Clearly, some of the events will involve meeting at the castle and getting a task. It is very convenient to start at throne room as everyone knows it.
An overview of the last 12 main EM events on Baja, with reward type:
Event 1: Court Trial
What: Participate as defense or prosecution in a trial court
Reward: Everyone who participated
Event 2: Free Judge Erlington
What: Fight off Anti-Gargish forces (PvP + PvM)
Reward: None
Event 3: Finding Rouso
What: Interview NPCs, solve puzzles
Reward type: Everyone who solved it
Event 4: Recovering Rouso's map fragment
What: Ship battle
Reward type: Mob loot
Event 5: Finding Mowdly
What: Interview NPCs, solve puzzles
Reward type: Everyone who solved it
Evert 6: Free Mowdly's ghost, recover 2nd fragment
What: Ship battle
Reward type: None
Event 7: Mercenary attack
What: Defend various guilds/towns against mercenary attacks
Reward type: Mob loot
Event 8: Find Jacko, recover 3rd map fragment
What: Interview NPCs, Solve puzzles, Fight mobs
Reward type: (1) Everyone who solved it, (2) Mob loot
Event 9: Find 4th Fragment
What: Interview NPCs, fight mobs
Reward type: Mob loot
Event 10: Attack Mercenary camp/recover 4th fragment
What: Ambush mercenary camp in Ilshenar
Reward type: Mob loot
Event 11: Black Tie Gala
What: Opening of Britannian Heraldric Society
Reward: None
Event 12: Prophecy revealed
What: Find the secret dungeon, kill guardians, solve maze, steal book
Reward: (2) Mob loots (1) Steal loot
Now, do we recycle same concepts? Yes. Are there events that require you to go fight mobs? Heck ya. Do we cut corners here and there due to lack of time? Unfortunately.
However, I do not think this translates into hack and slash only. At the very least, there is always fiction accompanied to every event. I am very interested to see if more people feel this way. Granted, as a story line reaches its climax, there is bound to be more fighting involved.
In my opinion, the main thing we have been lacking in lately are events that allow for player versus player combat.
Just a thought...
Is it possible to drop these rewards/rares in a random player's backpack (like Doom & Paragon Artifacts)? Could this bypass the looting scripts? I rarely (no pun intended) get to the loot in time due to severe lag.
No, sir. That is not possible. Something that everyone should keep in mind is that we have instanced loot. This means that for a certain amount of time, only you can loot the items rewarded to you. If you do not check the corpse within the first few minutes, then the loot becomes public. So, I strongly encourage everyone to check a corpse because it happens quite often that a person does not loot their reward.