quest, probably around 38. I plan to keep the same overall development trajectory through to the end.

Admittedly, applying skill points does seem to slow things down even more; however, even if I were to get down to only +5 or +6 rep from any particular kill, I'd still only have to grind a few thousand mobs to get the highest possible levels. To me, a few thousand mobs don't amount to much work because I'm comparing it to experiences in other games.

For instance, I killed 25,000 of a particular mob (in another MMO) because it dropped a piece of treasure I was looking for; I never did get that specific treasure, and I only stopped counting after 25,000 because beyond that number was always going to be excessive in my opinion. Still, that's just one relatively weak type of mob out of hundreds. My character is maxed out for hand-to-hand combat now, but those 25,000 mobs barely moved me through the some of the lower intermediate combat levels. If I looked at my totals, then I have killed hundreds of thousands of mobs.

So, I definitely agree that questing too fast does make it a slower to move ahead, and it does increase the level of grind; however, even in a worst case scenario, this game still requires far less grinding than what I've had to go through before. I don't think that makes grinding any more fun for me than anyone else, but I'm also not particularly daunted by the upper end potential for grinding in this game.