Comments on: Are you questing impaired?

By: pugnaciouspriest

pugnaciouspriest — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:00:31 +0000

I thought I was going blind when I couldn’t find the quests in Icecrown on the helm and Sword. I had to squint, and found these disapportionate ! on them.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:01:19 +0000

I suffered from another variant last night, unfortunately it coincided with a server downtime…

The horizontal-vertical illusion.

Sitting perfectly on the x,y coords. Thinking that there is some special gimmick to spawn the quest mob (as there was a special gimmick for another one of the quest mobs).

15 minutes till server shutdown….
14 minutes till server shutdown….
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3 minutes till server shutdown….
Ohhh it’s on the floor above me….
2 minutes till server shutdown….
1 minute till server shutdown….
Ahhh there it is….
Server shutdown in 15 seconds…
You have been disconnected from the server…

By: Fish

Fish — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:33:30 +0000

LMAO

I think everyone has been guilty of some of that from time to time.

I will constantly (maybe in an over-excitement to kill things) gleefully grind away on mobs I THOUGHT were quest mobs, only to find I’ve been killing the wrong ones for 10-15 mins.

You know what they say, ignorance is bliss.

By: kyrilean

kyrilean — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:32:11 +0000

My weakness isn’t so much the go to X, kill Y, and return to Z. My weakness is the go to X, kill Y, use Q on Y before killing or on Y’s corpse, and return to Z. After about 30 minutes of no drops, I resort to WoWHead or reading the quest text.

By: Desdarii

Desdarii — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:03:04 +0000

Hehehehe! I was just picking on my husband for his blind spots. We were both on our alts and I was helping him with a quest my alt had already done. He had to pick up little tablets or something. I kept running to the next one to wait for him to pick it up and watch him run past me. “Hey here’s one here!” I’d say and he’d come running back.

After finding the majority of his tablets for him I asked “Shouldn’t these have that sparkley glow thing on them for you?” He said they did but shrugged and said I’ve always been better at noticing the little things on the ground than him.

For me, It’s the killing the wrong mobs. A pig is a pig is a pig. If I’m told to kill pigs I’ll kill pigs or pig like creatures until Keste speaks up and points me at the right pigs.

By: Darksentinel

Darksentinel — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:28:11 +0000

Now you see, sir gnome. You and I have the excuse that is linked to an ever-shrinking, semi-redundant chromosome.
Larisa must find some other excuse.

Two points I would like to add:
1: Dear Blizzard. After several years of Kill X, Collect Y, I have almost gotten the hang of frequently going to Wowhead and rereading the quest to see if I am e.g. killing things for an item that is gathered, or killing things in the wrong area of the map, or running to the south-west when I should be going south-east (I swear that irl I am much better with east/west orientation than in-game).
Now you have introduced quests that require me to ride…vehicles? I must collect Storm Clouds and runaway from Thrym after he spawns, continuously looking for him due to my inability to read NPC emotes? I must free an archmage near Amber Ledge by doing…nothing at all? You seek to shake the very foundations of my questing.

2: I have a propensity for abandoning quests, only to really wish I had them later. E.g. abandoning quest X because I’m leaving the zone, only to turn up near the objective of quest X another three times within the next 15 minutes.
I will drop yesterday’s daily for H VH in order to join a PuG for today’s daily: H CoS. Of course, we will wipe horribly at the hands of the Infinite Dragonflight (please Mr DK, can you pick up both groups of mobs so I can keep spamming Holy Light and maybe keeping your undergeared butt alive, assuming you don’t get crit-gibbed). I will leave the group to join a guild run of… H VH. And of course no-one wants to help me complete my saved H CoS since we’ve downed a boss.

Sometimes I just grind. It’s so pleasantly monotonous, repetitive and doesn’t remind me that I’m quite capable of getting this Siege Tank stuck by myself thank-you-very-much, without 10^16 scourge trying to re-enact GTA around me.

I was appalled at the number of quests I noobed up. I’m still appalled at the number I noob up the second time around (ok, there’s this rift. I think it’s that way. Hmmm. Ok there’s an arrow on the mini-map, just for morons like me, and yep, it’s pointing in the other direction. Oh and look, while I was thinking this I was swimming steadily downwards, and… help?).

Brilliant post, Gnomer. Keep it up.

By: dave the tree hugger

dave the tree hugger — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:09:44 +0000

As a mere male i suffer from Treehomocideophobia ….which now extends not only to a fear of paper based instructions but also electronic ones

To get around this i did the following

1 tossed out questhelper….bloated memory resource hungry peace of code.

2 Installed Carbonite.

3 Click on the pink circle for auto track.

4 follow HUD arrow until distance is 0 yards or the arrow is now pointing behind you.

5 look for mob, npc, pickup item or whatever your meant to do. mouseover usually comes up with carbonite window saying you need to kill this monster for quest abc

6 the above works most of the time if u dont find the quest item immediately then and only then do i challenge my phobia

7 i read the quest…no joy then

8 search Wowhead comments no joy then

9 Thottbot

the thing i try to do now is see if the quest giver gives me anything….if they do i drag it onto my action bar….when i get to stage 5 i go through the active quest items to see if any required for current quest.

Warning this often totally kills the story line….Often I haved found myself going to find what i need to do only to find a great story line hidden behind.

Now i read the quest story blurb on occasions but not the instructional bit.

hope this helps but i became so level 80 and geared focus the quest were a means to XP and achievements

By: Larísa

Larísa — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:13:20 +0000

Have you put a camera inside my head?
I really recognize myself…

I don’t get quest done half as quickly as most other players.

The aids I’ve found most effective is a combination of Lightheaded and Tomtom. Lightheaded often gives coords for quest objectives. Then I click them and get an arrow and a spot where I’m supposed to go.

But still… there are times when I’m just like you. Running around, blind, thoughtless, clueless…. Bah. Is it only that I’m old and half senile? Or is it just a complete lack of talent?