@kalfje: join a fellowship and find someone to trade with. Then you can put up trades like 100 steel for 100 marble and 100 marble for 100 steel, repeat that several times and you will complete the quest fast without losing any goods. In fact, this is one of the quests that is easy to do, even on a low level, you just might need some help.
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I like the fact that we have an event. I also like the reward. And I like it that we can see our progress, that we know we have to do 12 quests and can see how much we have done.
I also like quests like producing beverages 60 times. Yes, it needs some time and you need to click and I understand some people find this boring, but these are quests that can be done and they aren't hard to do.
I am worried about the gain 17 relics quest. I tried to fight in the tournaments, but failed. I don't want to fight in a province, because I understood I am already way too far ahead (did 337 provinces) and because I have no idea how to fight with the new system.
So I catered all in the tournaments, which was rather expensive. But what if someone gets this quest who has done more than 222 provinces, but isn't yet in the orc chapter, so has no armories level 20 or higher? Catering in tournaments might be too expensive for those players, fighting too hard, so what is left then to complete that quest? Imagine you get the frustration and disappointment about the new fighting system first and then also an event you can't complete because of that. Maybe I am worried about nothing, I really hope everyone will be able to complete this.
For me, this event distracts me from the problems with the new fighting system, which is good. It comes at the right time for me.