abondon quests

[devilonline]

Hi, if we abondon a quest can we pick it later? thanks

[mmorpg man]

yes you can, also if you fail an escort quest, you can abandon it and pick it up again

[devilonline]

thanks a lot

[Froggelet]

thanks a lot

The other thing to remember about abandoning quests is that if the quest is not working properly, if you're having real trouble getting the required item or finding the right character, abandoning it seems to 'straighten' it. You can abandon, go back and accept it again and it will often work properly second time around.

[snowieken]

The quest will be with the original quest giver as if you never took it.

Also, with a chain quest, you only need to go back to the last quest giver: you only need to redo the part that you abandoned and not the entire questline.

When you lose a quest item (accidently throw it away, something like that) you have to abandon the quest and pick it up again to get the quest item back in your possession.

[Mazhulsage]

Another easy thing to forget that some people (me a copule times) forget is that sometimes a quest guy will (Bulwark anyone?) tell you to pick up an item next to them, and if you don't read the quest to see that you'll be like "WTF? ABANDON, SCREW IT!" and it was just as simple as looking at a quick 8 words on the quest.

[Froggelet]

Another easy thing to forget that some people (me a copule times) forget is that sometimes a quest guy will (Bulwark anyone?) tell you to pick up an item next to them, and if you don't read the quest to see that you'll be like "WTF? ABANDON, SCREW IT!" and it was just as simple as looking at a quick 8 words on the quest.

Yes - 99% of the time if you just read a quest carefully, it will be made clear exactly what you have to do and where you have to go. I do find, though, that the higher-level quests (I'm doing them with a lvl 68 NE Hunter) don't always lay it out that clearly. In that case, get yourself to a safe place, Alt/Tab to shut the game screen down, and go have a look at one of the good websites for further enlightenment. Most will give you people's actual experiences with that quest and some helpful suggestions.

[mmorpg man]

yeah thats the sensible thing to do, however, most people (especially when wrath first came out) just bombaded general chat with questions on quests they could have worked out if they had read the quest text.

[Mazhulsage]

TBC was a bit better than Regular WoW, and now Wrath destroys both. "He is a little north-west of Named Area A"

[Marlous]

yeah thats the sensible thing to do, however, most people (especially when wrath first came out) just bombaded general chat with questions on quests they could have worked out if they had read the quest text.

Oh god yes, I remember that. Especially the DK starting area was awful. *cringes*

I can't stand people who are 'lost' just because they can't be arsed to read the bloody quest text. I'm aware that not every quest is equally clear, but 95% of the whining could've been prevented if they just took a minute to read. Oh, and it bugged me even more when they argued their case with "QuestHelper hasn't been updated yet to include this quest, the game is stupid!" - seriously, how retarded does one have to be to throw common sense out of the window? Some people had been so reliant and dependent on an addon to tell them what to do, that it was a pathetic sight to see them struggle on their own.

Every time I saw someone whining in /1 about how the quests are too difficult and how they can't find item X or person Y or don't know what they're supposed to do (when the quest clearly points into the right direction), my blood started boiling. After some time in BT/HF/DK area I started making snarky remarks about growing some brain cells, get a new pair of glasses, and LEARN2READ, FFS!.. -.-

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Sorry for that rant, but it's one of my pet peeves. Imagine my frustration in the first few weeks of WotLK. :tongue:

[wyren]

I had a problem. I abandoned the siege of under city. I could not get it back it turns out that I had to go to undercity by horse to continue the quest. god I love/hate phasing.

[snowieken]

Oh god yes, I remember that. Especially the DK starting area was awful. *cringes*

I can't stand people who are 'lost' just because they can't be arsed to read the bloody quest text. I'm aware that not every quest is equally clear, but 95% of the whining could've been prevented if they just took a minute to read. Oh, and it bugged me even more when they argued their case with "QuestHelper hasn't been updated yet to include this quest, the game is stupid!" - seriously, how retarded does one have to be to throw common sense out of the window? Some people had been so reliant and dependent on an addon to tell them what to do, that it was a pathetic sight to see them struggle on their own.

Every time I saw someone whining in /1 about how the quests are too difficult and how they can't find item X or person Y or don't know what they're supposed to do (when the quest clearly points into the right direction), my blood started boiling. After some time in BT/HF/DK area I started making snarky remarks about growing some brain cells, get a new pair of glasses, and LEARN2READ, FFS!.. -.-

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Sorry for that rant, but it's one of my pet peeves. Imagine my frustration in the first few weeks of WotLK. :tongue:Yeah, I hear you.

This reminds me of the way my little nephew plays WoW. He is 8 years old, which means he can read, but he doesn't understand a word of English. Maybe yes and no, that's about it. He just accepts quests without being able to understand them and goes out killing stuff randomly, and actually he succeeds pretty well in getting his quests done using the tracker. The beginner quests where he needs to collect items and/or kill things are pretty easily set up for this. It's very cute, actually.

Of course, he is 8, he has an excuse. If you can ask around, you know enough English to understand your quest log, so yes, I am pretty frustrated about these people as well.

[Wintrow]

Heheh, I once read a blog with the title "wow is for kids" where a wow player sometimes let his little kid (age around your nephew's i think) play a tauren hunter. He was decent even in groupplay (that is, occasional grouping out and about). The kid didn't totally get what everything did but he made all sorts of fantasy tales about what his hunter was doing and what his skills meant.

The part that springs most lively to my mind is this (phrased from memory):

He started describing the skills of his hunter giving relatively accurate meaning to each one. Then he arrived at Aspect of the Monkey and said with a kind of confused expression "I don't really know what this one does..." and then his face lit up with a wide grin "... but it says I'm a monkey!".

I can't find the blog anymore... which is sad...
But at least I can be a monkey too :grin:.