Top 10 Saddest Quests in WoW Part 2

Occasionally in Warcraft when a player slows down and decides to read the quest text they will discover some of the most heartbreaking lines of text in the game. In this list we’re going to be going over some of the saddest quests in the game that surely pull on someone’s heartstrings. This is also a ‘part two,’ so there will be no repeat entries here.

Script and Setup by Lotthbrook
Video edited by Ateratsu

├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10.) Stay A While: (0:13)
9.) Admiral Taylor Betrayed: (2:03)
8.) A Letter for Home: (4:11)
7.) Missing Pack: (6:38)
6.) No Mercy for the Captured: (7:24)
5.) Putting Ysera Down: (8:58)
4.) Mankrik’s Wife: (10:37)
3.) Suna Silentstrike Quests: (12:01)
2.) Honoring the Dead : (13:23)
1.) Kyle's Gone Missing!: (15:29)

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[petrameyer]

For those interested Mankrik's wife is in Maldraxxus! She is killing traitors, remarking that it is not quite as satisfying as killing Quillboar.

[Gettinlost]

Saddest by far is the Runas the Shamed quest chain in Legion. I always sit in the pool with him for several minutes even though he can’t see me anymore.

Dargrul and the Hammer in Legion. I was maining an enhancement shaman at the beginning of Legion. It caught me by surprise when Dargrul used the power of the hammer to impale Warbrave Oro. I went oom futilely trying to heal him my garbage enh heals, but I knew where the story was headed.

We built a relationship with these characters in their questlines, then they’re taken away tragically. Runas’s last words were haunting.

Oh and not a quest, but RP. The RP scene with Varok Saurfang collecting the body of his son Dranosh after we just killed him at the top of ICC.

[pmsherndon]

Maybe not sad so much, but I really like the quest Until Death Do Us Part from vanilla. All you do is talk to an undead woman in Thunder Bluff who gives you an amulet, says it was her husband's, wants nothing to do with it, and wants you to get rid of it. So you take it to his grave in The Sepulcher, and the quest text upon completion is just bleak, and really makes you think about things. There's no follow-up quest, no little cutscene of his spirit talking after. Just, you've returned this amulet to a forgotten soldier's grave, because his wife doesn't want to think about him ever again.

[Taylor-bwzg]

this ones a newer one but the questline "As he departs" for TWW is actually the saddest quest in the game and you cant change my mind

[jeffreyarnold]

as mentioned here, Pamela Redpath especially the original version which eventually leads to Light's Hope is very sad. so is Uuna from Argus. two little girls passed 😢

[AaronWoodDesigns]

The Pamela's Doll questline from the Eastern Plaguelands also gets my vote. I still remember my cousin telling me about it in Vanilla and rushing to go do it. Heartbreaking.

[christianholbrook]

Not exactly sad, but a quest that always tugged on my heart strings was a quest chain in classic Ashenvale involving a Night Elf child named Relara. She's deathly ill and suffers from terrible nightmares. Her father sends you on quests that take you all around the zone to find a cure for her. Ultimately you're successful, and when you turn in the final quest Relara wakes up and tells her dad she's really hungry. Something about that quest line gets to me.

[rikkapikasnikka]

I still think about this one quest from Warlords, in Frostfire. You're helping an orc and her wolf companion, Asha, dies in battle. Asha later comes back as a ghost to help you. I ended up taming a wolf and naming it after her in remembrance. Such a loyal dog deserved to live on! 😭

[Kinger]

There was a quest in MoP witch a tauren paladin asks the player for help getting herbs for his sick wife who ends up dieing anyway. Then I learned after that one of their kids dies too. Last time I read quest text

[AlKarzhauov]

I don't even play WOW anymore, but never miss your videos!

[jpfischer]

For me the saddest one was the one in northrend for the brother of a dev who died. You search the world looking for a cure so he can't be risen as undead. It was depressing while doing it, but finding out that the dev's family went all over the world looking for cancer treatments for the brother, it took on a whole other dimension.

[Lunar]

Still tear up during the Ysera cutscene to this day. She was always my favorite Aspect.

[vproject]

The one in Valdrakken featuring that remorsful Dreagonmaw orc was also sad in a way.

[mattalan]

in Ice Crown there is a quest line you do where you try to prevent a soldier from dying but to no avail.

[velanaronyt]

Runas the Shamed
I still see his final speech from time to time…

[MSinistrari]

As much as the Alliance says they let the civilians of Camp Taurajo escape so they're not all bad, this was just a mistake, they neglect the part where the only escape route they gave the civilians was straight into Quillboar territory. I guess it's seen different in the Alliance when you orchestrate deaths and worse while keeping your blade clean.

[bart]

#1 is very deserved. I was also hit in the feels alot during the Uuna ''quest line'', although that's a secret questline I suppose.

[mergedpotato]

This is the first time i've seen this channel so clicking on this and hearing your voice here I jumped and checked my tabs if I had a Yugioh video open on my tabs or something.

[amaniR]

Trying to save the night elves in Darnassus was by far the saddest I’ve ever felt doing a wow quest. They give you a quest to save 1000 night elves with the quest timer. After rescuing 30, I realized I would not even be able to save 100 in time. The realization hit me of how many night elves would be dying and I was helpless to do anything.

[poro]

i started crying during 5:40 - the letter to home, i still remember that quest so much