Most Irritating Quest
by Damien Barrett 
Dec 6th 2005 at 3:00PM
My vote for the most irritating quest is "Deep Ocean, Vast Sea" in Darkshore. First, I hate fighting in the water...battle in a 3D environment just doesn't work as well in WoW as it does on land (a more 2D environment). Plus it's a quest done in the teen levels where most players are still getting used to their new character and skills. Add to that the fact that the quest rewards suck and you have a quest that begs to be abandoned. Another vote would be the druid Sea Lion form quest. I swam around for ages looking for the second half of the pendant off the coast of Westfall. I finally had to look online for help.
What's your vote for the most frustrating quest in the game?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
geepee Dec 6th 2005 3:34PM
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KellyDot, Sookie, kelly, Hepher Dec 6th 2005 10:56PM
Warlocks can do deap ocean, vast sea pretty easily. Sida's bag I heard is annoying, got it on my second ooz tho!
Userless Dec 6th 2005 4:22PM
This same question was posted to the WoW Quest boards once and by far the most irritating quest for people was that Vast Ocean quest.
However, for me, it's always the random drop unique item quests that are irritating. Only because one time you could get that item really quick. Other times you could spend hours, over days and never get it. The most memorable of these is the Humbert's Sword quest in Hillsbrad, in Dun Garok (http://www.thottbot.com/?qu=547). I never have any luck with it, and I'll have to fight elites with help for hours on end before we get that stupid sword.
emosewami Dec 6th 2005 4:33PM
I hate the string of quests in Duskwood that have you running back and forth across the whole zone to talk to the crazy old hermit by the graveyard and the people in town. Too much walking!
forzaq8 Dec 7th 2005 12:19AM
you didn't try linken quest in ungoro now thats a bad quest
Joe Opsahl Dec 6th 2005 7:59PM
That quest took me lvl 14 night elf rogue
And a lvl 15 night eld druid about 15 minutes to complete.
shar Dec 6th 2005 9:18PM
that deep ocean vast sea, now that you mentioned it, and also the cursed crew on wetland, it was very buggy, especially for archer. T_T
Pieter Dec 7th 2005 7:44AM
For me defintly the search for the blue pearls in Stranglethorn Valley (don't know the name of the quest, came from the Badlands). Not only are they hard to find, you'll have to fight against those creepy murlocs and dive up every half a minute or so... Finished after 2 hours of swimming and diving.
Dr. Woo Dec 7th 2005 8:15AM
The quest for Crawler Mucus and Intact Makrura Eyes for lowbie Trolls/Orcs in Durotar. The drop rate is WAY too low for such a lowbie quest.
The bandage quests are annoying as well...some people have a REALLY hard time with those.
From reading the quest to get Quel'serrar, that seems like it'd be the most irritating.
Shynnee Dec 7th 2005 10:07AM
For the longest time Deep Ocean, Vast Sea was my very least favorite quest until I met with the Timbermaws in Felwood. Get the quest run allll the way back south kill 15 then all the way back north turn in and back and forth and back and forth just to be able to run through the cave to Winterspring to meet another furblog and do it again. Day after day killing furblogs for reputation. I'd navigate underwater anyday before doing that again.
Wordman Dec 7th 2005 12:35PM
Not sure if the Mage quest in the Blue Recluse tavern is still bugged, but it was the least fun I've had on WoW ever.
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TK Dec 7th 2005 1:50PM
Any Gnomeregan quest... coz every time I'm able to solo the quest, everything turns gray. *sigh*
Kinda sucks playing on an almost empty realm. *pouty*
For me, Deep Ocean, Vast Sea is relatively easy... water breathing potions, mob-repelling spells or fake target should do the trick.
Frimoth Dec 7th 2005 3:12PM
Here's another vote for the stupid Linkens Sword quest in Un'goro. Now even more irritating that the FP moved to sithilis!! Oh and the one in Felwood for Winterspring where you kill Owlbeasts over, and over, and over, and over - feh. And those stupid Felwood furblogs somone else mentioned.
Ugkul Dec 8th 2005 3:26AM
Getting the Dark Heart quest took me ages. I killed over a 100 harpies to eventually get the horn.
Kurain Dec 11th 2005 6:55PM
The Worst quest has to be the Attunement for Onxyia (ally's) U run from Brd to Buring steepes to Brd to 2 Bosses back to the NPC do Jailbreak go to winterspring to Ubrs to Winterspring
Willow Dec 11th 2005 1:35PM
Deep ocean is annoying if you try to do it properly, but if you just bite the bullet and die twice near the chests, you can get them from the outside of the ships even. Not hard at all. The blue pearl quest was actually one of my favorites as a druid using swim form and I make a killing selling them at the AH before and after I was done the quest too.
I think for me, the most horrid quest was the first time through the druid swim form quest. Nasty hard to find.. EVEN when I knew where to look... Runner up would be the ships quests in STV before they fixed them so the 1000 pirates wouldn't chase you thru the walls.