Interview with Quest development team

-
I recently subscribed (personal birthday present) to the World of Warcraft "official" magazine. Since it only comes out quarterly, I received my first copy this week. Quite impressed with the quality so far; writing is well done, lots of high quality pictures and art and relevant articles. This issue even has a short post on the difference of dragons, drakes and proto-drakes.

bombing sketti eggs
The first article in this issue was an interview with the Quest Dev team. They discuss their developmental process, some of their heartaches and troubles. They brought up when new employees join the dev team they do not get GOOD examples of quests, they provide quests NOT to model. They specifically pointed out the Outland quest Fire over Sketties.
Basically, the monsters have like 5 abilities to disable you in 5 different ways, and they'd knock you off your mount so you'd take durability damage. It was horrible. (Luis Barriga)
Their second example was the quest "The Alchemist Aprentice", specifically for those "shorter" classes. They could not physically reach the ingredients on the top shelves. (At 6' tall in RL, I've seldom had that issue in my own kitchen; hide my secret stash of cookies on top shelf). From what they said, addons were created so that they could get the ingredients.

uugghrrll
From my perspective, I hate all the murloc quests. That daily at the Sunwell was one of my least favorite. As a race, they tend to run when almost dead, and aggro a bunch of their friends when running back. Being a squishy caster with little CC options (fear?), these guys cost me a ton in repairs especially as a freshly minted 70.

So, what is your least favorite quest?  What quests would remove from the game if you had a chance?

Comments

  1. ExcandershamAug 26, 2010, 10:25:00 AM

    The mounted jousting daily quests in theargent tournament. Their not bad they just take too long.

    ReplyDelete
  2. ElkagorasaAug 26, 2010, 10:57:00 AM

    Ugh!, I couldn't even complete those quests until I upgraded my PC and got my framerate up.

    ReplyDelete
  3. CassandriSep 6, 2010, 1:18:00 AM

    I'm short and my roommates and I store all the alcohol on the top shelf above our kitchen cabinets (simply because the kitchen is so small!). Having to ask someone to give you alcohol is usually enough to put me off drinking altogether.

    As for most hated quests it's hard to ignore the escort/talk quests (the tour of Shattrath and the walk around Caverns of Time). But even more than that I really hate the quest when the objective is misleading.

    For example there's an Oracle daily that the objective is to kill 50 whatevers. The Blizz UI quest helper style directions show you were to go and track how many out of 50 you have to kill. What they don't tell you is that *first* you have to fly to some unmarked/minor location and click on a crystal in your inventory to charge it. Only then can you complete the quest.

    I HATE it.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A (much belated) Liebster Award Post

-
Image
I've been nominated for a Liebster Award by that Grumpy Elf hunter over at the aptly named   The Grumpy Elf . Thanks for sending this over my way. Rules Write a blog post about the Liebster Award Thank the person who nominated you and link to their blog Display the award on your blog Answer the eleven questions that the blogger who nominated you gives you Give eleven random facts about yourself Nominate five blogs that you think deserve the award Create eleven questions for them to answer List the rules in your post Inform the bloggers that they've been nominated and provide them the link to your post So lets get on with them questions. What is your favorite expansion of warcraft and why do you think its your favorite? Wrath of the Lich King would have to be my absolute favorite. I started with WoW a few months before BC. This meant that my friends already had max level characters that were actively raiding. I wasn't able to really participate wit...
Read more

Legion's Mythic+ Dungeon Final Impressions

-
Image
Yesterday, Ythisens  posted a question on the WoW forums asking for final impressions on the Mythic+ dungeons. With Legion coming to a close we thought we might try something a little different and collect some specific feedback on things. While we normally are reading tons of posts you guys make and sharing the details internally, we want to try collecting focused feedback to ensure your opinions are being heard. We're still doing our usual methods but want to see if this can be something we use going forward.    For the first one we're going to try one focused on Mythic+! We want to hear everything you guys have on this feature we introduced in Legion. What you think it does well, what you think it doesn't, ways you'd like to see it go, how did it work throughout the course of the expansion, etc.    Also a friendly note that just because you see it here doesn't mean it will be changed or added - and this topic is not an indication of future feature deve...
Read more

Profession Opinions

-
Image
IMHO, spend your first points for herbalism or mining in 40 into [ botany ] or 35 into [ mining process ] so that you can gather while mounted.  I hate that the skinning trainer is standing immediately behind one of the leatherworking tables. I am constantly clicking on them.  I 100% agree with everyone that says the fishing profession needs a hat slot. We may need a secondary equipment slot for toons with a fishing ring.  I wish the crafting orders system worked 'better'. To complete "# of (profession) crafting orders" quests, my default is to go to my bank toon, and order low-level items. Gimme 3 bolts of cloth, or 2 handfuls of bolts, or 3 'profession equipment'. I sort of wish that when I specify a personal order, I could see their available recipes. Oh, look my hunter can make ___, lets's order 3 of those? My bank toon could order profitable items, not just garbage fillers.  Leveling engineering is dreadful. Creating 1 middle-level item, requires 1 ra...
Read more