As I write this I’m waiting for my work day to finish so I can go back home and join in my guilds regular Everquest 2 Heritage quest night. I’m a fan of heritage quests in Everquest 2 as they are a good way to bring your group together to work on something that benefits the individual and the guild. Yetian my new upcoming main character has been embarking on his heritage quest path since around level 20 but in the last few weeks has been working the really tedious ones solo (he’s now level 68).
As I said I like heritage quests but there’s always a few I seem to leave for solo when the mobs are grey, namely the Lavastorm and Everfrost HQ’s. You all know the ones I mean, The Lost Legend of Lavastorm, Saving Soles and to a lesser extent An Eye for Power.
I recently went through the 2 in Lavastorm solo as whenever I’ve started these in a group at the right level or mentored, we never get through to the end and then it’s a nightmare trying to get everyone on again long enough to do them. That and the zone isn’t my favourite zone to spend time in, there’s just something really annoying about the layout. I’m sure my guild will remember my rant while I got completely lost in the Sol Ro temple trying to find the hidden door when the mobs were still green.
I’ve managed to work my way through most of the pre 50 heritage quests now apart from a few like The Screaming Mace. My last memory of the Screaming Mace HQ is myself and a guild member spending 7 hours (yes that is seven), camping Agony to get the starter. The problem with HQ’s like this is if you want to do them at the right level you need a group to kill the heroic mobs which drop the quest starter. Now bearing in mind that it can take hours to get the starter, that’s a lot of hours to get the quest started for a group of 6. I think quest’s like this would be more fun and likely to be done when the mobs are not grey, if a chest dropped and the group could loot the starter as in the epic quests.
I’ll be embarking on The Teachings of Yoru tonight with Yetian and my guild, though I havn’t manged to get on and do the first couple of steps so our guild HQ organiser will shout at me. I’ll have to try and run through them quickly before we start as there’s always a straggler who logs on a bit late. 
Once Yoru’s and a couple of other pre 50 HQ’s are done I can start on the higher ones some of which (70+) I havn’t completed on any of my characters, so i’m looking forward to doing those.
If you see me wandering around on Splitpaw hitting random tree’s and swearing I’ll probably have camped Agony the most aptly named mob in Everquest 2. I’m sure it’s called the Screaming Mace as after you complete the quest you find yourself running back across the Ferrott screaming like a madman.
With all of the above in mind, which are your favourite and least favourite Everquest 2 Heritage quests?
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