So I'm doing the Shanthmark quest. I get all the items I need, get enough hints, and I look in my inventory to see that one of the items resetted. Being the clever fellow I am, I wrote down all the locations where I found the item. So I go back to retrieve the item, but it isn't there. I check other random locations, and I find it At this point, I feared that the hints I recieved probably also changed, and stopped working on it.

This happens -all- the time to me. I know that the item resetting was implemented to stop people from hogging quest items. Therefore I have a potential solution to address my problem and the quest item hogging problem.

Flag the quest items to become resettable once you leave the quest area. For example, as long as I'm in Shanthmark, the quest items will not reset. However, if I log out or leave Shanthmark, the quest items become resettable, and will reset eventually.

Thoughts?

I like it. This is a problem with pretty much every quest, but is it enough of one to try and re-code the way things reset?

With no competition, I had the Gorgog quest items (all 4 of them) reset on me 5 times in a row before I got get all of them to Marinus (and not to be arrogant, but given my placement of spores everywhere, I was very effecient). It is annoying.

I tried the new Tidal flats quest and already had pretty much all figured out, but then one important denizen was killed and I wasn't able to do a very important thing because that already reseted, and therefore, I lost everything. After doing it for like three hours.

That's not exactly the point, though. It is one thing if someone botches the quest. It is another if you have to spend hours on end because to get from point A to point B with X items has a 20% chance after you've slaved for hours to figure ou the quest.... and that's with no competition.

It's like that with the Faethorn Sceptre quest. One of the items likes to stay with you a really long time but the others repop in a matter of minutes.

That is strange because the only problem I had were people killing the quest mobs. Two of those items last longer then the rest, I'm pretty sure of that, so you need to begin from obtaining those.

I hate this about quests and it's one reason I don't bother with a lot of them. I'm not going to spend an hour working on somthing, come to nearing the end, only to have items start to reset.