World of Warcraft: Legion brings particularly powerful artifact weapons tailored specifically to their class and role. All players? No, because a certain gamer has no chance for the artifact weapon quest due to his petty war against the druids of the Circle of Cenarius!
In online role-playing games, players rarely suffer from far-reaching consequences for their misdeeds, as NPCs usually don’t “remember” when a player kills a lot of them. But in World of Warcraft, you can actually mess up your standing with a faction so badly that they remain hostile until you regain enough positive reputation with them.
“You won’t get an artifact weapon here!”
A player must have been very bored or had a particular hatred for the guardians of the druid meeting place “Moonlight Glade,” as he has ruthlessly slaughtered countless of them in the past and thus earned the status of “Hostile” with them. Unfortunately, he is a druid himself and wanted to pick up his quest for the druid artifact weapon from the Archdruid Hamuul Runetotem at the start of Legion – like all the other good druids did.
But to his great dismay, Hamuul did not provide the hint for the coveted weapon, but rather some solid slaps in the face! Because the Archdruid was far from pleased with the player’s actions and, due to the negative standing with the druid faction, had become a hostile NPC for the player. And hostile NPCs simply do not offer quests!
However, since the player did not want to endlessly collect faction points with the druids, he asked Blizzard for help in the WoW forum and indeed, he has since been helped, and Hamuul Runetotem has been made a neutral NPC. Of course, most forum users found the topic to be hilarious and there were more or less biting remarks. Some are even calling for a new NPC with the player’s name, who should appear as a redeemed traitor.
Mein-MMO says: Yes, that is karma. And although I actually believe that important quest givers should be neutral for gameplay reasons, I find the whole situation somewhat fitting. But what do you think? Should players’ actions have consequences, even if they severely hinder gameplay? Let us know in the comments!
More info about World of Warcraft: Legion can be found on our overview page for the game.
