Something has been bothering me

#0 - Aug. 9, 2010, 3:02 p.m.

This has been bugging me since the game came out. You are out questing and you run in to an NPC with a quest to help them escape from whatever situation they are in. You read the quest and it seems that you need to make haste in getting out of the area. Yet when you start the quest the NPC walks!

I know that if I was trying to escape from whatever situation I was in I would run. I have never understood why Blizzard made these escort NPC's walk the entire time.

Lylirra

#15 - Aug. 10, 2010, 12:41 a.m.

Interesting topic. While escort quests do allow for dynamic storytelling, we know that they can sometimes feel a bit awkward to play. This is in fact something we're working to address in the upcoming expansion.

Escort quests will still be present in Cataclysm to a degree, but you'll find that they've evolved. Our quest designers have worked very hard to improve the overall gameplay, incorporating new mechanics to bring that goal to fruition. As a result, players will not only get to experience different kinds of escort quests, but the quests themselves should also feel much more intuitive and better paced.