Introduction

World of Warcraft isn't all about fighting the bad guys and levelling up. To draw you into the world's story and encourage you to explore the vast continents, challenges can be accepted through a quest system. These can range from quick gathering quests to those that require you to complete a number of objectives to fully finish, to much lengthier endeavours requiring a group effort and many hours and days to complete. Many of these quests offer coveted items and a good amount of experience points on completion. This will satisfy players with only a few hours free gaming time a week and those with considerably more free time to play.

To ensure that players always have something to do, something to explore, WoW ships with over 2000 quests for players to do, and all of these help to build up an engaging environment in the world of Azeroth. The game is set in a time about 5 years after the end of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, and hence many of the story and quest elements take off from there. [See Legends of Azeroth ]

How to get Quests

All quests in the game cannot be accepted willy nilly, there are prerequisites needing to be met first. The level of your character, its reputation, race and class can play a part.

When walking into a town or area NPCs with quests for you will have a yellow exclamation mark above their head. Clicking on one of these NPCs will activate the quest window with a full description and brief overview and the rewards for completing the quest. There will be quests that list a selection of reward items so you can pick and choose which you prefer once you've completed the quest. Once you have accepted the quest, the full details will go into your Quest Log and you can refer to it at any time as you travel.

The table below details the different icons you can find above some NPCs heads and what they mean to your character.

Tracking your Quests

You can track your quest through your Quest Log (Hotkey L) or you can track them in your game window as seen in this shot . This means you don't have to keep opening your Log to see where you are in a quest. There are also UIs that you can add to your WoW directory that further help you manage and monitor quests in WoW. None allow you to store more than 20 Quests in your log however.

There is a limit of 20 quests you can store in your quest log. Due to this, it is wise to try to complete all the quests in one area before moving on to the next one. Do not be afraid to abandon quests and go back to do them later, as you go along, you will learn how to manage your quests better, and obtain several quests involving the same monsters or region before doing them.