I believe those who have already experienced RF Online know well how Quests work. Quests are granted in according to a player’s level or quest performance so that he or she will not have too much difficulty completing it.

The advantages of doing quests is that they offer an alternative way of leveling without much hassles and this also allows them to focus on PvE (player versus environment) battles.  However, since quests are fairly simple in nature, long-time players might get bored completing them.

In order to breathe new life into the quests, new Quest NPCs have been added.  Since players will have to look for these quest NPCs, it should provide some new challenges to veteran players.

What makes these NPC quests different is that the quests they give cannot be achieved through hunting alone, instead these quests have to be completed within a certain time (Timed Quests).  These quests include hunting quests, PK related quests, and Pit Boss quests.  In all there are more than 100 quests!!

I’d love to introduce them all one by one, but given the limited time (and space) for this report, I’ll just introduce some of them.  But I will include a summary of the quest information at the end of this article.


※ Important reminders : since this edition is based on the test client, the quest and/or reward items may be changed when it will be applied to commercial server.

Accretia

1. Stranger in the Desert

One of the first considerations that need to be taken into account before taking on an NPC quest is your character’s level.  It won’t be difficult to identify which quests are available for your level since an icon will appear over the NPC’s head if they have an available quest for your level.

Even though these are new quests, they also appear in the quest information section of your journal menu (keyboard J), so everyone can easily adapt to it.

Let’s try a quest as a preview.  Look for the Portal NPC Garrung who stands guard in the entrance of the Volcanic Cauldron area in Sette Desert and try to receive his quest.  The quest brief tells us that the Trial Lunkers have become violent in Sette, apparently due to an infection of the Herodian Virus, and you have been tasked to retrieve the Desert Infection Measuring Unit which are inside the Trial Lunkers’ bodies.

Once you return to Garrung with the quest item, you will receive 5 Black Sparkling Stones as a reward.  Yes, I know it doesn’t sound like much, but let’s just focus on the quests first.  When you continue your conversation with Garrung, he will ask you to enter Cauldron to retrieve the Volcano Pollution Measuring Unit.  So that’s what the Black Sparkling Stones are for!

Once in Cauldron, you will need to hunt the Infernal Demolis to get the Volcano Pollution Measuring Unit.  Return to Garrung, and he will ask you to bring it to your race manager.

Once you bring it to the race manager, he will as you to bring it to the Tribunal Representative.  Once he receives the quest item, you will be awarded the Accretian Letter of Appointment and he will ask you to do him a favor in Cauldron.  Once you have completed the favor for the Tribunal Representative, you will be rewarded with 3,000,000 in racial currency and one intense level 45 weapon.  Also, the Accretian Letter of Appointment will be needed to obtain succeeding quests, so be sure not to lose it!

2. Turncoat Accretians

From the heat of Cauldron to icy Ether. If you go to Jobty, a Kartellan merchant, he will ask you to defeat Black Sign troops.  I can’t imagine what type of reward would be worth taking them on.  It would be advisable to create a strong party before taking them on, but after defeating the Black Sign troops in the Kartella Biolab, you will be asked to track down their Commander, “if it’s not too much to ask…”  Somehow, I think it is.

After defeating the Black Sign Commander, you will now be tasked to kill the Black Sign Pit Boss.  I hope I heard wrong, but I don’t think he was kidding.

Since this is one of the strongest pit bosses, you WILL need to arm yourselves for the boss hunt.  Once you complete the Black Hand quests, you will receive 10,000,000 racial currency and one of the weapons of the Black Sign.  These are one of the strongest weapons in the game however it’s also a time-limit item and will be lost once the time limit’s reached.

3. Operation-N

Most level-related quests and NPC quests are only available once, however, there will be a new NPC that will offer repeatable quests for high-level players.

If you go to the Veteran, he will ask you to defeat Caliana Crues, Atrocs, and Archers.  I think this should be easier than defeating the Black Sign.  After completing this mission, a quest to defeat Infernal Lavas in Cauldron awaits!  Once that’s completed, you will be asked to take down Knights, Casters, Millers, and Chandras.

After completing tasks in Ether, Cauldron, Crag Mine and Sette Desert, you will now need to defeat Summoners, Black Knights, Commandos, and Snipers. And as every valiant effort deserves an equal reward, one Potion of Experience is given as a reward for each completed quest.

Since the Potion of Experience increases experience by a certain percentage depending on your level, it will be very helpful for players who are trying to increase their levels.

Bellato

1. Evidence of Machine Civilization

Since I had a hard time with the Accretian high-level quest, this time I’ll take a look at the Bellato low-level quest.  NPC quests start at level 20, so when you hit that magic number, you can start taking on these quests.

If you go to Monk, the Armor NPC in HQ, he will ask you to bring Rigor Lapis skins to the UNIT NPC.  You will need to go to the field and kill Rigor Lapis’ for their skins.  Since most of you would have at least one Returnee item, this shouldn’t be much of a challenge (pawnage, anyone? Haha).  After gathering the skins, go to Amin Sharara, the UNIT NPC and he will ask you to look for the Accretian captive located in the Outpost.  Since we can’t freely communicate with enemy races, a language decoder would be needed.  Go out in the field and acquire one by killing Grumbles.  How that ended up in a Grumble, I don’t think I even want to know.  The important thing is, it has it and we need it, so it’s as good a dead.

Once you have the language decoder, visit the captive in the Outpost before returning to Monk and you will receive the new buffer potion (99 pcs) as a reward.  This potion will increase your attack, defense, and HP by 10% so it will be a big help in leveling.  Don’t forget that this can only be used until level 40, so make sure that you use it up before hitting level 41.

2. The Spy’s Clue

If you go the Billionaire’s Assistant in Anacaade Settlement, you will be asked to look for an escaped Accretian.  Since he’s an Accretian, we can’t let him stay loose in Anacaade, so we need to hunt him down immediately.  The problem is, this particular Accretian is fleet of foot and will wander all over the map.  This may be a tiring quest, but what can we do?  A soldier’s gotta do what a soldier’s gotta do.  The assistant will give you clues as to the Accretian’s location, but don’t rely on him too much.  He once told me the Accretian was in Crawler Highland but I found it in Thunder Cliff.  He might me laughing about it, but I’m certainly not amused.

The Accretian’s name is As02-R1-409518.  Once you manage to find him, it’s time to take him down.  You’ll need to prepare for this one especially if you’re of a low level, because he’s mostly likely of a higher level than you, plus he’s classified as an Ace.  Once you defeat the Accretian, you will receive his belongings.  Take these to the Billionaire’s assistant, and he will ask you to investigate the crashed space ship in Sette Desert.

Fast forward to Sette.  One thing that you need to remember is to watch out for enemy races and hostile NPCs.  After inspecting all the parts of the space ship, such as the fragments of the wing, fore, aft, as well as the engine and the navigation equipment, you will be asked to defeat the Frenzy Ratmoth pit boss.  Wait a minute… we have to kill a WHAT?!

Okay, since there’s no way around this, we’ll need to get ourselves a decent party to take down the Frenzy Ratmoth.  If successful, a 35lv 1~7 ignorance upgrader [grade B] will be given as a reward.  Since it’s not likely that you’ll have any weapons worth using these on at this stage, it would be better to keep them for now and use them later.

3. Corite Conspiracy

Let’s now have a look at the time-limit quests.  If you go to the Inspector in the Outpost, you will learn that the captured Corite spy has installed a nuclear bomb in HQ.  So your mission is to find the bomb and you have 10 minutes to do so.

If you see a message saying “nuclear launch detected”, it means that the bomb is nearby, otherwise it would be better to look elsewhere.  If the time runs out, don’t expect to see HQ fly off its foundations because it won’t.  You’ll only fail the quest, but the HQ still stays right where it is.

After removing the nuclear bomb, go back to the Inspector and you will find that the Corite soldier has escaped!  You’re now tasked to hunt down the escaped convict and once you have defeated him, you will be rewarded with a level 35 armor exchange coupon.  This can be changed to level 35 armor.

Cora

1. Notice: Discontinuation of Operation

If you go to the race manager in HQ, you will be asked to investigate why there was a discontinuation of operation of the passenger ship.  If the transport service is discontinued, Ether will no longer be accessible, so it’s best to go see Meaty, the Kartellan ticket agent at the HQ dock as soon as possible.  Meaty will ask you to kill the Rex Cannibal pit boss which lives in Rock Cavern, Haram Stockade.  As with any pit boss, you’ll need to gather a good party to kill it.  Defeating the Rex Cannibal will give you Experience Recovery Capsule (E), 10 pcs Ether tickets, and the Corite Letter of Appointment.  As with the Accretian quest, you will need to keep the Letter of Appointment for the next leg of the quest.

2. Sealing Reagents

Bring the Letter of Appointment to the race manager.  You will be tasked to acquire Scud Lava Ichor in Elan Plateau.  Once you have gathered 10 Scud Lava Ichor, bring it to Noah Dell, the armor NPC in HQ.  He will make an item from this called the “Wave of Dimension” which he will give to you.

The race manager, Quaine Khan, will order you to bring the Wave of Dimension to Garrung, the civilized Crawler who guards the entrance of Volcanic Cauldron.  Garrung will then ask you to collect Volcano Pollution Measuring Unit II from Cauldron monsters.  To enter Cauldron, you will need to have a Black Sparkling Stone with you, so make sure to have one before going to meet Garrung.

After collecting 5 pcs of Volcano Pollution Measuring Unit II, go back to Garrung.  Your reward will be 2,000,000 racial currency and experience potion.  The experience potion will increase your experience by 5%, but it will disappear from your inventory if not consumed within 3 hours, so use it before it’s gone for good.

3. Mineral Vein Information

This is another one of the repeatable quests for high-level players like Operation-N.  If you go to the expensive rare weapon NPC in HQ, you will be asked to obtain information about a mineral vein from a Corite deserter in the Warehouse located in Armory-117.

Since Armory-117 is an Accretian-controlled area, be careful not to bump into hostiles.  Once you reach the Warehouse, kill the deserters – Warlocks and Templars.  Once they’re eliminated, you will also need to track and eliminate their comrades located in Vafer Shrine (Numerus Stockade) and Herodian Plant (Anacaade Settlement) while Quaine Khan mobilizes people to inspect the mineral vein.

Start with Vafer Shrine in Numerus Stockade, since this is the safer location, and kill Berserkers and Hidden Soldiers.  Once this is completed, head on to Herodian Plant in Anacaade Settlement.  This area in controlled by Bellato, so it would be wise to look out for repellers while completing this quest.  Once you kill the Berserkers and Hidden Soldiers, you will receive a summons from Quaine Khan to go to the Kartella Biolab and eliminate Eisen Ritter (you serious?!) who stands guard at the Central Control Room.

Since she’s the leader, she should know what’s best for the race (I hope).  Go to Kartella Biolab and kill Eisen Ritter in the Central Control Room.  A reward of 1,500,000 race currency will be given along with experience potion.

Appendix ~ Summery of Newly Added NPC Quests per Race

■ Accretia NPC Quest

1st Quest

2nd Quest

High-level Repeatable Quest

■ Bellato NPC Quest

1st Quest

2nd Quest

High-level Repeatable Quest

■ Cora NPC Quest

1st Quest

2nd Quest

High-level Repeatable Quest

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