[PrinceDark]

I like the zelda style where you do big quests and get fullhearts, but the most of your fullhearts come from doing many many sidequests. And getting swords from different parts of the world is cool too, just not 'questing' for them. Just having it there to grab whenever you're strong enough.
I would say not having to do them would be nice for graal because I like many others want to be able to have same items as any other player starting. That way when a pker comes after me the one that dies is the more skilled person and not the advantaged one thats been playing for 500 hours and preying on newbs from osl.