WOW Power Leveling:On the other hand there are some really mean-spirited quests.
I'd like to know how others feel about some of the art and architecture of World of Warcraft and some of the more ethically challenged quests.
Generally I love the artwork in this game but there are some notable failures, in my opinion of course. Silvermoon City's artwork seems to me less a city than it is a monumental, 19th Century brothel. Stormwind too with its monumental statuary balances on the edge of good taste. Then, of course, there's Flava Flav's Victory over the Lich King fountain that blights the centre of Dalaran and the new Sylvanas as Britney Spears statue in Brill that vie for supremacy in tackiness. Has anyone else got nominees for tasteless art in the game?
As far as quests are concerned there are many that are wonderful, fun, teach lore and are just a hoot - in that last category the Kalu'ak daily The Way to His Heart springs to mind. On the other hand there are some really mean-spirited quests. The quests involving The Wretched in Eversong Woods have always seemed to me a lot like beating up the homeless. However, the quests that really make me cringe are Discipline and its daily version Maintaining Discipline in The Storm Peaks and the "murder their mothers and kidnap the children" quest Planning for the Future at Moa'ki Harbor in Dragonblight.
Yes, I know that we kill stuff all the time but for the most part we're posing as rescuers who are saving the world from the worst forces afoot in our game world. Those quests seem to me to come from a very dark place in the game designers' psyches. Do any other have similar reactions to those or other quests?
