A quest is really a storyline, and every character plays their own unique adventure. Classic World of Warcraft has some of the most creative and thrilling quests in role-playing game history. We've made a list of the top ten most notorious quests, and it was hard to choose.

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The following include gathering, kill or item quota, chain, rescues, training and gaining reputation quests. Dungeons, starting tasks, and class and profession quests are also all represented on the following list. That just goes to show the variety of content available in the game.

10 Lost in Battle

The tragic tale of a lost spouse. A low-level quest that remembers the distant past of gaming, when you actually had to go out into the wilderness with few clues and look at things. This quest is closely connected to the jokes about Barrens Chat and new players in general, so even if you never search for Mankrik's wife, you'll hear about it.

Mankrik, an NPC residing in the Crossroads, tells a sad story about being separated from his wife in a vicious attack. The sadness of this tale is lost on a new player who immediately gets on the channel for General Barrens Chat to ask where she is.

Even if you're not on the quest, just do this for fun to see the sarcastic and comedic torrent of replies that ensue, very few of which are true or useful. What makes this even funnier is that she's very easy to find if you just run south along the road and look around once in a while.

9 The Dreadsteed of Xoroth

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This is the culmination of one of World of Warcraft's most epic quest chains, and the reward is one of the most iconic mounts in gaming history. Every time you see a mount that resembles a horse that also has horns where its ears should be and flames for hooves, it's a loving callback to the Dreadsteed.

It's not only the reward that makes the quest famous but also the nostalgia. There was an actual public outcry among the fan base when the quest was removed in the Cataclysm expansion. With the long grind, the need for outside help, the cost and the time required, the Dreadsteed of Xoroth seemed to embody everything that made Classic WoW a great game.

8 Wanted: Hogger

Hogger is one of the early Elites that players kill on the Alliance side, and he's gained an avid fan base. Screenshots and video clips of the new version of Classic WoW had chaotic, funny pictures of long queues and full groups of five waiting to kill this low-level man-bear-pig in the not-so-wilds of Elwynn Forest.

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He's more trouble than he looks and often requires help to kill him, and it's not uncommon for characters that faced him at lower levels to return when they're in their 20s and 30s just to slap him around for revenge.

7 Deep Ocean, Vast Sea

If you're not a Warlock, then find a friend who is or get thee to an Alchemist and buy a few water breathing potions.

This is a lower level quest off the coast of Darkshore that consists of diving to a sunken ship. The storyline is what keeps players coming back to this, the tragic romance of two sunken ships and lost captain's logs.

You'll die several times in the course of finishing this quest, either the victim of several angry murlocs or a simple drowning. All this for a quest in your teens, a slight boost to your rep with Darnassus and a pair of mediocre white gloves. This is the kind of quest that makes players cry.

6 Rescue OOX-22/FE!

After a few tries, we just want to let it die. Players frequently /ragequit over this sadistic quest, which is famous for all the wrong reasons. Escort quests have a bad reputation anyway, but this one is the worst of the worst.

It has everything about the genre that's annoying, frustrating, and just plain mean. The region is filled with high-level yetis, and you have to protect a brainless, squeaking mechanical chicken that runs straight at as many of them as possible. Even if you manage to finish this quest, you'll want to destroy this chicken yourself by the end of it.

There were three quests like this in WoW Classic and somehow, they're still a part of present-day World of Warcraft with few changes.

5 Call of Water

This is the final part of the notoriously boring quest chain that's exclusively for the Shaman class. Chain quests that take you all over the world are often fascinating and exciting. This is an example of a bad one that's more like a series of delivering messages than some sort of actual class quest.

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The bosses you fight are hardly challenging at all, with a max level of 22. The stakes just don't feel all that high. Plus, there are a lot of parts of the quest that would be easier if you had the totem that your trainer awards you. It's partly famous for irony.

4 Sully Balloo

This quest is famous for a few reasons. It's one of the game's "secret quests" and has a tragic storyline. It begins with a found body and a waterlogged letter near the entrance to the Wetlands that most players never stumble across.

It's a sad story that's based on something that happened in real life, which is one of the reasons this quest is one of the game's more famous ones. During the Civil War, a soldier named Sullivan Ballou wrote a touching letter to his wife a week before he was killed in combat. His story mirrors the questline of Sully Balloo.

The quest was intended as a tribute to his memory and is one of those moments when a Warcraft reference breaks your heart in a good way.

3 You Are Rakh'likh, Demon

Like the Dreadsteed Quest, this is the final culmination of a long quest chain that includes some exciting Horde and Azerothian lore. "The Fallen Hero of the Horde" is a chain that consists of 20 quests that both players from the Horde and Alliance can access. There's some great gear for this last link in the chain along with the satisfaction of finishing one of the game's most notorious quest chains.

Flasks, necklaces, bags and other unique gear, all at the blue level and accessible to everyone, make the long journey worth it. Warriors can access a few more class-specific quests with some equally awesome rewards.

2 The Great Masquerade

This is one of the links in the Onyxia attunement chain, and what makes this episode really memorable is the event that it triggers.

You thought that the villain was hidden in a cave somewhere, but then it turns out she was literally standing next to the king the whole time.

When confronted, Onyxia reverts to her true self, a full-on epic dragon raid boss. For those on the Alliance side who enjoy the lore, you have to see this happen. If you are leveling to raid, this is literally an essential quest.

1 Zhevra Hooves

When people complain about everything wrong with gathering quests, this is the embodiment of all their woes. Of course, all zhevra's have four hooves. Then why is the drop rate so low? Shouldn't this be easy? Why do we have to kill 40 of these to get 12 hooves?

Players don't really complain about this because it's long and boring, but because it's just so stupid. It breaks the immersion that a lot of people like about RPG games, a mortal flaw that makes this one of Classic WoW's most notorious quests.

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