While questing with a friend in the northern barrens we came across the Wizzlecrank quest chain. We found that when someone was attempting the escort section called “The Escape” the quest giver would disappear. Accepting the quest chain was a difficult proposition with so many people around but once we were able to get the chain everything seemed fine. Until we got to the escort portion and found you cannot complete this quest in a group. As in even if the group members were in close proximity to the quest giver only one person in the group would be able to complete it at a time. I have searched old forum posts about this quest and found no mention of a bug like this is the past versions leading me to believe this is a unintended bug with the quest chain.
I can confirm this issue.
I was in a group with one other, we both accepted the quest simultaneously. Only I received credit. Very annoying. Please fix this, Blizz.
The second time around, I was in a group with four people in total, only person accepted the quest, but everyone got credit (excluding me, who had already finished it as aforementioned).
Inconsistency is the bane of good quest design.