As a paladin how neccessary is it to do the virtue quests and at what level do i need to be to begin theses quests--also how do i go on thesee quests..sorry i am a bit of a newbie?

Actually you do not "have" to do any of them unless you want to. Compassion is one that you can do now. Most of the others will be a little further down the road skill wise.

If you are around Haven. You can start gaining compassion right away. Just do an NPC escort (that is one where they ask you to take them to ????). Not only will you gain compassion but they will pay you 500 gold for doing it. You can only gain on five escorts in a 24 hour period. Though you can do many more then that.

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Vepl

Compassion is very easy but it takes forever to get become a knight, i beleave you can on escort and gain 3 times a day. one little peace of advice, gate travel is your best friend

Nevaeh, the Haven escorts can be "walked" to there destination in Haven. Great for warriors.

Vepl

and all this time, ive been doing it the "hard" way...... thx vepl, ive started a char. and almost gave up on ever kighting him

Thanks your answers will help me alot i got this game as a gift and i can't stop playing it ..reminds me of the old days on the commodore 64 ultima was great then and even greater now p.s im sure i will be full of questions in the future thank you all

What is the virtue quest? Is the virtue quest something I should look into? I never really got into any of the quest except the Matriarch and the Hag.

The Virute Quests are a series of quests that give reward iems. Aside from the Cloak of Humility, they are all pretty darnquick and easy to do if you have a decent runebook collection in your pack...

The Virtues that they have been talking about here are the active game virtues; Compassion, Sacrifice, Valor, etc. Not really any kind of "quest" but kinda...

On a side note, last time I checked, you didnt gain in Compassion from haven NPCs. It still gave the message about "you kind deeds being noticed" but it never said "You have gained in compassion" under that.

Oh, and its five escorts per 24 hour time period. you can stil do them after 5, but they wont give any Compassion points...

I've been gaining compassion in haven because I couldn't gate. It's really slow though, and there's a 5 minute timer.

I have a newbie on Lake Austin and he has been gaining Compassion from the Haven escorts. I don't know how high they will take you but at low levels I know you do gain.

Actually, there are three different "quests" sets that are being confused here. There are the Virtues themselves, accessed via the Virtues gump on the paperdoll, with instructions on how to do them right on the gump itself (and which aren't completed, sadly); the Virtue Quests that Dev Draconi did as a coding exercise; and the Virtue Armor Quests, only one of which has been written so far (Humility Cloak).

The Virtue Quests that Draconi implemented are nice little quests that vary in difficulty, and reward the player with blessed items. One of these, believe it or not, was the basis for an exploit from a year ago that allowed players to manufacture True White Cloth (it has since been fixed). To start these Virtue quests, you visit some NPC's scattered throughout Britannia:

A beggar in Britain, reward is blessed Earrings

A "tortured artist" in Britain, reward is bleach, with which you can remove dyes from artifacts and enhanced items;

A woman in Skara Brae (near the provisioner's shop) who rewards you with a necklace;

A woman in Jhelom (not far from moongate) whose father died and wanders the Jhelom cemetery (danger in this one if you are low in fighting skills) Reward is a mirror.

A Necromancer at the tavern in Minoc who starts a chain quest, reward is a smith's hammer;

A weapons maker in the Lyceum at Moonglow whose wife has become a werewolf, reward is a Wolf Slayer Dagger (not blessed, Draconi forgot to do that, I think)

A man near the East Bank in Trinsic who has a problem, reward is a goblet of wine (if I remember correctly)

An Arms Master at the paladin training facility in Trinsic who wants to show his young charges an example of fighting skill (you). This one is dangerous, as it involves fighting in sequence mongbats, imps and Daemons. Reward is a blessed Sash.

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The Virtue Armor Quest that is currently in game starts in Magincia near the counsellor's guild and is quite involved, and takes the player to both Trammel and Felucca (cities only, though, and thus guard zones) and also requires hefty donations to the Moonglow Zoo, Britain Library, and Vesper Museum. The quest results in the Humility Cloak becoming your reward, if you are smart enough to think the quest through and act humbly. If you don't, you end up with a shield, instead. (no, I'm not providing more spoilers than that). One note: donations to the Britain Library require that you first acquire a Library Token, itself a dangerous chain quest that can get you killed in Ilshenar while hunting Speckled Scorpions. Not a quest for noobs.

I used to have a knight of Compassion, takes ages to get up to knight, about 3 weeks, doin 5 a day. If you go to the orc caves, south of Yew, there is no timer on the NPC's in there. So you take them to their location, go back and get another. You have to do 5 twicea week to keep your knight status. But in spawns its really helpfull, stops res kills.
I'm working on a knight of justice. Thats just a pain in the *** to keep up. Especially for a peace necro that can't really kill reds.