We tell you which quests in World of Warcraft are particularly cruel. In some WoW quests, the heroes get their hands dirty. Because in the comic world of Azeroth, some things are morally reprehensible …
The number of quests in World of Warcraft is overwhelming. However, with the countless missions that exist in Azeroth (and other dimensions), we are not always the shining hero. Often our character is exploited, and sometimes at the end of a quest, we wonder: Was I the villain here? We want to highlight a handful of these quest lines.
Surely one could include every second kill quest in this list if one wanted to. After all, we travel through the world and are asked at almost every corner to wipe out some tribe or enemy village.
However, there are some quests that stand out in memory due to their content and moral ambiguity. We present to you the top 5 of the cruelest quests in World of Warcraft.
Doing the Right Thing
Since the Cataclysm, many areas of the classic world in World of Warcraft have changed. The former war-torn area Hillsbrad Foothills is now almost entirely in the grip of the Horde, which is starting various projects here. The mines of the humans are being plundered and bears are infected with spiders that lay their eggs in the festering wounds, so that the spiders can then be collected from the corpses.
However, all of this pales in comparison to the Sludge Fields, a large camp of the Forsaken that spans several farms and now serves as a testing ground for the experiments of a mad undead.
The atmosphere within the walls is oppressive: some see a similarity to a concentration camp in the Forsaken camp.
During the quest line, eventually a new quest giver appears – a shovel. This initiates the mission Doing the Right Thing with the following words:
You are treated to a dreadful sight. Someone has buried all the humans up to their necks, making them look as if they had been planted. The ghouls, who apparently tend this field of human sprouts, regularly leap to the nearest human and devour his head!
You can end this right here and now. Take this shovel and ‘save’ the humans.
Do the right thing.
And ‘the right thing’ in this case is to dig the humans out with the shovel. Those who wish to can free the humans, who subsequently run away. But what if you, as a horde player, have no interest in letting humans go? Well… then there is an alternative. If you like, you can simply behead the humans with the shovel.
Cruel? Definitely. Morally reprehensible? … from an Alliance perspective, maybe.
