Quests - Are They Worth It?

by ciannwn

There are five quests on NeoPets. (1) Ordinary Faerie (2) Snow Faerie (3) Brain Tree (4) Witch (5) Chef. The question is, are they worth the NP? These are my views on each.

1) Most of the ordinary Faerie quests are very cheap and they raise a pet statistic. You have the inconvenience of not being able to use the Shop Wizard but cheap ones are definitely worth doing. The main drawback is that if you have more than one pet you can't choose which one gets the benefit of the Faerie's gratitude. You also have to be chosen to do them and can wait days or even weeks to get one.

2) The Snow Faerie quests are usually very expensive. You get some NP which rarely cover the cost, one of the more common snowballs and another prize which tends to be worth nothing, such as a Quiggle key chain Only do these if you are one of those lucky people with a super-fast connection and able to buy faeries in the Magic Shop.

3) The Brain Tree quests involve feeding the Esophagor. The latter invariably wants rare food which is hideously expensive. Prizes are supposed to be worth a lot but as everyone ends up with things like garlic shields, spooky pets or bat packs you'll never get your NP back by selling these. Conversely, if you want one of these items, buy it in the Market Place at a fraction of the cost of answering the Brain Tree's questions. You'll also make a disillusioned "quester" very happy.

4) The Witch quests tend to be fairly cheap but most of the prizes are worthless Spooky Food. On very rare occasions you'll get something which the Esophagor wants but, usually, you'll come out poorer than when you started. So what about these new items which were added on Feb. 11th? Going by my own and other people's experience you're still more than likely to end up with a continual run of worthless items . For example, my husband has done eleven Witch quests today at a total cost of around 8000 NP. The total value of the prizes he's received are around 1000 NP and he's now given up.

5) The Chef's quests used to be great because at least half of them could be done for a few hundred NP - or even under 100 NP. You could get a pet's statistic raised at the fraction of the cost of buying a codestone. If you bought your ingredients from the official shops the money prizes would more than pay for your expenses and some of the items were valuable too. Of course, there were some worthless prizes like trading cards and utility fish but the benefits outweighed the risks. Now that the quest items have been changed, however, nearly all the quests are horribly expensive unless you're lucky enough to find the required items in the official shops. You could easily run out of time waiting for things like rare chocolate animals, blue Neggs and roast beef to come in but the alternative is spending thousands of NP in the Marketplace. So, if you're seriously trying to train a pet you're now better off buying a Codestone and going to the Training School.

My advice, therefore, is to leave most quests alone unless you're incredibly rich and don't mind losing thousands of NP in the hope of getting something worthwhile on very rare occasions.