[Covetous Countess] Is this quest too good?

Dusk_Coven · August 2019

You get a shipment that potentially lets you do this quest 3 more times without having to steal anything. And you can get around 32K XP each time.
The more you do it, the more times you can keep doing it because of the Large Shipments.
You just keep checking the Tip Board till you get the quest again and again.
Really doesn't sound like it's intended to be this way.

Nestor · August 2019

It's been this way since launch. And, yes, it feeds itself from the rewards. It is how I have leveled TG Rep on any alts I run through the guild.

Khumbu · August 2019

Ssh! Don't get this nerfed, it's so good for quick leveling TG on alts... >.> <.<

redspecter23 · August 2019

It's good, but I don't think it overperforms in any one area. It's a solid way to level TG but not broken fast, just efficient. The xp is decent for a fast quest, but with multiple load screens that reduces the xp/min below standard mob grinding. I'd say it's in a good place.

Dusk_Coven · August 2019

redspecter23 wrote: »

It's good, but I don't think it overperforms in any one area. It's a solid way to level TG but not broken fast, just efficient. The xp is decent for a fast quest, but with multiple load screens that reduces the xp/min below standard mob grinding. I'd say it's in a good place.

Depends on where the benchmark is.
IF the Countess is in an OK place then the other TG quests are underperforming. Risk is high and/or time cost is comparatively very high for pickpocketing and lockboxes for a comparable reward of a large lockbox.
Some days you are competing with non-questing-people for those lockboxes and you can't even find one.

But if those quests are the benchmark, then the Countess is overperforming for just being a Fedex mission. Even if you didn't have any stuff, you can get the ball rolling by going to a no-NPC area and just grabbing everything from containers till you have some inventory to work with. It's really no risk / high reward.

I think a nice change might be higher TG line advancement for doing the pickpocketing/lockboxes, which are directly benefiting the guild (based on the text description) rather than just a business transaction. Maybe +5/+7/+10 depending on how much you do instead of +5.
That, or change the Countess quest to requiring Stolen items, rather than Laundered items, so it doesn't just feed itself and players have something to do with overflow stolen items they can't fence yet because of the daily limit.