Alas, My Gentle Quince Tree

[VDZ]

there ought to be some sort of crime related to killing questgivers since it can take someone less than a few hours to [kill questgivers]

It's not that easy. You don't get your first quest until you've played for a while, and getting any additional ones after claiming your first victim costs quite a bit of XP. All in all, conscious killing of questgivers takes a lot of time unless they're marked by other players. (Furthermore, as far as I'm aware killing questgivers does not reduce the number of questgivers in the area - the spirit just moves to another tree/rock.)

I also planted a mayflower tree nearby to later chop down but ended up receiving a quest from it.

Interesting, this is the first time I've heard about a player getting a quest from a planted tree.

[MagicManICT]

It's not that easy. You don't get your first quest until you've played for a while, and getting any additional ones after claiming your first victim costs quite a bit of XP. All in all, conscious killing of questgivers takes a lot of time unless they're marked by other players. (Furthermore, as far as I'm aware killing questgivers does not reduce the number of questgivers in the area - the spirit just moves to another tree/rock.)

You do keep getting whispers if you have no quests, but if I understand right, the timer keeps getting longer and longer each time you abandon one. Last time I tested the timer was w10, and it took abandoning dozens of quests to lengthy it any significant time. Things have changed since then, though.

Interesting, this is the first time I've heard about a player getting a quest from a planted tree.

First time YOU'VE heard about it. FWIW, jorb has hinted at this. (One wonders if a quality tree would give better quality quest rewards...

[The_Lich_King]

It's not that easy. You don't get your first quest until you've played for a while, and getting any additional ones after claiming your first victim costs quite a bit of XP. All in all, conscious killing of questgivers takes a lot of time unless they're marked by other players. (Furthermore, as far as I'm aware killing questgivers does not reduce the number of questgivers in the area - the spirit just moves to another tree/rock.)

You do keep getting whispers if you have no quests, but if I understand right, the timer keeps getting longer and longer each time you abandon one. Last time I tested the timer was w10, and it took abandoning dozens of quests to lengthy it any significant time. Things have changed since then, though.

Interesting, this is the first time I've heard about a player getting a quest from a planted tree.

First time YOU'VE heard about it. FWIW, jorb has hinted at this. (One wonders if a quality tree would give better quality quest rewards...

Time to design a scientific experiment.

Somebody should plant a Q 10 tree, then plant the highest Q tree they can, then abandon quest givers until the two planted trees become quest givers... then compare the results.

[VDZ]

Interesting, this is the first time I've heard about a player getting a quest from a planted tree.

First time YOU'VE heard about it. FWIW, jorb has hinted at this.

Yes, I've heard hints and speculation, but this is the first time I've seen it actually confirmed.

[mvgulik]

Somebody should plant a Q 10 tree, then plant the highest Q tree they can, then abandon quest givers until the two planted trees become quest givers... then compare the results.

lol, yea. never mind all the other nearby tree's and boulders.

[WowGain]

there ought to be some sort of crime related to killing questgivers since it can take someone less than a few hours to [kill questgivers]

It's not that easy. You don't get your first quest until you've played for a while, and getting any additional ones after claiming your first victim costs quite a bit of XP. All in all, conscious killing of questgivers takes a lot of time unless they're marked by other players. (Furthermore, as far as I'm aware killing questgivers does not reduce the number of questgivers in the area - the spirit just moves to another tree/rock.)

its piss easy
a group of about 3 people killed 20-something quest givers within 5 or 6 hours just last week in my area. It was every single quest tree within nearly 3 provinces, and none of them were marked.
it doesn't reduce the total amount but it does cause literally everyone who had a quest from that tree (including credo quests) to then fail that quest and potentially be set back on a credo as if they had abandoned.

[ogey]

I don't know if it's relevant but the tree I planted was seed straight to the ground. I don't think using a treeplanter's pot will magically invalidate your tree from becoming a quest giver but who knows.

[Kolrim]

I suppose if she raised the dandelion q that much I'd be pretty mad at her, too!

Why would dandelion q being high be a bad thing?

[mvgulik]

[Sarcasm] I suppose if she raised the dandelion q that much I'd be pretty mad at her, too! [/Sarcasm]

[DoverianDragoon]

I suppose if she raised the dandelion q that much I'd be pretty mad at her, too!

Why would dandelion q being high be a bad thing?

Eh... it's not that high dandelion q would be bad. It's that there are so many quest rewards one would rather receive. But I liked this tree for her name and her location and for how often I'd be sent to see her. She was just... a nice tree.