Welcomer harvest mission impossible for newbies

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I just wanted to urge the devs to do *something* about the Welcomer missions before the weekend. You've got this free trial, and you only get 1 chance to make a good first impression. When I logged in today, I got to re-do the Welcomer missions (I guess because my new character hadn't finished them?).

The melee mission was ok.

The harvesting mission was, as far as I could see, impossible for a new player just starting out:

1) Even though I knew where to look, it took about 20 minuites to find a node of the beng amber I needed in order to complete the mission
2) With the Basic Extraction (all a newbie will have), I couldn't get *close* to getting the amber out of the ground. I think I got it to 60% once before it died. After the first node another 3 were found over the total of about another 15-20 minutes, and by that time I gave up.
3) And that's not even counting the Puny Ragus that you have to pass on the way from the village, that do 50-55 points of damage/hit when a newbie has 100 HP.

I realize an experienced player would harvest things closer to town, get the Skill Points and learn better harvesting techniques, then thread their way past the Ragus to get to the amber. But we're talking about a swarm of new players just figuring out the game that'll be following the 'bread crumb' of 'tutorial missions' that lead to this one. Its just going to frustrate the heck out of folks, and you're going to miss out on getting new customers.

For your own sake and the sake of the agme, either move the beng amber closer to town and make it easier to extract, or change the Welcomer mission to send the player after something else!