Breakfast Topic: Abort, Retry, Fail?
by Jennie Lees 
Mar 7th 2006 at 7:00AM
Sometimes, despite our best intentions, we can't complete a particular quest on the first try. Maybe it's a
difficult escort quest, or we're trying to kill mobs with some particularly nasty attacks, but there are plenty of
moments when we want to just give up--or at least come back later.Aborting quests has the unhappy side-effect of filling up your inventory with quest items--half-collected drops and special items given to you by NPCs. Retrying again and again often leads to death and armour at 0%; but failing isn't a nice thought. On the occasions when I give up on a quest, I try to destroy the quest items straight away (so I won't start chucking out the wrong thing in the middle of an instance) and I like to think of it as "moving on" rather than "failure".
What's your attitude to the inevitable quest abandonment? Do you try to complete every single quest you pick up, or are you happy to drop them at a whim?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast Topics, Quests
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PodMonkeys Mar 7th 2006 8:24AM
For the most part I try not to abandon any quests. If I do abort a quest, Its usually because I need to retry the quest or I need the quest log space, and I can pick it back up later.
slybri Mar 7th 2006 8:55AM
There are literally thousands of quests in WoW, many of which are not worth doing for a particular character at a particular time. The reward might not be useable or the XP just not worth the time invested. So I have no problem dropping a green or grey quest...unless it chains into a better quest or one I need for an instance.
The trouble is knowing which quests chain into blue item reward quests and which ones are "thanks, here's 25s and 250xp" quests.
With thousands of quests in a game, it's a shame you can only have 20 active at once.
azagath Mar 7th 2006 10:05AM
I agree that it is unfortunate that you can't hold more than 20 quests at a time. I like to accumulate quests, and if I am travleing through a given area (maybe to meet up with someone), I check my quest log and knock a few off while I'm in the area. 20 quests definitely limits this style of gameplay.
BartmanDK Mar 7th 2006 10:32AM
Well im lvling up a mage on a server where most ppl are lvl 60, so sometimes it can be hard to get some elite quests finished so they are mostly the only quests that i abbandon... but with the quest items, i once had an addon that put the name of the quest in the tooltip on the item so you could always look it up and thottbot or some other site.. cant remember the name of it though!..
Griswald Mar 7th 2006 10:46AM
I drop quests all the time. A quest's value is related to the time and risk required for the XP achieved. And some quests just aren't worth the time.
The shredder manual pages one in Ashenvale for example. I can't be bothered to do that one. The pages take up way too much inventory space.
The Silithid Eggs quest in the southern barrens is another that just wasn't worth it. I'm a Mage and I quest alone often enough, and the time required to harvest all those eggs and kill all those monsters, in the time required I can do 2 or 3 other "kill X monsters" quests..