Monday, December 3, 2018

Incredibly Innacurately Named Quest

There's a World Quest in Tiragarde Sound where you talk to a friendly Tauren who flies you over to a ship packed with enemies where you are instructed to kill three named mobs and ten regular mobs. It should say on the quest objectives " /10 Ship crew slain, LOL" because you're going to kill ten within the first few seconds of the quest. The rest of the time you'll wander aimlessly through countless rooms and what feels like ten or eleven deck levels to find the named mobs who are safely tucked away in remote corners of the ship. Just like shooting fish in a barrel. :-/

I have no idea what Blizzard employee thought "Like Fish in a Barrel" was a good name for this WQ, but evidently they have a different understanding of what exactly that saying means. I always assumed that it meant "easy", because all of the fish were trapped in a confined space and you could shoot them without the means of escape. However, it seems the alternative interpretation is that that fish are so packed into the barrel that it's impossible to find and kill the three named fish that you're searching for without killing every single other fish in that barrel at least FOUR TIMES. Except that actual fish don't respawn upon death, so even that doesn't quite work.

I would suggest the title "Like Finding Three Needles in a Haystack If You Drew Aggro on Every Single Piece of Hay and It Respawned at an Alarming Rate" but I can see why they went with something shorter. How about "Painful and Demoralizing Quest" or just save my time and call it "Skip This One".