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Bursar of Tributes and Covetous Countess
For starters:
Bursar of Tributes quests fit the pattern:
- You go to the quest giver (near the Brass Fortress wayshrine in Clockwork City).
- He asks for items.
- You already have them in inventory or in your bank.
- You give them to him.
- You're done. You get a standard kind of DLC daily reward bag (and this week also an Anniversary Box), along with standard gold and XP.
Complications on that include:
- Quest prerequisites include a few of the Clockwork City main regional quests.
- If you don't already have the items, it's a pain.
By the way -- the Bursar of Tributes is a crow. (A real crow, not the Jon Snow kind.)
Covetous Countess quests fit the pattern:
- You get the quest from the Tip Board in the Thieves Den.
- It asks for items.
- You take the items to the Countess in or outside the main tavern in the main city in one of your five home alliance zones.
- You return back to the Thieves Den.
- Kari gives you a Thieves Guild "Laundered Items" bag, along with standard gold and XP.
Complications include:
- Quest prerequisites for the tip board include some Thieves Guild quests, whose own prerequisites may include some Thieves Guild rank.
- You can examine and reject quests from the Tip Board. Sometimes it takes 10-20 tries to get what you want. (A Covetous Countess quest will start with the words "Esteemed thieves".)
- If you don't already have the items, it's a pain.
All the items the Countess wants and half the items the crow wants are stolen goods of specific types. Notes on that start:
- The Countess requires the goods to be laundered; the crow does not.
- You can actually steal and if needed launder them, but that is slow and tedious.
- You can also get them -- laundered -- from rewards for Thieves Guild repeatable quests -- specifically from the Tip Board (Covetous Countess or otherwise) or from heists. That's the best way, but there's of course RNG as to what types of goods you get.
- These goods are listed as "Junk" in your inventory. So you may sell them to the merchant by mistake. I did this a few days ago, and it was a huge setback to my repeatable-quests machine.
- A bag of laundered goods contains 10 identical items or 2 sets of 5 identical itms, only some kinds of which will ever be useful for turning in for quests.
- The Covetous Countess wants 3 items at a time.
- The Bursar of Tributes wants 5 items at a time.
- The list of item types requested via the quest dialog or quest log may not be precisely accurate.
That last point is a big part of why I'm making this thread. Please see the next post.
Edited by FrancisCrawford on May 31, 2020 8:59AM