Last night I tried the best quest so far in World of Warcraft. It was small and simple and easy to perform, but nevertheless. It was a class quest for my druid character, and what I had to do was cure 10 sick gazelles by giving them an anti-dote. I ran aimlessly around the Northern part of the Barrens to find them, sick and greenly creatues walking around slowly and once in a while giving off small clouds of weird grey dust. When I gave them the anti-dote they changed colours and became normal to look at, dark-brown, beige and white, and then ran off, lightly. See, apart from the occasional "bring object A from NPC B to NPC B" or "talk to NPC Y", all quests in this game is about klling and looting. This is the first quest in the game (to me) that was about doing something actively "good" and I found that every bit as rewarding as killing Kreelig Snarlsnout (which was rewarding because I took him out from behind withour having to kill an entire camp of razormanes, the point being that if you can save time killing and keep your own character from dying in the process, that gives you a high too...).

Perhaps this particular quest also appealed to me, because I am - after all - the daughter of two vets and very fond of healer characters - but worthwhile pondering in any case. What would happen if there were more quests like this? ("Heal 15 poxplagued children in the derelict huts south of the Forgotten Pools for min. 100 HP each"?). I'd do them happily, but would they "kill the fun" for other people?
# posted by Lisbeth at: 11:09