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In this video we’re going to be going over some of the saddest quests in World of Warcraft. These quests made this list for what the quest made you do, or what happened to the NPCs during or after.
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–The List–
Intro: (0:00)
10. Until Death Do Us Part: (0:13)
9. Welcome to the Machine: (2:25)
8. Lakeshire’s Last Stand: (3:57)
7. Devastation: (5:13)
6. Hunger’s End: (7:58)
5. For Love Eternal: (10:32)
4. A Flicker of Hope : (12:13)
3. The Mosswalker Savior: (14:33)
2. Pamela Redpath: (16:01)
1. A Tale of Valor: (17:42)
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Where did he get that Staff drool
When I first completed A Tale of Valor… I thought to myself “this quest was too good to be just a random occurrence “.
After I found out about the whole lore behind it… I kept Bridenbrad’s ring, up to this day, in my bank, alongside many other trinkets of my journe (the darkspears original cape from Zalazane’s fall, the original argent trinket to gather scourgestones, etc).
May Bridenbecker rest in peace.
Put your faith in the light.
Clarence is not the same as Clarice lol
Runas 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
the dragonmaw story in waking shores is sad imo
The Night Elf version of "A Special Surprise" in the Death Knight Starting zone. It's hard to put into words, so I'll just quote the NPC:
"You don't remember me? When you were a child your mother would leave you in my care while she served at the Temple of the Moon. I held you in my arms and fed you with honey and sheep's milk to calm you until she would return. You were my little angel."
Sooo….yeah.
The Runas quest was when it hit me to not be so cynical about Legion as an expansion, because clearly there were clearly still people who gave a crap on the team outside of the art department.
Jw can you really pronounce sepulcher “sep-u-ler”? I thought it was pronounced “sep-el-ker”
I took a little break at the end of legion and came back again around the 4th week of BFA. When I heard what had happened, I was filled with regret. It seemed like a huge event in the WoW lore and I missed it. I made sure to stick around at the end of BFA for shadowlands pre patch hoping it would be epic. Boy was I wrong lol
When I was doing the Night Elf quest about the lover who asks you to bring his wife's spirit to rest because he can't bring himself to harm her, when I returned the item to him to complete the quest, there was a couple sitting there doing whatever. When the little RP section happened about how she loved him but had to move on and so did he, they actually typed in say chat: 'No, don't go. Stay with him.'
Someone else passing by mocked them for caring about 'some pixels and a made up sob story' and they tore him a new one. To date still one of the most random and weirdest interactions I've had with players that didn't directly involve me. I completed the quest, but other than that, I said or did nothing else. I was just sticking around to see the RP bit and this happened.
I'm not expecting people to care about every quest they do, but when you needlessly insult those that like to RP more than most, then you deserve the earful you're about to get. I was well pleased to see them rip into him.
Runas's hits me hard, I have a family member lost to the real life variant of this.
aand you forgot one, Better Late Then Never- given by Janice Felstone who tragically lost her husband to the scourge and doesn't know–
really sad you missed this one. definitely should be within the top 10
special mention could also go to a duskwood quest
this guy didnt play classic or he would put Tirion quest where he tries to save his son from Scarlet crusade
My saddest was Ysera’s death in legion!
Some Quest in game, become a lesson for human
In pandaria quest when Tauren mother die after birth the Tauren baby and it’s sad
Runas the Shamed hits so close to home. I've lost family members to addiction. Reminds me of it all over again. Being too late and unable to help, just watching him fade away, is too real.
A new adition from Dragonflight to this list would be Veritistrasz' questline in the Waking Shores. I've done it on every alt I have and it makes me tear up every time when he talks about not recognising the landscape anymore, his black dragon friend he lost and he comments on the things and the letter in the time capsule.
I can't believe they didn't mention "Every Rose Has Its Thorne," which was an Alliance only quest that has you get a special rose for your garrison architech, who had a crush on the Worgen commander, but he dies before he can give it to the Orc's invasion of the garrison.
Do you just have a vendetta with mispronouncing names? Clarence? Ivar?
1000 people in that giant old dry tree. 1000 people it said on my quest to save citizens. i managed to save 5 before everything went black. real shit.
In the first one, Clarice is a nod to Clarice Starling, from Silence of the Lambs. … Not really sure who Clarence was. And what about Mankrik? Poor dude standing out there with severe PTSD from the attacks. And after countless heroes return to tell him his wife is dead, he can't deal with it, blocks it from his mind, and so there he stands, asking every adventurer who passes to find his wife. Tragic.
Where is the entire “Smiling Jim” questline in Dustwallow March? That has to be one of the saddest in the game.
I've been listening to a few videos while doing World Quests this morning and even while I had the video just playing the the background, Runas last words still made me tear up a little bit. Man that quest was harsh
Y'know.. Here's the thing. Kingslayer Orcus is portrayed in such a way that to a lot of people would seem cowardly… But he's in what literally previous expansion was current raid gear and with the raid's meta achievement mount, while waltzing about with what, while still a title from the raid, is the title that you get from any version of it–and he would have had to have a more impressive title (Bane of the Fallen King) in order to have his mount.
Orcus isn't there lazying about avoiding the real danger, he's there soaking up all the new lore Cataclysm introduced–refamiliarizing himself with the world after having just fought his way through ICC. Which makes it all the sadder when you realize he basically kamikaze'd himself to save some scrub who'd later go on to be involved in throwing the Horde into chaos twice.
Clarice Foster, is that some kind of a reference to Silence of the Lambs, where 'Clarice' was played by actress Jodi Foster?
"Evie Stormstout" in the Dread Wastes is another quest that tugs at your heart strings.
1:01 He doesn't live there … he's dead. He lies there.
I've done most of these, including your top 3. None are as sad as a quest chain in Shadowmoon Valley in WoD. I can't recall the name of the chain but it actually moved me to tears. Something none of these other quests did.
"The Day The Light Died" quest chain from Legion. Absolutely number one best saddest quest in my heart. Top tier tearjerker and the lore implications and character motives were on point.
"The Light does not abandon its Champions"
I genuinely never knew there was a quest in the undead area of thunderbluff, has it always been there since vanilla?
Man I love this game so much, the ability to make such heart wrenching quests is amazing
I still can't understand why Hiru won't just give me the love I deserve and do some ASMR.
Drustvars wedding quest. Whole drustvar arch was rlly sad but the wedding like damn.
Ben Howell was the man, just an average bloke with a heart of gold and a will of iron, fighting to the death to protect his circle.
Im about to watch this. I bet he included Lillian Voss again
clarence and clarice are different names
clarence is typically a male name, clarice is a females name. famous for silence of the lambs, its likely a reference to that since wow is mostly references. just had to mention this since you said clarence every time
Man, these get me teary eyed every time, especially ben howell.
:(((((((((
who would have guessed that just about a month after this came out Stay a While would be released with Dragonflight and beat out all of these