Shroud of the Avatar How to Read the Questd

This guide will go over all of the basic data to empathise how the various elements of the Quest System work to obtain quests, detect various quest items and how to complete various quests.
Shroud of the Avatar uses a quest system that is very different from most other online, as well as various RPG games. Quests can be given to you in many diverse ways. Quest Items can be institute and acquired also in many different means. And completing quest can as well be done in several different ways. I volition go over all of these basics to aid y'all understand how they all work together.

Types of Quests
There are many different types of quest you tin find while travelling throughout New Britannia. They tin be a once Side Quest, a Daily Quest, a Repeatable Quest or possibly office of the Episode 1 Chief Quest.

All quests in the game can be completed i time, per Character, per account. Daily Quests and Repeatable quests however tin exist completed either once a solar day or every bit many times as yous wish.

Daily Quests are quests you will receive and consummate and and so tin return once a day and complete again. Daily quests reset at half-dozen:00PM CST (7:00 PM CST during Daylight Savings Time).
Repeatable Quests are quest you lot will receive and complete and and so can do these quests equally many times every bit you would like.
Side Quests are quests that can only exist done one time.
Episode 1 Main Quests are quests that can simply be once.

Of note, using your one time Quest Reset on a character, if you have that available, will let y'all to do all of these quests again.

Receiving a Quest
Receiving a quest can be done in several unlike ways:

When speaking to an NPC, they may have a help keyword that shows, and clicking the aid keyword will give you a quest.

When speaking to an NPC, they may not have a assist keyword that shows, just speaking to them farther most various topics a help keyword will show up in the listing of keywords. So clicking the help keyword volition give you lot a quest.

When speaking to an NPC, they may not have a aid keyword that shows at all. If you lot manually type the word help they volition then give you a quest, if they have one to give you lot.

When speaking to a NPC, y'all may need to type or click on a specific keyword to receive a quest.

You may happen to observe and pick upward an object that is a Quest Item. Upon picking upward this item, a Quest is given to yous.

Some Quests tin just exist given later on you accept finished another related quest.

Of note, with older quests, y'all are never given a selection to receive a quest or not. You lot are given the quest automatically. Newer quests and quests in the Episode ii areas, now take an selection to receive a quest. Before being given a quest, 3 different options are be given to you. If you exercise not want to take a quest being offered to you, you can select the last (far right) choice and then merely render and accept the quest when you would like to.
When You Have Received A quest
When you lot are given a quest, you will see a text entry on your screen called a Task List, and when you lot printing the J key, you can also notice this quest listed in your Quest Periodical:

Task List: This will let you know a Quest is all the same agile.
Mouse Hover Over Text: When yous move your mouse over a Task List, this will give you very basic information on how to proceed to the adjacent step of a quest.
Journal Entry: Double Clicking on a Chore List volition open up the Journal to that specific Quest Periodical Entry, or press the j key to open your journal. Your quest Journal will have much more detailed information on how to proceed to the next step for the current quest. Some quests are very complex, so reading the journal entry will provide you with this information.

When doing Daily or Repeatable quests, you volition only receive a task list and journal entry the first time yous finish them. You can withal continue to exercise these quests, but no new task listing or journal entry will be given when doing these again.

Quest Markers
In your compass at the height of your screen and on the map for a scene, when doing diverse quests, several different blue markers volition be shown. Hovering your mouse over any of these markers will besides show y'all what you need to do likewise every bit the associated quest the marker is for:

All of these markers signal specific things, and work differently:

Hourglass Markers: These are markers that testify where an item MIGHT perchance be found at. These markers Exercise Not show the verbal location for the item you are looking for. You will demand to search each of the areas indicated by these markers until you find the object you are looking for.

Surface area Indicator: While walking on the Overland Map, if there is an surface area that has a quest you currently have active inside it, it will accept this area's icon in blue. This just let's you lot know you currently take a quest inside that scene.

Person Marking: If you demand to speak to a specific NPC, this icon volition testify y'all the exact location an NPC can exist found. Practice note, some NPC's tin can exist in a edifice, and may be at the upper floors of the building.

Location Mark: This marker WILL show the exact location of an detail you are looking for, and where it is constitute.

All of the associated bluish markers will clear when completing a quest, that is associated with them.

Keywords
It is very of import that you do take keywords showing when speaking to NPC'due south if you lot are doing quests.
Clicking this triangle here:

Will make ALL keywords hidden when speaking to NPC's:

Then make certain first that you Exercise take keywords showing for an NPC when doing quests.

It' is as well very important y'all understand how the unlike keywords bear witness white or grey text, when speaking to a NPC: Keywords in white are merely keywords y'all take not spoken nigh notwithstanding with this NPC. Once you have spoken a keyword to a NPC, the keyword and so turns greyness.

Sometimes when completing quests, you will need to click on grey colored keywords again.

NPC's tin only prove and then many keywords at a time, click here to to see more keyword options, if the keyword you lot are looking for is not showing currently:

Some quests volition have yous go speak to various NPC'due south. When you speak to the specific NPC y'all need to speak to, you lot volition see a related keyword you lot need to click on to accelerate the quest.

Some quests will have you lot go speak to various NPC's. These NPC'southward will Non show a keyword needed to accelerate the quest to the side by side stride when yous speak to them. When you printing J key and read your journal entry for a specific quest, you may see a give-and-take in quotes (For example "Northern History"). This will give you lot a hint you lot will need to type this verbal give-and-take, when speaking to the NPC, to accelerate the quest to the side by side step.

Quest Items
Quest Items needed to consummate quests tin can either exist regular items you can find in the globe, or specific quest items. Specific quest items can have several different backdrop:

Side Quests and Episode 1 Main Quest items, can but exist found 1 fourth dimension. Y'all will not be able to collect multiple copies of these items one time you completed the quest that uses them.

Virtually all Daily and Repeatable Quest Items can only be constitute i time, and then you lot tin simply conduct one of these at a fourth dimension. Arcane Catalyst and 4 of the Honey Letter of the alphabet quest items, you can collect multiple copies of these.

Completing Quests
After y'all have nerveless a needed Quest Item for a Quest, when returning to a NPC to complete a quest, this can exist done in several unlike ways:

While you have all the Quest Items needed for a Quest, the NPC will immediately take the quest items and then give you your advantage, and the quest is completed.

While you have all the Quest Items needed for a Quest, the NPC will immediately open a Quest Detail turn in window, where you tin can select and drag these items and merchandise them to the NPC to complete a quest.

While you take all the Quest Items needed for a Quest, you volition need to click on a specific keyword associated with the detail you want to requite them. This volition then open a Quest Particular turn in window, where you can select and drag these items and merchandise them to the NPC to consummate a quest.

Returning Players With Very Sometime Characters
If you are a player that is returning from a very long time agone, you may accept some issues completing some of the erstwhile quests that are currently shown on your character. This is because many of the quests and various other changes have been implemented since you last played.
At Release 47, they added an pick where every grapheme on an account can use a one time Quest Reset. You can use this choice to reset your Characters quests completely. Using this option volition ONLY remove quest items that are currently in your inventory, and zilch more than. See a detailed guide for using that option here: Using your One Fourth dimension Quest Reset selection

Conclusion
I am hoping that past explaining the various parts of the Quest System, this will assistance you lot to understand how to finish the various quests that are within the game. If you even so have some questions virtually a specific Quest, please always feel free to enquire your question on the forums about a specific Quest.

If I am not explaining something well plenty in this guide, delight do let me know!

All of the information within this mail can be freely be copied and used past anyone, including Catnip games.

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Updates:
*8/29/2021 Information posted is current as of Release 93.
*viii/29/2021 Added info about hiding keywords. Thank you Aisle Oop!
*8/29/2021 Added wiki links to the Daily and Repeatable quest pages.
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Last edited: Dec 29, 2021
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