Public Quests or PQs are area-specific, ongoing quests that are automatically assigned to each player that enters the area. All players work toward completing that same quest, if they choose to participate.

Public Quests Overview

Public Quests typically involve several (most commonly 3) stages and conclude with a large fight against one or more Hero tier opponents. When a public quest is completed, some of the players who participated will receive a reward based on his contribution, the difficulty of the public quest and a roll.

Each stage of a public quest is composed of a primary task that must be completed in order to advance to the next stage. Stages beyond the first are typically

timed, and can involve various objectives. These include, but are not limited to, item collection, character protection, and defeating specific opponents. In some instances a single task will involve more than one objective, and may also include sub-objectives that must be achieved in order to move on to the next task. If a task is not completed within the time allotted, the public quest is failed and restarts shortly there after.

How Public Quests work

All Tiers of the game world have been modified to have Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty PQs. Usually there is an Easy, Normal and Hard PQ within each Chapter. The higher the difficulty of a Public Quest, the larger the amount of players required to complete it successfully, and the more effort and input required from each player. While an Easy PQ in Tier 1 may only require 2-3 players and have a 3 or so stages, a Hard PQ in Tier 1 may have 4 or 5 stages and require 9 or so players. This scales with Tier also so that an Easy PQ in Tier 4 may have around 5 stages and require 5 or more players to complete.

Loot bags

Loot bags are rewards players can receive after completing a Public Quest. When a player receives their loot bag, the loot bag will contain weapons or armor usable by their class, a couple of items for crafting skills and money as an option to choose. The player may only choose one item from the bag. The quality of the weapons or armor are based off of the quality of the loot bag.

There are several types of loot bags:

Minor Loot Bags usually only contain white normal items.

• Minor Loot Bag (White)

Lesser Loot Bags usually contain a green magic item.

• Lesser Loot Bag (Green)

Greater Loot Bags usually contain a blue and a green magic item for the player to choose from.

• Greater Loot Bag (Blue)

Major Loot bags usually contain a purple and a blue magic item for the player to choose from.

• Major Loot Bag (Purple)

Massive Loot Bags usually contain a PQ class set piece, a purple item and a blue item for the player to choose from.

• Massive Loot Bag (Gold)

Level restrictions for PQs

Players with Level 1-10 can do T1 PQs.

Players with Level 10+ can do T2/T1 PQs.

Players with Level 20+ can do T3/T2/T1 PQs.

Players with Level 27+ can do T4/T3/T2/T1 PQs.

Influence Rewards

Influence Rewards are rewards earned by gaining Influence by participating in Public Quests and RVR. There are three levels of Influence Rewards:

• Basic rewards
• Advanced rewards
• Elite rewards

Influence Points can be gained through participation in the public quests and RVR combat; the Influence Meter for the current chapter or RVR tier fills as Influence Points are earned. Three dots on the meter indicate qualification for Basic, Advanced, and Elite rewards respectively. Once enough points for a certain class of reward have been earned, the player can visit a Rally Master and select his reward. Each chapter has a certain selection of class-appropriate Basic, Advanced, and Elite rewards available. A character can receive only one reward from each category for each chapter or RVR tier.

Basic Rewards typically consist of potions or other temporary enhancements. Advanced and Elite rewards may consist of Common, Uncommon, Rare or Very Rare weapons or armor of the appropriate level, depending on Tier.

For more in depth information on Public Quests and lists / locations of the PQ’s please visit the official ROR Wiki using the link below