[TUTORIAL] Making a successful quest line!

[Iceknight001]

G'day guys and gals!

Today i am gonna teach you how to make a successful quest/event line for your server or repack, whatever it may be!!

But..

Before we start you need these things:

• A little bit of thought about a plot line and names.
• Good spelling and grammar.
  
• Creative skills.
• SQL skills or a something like Ascent Database Editor
• Some understanding of LUA (optional)

Ok if you haven't got those things, get them.

I will give you examples with my own plot line thorugh out this tutorial.

1. First things first, think of some names, i use to try typing random things
like lardul and see what i could make out of that like Lord Ardul or
something like that, but you choose how you want to do it.
Sometimes you can use NPC's already mde and just change somethign about them.


2. Second, think of a plot line something that has something to do with
your server or is really good and bound to get people interested.
Mine was something along the lines of this: When Arthas came seeking the Sunwell in the lands of the High elves,
to restore the power of Kel'thuzad, he created a massive scar across
the land leading to it. He did not understand its true power only that
it had it. But, someone else did...

Remus Nightbane another fallen paladin brought under Arthas'
control understood the true power of the Sunwell and the things that
could be achieved through it, realising it would be destroyed
he tried to gain control of it hoping to Stabilise it, but he was
far to late..

He fled from the scourge in search of some other power, destroying
anything in his path.

But he soon learned the waters of the Sunwell and been restored
the Renegade Deathknight, Remus Nightbane, and the scourge
he summoned from the graves of countless enemy's he's slain,
has taken the land inside the scar sending massive amounts of
undead each day into silvermoon in hopes of capturing it!

If he should capture this, his army's would grow too become far
to much for the Blood Elves and they're few allies to handle, and
the Crusader of Death will be in control of the city and have free
passage to the isle of Quel'danas where even Kael'thas would not
stand in his wake...

It actually fits quite nicely with 2.4 and the sunwell plot line i think.


3. Ok, now comes the thinking part. start figuring out how your quest line
will work and how many NPC's you will need such as 5 good guys and 5 bad
guys so you can have some mobs/soldiers and some bosses/elites.

So maybe for your quest you will have a introductory quest where your
asked to take some supplies to this place or maybe go speak to someone.
It doesn't matter as long as it gets them there.

Then maybe you'll have some grinding quests where your asked to kill maybe 10 of this mob and 5 of that, or get me some[Marks of the
Night].

Then at last a Boss killing quest where you have to kill the big guy in
charge of the little dudes. Dont forget to throw in some nice item rewards
so it was worth it!

This is a very simple quest line you may have some better ideas, or maybe you might not, once again, its up to you.


4. Now you want to open up Ascent Database Editor, connect to your
database and start creating you NPCs and Quests if you havent already,
you change from each creator at the top using the labeled tabs.

For faction ID's if you want the good NPC's fight the bad NPC's use
1770 for Good
1771 for Bad

You will want to make the quest sound good and the NPC's look even
better, adding weapons to them using ADE or the method in this guide.
[Noobs guide] How to add working weapons to NPC's/creatures

You will need to change to the Linker tab and use that to link quests to the npcs you want to give players that quest (DONT give the quest to the evil boss dude, cause it will casue a few problems i'd imagine) 5. Now to spawn the NPC's, thats right, time for the funnest part of creating something:yuck:. When placing them in your desired area, mine being the Scar because thats where Scourge went through. Then just type in
this ' .npc spawn ##ID## ' with out the quotation marks of course.

Remember don't put them too close together or people will have a fun time getting through them, especially if they're hard...

I suggest position them where you think is good.

6. This step is optional, you can write a LUA script for your NPC's to give
them that extra custom effect, so they cast spells, maybe at least do this
for your boss so that it is more fun and challenging then hacking and
slashing.

You can find a good guide on how to do these sorts of things here:
LUA mega scripting

And that is it for now just post any questions here!

And remember, rep is not discouraged on mmowned.

Thanks
Iceknight001

[gmking]

Nice and Sticky, i've seeing stuff like this before. But +rep from me ^^

[Dartex]

Thanks for making this guide, it can be a pain to make a good questline
+ rep from me

[Iceknight001]

Thanks a heap people!

[Cursed]

N1 for someone who is new in Private Servers... +Rep 2x

[Iceknight001]

Thanks heaps!

[scionthewise]

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[Medzii]

Good guide!

[Iceknight001]

why the .............. scion and thanks Medzii

[Jardiare]

Cool Very Well posted

[alwaysbored101]

Good job with the tutorials! I got an ascent database editor, an Lua tutorial, and i know how to make quests now in 1 thread. Thanks +Rep