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In a similar vein, WoW has become a lot more dynamic and stateful over the years, and the somewhat-hacky solution used to track what the current character has a
by kemayo 3y ago
In a similar vein, WoW has become a lot more dynamic and stateful over the years, and the somewhat-hacky solution used to track what the current character has actually done is invisible quests. It's the exact same system behind the scenes as the more-visible "kill ten rats" quests that NPCs give you, just hidden away so you're not told about them and tracking things like "you've looted this treasure chest in the open-world, so it won't appear for you again" or "you've listened to this ambient NPC conversation".
You can even install an addon that'll show you the quests getting completed in the background, which can occasionally be handy as it basically notifies you "what you just did will be remembered". https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/questschanged https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/questschanged
Amusingly, these quests still count as completed-quests for the in-game achievement system, so new characters will confusingly get achievements like "10 daily quests completed" despite never having actually completed a visible daily quest.
- yett 3y agoWow thanks for this! I have sometimed wondered how I get 50 quests completed! achievement on a new alt even though I barely did 10 quests
- joe-collins 3y agoThe burst of quests is, last I checked, mostly stuff about unlocking battle pets and allied races.