Time spent finding an acceptable party and doing the PQ is not worth the ~50% chance of getting a single apple in bonus to me any more.
It may be just a seed away, but you still need to hit more than a dozen points to get there.
- Nearest Town to the map with the old dude in it (10s)
- Run to the map where you turn into a dragon, fly downward full speed. (1min)
- Nearest Town into Leafre (or just run 1 map over) (30s)
- Run out of Leafre 2-3 maps (1min)
- Nearest town to Ellinia (10s)
- Get to the Taxi, go to Henesys (30s)
- Warp to Amoria, after running halfway across the widest town in the game (1min)
- Run another few maps out to the APQ (2min)
(do the APQ)
- Run back to Amoria (2min)
- Warp to Henesys (10s)
- Run halfway across the widest town in the game, again, to get to the taxi (1min)
- Run up to the portal to Leafre (1min)
- Another Nearest Town scroll (10s)
- Fly back to Temple of Time (1min 30)
- Run through about 30 ToT maps (6-8min)
- start training again.
Adds up to about 20 minutes just getting to the PQ and back. Throw in a 10 minute PQ (on the fast side, I've had them take 40+min), half an hour finding 6 people who won't screw it up... and that's an hour for a 50% chance at one apple. Family warps can speed the process in one direction, but you only get one a day.
It is better than for other areas (I think El Nath or Aquarium are the farthest and would take about an hour to get to the APQ) but still annoying.
The real problem is that it's the only thing on Victoria of value to any of my characters. None of them train there, none of them buy pots there, none of them do other PQs there. And yet it's 10-15min to even nearby islands. It used to be worth it because of the horrible droprate on Dragon Scales (or anything else of value at Skelegons) so I made money selling apples, but I can train my Paladin at ToT and get a PoT every hour, pretty much guaranteed. The fact that each APQ gives me about 0.15%, while an hour at ToT is near 10% gained, is just another difference.
If you could hold as many APQ tickets as you wanted (stacked, not 1 per slot) and you could gain them every 6 hours in an above-the-head lightbulb quest, then I would accumulate tickets and then do 5-10 back to back APQs. But you can only do 1 per visit to Amoria, spread 6 hours apart.
It may be just a seed away, but you still need to hit more than a dozen points to get there.
- Nearest Town to the map with the old dude in it (10s)
- Run to the map where you turn into a dragon, fly downward full speed. (1min)
- Nearest Town into Leafre (or just run 1 map over) (30s)
- Run out of Leafre 2-3 maps (1min)
- Nearest town to Ellinia (10s)
- Get to the Taxi, go to Henesys (30s)
- Warp to Amoria, after running halfway across the widest town in the game (1min)
- Run another few maps out to the APQ (2min)
(do the APQ)
- Run back to Amoria (2min)
- Warp to Henesys (10s)
- Run halfway across the widest town in the game, again, to get to the taxi (1min)
- Run up to the portal to Leafre (1min)
- Another Nearest Town scroll (10s)
- Fly back to Temple of Time (1min 30)
- Run through about 30 ToT maps (6-8min)
- start training again.
Adds up to about 20 minutes just getting to the PQ and back. Throw in a 10 minute PQ (on the fast side, I've had them take 40+min), half an hour finding 6 people who won't screw it up... and that's an hour for a 50% chance at one apple. Family warps can speed the process in one direction, but you only get one a day.
It is better than for other areas (I think El Nath or Aquarium are the farthest and would take about an hour to get to the APQ) but still annoying.
The real problem is that it's the only thing on Victoria of value to any of my characters. None of them train there, none of them buy pots there, none of them do other PQs there. And yet it's 10-15min to even nearby islands. It used to be worth it because of the horrible droprate on Dragon Scales (or anything else of value at Skelegons) so I made money selling apples, but I can train my Paladin at ToT and get a PoT every hour, pretty much guaranteed. The fact that each APQ gives me about 0.15%, while an hour at ToT is near 10% gained, is just another difference.
If you could hold as many APQ tickets as you wanted (stacked, not 1 per slot) and you could gain them every 6 hours in an above-the-head lightbulb quest, then I would accumulate tickets and then do 5-10 back to back APQs. But you can only do 1 per visit to Amoria, spread 6 hours apart.