Comments on: Oooops, My Bad: Quests That Trick You In World of Warcraft

By: Diennea

Diennea — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:35:59 +0000

There’s a huge thing. Basically every quest you do for the Royal Apothecary Society is aimed toward the new plague…since WoW vanilla.
Horde players who take our only quest in duskwood (‘nothing but the truth, just done with an alt) at the end of the line kill with poison a messenger (infiltrator Marksen). Before death he said “I believe the Forsaken are misleading the allies of the Horde…. wait… I feel so… dizzy…”
I love how all the old clue of treachery of the forsaken led to the wrath gate event.
You forgot also the ‘almost made the mess’ moment. Like all the effort we had to do to free Myzrael.

By: care

care — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:15:42 +0000

Ack ! Because I only have two Alliance characters ever !

By: Weryl

Weryl — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:59:45 +0000

How could you leave out helping Abercrombie create Stitches and unleashing him on Duskwood?!

Thanks for the follow on Twitter.

By: Popidge

Popidge — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:49:09 +0000

Amen on the Drakuru Questline. It’s even more rewarding if you roll a DK, as you can get yourself into the role as one of the Knights Of The Ebon Blade, seeing as the 2nd questline (tricking Drakuru) is delivered your Ebon Knight superior Stefan Vaadu.
Even better is the 2 encounters with the Bug Man himself. But i’ll leave that to the lucky questers to find out.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:25:51 +0000

Good point. It would be nice if some NPCs were untrustworthy and that actually mattered. Its somewhat taboo in current MMO design theory for the player to ever feel as if he or she made an irreversible mistake. That seems silly for a genre aimed at long-term enjoyment.

By: Cocles

Cocles — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:01:49 +0000

@Dangablad

LoL!

By: Dangablad

Dangablad — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:35:39 +0000

I once did a string of quests to aid in freeing Varian Wrynn from his orc captors.

Oooops, my bad.

By: care

care — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:37:45 +0000

I just want to be called a foolish mortal by someone who isn’t evil. Like maybe if I accidentally aided Arthas, Alexstraza could be like, “Care ,you are just stupid… Go fix your mess, you foolish mortal. Don’t fuck it up this time.”

By: Cocles

Cocles — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:27:02 +0000

First off, congrats to Care for being our very first guest contributor on Loregy.com. If any one else would like to contribute a guest post, feel free to email me at cocles [at] loregy.com.

Anyway, my own favorite is definitely Kalaran Windblade in Searing Gorge. I remember the first time I ran across him and all I could think was, “Man… I KNOW this guy is up to something, why am I helping him?” I guess there’s such a thing as an inner-WoW evil streak.

It’s fascinating to see how has Blizzard’s quest designers have improved these types of quest chains, culminating with Drakuru.

More acknowledgment would be nice though.

Coc, “Hail! Tis, I! Slayer of Hakkar!”
Thrall, “Weren’t you the one who helped free him in the first place?”
Coc, “Eh– Maybe.”

Hm.

By: Thurokiir

Thurokiir — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:21:36 +0000

Very good!

Ive had a couple of those moments where I helped some blood elf whom is snickering and ranting about the idiocy of druidic based magic and as you help all these nature loving tauren. You also do quests for this Blood Elf chick and eventually assassinate one of cenarius’s SONS!

My first reaction is: Hell no, I don’t need to do this quest, there’s others out there, to me sure playing the bad guy is cool. But in wow it’s a pretty serious violation of the “have your cake and eat it too” rule. We don’t get to do sinister evil things just because it’s a quest giver and they said so. Sure with war lock or rogue your blood bath esque quests are a norm and expected but these quests where you go out and mess up the world, be a total jerk wad or what have you to me, really breaks game flow.

When I stop having fun and start thinking “is this the right move?” In a story, the storyteller’s doin it rong.