Don’t get me wrong. I did a fair share of Thotting in my time. But only as a last resort.
No one ever did quests alone even in vanilla people went to thottbot
I don’t often look up quests.
Unless, you are talking about me as a person being in WoW and following the directions of the quest giver? Then I might be like Dumass…
Dumass says: HI! HI! HELP!
Dumass says: HI! HI! HELP!
Dumass says:HI! I’M NEW! HELP! HI!"
Maybe you should go take a nap or something. I don’t know if I have any work for you.
Dumass says: “OK! THANKS! I’LL JUST WAIT HERE WITH YOU! THANKS! OK!”
Wait a minute. It looks like something just came up. Yes, right here on this sheet of paper. You need to head southeast to the Azurelode Mine and report to Captain Keyton Southeast is that way you point southeast.
Dumass says: NORTH! GOT IT! THANKS! BYE! THANKS!
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Yeah, I do it all the time, only time I have to “look up” a quest is when it’s a case where the designers put the wrong bleeping location indicator halfway across the zone map from where it actually goes or only gives a small singular area designation for a roaming objective.
Mostly in TBC and classic. But it almost seems like they forget they’re working with a 3D world a lot of the time and they’ll put a quest marker down like it’s supposed to be a a 2D map without realizing: “OOPS this quest marker indicates two caves one right on top of each other!”
I didn’t know about Thottbot or allakazam when I first started and leveled to around 50 before using it finally. Iirc it was for the hunter quest that took you to Azshara and what not that I discovered it.
Now adays, it’s nearly impossible to not figure out a quest with all the QoL changes they’ve made, but there’s plenty of temperamental/buggy/weird quests and whatnot that gets looked up on WoWhead nowadays.
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Of course I can. It’ll just take way longer. And honestly probably end up being more fun and satisfying too. But sadly there is no putting the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.
I wonder if AI could create random quests and challenges so no web guides exist to help you? Nah… it would probably end up being to formulaic and predictable.
Blizzard WoW design: uses a 2D blue circle for quest objective indicator for a single object
Said single object: is in a chasm several floors deep
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Did they though? Or did they have thotbot running in the background to look up where mankrik’s wife was?
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Of course!, What a silly question!
If I couldn’t perform the basic function of doing quests, loremaster would have taken more than a year. Today there’s no excuse because you don’t even need add-ons for quest markers on your map. I actually miss having to carefully read quests and seriously hunt for the objectives.
I never used a quest add-on until Wrath when I got into speed leveling alts. Most of the help anybody got was from players in the world or guildies.
There weren’t many quest addons. But there were still websites like Thotbot where you could look up the information required. Not many people explored it for themselves.
A lot of them yes. “Go kill that big dude over there in the woods, he will be easy to spot since he is 17 stories tall.”
Find a crate that was is buried in a structure that sunk into the ocean that no one has thought about in 10 years that looks like background junks, no.
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Yes.
Hmm.
OK.
Yes.
Some quests sure… but others are so confusing that probably no… haha
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This game basically leads you around by the nose on quests…
You want hard?
Go back in time and play Asheron’s Call or Everquest…
“WHERE IS MANRIK’S WIFE!!!”
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I remember the stupid Worg hearts in Silverpine, I killed so many the first time going through there I was starting to get convinced these were worgs and simply looked like a worg.
But I remember the quest text could suck.
Nothing to do with OP’s question.
But this reminds me of the now beast guts quest in Silverpine.
I start killing an skinning so many worgs for their guts that when I have a nearby Worgan attack me I try to skin them as well. I mean they actually look almost the same when laying on the ground. All those worgs and nary a beast gut. 
I completed plenty back in Vanilla before Wowhead and quest items glowing and maps showing you where things were.
But I don’t have the patience for that gameplay anymore.
Some quests in wow are really easy to figure out or are almost handed to you by quest markers on map and arrows ect. But some quests and specially long quest chains can make me stop doing them. I have noticed that it’s not just wow that makes some quests impossible to understand. I also play single player console games and the same thing happens. I’m adventuring in the game following a quest. And bang! I’m hit with a quest wall. With no information of what to do next. It’s frustrating and infuriating.