I thought the 59 Dreadmaw Crocilisks I had to gank to get an amulet were bad. But the new high score goes to the aptly named “Elixir of Suffering” which took a total of 70 Forest Moss Creepers to drop one dribble of creeper ichor.

Playing one of the undead in WoW brings some oddities to the surface. You are, in essence, a re-animated long-dead corpse, motivated purely by the magical power of something or other. Yet, you'll find that eating apples and drinking milk still provide the same benefits they supply to the more conventionally sentient. The first aid bandages you can grok as, maybe, mummy-like re-wrapping of your exposed bones and there's a cool skill - cannibalize - which allows you to “chow down” on nearby corpses to boost your healing.

But the apples still amuse me. And I'm glad to see others have been piqued by the inconsistencies...

Would it have been any fun to have a different “diet” for the undead in WoW? There's a precedent in the food Hunters' pets will accept. I tamed a boar and found (as pigs do) he'd eat anything. But a hyena will only take fruit and meat. They could have the undead chowing down on embalming fluid or something of that ilk. But, maybe it was that, taken to it's logical end, it would really be just the undead who'd have a different diet; though you could make the Tauren or Night Elves veggies I guess.

I would like to see some difference between the races; as it stands, beyond starting point (and Trolls don't even get that) and a few quests, the only other difference appears to be the classes you can't be.

I just want, after several posts “bashing” World of Warcraft, to give mad pr0ps for the Auction House system. I'm not addicted to it any eBay-style way, but I think it's an excellent addition to the game. Too often designers concentrate too much on immediate player interaction and forget about remote collaboration. I was heartened to find, for example, shiny fish scales in there so my Shaman can cast a breathing spell. Admittedly there were only three of them, but it beat spamming general for them or looking up what drops them on some external database site and going and hoping they'd drop.

I don't recall seeing a similar system in the other games I've played; AC2 has consignment vendors, but they're a bit clunky and it's up to the seller to choose the right price to sell at. Could be the first WoW system I've not encountered before.

They do need to make it more accessible though - at least have access in all the capital cities not just Ogrimar.

My pet in WoW has suicidal tendencies... Hot Dog

Playing World of Warcraft, I've done “Lost But Not Forgotten” three times on different characters now. I think it can be safely said to be the most depressing quest in any RPG game ever. You're supposed to be looking for Kron at the request of his mother - but he's been eaten so you're supposed to hunt Dreadmaw Crocolisks until you find the one that drops his amulet. This is depressing enough but I've killed up to 59 of them before the amulet dropped, plus they drop very little else besides the amulet, slimy bones and bloody boots and there's nothing else spawning in the river. To top it all, when you do succeed you've then got to go and tell his mother he's karked it... and they make her sob as you deliver the news...

Apropos of a comment a while back that getting mad at WoW for including repetitive quests was

like getting mad that Gran Turismo only offers race tracks.

I feel it should be said that GT4 does in fact offer, in addition to race tracks, imaginary races tracks, city race tracks and rally-style tracks and it still blows goats. If I'd bought it, I would indeed be mad at it.