The biggest innovation with Warhammer
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

The biggest innovation with Warhammer is the Public Quest, where you can just enter an area and work with whoever is there to accomplish a set goal and get a nice reward.  This is a cool concept.  The problem with the Public Quests is that I rarely see enough people in a quest area to actually complete the third stage, so if you are solo you end up just farming the first part to get reputation.  Of course you can put together a group specifically to complete the quest, but that takes away from its planned spontaneity. Still Public Quests are by far the most interesting addition to Warhammer when it comes to questing.Warhammer’s quests are far more pedestrian.  Most are the standard run here and kill 10 of this and come back, with often painstakingly long distances between the two points.  In fact, by putting the locations for the next step of the quest on the map, they have made questing into more of a chore than a challenge. 

There is really no contest when comparing questing in Warhammer and Lich King.  Warhammer’s quests are something you do to gain experience and rewards and get to the good parts of the game.  Lich King’s quests are the good part of the game.  In fact, the quests are probably the best part of Lich King.  If you love to do quests, Lich King is clearly the game for you.