User:An Adventurer/Guides/Quest Journal
The Quest Journal was introduced in Gears of Change as a way for players to keep track of their quest timers. Quests are not automatically added to your journal, instead, players must write an entry for each quest. These are normally entered through the game's user interface. However, the journals are stored on the players machine (default C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Asheron's Call on Windows XP) as text files, allowing for players to edit and add to their journals outside of the game, and even copy, paste, and rename entire journals for another character.
Entries
Features
All pages use labels, which is great for sorting in the Page List tab. Current labels are:
- Info - Information on how to use my quest journal entries
- Notes - Non quest information, currently this is only portal routes/shortcut.
- XP - General experience quests. These are quests like Pincers, Tusks, Colo bosses, which have a variety of level/difficulty ranges, but are all very similar within their group and are usually run together.
- XP### - level specific experience quests. Levels are based on restriction first, and difficulty second.
- Soc - general society quests/timers. Currently only used for the armor writ.
- Soc# - rank specific society quests. Initiate = 1, Adept = 2, etc.
Some entries may have a ***TAGS*** section at the bottom. These tags mark the page for use in searches.
REWARD TAGS
- Adventurer's Token
- Cash
- Dispel Gem
- MFK
- Writ
LOCATION TAGS
- Bur
- Caul
- Crystalline Crag
- Gear Knight High
- Gear Knight Low
- Vissidal
Instructions
Your quest journals are stored as text files locally. The default location is My Documents\Asheron's Call. They follow a standard naming pattern of Journal-<Server>-<Character>.txt, e.g. Journal-Leafcull-An Adventurer.txt These files are automatically created the first time you click on the Quest Journal button in the UI, found between the Stats and Map buttons.
If you want to copy my full quest journal, click the "Full Quest Journal" above. Copy all of the code and paste it into the proper character's journal file, then save and close it. That's all.
If you are only interested in a few sections (say, you are only level 90, and are not interested in society quests yet) you can edit your journal several ways:
- Copy the full journal code on the wiki to your local journal text file. Delete unwanted pages from the text file, then save and close.
- Use the sections on the wiki for specific parts of the journal only. Copy these into your local journal text file, then save and close.
- Copy the full journal code on the wiki to your local journal text file, then save and close. Log in to that character, and delete pages using the in game system.
Future Updates
- The Gear Knight Low area is only partially complete. I only added the kill tasks, and I put them all at XP050. I need to go out there with a level 30-40 and see when exactly you can get the tasks and what the %s and caps are, if any. Also need to add the Lesser Lords and ore destruction quests.
- Gear Knight High area has not been added at all. Need to go out there and get the quest info.
- I want to add various graveyard quests, and create the location tag "Graveyard" and reward tag "Mhoire Coin"
- I have gone through the quests page on the wiki and have added most of the useful (and maybe in somes' opinions, not so useful) experience quests from release to july 2006. There are also numerous quests from after that which were part of my first build. I hope to finish going through 2006-2010 and adding all the usefull exp quests.
- Most quests simply give a link to the wiki guide. Exceptions are kill tasks and society quests, and a small handful of normal quests. I hope to get some basic guides written for some of the simpler quests, however, many of the complex quests will still just give a link to the wiki as there is not enough room and formatting ability in the journal to present a good guide.
- Society quests were the first pages I created. I want to clean them up and add in the exp, coin, and ribbon rewards for them.