New Quest idea...

I'm thinking of Crafting Quests here...
Questlines (Thinking upwards of 4-6 quests in each line) that begin in the Forge and require u to collect random completely useless items only when u have the quest active (This would require plenty of new items and drop rates to be made, however) that would all be used to Forge the quest items together to make XP/Gold giving one-time use items that are bound to you in a pack of varying size (1-10 at random). These questlines aught to send you to multiple locations to recover the items.
Maybe this could be some sort of alchemy... XP/Gold Potions? Based on the difficulty required to collect the items, the Gold/XP recieved could be scaled. This would have to be somewhat useful though, or it would get completely ignored.

MAYYYYYYYBE, this could be a part of what used to be "Treasure Hunting" but doesn't have to be done ONLY in the desert. Another Skill to Train with XP that might enable you to get increased drop rates for these quest items or random treasures with random items in it. Treasures would have to be VERY rare tho.

Food for thought... heh.