Just passing some feedback along. I am headed to over 7 hours on the island, after spending a lot in YO.
I spent two hours alone just digging in the dirt/rock and trying to raise my mining to be able to mine in the village mine for the "Forging" quest. The crater was three blocks forward and two wide when I gave up. My "Artisan" is at 46, with my "Digging" still at 8. Do you seriously expect people to get to 30 on "Digging" to start mining to be able to access the Village mine? Because I can touch nothing in the mine yet. So the quest update for "Get ore from the mine" still cant be done.
On the same quest, I am unable to access either the Kilns to make charcoal or the Furnaces to make Ingots. Both just have "Inspect". All I can access is "Ulf's Forge", wich offers to make tools, but nothing else. So, if the three previous steps COULD be done, then I could do the last step.
On the "Hoytuhanir's Children" quest.. Where to begin? Literally. The map marker shows nothing, as it is not even there now. The quest log is useless, as all it does is tell me to find the children. If she gave me a clue when she told me I needed to find them, its lost to the aether, with no clues in the quest log. Hoytuhanir herself? When I go back to her, I swear, even if the quest is not done, she has already moved on to the after giving me her drink phrases. (I see the drink in her chest, so I am guessing that would be my reward, if I ever found her children.)
This adds those two broken or extremely hard to figure out quests to the quests I reported yesterday. (
unable-to-find-sanctuary-t25417/ ). Those two quest completed without notifying me, and the NPCs dont offer snag or drink, so I have no idea if they were done or just removed while I was digging. I.. kinda really felt I deserved an "atta girl" from the NPC for the script forcing me to steal from the monk guy and doing my penance. Speaking of which, why do the NPCs refer to my female character as a male?
I really dont see many people doing these quests anyway. They just blow thru, ask how to get to the mainland, and leave, so maybe they are minor annoyances?
Either way, the lack of a /bug or /feedback ingame makes reporting bugs even more of a pain. The inability to drop the quests and restart them is also problematic.
Frankly, beginning to wonder if you guys should even bother with Starter Island and just dump people to the wolves on the mainland, since players still loose everything but their skill levels when they leave for Abella. After all, deaths with no skill level to loose are less painful than loosing skill levels because you have no gear to defend yourself.