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Signed: Magill on Feb 15 2016, 04:02 UTC 

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Minas Tirith repeatable quests

While I was working on completing the Burgsmen's dailies pages, using Smith's & Builder's as examples, I noticed that those 2 latter chains do not include the parts where you actually enter the instances. Should there be an eg: "Instance: Assisting the.... " page for each? Not sure how to structure these as I can't find a relevant example of the same type of flow of quests. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sindi (Contribs • User Talk) at 17:14, 14 February 2016.

Can you make actual page references here? I haven't done any of the MT Dailies, and barely worked MT since 17.2 so I don't know the quests you are referring to.

In particular, what are the "Smith's & Builder's" you refer to? I'm not finding any quests related to them.

Other than that, the general pattern is to have a "wrapper quest" which contains "Complete the Instance:" --- Quest:Bustle in the Blue Theatre is a typical example.

It "completes" with Quest: Instance: Bustle in the Blue Theatre. The Instance is simply a standard quest without a Rewards section and the name "Instance"

There are many other examples in the "Quest Chain" listing, just look for the "Instance" indentation.

(And you do realize that the "QUest Chain" page is simply a Category page that is manually edited.)

Wm Magill - Valamar - OTG/OTC - talk 16:13, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Aha never mind. Found them. See; Category: Old Anórien: Dailies Quests -- I created the entry "Quest Group" for all of those quests.

Wm Magill - Valamar - OTG/OTC - talk 16:37, 15 February 2016 (UTC)