I have found the most evil quest NPC in all of World of Warcraft, Elementalist Lo’ap of the Throne of Elements, Nagrand.
Here he is.
This guy is like an old fart down the block who asks you to deliver a few packages, what’s the harm, he’ll make it worth your while — next thing you know, you’re stabbing some made guy in a car trunk and seeing black helicopters flying over your house.
To wit: First, he wants you to pick up some animal shit. A LOT of animal shit. (A Rare Bean) Then, he wants you to eat the shit. (Eat shit, then kill stuff)
You’ve now lost your e-dignity, it’s time to test your limits: Go burn a village.
I checked it out: those creatures aren’t bothering anyone, they keep to themselves — they’re fishermen, naturalists of a sort. TOO BAD, they’ve pissed off Lo’ap somehow and he wants it burned to the ground: every hut, every house.
Lastly (and thankfully, ’cause who knows how far this guy would ask you to go), he wants you to clean up some lake pollution. All of a sudden he’s concerned about the environment — never mind the HOMES you just BURNED.
I realized, after I had done his bidding for an hour or so, I’ll do just about anything for a few experience points.
Reminds me of that oh-so-entertaining felhound doggywalk in Hellfire Peninsula. That thing had rancid diarrhea– Kill a boar, it munches it down.. two seconds later a nice, fresh, greenish-brown pile of happiness to dig through. I had to sift through about 15 piles of felhound dung to get that key.
Y’know I felt like an errand boy whilst doing quests before, but now Blizzard is turning me into a gimp.
Yeah, the truly depressing thing is that was not the first, or second, time I’d found myself heroically sifting through the droppings of some e-beast.
The Outland Sucks line, referenced above, and also the bog giants in Zang – they didn’t spell it out, but that was sure as shit, uh, shit.
blizzard knows that players will do anything in this game.
I bet they laugh their assess when we complete these quests.
There have been times when I’ve found myself reading a quest, and I’ll look up at my husband and say, “hmm, our characters sure are gullible, aren’t they?” as we run off to do the bidding of yet another character who’s obviously a bad guy in disguise (thinking of the dragon in human form in Searing Gorge right now).
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Don’t forget the quest to kill elephants (okay, so they were elekks, big diff) for ivory. How non-pc is that?
Hi I’m Mike Rowe, and digging through poo for beans…it’s a Dirty Job
It’s funny though I was thinking the same thing when he sent me off to burn the village, I was like wow they have a nice religious zealot here. But we did it for sheer reward (ooooh XP gimme gimme), so I guess that makes all of us worse than he 😀